Counterbalance
Counterbalance: A family’s journey through wealth, power, forgiveness and love.
Counterbalance: A family’s journey through wealth, power, forgiveness and love.
In a psychiatric institution for the politically confused, a cosmonaut and a wayward youth find themselves fighting for a chance to see the outside world again.
Touch is an intergenerational comedy about people in their sunset years living in the Sunshine State
A love story between an atheist podcaster and God, but God's a walrus.
Ben and Dennis meet. Ben and Dennis fall in love. Their families are concerned.
Emily Dickinson might not be a star employee at Build-A-Buddy, but her penchant for literary craftsmanship may just turn a corporate prison into a den of liberation.
The Blu Room Show: A one-man multilingual variety play exploring our overstimulated world with humor, heart, and sharp commentary through the lens of a late-night talk show host, challenging us to find our voice.
Jade, an artist of color and escort in NYC is hired by Dave, a retired pharmaceutical CEO. What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill outcall is a pretense for something much more.
Something Blue is an hour of comedy, poetry and storytelling all about tying the knot and Finegold's disconnect with this age-old ceremony as a queer person.
Set in 1928, the play centers on five fabulous drag queens who were about to become dolls of Broadway in a Mae West play, until the New York vice police took them in. Now, stuck behind bars with a curious yet cringy warden, the girls conjure the magic of queer storytelling to save themselves (and us) from the clutches of invisibility.
Who was the butch who took Georgia O’Keeffe camping, was an intimate friend for nine years, designed and built the internationally renowned house in Abiquiu—and did it all for love?
Join us in the Spinesy Borough as we brave the coldest and darkest winter yet. What extremes will you go to feel seen in this groundhog day of a political system?
At summer camp, four teenage girls–three queer and one in denial–play house together. As the game ends in demonic possession, secret desires and the supernatural threaten their realities and relationships.
Did you hear? Adorra is going on a date with [REDACTED] at [REDACTED]! Care to join?
"Isolated" is a song cycle of pieces written during, after, and about the COVID lockdown, featuring real headlines and emails. It premieres at the Tank on February 28th at 7pm.
Agnes in American History is about the obscure men who history remembers, and all of the "Elizabeths" who history has forgotten.
On the eve of their graduation, Danny is faced with shadows of themselves, all coming to light during their college's biggest party of the year
Uncle Dick made a show/apology about ytness/godzilla; sorry!
Get ready to experience the music of Wes Anderson’s films like you never have before! Marty Isenberg’s Wes Anderson Playlist combine modern jazz with a theatrical performance that is funny and heartfelt, like a Wes film.
A curator, a brick, and a hidden history. "Made In America?" is an immersive solo performance that unearths the unseen costs of globalization, labor, and identity—where art and industry collide.
Through this storytelling experience, we follow Bolt-Cutter as they analyze the past couple months- an open relationship gone wrong, a struggling health diagnosis, and the repetitive nature of life.
Loosely inspired by Tadeusz Kantor’s masterpiece The Dead Class and assembled from original text, recycled memories, family secrets, old photos, live violin score, and verbatim fragments of rediscovered memoirs and voicemails, DEADCLASS, OHIO is a seance for the living and a love song for the dead.
Since he was a young boy, Benny Winner dreamed of hosting a talk show like his heroes -- Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, and Maury Povich.
Some ideas need time to brew. Night Coffee showcases early-stage works—plays, comedy, and experiments—served with bagels and caffeine at an objectively bad hour. Bold choices, hot coffee, questionable decisions.
Butchery Lessons is a new play following a failed pastry chef and child of 9/11, Jo, through the underworld of New York’s culinary scene as she struggles with impending ill fate, inadequacy, and one recurring nightmare.
Two autistic roommates decide to steal a rare pinball machine when their rent gets raised in the pandemic.
A 90 minute preview of a deliciously slo burning 12 hour American voyage, fashioned after the sea bound pelagic birding tours. A sequel to Hamlet meets Colonial Williamsburg, shot in the desert
The cuties are back and sketchier than ever! Join us for a night of brand new original sketches, written and performed by The Clementine Players and friends. Be ready to laugh, cry, and cringe as we explore more topics that you never knew you wanted explored.
a depressed drama writer desperate to meet his impending deadline discovers a machine that helps boost creativity. This mysterious technology works wonders but the pages come at a painful price.
Mae B. Tomorrow will make a feast for our consumption. She will also sing and lip sync and all that.
The Hole Story is a wild, humorous, eclectic and painfully honest ‘docu-cabaret’ offering a rare window into the birth world. This explosive production reveals the hilarious realities of having children
How much of ourselves will we sacrifice in order to find connection? Three women at different stages in life discuss dissatisfaction, insecurity and love.
