
Armory Comedy Presents Sketch
A night of pure, ridiculous fun! @roadhousecomedy on Instagram
A night of pure, ridiculous fun! @roadhousecomedy on Instagram
A brother and sister embark on an epic quest in search of their mother, whose newfound obsession with techno has taken her to an infinite nightclub city of dreams.
On his loneliest birthday, rotten Huxley is whisked away by the surreal Mr. Cardboard! This side-splitting clown show folds the grotesque into the beautiful, ripping hearts along their perforated edges.
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—OPEN takes the stage Off-Broadway July 8–27 as a recipient of the WP Space Program.
Who is Anonymous? Who is the God of Beans? This Dream Has Teeth is a savage comedy about dangerous truths, the lies that keep us safe, and finding the courage to resist,
Craig and Elaikay reveal the word of Ramu Davi™ through miracles, ceremony, and divine transmission. Walk the Ramuvian path and become Fully Loaded — the ultimate state of human consciousness.
Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
A new comedy about a bunch of raccoons in a Brooklyn dump.
Glinda the good witch is full of shit! We never had the power to go home all along… or did we? From licking Jessica Rabbit’s tits on the TV screen to falling head over heels for his straight best friend, Michael DeBartolo takes you through the pubescent anguish of his formative years, a journey that exposes the dark recesses of the queer mind. Will he ever learn that home isn't somewhere over the rainbow?
Thank goodness you're here! A dead mime needs help. At this interactive seance, audiences must think outside the box to help a family of ghosts resolve their unfinished business. Play charades, solve puzzles and pierce the veil between life and death on a madcap quest for forbidden knowledge.
In this absurdist comedy from writer-performer Emily Weitzman, boyfriends are armchairs, lampshades and futons. Hailed as 'hilarious', 'weirdly poignant' and 'loopily, luminously charming' (BuzzPei.com), Furniture Boys explores how furniture endures, but boyfriends – not so much. Blending theatre, comedy, clown, spoken word and furniture showroom, this one-woman show has been called 'imaginative, thoughtful, playful, hilarious and relentlessly, infectiously joyous' (BuzzPei.com). Winner of Theatre’s Choice at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse in NYC, the Fringiest Show Award at the 2025 Orlando Fringe FestN4, and the 2024 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award. 'Furniture,' writes one reviewer, 'has never been more moving'.
An amnesiac time traveler needs the audience's help to recover the defining moments of his life. A lighthearted and sentimental exploration of the beauty of human relationships. Who is worth remembering and who would you rather forget?
Microsoft Word’s writing assistant, Clippy, has seen the future—and it is bleak. Determined to prevent the impending techno-dystopia brought about by artificial intelligence, Clippy travels back in time to warn humanity in a thrilling, time-traveling adventure through the internet.
Sam and his dead grandpa have a conversation about everything from resisting fascism (in the US, in Europe, and in Palestine) to growing up with mobsters – all with the help of a mystical creature from Yiddish folklore. Developed from the private journals of Saul N. Sherman, a Jewish WWII veteran, blended with the writings from his grandson, Sam Sherman ""kaddish (how to be a sanctuary)"" explores what our ancestors can teach us about the messy path towards standing up for what is right.
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.
NYC-born clown and woman Funmi swims in Fish, a one-woman clown show about a fish (played by Funmi) who wants to be a human (played by Funmi playing Fish). Part of EdFest, a festival of NYC Edinburgh Fringe previews produced by Jess Ducey, with technical director Jen Leno. Catch this and 11 other shows before they head to Scotland.
The forgotten story of Amadeus’ genius sister, who performed alongside him to equal acclaim. Set in a stunning 18-foot dress, this multi award-winning production ushers you into a world of opulence and delight – obscured by restriction and prejudice. Inspired by the Mozart family’s hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Nannerl Mozart finally tells her story. Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival) bring Nannerl’s musical imagination to life with an award-winning original music using clavichords, music boxes, teacups and fluttering fans. Performed, in rotation, by Sylvia Milo and Daniela Galli. ‘Strikingly beautiful’ (New York Times).
Five lonely women. A grocery store. A blizzard. An ex-girlfriend's surprise arrival. They all get trapped in a grocery store together, slowly realizing they all know one another.
With her co-star unaccounted for, Lizzy Sunshine must carry a double act... alone. A positively chaotic comedy hour by addiction's (fun!) little sister. It's like Glee unwilling to admit it's Baby Reindeer. But don't worry it's not sad!!! This show-within-a-show features: audience participation, big characters, big feelings and your very own rose-coloured glasses. After a sold-out run in NYC and US tour, Liz Coin (Amazon Prime, The Second City) makes her Fringe debut! Directed by Makena Reynolds.
In a twist of fate, an ordinary man finds himself magically transformed into the Queen of the Carnival. With advanced age, abundant body hair and limited talents, he is an unlikely candidate. Praised as a 'whimsical tour de force' (Orlando Weekly), this non-verbal blend of clown, drag and queer joy reminds us it's never too late to embrace your true self. Created and performed by Edu Díaz, a Fulbright-awarded artist from the Canary Islands, A Drag is Born has won five awards, including Best Solo Clown (NYC Fringe) and Best Solo Show (Orlando Fringe).
