Face Tape is back for another year of the chaos, camp, and all out hilarity that you know and love!
Road House hits The Tank for three high-energy sketch shows! Join The Armory’s resident crew for one-night-only events packed with weird characters, wild premises, and who knows what else.
Mikey is the queer coming of age story about Michelangelo. Tangled in an illicit affair during his rise to Renaissance fame after sculpting The David, Michelangelo finds himself in an existential crisis when he is forced to paint the Sistine Chapel. To finish the project he must risk it all to cement his legacy.
KTCO presents two world premieres choreographed by Katie Corrao in collaboration with company dancers. Sauadade and Grève Rèvolte, though starkly different, will together guide the audience from introspection towards awakening. Prompting a deconstruction of ourselves, a reflection of personal truths, shared responsibility, and the values that define us.
Jenny just got engaged and she's very very excited although her fiancee doesn't seem to want to help plan the wedding or talk to her. But when a Prince on a unicorn offers Jenny some sexy solace, maybe things will work out okay?
At her son’s birthday in the park, Rose gets a chilling call: her son’s in a sharpshooter’s crosshairs…igniting a taut, high-stakes cat-and-mouse political thriller.
A classic play through a contemporary lens: Follow a group of actors in 2026 as they rehearse, Dreyfus in Rehearsals and contemplate the relevance of antisemitism in the present day.
freek is a piece that explores cancel culture and addresses inequality/inequity in America--within the context of a drag-out comedian beef.
Trapped in a liminal and apparently timeless space, two still-emotionally-entwined exes have no choice but to confront the things that tore them apart.
SERIALS is a late-night episodic play competition series. Each weekend of performances, five original, never-before-seen 10 minute works are rehearsed, teched, and fully staged, premiered live in front of our audience.
I’ve Arted is a new, live game show, rooted in improvisation and meant to celebrate the joy and creation of art!
Saabiti: NOT Guilty
June 5th 7:00PM, June 6th 3PM & 7:00PM
Beyond the Grave
Sixty minutes. One final wish. A truth that will shatter your reality.
When two gravediggers grant a dying woman’s haunting last request, they give her one hour of stolen life before the soil claims her forever. But as the clock ticks down, her final revelation will leave you breathless and your mind forever shaken.
trigger Warning: Discussions of death
Caribbean Cinderella : The Cocktail Experience
On a night just days before Christmas, a casual hook-up turns into something deeper as two men confront love, identity, and connection in this intimate and witty play with music.
A Simple Herstory, the acclaimed podcast-performance hybrid created by Jocelyn Kuritsky and written by Jonathan A. Goldberg, returns June 7 at The Tank as a radio play presented in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival.
What happens when the ghosts of your past collide with the uncertainty of your future?
RETURNING after its popular run at NYC Fringe. This meta-theatrical solo performance grapples with youth, tragedy, and validation while attempting to provide insight into the world's most famous love story.
When tragedy strikes, will you let fate define you? Or will you shatter the narrative to write your own story?
Two Birds from Manchester try to rebound from being fired and involuntarily celibate when they’re informed that rent is due and that they have no more bailouts on speed dial.
Bryan Stoops has performed in twenty-two countries on five continents, in such exotic cities as Melbourne, Casablanca, and Newark. Featuring some of the best stand-up comedians in NYC. Bryan headlines.
Pop is a sapphic romp through paintings as we follow Sedna and Lani’s love from before life to after death.
To let go of who she was, Samantha does what anyone would--throw a funeral for her past selves and invite everyone who knew-her-when to the party. "Skilled comedy voice" (FringeReview).
DanceLink presents 10 dances all made for a 4x4 foot "tiny" stage. Each piece combines into a metaphorical voyage towards finding what matters most. Join us for a wild ride of emotional revelation, all with a touch of humor.
He Hates Me! is a comedy where dormant guilt spirals into obsessive overcorrection, unleashing escalating chaos- and landing on the brutal, hilarious truth: not everyone is going to like you.
Join us for another PUNCH puppet slam - where a diverse group of puppet artists use a wide variety of puppet styles to tell one story or collaborate on one wonderful puppet experience. This time we are taking on the epic story of Odysseus. Come for Sirens and Cyclops, Gods and Goddesses, Lotus-Eaters, the Underworld and more!
Set in the late 1980s, two performers set out to revive variety television with a vibrant show blending U.S. and Mexican pop culture through dance, comedy, and music.
"Percolating" is a dance showcase presented by Chutzpah Dance, focusing on refined works-in-progress pieces allowing artists to explore new experimental ideas.