Riley (Emi Lulley), an edgy playwright in love with her closeted best friend Cheyenne (Sara Abebe), creates an unruly new musical about the Unabomber – written after the arrest of the high school teacher who groomed her. The piece takes a surreal turn with the arrival of Ecoterrorist Taylor (Paige Flottman) and the Unabomber (Regina Famatigan), forcing Riley and Cheyenne to search for connection and tenderness at the end of the world.
Electro Archipelago is a chain of songs and short plays performed in celebration and defiance by a company of disabled/gender expansive artists.
“Follow the flame, start being born…” J moves through memory, guiding her younger self from grief into loving transformation, as they move from the frozen towards the flame.
A play by a fanfiction girlie for the fanfiction girlies
Indulge your inner (and outer) hater with Insufferable People, a new play about all the different species of annoying people our society breeds.
Weaving together a steampunk Victorian South Asia and modern-day New York, a cross-temporal connection brings together a struggling woman on a hotline call gone awry, and a 19th-century inventor.
SOLOperas is a double feature of new operas for solo performers. The two premieres will be performed back to back in a seamless evening of music and theater.
Krakow, February, 1945: Maja, Reina, Henryk, Isaak, and Gittel have just survived the Holocaust and are all each other has left in the entire world but each can’t stop worrying that the others were maybe hanging out without them in Auschwitz. A play about how life always finds a way- but finds a way to do what?
An impending hurricane keeps four college friends with long held secrets trapped indoors. What could go wrong?
Frankie can't get her shit together. When she meets John, she finds a put-together friend she can emulate.
The Women's History Month Cabaret celebrates storytelling from more than a dozen female performers. Hosted by Christine Stoddard, the show features an array of story topics and performance styles.
Maybe There’s Nothing Left for Me in New York offers up an existential mixtape from singer-songwriter Angela Sclafani as she investigates a great city's life, death, and potential resurrection.
Join wellness sensation Alegra Villaluz for a life-changing seminar that promises success, spirituality, and sisterhood—until her perfectly curated facade starts crumbling in real-time.
On the eve of their graduation, Danny is faced with shadows of themselves, all coming to light during their college's biggest party of the year.
Courtney Love and two sisters. One obsessed with the fame game, the other with finding love. Will their twisted paths lead to freedom or a rabbit hole of despair?
"Bartleby the Barista" is a one-person play by award-winning playwright Duncan Pflaster, adapting Melville's classic "Bartleby the Scrivener". Bartleby, now a barista at a chain coffeeshop, stirs existential chaos with his signature line, "I would prefer not to."
When the brothers of Sigma Epsilon Pi are publicly accused in the school newspaper of roofying a freshman girl at their latest party, the resulting outcry from the student body and the university’s administration threatens to jeopardize their chapter’s continued presence on campus. As tensions rise outside and inside the house, long buried secrets are revealed, present relationships are called into question, and the members of the frat must reckon with the costs of maintaining a brotherhood.
Come see the first Staged Reading of "The Board!” A story of students who betray and destroy each other to reveal how far they are willing to go to succeed.
Astronauts Wanted
April 3th, 2025 - April 27th, 2025
CAST
Regan Hicks
Gibran García
Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez
Heloise Wilson
Directed by Saki Kawamura
Assistant director Rabiah Rowther
Stage Manager Sarah Daniel
Lighting design - Bentley Heydt
Scenic design - Lana Boy
Costume design - Jeanna DiPaolo
Projection design - Chase Kniffen
Tank cohort producer - Jessie Char
Produced by Little y
Inspired by the Mars One Project, which aimed to send the first human beings to Mars, Astronauts Wanted is a theatre piece mixing projections and physical theatre. The piece is based on real-life interviews with the Mars One project participants and in collaboration with the scientific community. Three volunteers, Sol, Sorcha and Tallulah are on their way to Mars. Playing with their fate, they push the boundaries of their own humanity and look deep within as they embark on a no-return mission.
The Tempest
Friday, April 4th, 2025 @3pm
Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @3pm
CAST
Christina Du Chene - Prospero
Natalie Quinn - Ariel
Enzo De Cunto - Stephano
Annabelle Kerns - Gonzalo
Chloe Strolia - Ferdinand
Tavia Williams - Miranda
Chistian Blandin - Antonio
Aryan Chhabra - Trinculo
Esmeralda Ruiz - Caliban
Bobby Brannon - Alonso
Himika Kaku - Sebastian
CREATIVES
Lily Than - Stage Manager
Josh Van Veggel - Lighting Coordinator/Programmer
Claire Pearson - Company Manager
Ezra LeBank - Director
Dan Istrate - Associate Director
Kyle Matsuda - Assistant Director
Clairey Evangelho - Associate Choreographer
Sonia Giansiracusa - Assistant Stage Manager
Saul Diaz - Scenic/Props Coordinator
Di Herrera - Costume Coordinator
Sarah Heinesh - Make-up Coordinator
Sam Moran Asst. - Make-up Coordinator
Jessica Dellrae Rivera - Sound Coordinator
CalREP’s ‘The Tempest’ sets Shakespeare's last play in an urban LA warehouse, creating a highly physical 70 minutes of live entertainment inspired by work with the UK’s Frantic Assembly.