Based on the true story of a tarot-reading lesbian forced from her home by Christian neighbours likely in a cult, Gretchen Wylder's darkly comedic one-woman show explores witches as healers, the patriarchal systems that burned them and the modern dangers of organised religion. Living a double life – reading tarot in Salem while living in a creepy cottage town run by zealots – her personal horror show becomes a fierce reclamation of spirituality. Reinterpreting Biblical women’s stories and exposing the ongoing persecution of the divine feminine, all while trying not to get burned at the stake.
Hockey bro Andy is leading a new sex ed club to B(reak) R(eproductive) O(ppression). The Peanut in his hockey bag is hungry for your desires. And the performer beneath it all is cracking open. Part play, part interactive workshop, part unleashing, Shell confronts us with what we know and don’t know about our bodies, their power and what happens when we truly ask for what we want.
Agoraphobic/Claustrophobic is a retelling of the myth of Icarus through the "non-man" body exploring how to grow into oneself
Sylvia flies again! Told through music, movement, and projection Sylvia tells the tale of a dinosaur turned bird turned ??? surviving in spite of it all.
Four years, one gender transition, and copious amounts of psychedelics later Ryann Lynn Murphy tells a story about a girl who got groomed
Two theater geeks and a mad scientist bunker down in an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese for the apocalypse.
Part poetry reading / part immersive theater, In the dark times invites performers and audiences to a post-apocalyptic gathering to to tell stories, preserve memories, and establish a collective oral history.
The crew of a whaling ship hurtling through a polluted ocean finds themselves hunted by an immense and incomprehensible beast in this short eco-horror play.
Join two puppet roommates in a sitcom-style romp through the New York job market!
THE THIRD TRACK is a darkly satirical play where seven women of color, trapped on a surreal interview-train, confront surveillance, bias, and each other in a corporate simulation gone hostile.
The year is 1970, and a group of five disaffected, Marxist college students build a bomb in New York’s Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War.
If the tides were rising, where would you go? This family escapes to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where they learn to survive off of humanity’s most abundant creation: trash.
TWIG is a tale about boyfriends, betrothals, and being the best at sucking off the people we love - or, wait… Do we really love them? How can we ever know?
Cecilia Gentili's RED INK, is an irreverent romp in the search for faith while trans. Introducing Chiquitita as Cecilia, the show was awarded a Special Recognition at the 26th GLAAD Media Awards.
Siblings, Toby and Emma have to tell one last campfire story around the fire pit in their backyard in rural Texas. Come listen to the fable.
Cardboard is every surprisingly scary kids’ movie you watched growing up injected with real issues today, where three brave boxes stand against a recycling bin society built on a lie.
Award-Winning Playwright and Visionary Sebastian Maroun is bringing his brand new play, A Thousand Rainy Mornigns, to the Tank as a soon-to-be-award-winning Staged Reading. Please come see it.
A power outage threatens the mundane lives of four D'Agostino employees. Will they rally together and become the definition of community resilience, or will darkness illuminate something far more sinister?
In this darkly comedic farce set on Hollywood’s Biggest Night in 2018, irreverent and deranged hosts Talia and Erin will stop at nothing to execute the perfect Oscars watch party.
POV you're about to watch “Mad About It”: Damn, this pre-show announcement is loooooong. This stage manager sure has a lot of opinions. Is that a guitar? What’s going on?
A solo show with voices on the seductions of climate nihilism and how we should live in the end times.
Join us for a swashbuckling, hilarious, and heartrending high seas adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, adapted by the award winning James Cougar Canfield. One night only staged reading!
Two Black entertainers, a 20-year music veteran and a retired Pop the Ballon host, are tasked by BETN (Black Entertainment Television Network) to find the best re-run to air on their network.
Hilarious and evocative, Landing on Me takes you on a journey with Lisa and Michelle, who search their crushes, kisses, relationships, and life paths only to realize they’re already enough.
LILI/DARWIN
Written & Performed by Darwin Del Fabro
Featuring Costumes by Darwin Del Fabro in collaboration with DIOR
August 2, 2025 - August 23, 2025
A poetic solo performance exploring the intimate, overlapping journeys of Lili Elbe and Darwin Del Fabro, LILI/DARWIN invites the audience into a raw, unflinching world of identity, memory, and becoming. Through voice, projection, and powerful language, Darwin brings to life the blurred lines of self and story, history and present.
Darwin Del Fabro is a Brazilian writer, performer, and producer based in New York. After years of creative work in theater and music, LILI/DARWIN marks her return to the stage following her gender transition. Drawing from an inspiring lifelong connection to the story of Lili Elbe, Darwin intertwines personal narrative with historical record in this intimate, genre-defying piece.
We bring you a strong lineup of plays that showcase all aspects of DEI and show why these initiatives are so important and what life may look like without them. We can't wait to see you there!