A weekend of radio theater: Friday night is the suspenseful "The Strange Case of Nick M." Saturday night is the philosophically farcical "Price in Purgatory." Pre-recorded. Strictly audio. Eye-masks provided.
In T-BOY ON GRINDR, João d’Orey traces transmasculine desire through the fragmented landscape of digital intimacy. Moving between humor and vulnerability, the performance unpacks the politics of visibility, the commodification of bodies, and the search for connection in queer online spaces.
TASMANIA!
Sat. June 20th 3:00 PM
An impossible tale of ambition gone wrong. Part comedy, part romance, part portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-menace, TASMANIA! explores what happens when we don’t know when to stop or who to turn to next.
Tempest & The Black Madonna is a myth masquerading as a band: a volatile theatre ritual where live music, poetry, testimony, and storytelling build a temporary archive of Black queer memory and collective survival. Led and conjured by Brent Thomas Whiteside.
ANARCOAFEMINADO** is a fierce collision of queer chaos, rebellion, nightlife, and performance art — raw emotion, unapologetic energy, provocative visuals, and liberation without rules. Enter the beautiful collapse.
A Black queer feminist’s journey in fighting for gender justice gets complicated when her sugar daddy becomes her nonprofit's biggest donor. WTF!?
Why get breakup bangs when you can cross the country with a stranger?
OR CURRENT RESIDENT is a new play about the tenants and spirits of a crumbling building in Bushwick. Do you see that face in the cracked paint on the wall?
Vanity Fair staff writer Marley Park puts their journalistic integrity on the line as they interview (and fall for) Hollywood heartthrob Kiran Ramesh every day for a calendar year.
Jahne's love's her girlfriend, no, partner, eX. I love eX But am I in love with them? Or did I Used to Love Her
On the eve of a catastrophic flood, two Bostonians reunite along the Charles River esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs.
Inspired by heart-warming all-star classics including VALENTINE'S DAY, MOTHER'S DAY, and NEW YEAR'S EVE, the even more heart-warming, even more star-studded BI VISIBILITY DAY celebrates friends, lovers, and strangers brought together in celebration of the queerest day of the year.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has tasked Sleth, a horse fancier and maniac, with creating a lecture immortalizing Horses for a far-off future where Horses no longer exist.
Is reliving her disastrous method acting class, reading her Special-ed childhood reports, and chasing Broadway diva dreams despite being unable to sing or dance a good show idea? Yes. #FailureConfetti
Wigs! Singing! Heartbreak! Spells! Hanging & Chatting! Jazzie Mercado comes to bear it all. It’s A Travesty! One Night With Jazzie Mercado is a cabaret whirlwind of healing, tears and frivolity!
A transsexual codependent family tragedy about childbirth, murder, and Shabbat dinner.
Masha + 3 reimagines Chekhov’s Three Sisters through the eyes of Masha, a Black gay man navigating identity, duty, and love during the 2020 pandemic.
Two drag queens' plans to rob Mary's Department Store are foiled by a pair of evil mannequins who threaten to tear them apart forever.
A play about an exclusive museum members' party where the geusts are more interested in each other than the art.
AMELIA EARHART WAS A LESBIAN, the snappy two hander from Nicole Streger, follows ex writing partners racing against the clock to save a sapphic screenplay… forcing them to deal with their own homoerotic mess.
While living rent-free at his slightly older boyfriend’s place, a 20-something twink becomes obsessed with dating a “vampire” he meets online instead of looking for a new apartment or job.
There Once Was A…
June 27 at 9:30pm
Eleanor Babwin, playwright
Celia Krefter, director
Anne Percy, a celebrated limerist, has run out of rhymes—quite the pickle for a woman with a stack of limericks to write and an Angry Town Mob on her tail. She might have a way out if she can write one final limerick for a wealthy benefactor, only to realize it means she has to reunite with an old flame to do so. There Once Was A… is a comedy about love, passion, limericks, what it means for our dreams to change, and what happens when what we once thought defined us no longer rings true.
Maya’s mother doesn’t know she’s engaged to Tricia. Maya doesn’t want to tell her, so she rescinds Tricia’s engagement proposal. On a park bench at sunset, they confront Maya’s decision.
When a t-girl gets fired from her job for using her phone too much, the only thing left to do is to start making fetish content with her best doll friend.
WARNING: You’re not just reading this. You’re being read. Think you found this show by accident? There are no accidents. See you at The Clarence Show. He’s expecting you.
With the grit of NYC in her purview and the voice of an angel, Lena Horné weaves a tale of finding joy in the midst of struggle.