Jwala Productions Presents
Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas
April 06, 2025 @ 7pm
April 9th, 2025 @ 7pm
April 13th, 2025 @ 7pm
Wallis Meghan Rolle, Director
CAST TBD
’Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas’ is a one-act play that takes place in a matchmaking office in Portland. Told through a style inspired by classical Sanskrit drama, the play showcases each scene based on a particular emotion, that helps drive the story forward.
’Seeking Fair and Lovely’ asks first generation Indian-Americans; “How do we participate in the oppression of those in our own communities?”, “How do we pass on what we have been conditioned to believe to our children?”, and “What will it cost to break free of these cruel, centuries-long ideologies?”.
After being arrested for attempting to rob a liquor store, Maxwell is given a choice: serve a lengthy prison sentence or participate in The Ulysses Protocol, an AI therapy program that can interface directly with a patient’s brain
Like Violets is an evening of new dance works, presented by Lawton Dance Collective. The show centers around female experiences and perspectives, considering questions of autonomy, femininity, relationships, and resilience.
She Said She Said: Or, The Fucking Beatles Play follows three teenage beatlemaniacs in the 1960s, although their coming of age experience isn’t all that different from girlhood in 2025.
The summer before their senior year of high school, two boys come to God’s porch to process life and the impending future.
May 7th, 2025, 7pm
May 11th, 2025, 3pm
May 12th, 2025, 7pm
Alexandra Rogers - Playwright/Co-Director
Alex Olesky - Co-Director
Ghost Light Theatre Company - Producer
Kat Sloan Garcia - Producer
Logan Malczynski - PSM
Ethan Foley - Lighting Designer
Bella Alatore - Sound Designer
Anna Keeley - Props Designer
CAST
Jaden Lily Branson - Nick
Zack Cambronne - Leo
Sophia Carlin - Susan
Jess Jaffe - Charlie
Katie Kendrick - Stan
Aeris Lihau - Auctioneer
Liann Yu - Maxine
STAN is a fantastical romp based on a real life dinosaur, a real life auction, and a rumored feud. It tells the story of Maxine, a personal bidder working for a big auction house, who is called upon by two high profile celebrities to bid on the same lot— a T Rex fossil named STAN. Through prehistoric asides, childish taunting, and dangerous games, STAN warns us about the dangers of selling off our histories to the highest bidder.
Nora loves Patti Smith. Nora is Patti Smith. Nora is stoned out of her mind in the Chelsea Hotel, no, the Chelsea Hotel is her mind, actually, the Chelsea Hotel is an out-of-use portable classroom in the Pacific Northwest, but that portable is a breeding ground for lobsters young women.
Kallan Dana - Playwright/Producer
Hanna Yurfest - Director/Producer
Emma Richmond - Producer
April 25th , 26th, & 29th @ 7:00 PM
May 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8-10th, 12th, 15-17th @ 7:00 PM
11 actors take to the stage. The director interviews their dad. A self-published play from almost a hundred years ago gets its New York premiere.
NYC QUEER LATIN CINEMA
February 17th, 2025 @ 7pm
Fernando Vieira- Film Director
Nicolle Márquez- Film Director
Emilio Subia- Film Director
The Tank Moonlight Series presents a night of Queer Latin Cinema by contemporary New York City filmmakers, featuring the work of Fernando Vieira, Nicolle Márquez, and Emilio Subia. Come enjoy their films and meet them in person.
THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH is a 90-minute dark comedy that interrogates the relationship between capitalism and violence through the lens of american youth.
A new play exploring queer erasure and nonbinary visibility. With Caileigh missing, their family relives their final few days to uncover the truth about their disappearance… and who’s to blame.
Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday. Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday party. And Marissa and Clark plan on doing anything in their power to share that birthday party for the rest of their lives - and then some.. A multi-decade romp through race, class, and time, birthday birthday birthday is about who we choose, how we change, and what it takes to remember it all.
Jake Barnsley is an Autistic theatre artist who has managed to have an “inspiring” career. Ethan, his higher-needs twin brother, has lived in his shadow their whole lives. Things are about to get messy.
When high-schooler Veronica gets an abortion before her date with Skip Whillicker, she gets a lot more than she asked for.
The Cut Edge Collective was founded in 2020 to provide a space for non-traditional, experimental playwrights. These plays represent the work of our playwrights from our 2024 collective.
Join us for a darkly humorous trip through one queer person’s effort to build a life after losing their whole family- at the ripe age of 40.
Novak and Deckert are minor league baseball players with selves to better, issues to solve, and - most importantly - another couple hundred pages of the Great Gatsby to get through.
Ghost Light Theatre Company presents: The Laundry Play! Told largely through both characters' conversations with a therapist, The Laundry Play paints a portrait of a relationship on the verge of either connection or collapse, and the emotional landscape of intimacy with clinical anxiety.
"Fast and Furious" is a variety show where theatre artists can come together and perform art that helps us process, cope with, and make fun of living amidst ""current events.""
Now, women get to rule the earth. Will they achieve Utopia, or is it all still just a lost cause?
This interdisciplinary work combines storytelling, drawing, and movement as an exercise in loving, remembering, keeping, being, and forgiving.
Ratz is a live comedy special meets cooking show! Danielle Breitstein prepares the beloved French comfort food Ratatouille, while performing from memory the entire script of the Pixar film.
Every Friday at 8pm from Feb 7th- June 20th
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Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us- You've never experienced a night of fun like this!
Performed with live drawing and painting, THE DRAW is a multimedia, interactive brawl between two actor-artists.
New Year, New Art
February 1, 3PM & February 2, 7PM
Alex Schmidt: Co host
New Year New Art’ is a festival by Malia Lam and Alex Schmidt to give artist’s the opportunity to share their work. The festival will be hosted at The Tank Theater February 1st & 2nd.
February 1 Program: Catherine Messina in collab with Teryn Trent, Brando Ortiz, Ingebord Kolstad in collaboration with Sonja Hovik Brendas, Steven Camacho, Sky Pasqual and Riley Haley, Miguel Miranda, Victoria Sepiashvili, Morgan Mccrear, Nick Alselmo, Juliette Rafael with live musician
February 2 Program: Kristalyn Gill, Joey Mattar in collab with Eric, Matt, Sean, Heather Dutton in collab with Abbie Linnemeyer, Cat Cogliandro, io Ermoli, Rileigh Timmerman, Morgan McCreary, Darius Corbett, Sami Frost
Half 40th birthday party, half self-promotion, all piano emo, Miriam returns to The Tank nearly three years after they produced her original musical, Glass Town, to show off some talented friends singing a variety of her original songs.
SERIALS is a raucous night of 5 serialized plays featuring the hottest theatermakers in the indie scene--but it’s up to you to vote for the 3 that will return with a brand new episode.
In the Valley by Morris McLennan, directed by Quinn Riggs, is a play about finding connection in a post-apocalyptic world not too detached from our own.
Mine by Anna Evtushenko is set in Russia and here, in the past and now. Originally produced at Cornell and presented here as a pro-shot followed by a Q&A.
Is this world too much? Can't figure out the order or what you want to do or how to make enough money? Simply leave and start again in the lost dimension. In this world, the "lost" go to the Lost Dimension where they start a seemingly different life in a parallel world to our own. These lost individuals never return or contact the people that they left behind. The only way to find them is under the helm of the Agency of the Lost, a quasi-detective firm with a founder (Gennifer) who has a penchant for cigarettes and egg salad sandwiches. When Gennifer and her trusty employee find who they believe is Mae’s dad, her world seems to change as she listens to his raw and uncensored quasi-fatherly lessons. Mack, however, doesn’t believe he is her father, continually professing that he wants to return to the Lost Dimension, urging Mae to do the same and leave her life behind that perhaps he did.
World Premiere by internationally acclaimed Matei Visniec. Two men trapped in a pit, attempting to make sense of it all. A third appears, offering them freedom. Mayhem ensues.
Come learn about women from Bobby McMan. Believing he is an expert on women, Bobby teaches men to treat women with respect, but he always misses the mark.
Swallow Me Whole explores how we learn to love our bodies when we have been taught to hate them.
OUR DIRTY WAR is a documentary-inspired love story infused with magical realism, examining trauma and identity through the playwright's bond with her father, who escaped Argentina’s dictatorship.
Best friends, unfiltered internet access, and the summer before 8th grade. Growing up is virtually impossible.
A first-look reading of a new bitingly dark comedy written by Layla Khoshnoudi. Featuring performances by Brett Epstein & Layla Khoshnoudi.
The CEO of Slaps Energy® gives an investor pitch that goes spectacularly wrong in this psychedelic satire. This one-ish man show breaks the fifth, sixth, and seventh walls with audience participation, psychedelic visuals and yes, even puppetry, for a fluid, form-bending performance that’s never the same twice.