Confirmed bachelor Paris has to marry the Capulet's teenage daughter Juliet. He has just accepted his fate when the love of his life appears and he’s forced to take action.
& Taxes
July 1st-3rd 7:00 PM
Michael Thomas Kennedy: Writer, Performer, Producer
Emma Kate Harris: Director
Dying is kinda funny. In this solo clown show, Jasper the Ghost explores the ups and downs of death, and may even help you cross something off your bucket list.
Trigger warning: Discussions of death
A kaleidoscopic queer comedy where two performers unravel the forgotten Hollywood film The Pearl of My Oyster, a tragic melodrama about a socialite’s love affair with a brutish fisherman.
When French-Chinese engineer Irene Woo turned 28, she quit Google to do the only logical thing: stand-up. A debut hour exploring tech culture, immigrant expectations, and dating French men.
Harper unknowingly made out with her sperm-donor father. Raw, funny and unflinchingly honest, this show asks, in a culture obsessed with connection, why is it so hard to feel held?
When Jack's roommate gets into a relationship with another trans guy, he begins to rethink his life.
Dunesical is a mix of camp musical theater, raunchy fanfic, and meta exploration of adaptation- posing the following questions: “Are Dunesicals good? Do they suck? Do Dunesicals contribute anything to the world?”
In this dark comedy, newlyweds Claire and Patrick are presented with the ultimate test. Will it bring them closer together, or will death do thy part?
a demonic comedy about having pain in the "wrong" places
by Laura Neill
co-directed by Kelleen Moriarty and Thalia Sablon
co-produced by Thalia Sablon and Murmuration Theatre Company
August 24 - September 4, 2026
a New Georges Supported Production
Supported by the OPportunity Fund
Fed up with the pain in their uteruses, 5 friends form an amateur coven to cast a healing spell... but they don't know what they're doing, and may have accidentally summoned a demon….
The story of Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta told through a new light, written for a modern audience.
She kills bad men. He taught her how. Somewhere between the blood and the bodies, it became something else. Close Distance Disappearing Acts — sexy, funny, and dangerously romantic. Some love stories just have a higher body count.
Two girls trapped in purgatory must confront each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.
Waco, 1993. The true story of the standoff between cult leader David Koresh and the FBI, with a script crafted entirely from hundreds of hours of recorded government negotiation transcripts.
Spring for Spring Dance Festival is a one-day choreographic showcase of local dance makers.
Get Fucked is NYC’s funniest, raunchiest play about sexually active 20-somethings.
Game Creek is a screwball comedy-noir about a woman who wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no memories, a dead man's ID, and a court date tomorrow.
The New Year
Wednesday, May 20 at 9:30pm | Friday, May 22 at 9:30pm | Saturday, May 23 at 9:30 pm
Max Rosenblum - Writer
Jake Keville - Director
Katy Shafer as "May"
Connor Strycharz as "Perry"
Kenzie Packer & Zoe Gray - Stage Managers
Kenzie Packer, Zoe Gray, & Jake Keville - Producers
The New Year is a romantic tragicomedy following two lonely teenagers who meet on New Year’s Eve in an online roleplay chatroom. May is May. Perry is British actor Matt Smith. Their conversation that night, unexpectedly intimate, forms a bond between the two: they become each other’s best friend, confidant, and lifeline through the turmoils of adolescence. That is, until “real life” intrudes…
After a blind date, visual artist, Ember, and budding writer, Den, find themselves entangled in a five year love story that shifts and turns like the phases of the moon.
Come support the Brooklyn College BFA Acting Class of 2026 on May 18th @The Tank, 7pm!
Performers speaking without words. Won't you join us? Improvised, spontaneous, contradictory. This May, UN-LANGUAGE 4 Gender Equality creates a platform for a dialogue on feminism and gender equality.
Disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan L*chte is dying of loneliness, trying to milk attention from his robot wife Deirdre, a Cyclops Michael Ph*lps, and terrifyingly…YOU! Can someone help this man??
Sex, Camp, Rock 'N Roll - A show that touches people, and then they touch themselves
Birding enthusiast Charlie Whitmire finds the woman who says, "Hello Charlie, I've been waiting for you. You've finally found me..." because where you are leads you to what you find!
A Cat in a Box is a darkly humorous solo play tracing one man’s fractured childhood and hard-won healing, exploring love, loss, survival, and the enduring possibility of hope.
When you hear the call, will you escape the rat race or remain a spectator of someone else’s success? You missed your chance of buying Bitcoin. Now don’t miss this show.
A comedy about the strain of post-college limbo on three friends when a high pressure audition for a prestigious play comes to their home state of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
I’ve Arted is a new, live game show, rooted in improvisation and meant to celebrate the joy and creation of art!
Lt. Love Dr. Hotty McTotty has traveled back in time to revive human connection.. before it's too late! Through a series of hilarious drills, together, you will end the loneliness epidemic.
Mega Theater is back! This time, more mega. A night of short, in-progress live performance.
A new puppet musical for young audiences celebrating the power of a gentle heart through bold visual storytelling and a unique mix of glove, rod, shadow, and direct-manipulation puppetry.
Thea is doing her masters thesis on WetFest: The World’s Only International Lesbian Festival. When she is struck by a mystical vision, Thea must journey to discover what transpired centuries prior - before it's too late.
An absurd tragicomedy following a family barbecue gone askew when the youngest daughter tries summoning a demon. Fear and Trembling with a side of ketchup.
A Holocaust survivor. A civil rights attorney. A life spent fighting for people the law forgot. STUMBLING STONES is a true story about justice, love, and the work that never ends.
Set in 1880s Appalachia, two young lovers from feuding families imagine a future beyond bloodlines in this bold, physically imaginative two-actor reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.
A woman returns from death for one hour to fight her verdict. SAABITI: NOT GUILTY is an immersive ritual exposing patriarchy, memory, and truth—demanding one final answer: was she ever guilty?
Ben and Nat are two students from different social groups who have each recently gone through a major tragedy, the double suicide of two of their friends.
In a darkly comic, crumbling cabaret, a performer is haunted by a sentient puppet born from their unraveling mind, demanding they confront the cycle of violence they believed they had escaped.
Much of grief is fantasy. Maria is recently dead. She’s lost in a maze of imaginings built by people she left behind. A haunting, funny play about love after death.
The Rule Of Thirds
April 22nd at 9:30PM | April 23rd at 9:30PM | April 25th at 3:00PM | April 26th at 3:00PM | April 30th at 7:00PM | May 2nd at 7:00PM | May 6th at 7:00PM | May 15th at 9:30PM
Kairos Italy Theater
Playwright: Marco De Simone
Director: Montgomery Sutton
With Ben Natan*, Greg Horton*
Stage Manager: Zoe Loveless
Assistant Director: Nikki Monson,
Set Design: Sarah Edkins
Costume Design: Barbara Erin Delo
Light Design: Adrian Yuen
Sound Design: Kellen Voss
Mentor: Debora Balardini
*Appearing through an Agreement between Kairos Italy Theater and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the US
Presented by Kairos Italy Theater and the TANK NYC as part of the Emerging Directors’ Mentorship at In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY 2026
La regola dei terzi is inspired by a real event recounted in the autobiography of Robert Capa. Southeastern Sicilian hinterland, at dawn on Saturday, July 10, 1943. A farmer welcomes war photojournalist Robert Capa into his farmhouse after he parachuted onto the island the night before the Allied landing. Their dialogue highlights the photographer’s strong personality and his wealth of anecdotes, shaped by firsthand experience in war zones. In the background, the farmer becomes the voice of the “thirds”—the vast mass of civilians who remain outsiders to the warring factions. Like the photographic rule suggests, these individuals demand to be brought into focus to tell another story—their own—hidden beneath the Grand Historical Narrative. The rule of thirds by Marco De Simone, translated by Caterina Nonis, is the winner of the In Scena! Playwright 2025.
Marco De Simone (Salerno, 1992) is an author, actor and musician. A graduate of the Conservatory in Classical Guitar and a master’s degree in Philosophy, he has been writing for the theater since 2016. His texts “It Never Happened” and “The Smell of the Moon” have received national awards; his show “We, Puppets,” in which he is also a performer, has been performed more than 40 times in Italy and abroad. He has 4 musicals to his credit and numerous collaborations with contemporary theater and dance companies, for which he has written stage music, scripts and adaptations.
Come see Mr.Cardboard face his darkest hour yet! Watch him battle to save the eternal spirit of Land of Cardboard, in this theatrical solo clown show by Miles Calderon.
Falling is an uncomfortably sexy and hilariously vulnerable stumble through Aaron’s misadventures searching for love, lust, and life after disability.
4 short readings from the Tank's cohort of autistic playwrights!
After Hitler’s rise, journalist Charlotte Beradt collected Berliners’ dreams revealing fear, surveillance, and resistance. Later published as an indictment of the regime, now adapted into a haunting stage production.