A dysfunctional polycule navigates the rise of an authoritarian government, a slew of unexplained disappearances, and an uncanny boom in deer population.
A group of girls obsessed with the occult perform a ritual gone wrong at a sleepover, after which they must reverse a demonic possession to save their best friend.
A party in the absence of food, drink, and pleasant company. DINNERS ALONE is a darkly, absurdist drawing comedy for the twenty-first century featuring death and bitter redemption.
Vanishing 2.0 is about making a meal. It’s a ritual of memories named “diaspora”, it’s us asking: what does it mean to live within, or beyond, vanishing and being trapped?
An imaginary camel, a brand new muumuu, and a pack of Virginia Slims launch a woman and her recently removed anthropomorphic appendix into an existential spiral.
A U G U S T 28th by Hope Ruffin Ward is a choreopoem that delves into the layers of identity, memory, and resilience within the Black diaspora, examining how America, family, friendship, and love shape the evolution of our past, present, and future.
When a devout young woman is asked to defy everything she’s vowed to believe, she must peel back the rituals of religion and confront the human cost beneath them.
How to have your heart broken but not your spirit
Talking With The Lorde: A Choreopoem is a sonically, visual space holding rage-full freedom—and choral defiance seen through the all-seeing eyes of the black chorus.
Three friends come together to box up items from a deceased loved one. Their day gets flipped upside down when they are met with a literal pile of grief.
Arlington, VA. 1953. Edith and Clark struggle to start a family. After Clark’s promotion, and reunion with his foxy high school sweetheart, Edith notices dead birds falling from the sky.
As memories spin into a spiraling spider web, we are invited to witness the final moment between mother and daughter. Will ONE let go? Can TWO break free?
The Bear Family is known for two things: they never take off their bear suits, and they’re even wilder beneath the fur.
Jade, a 30-something artist and escort, is hired by Dave for what turns out to be much more than a standard outcall.
She never thought she’d be the villain, but that is exactly what she became. And on a cruise ship no less.....
You remember the hit TV show "Smash"? You remember the musical about that show that JUST closed? This is season 3 of Smash. You're welcome.
Influencer Astrid goes from Tradwife to Trapped-wife when her husband locks her in their attic. She says she went willingly, but is that true? Either way: who can save her?
Heart-felt comedy about best friends auditioning for a Purim shpiel
If you're confused in your 20s, this play is for you.
Anne is Louise-Clothilde’s maid. Every day she dresses her, hears of her woes and fancies, and sleeps beside her. Yet, the approaching French Revolution turns their relationship on its head…
GAL is a one woman show that interrogates the muse, the nature of being sculpted by men, and what it means to be an artist in a crumbling world.
In this contemporary fairytale, a neurodiverse woman dives into the rabbit hole of memory, connection, and the tough task of being honest with yourself.
Sometimes the best place to find yourself is a Walmart parking lot.
Six Red Seeds is an office drama about climate change, sexual currency, who holds the purse strings, and what we're willing to compromise for the promise of a better world.
Chronically single, Gail gets a scary diagnosis forces her decisions about boundaries, medicine and magic mushrooms. “I got rid of all the toxic people and there was no one left.”
Influencer Astrid goes from Tradwife to Trapped-wife when her husband locks her in their attic. She says she went willingly, but is that true? Either way: who can save her?
When Mary-Kate gets her first period on an overnight Girl Scout trip, three scouts embark on a mission to prove their womanhood.
Examples of Lingua Franca is a dark comedy about a Catholic Church rebranded as a startup, where faith, metrics, and marriage collide in a satire of religion and corporate ambition.
ou'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream! IT'S TRUE--I Was a Teenage Reptilian! Were you?
A college frisbee team performs a ritual to try and win nationals. It goes horribly wrong.
Miss March explores the concealed identities of the family behind Little Women, the sacrifices that are made for commercial success, and the sinister legacies that spawn from conformity.
Four women vie for the crown in the first ever Mrs. New Jersey contest. But as ambitions collide, the women must choose between tearing each other down, or tearing down the system that pits them against each other.
In this comedic one-woman show, Marina explores why she hit her sensual peak in elementary school -- and how her dating life crumbled after puberty.
“Who am I?” “Where do I come from?” “Where am I going?”
A black-box horror comedy about healing from pelvic pain—or maybe about a demon taking over the world
A dark comedy about lies, secrets, power struggles, oppression, and a woman’s fight for self-determination.
Four women vie for the crown in the first ever Mrs. New Jersey contest. But as ambitions collide, the women must choose between tearing each other down, or tearing down the system that pits them against each other.
"Elizabeth" tells the true story of The Black Dahlia Murder through a feminist lens, asking "who has the right to our stories when we die" and "how can we ethically engage with true crime?"
Why does nobody wanna sit down and play a long board game these days? Free Parking is a hilarious look at the chaos that happens when four people have a game night (and shouldn't.)
Good girls is a play about three-generations of women and the powerful bond between them that carries each of them through the tough transitions of their lives. women and the powerful bond
This is not your mother's Chekhov play. Come see Three Cis-ters and dissect the patriarchy.
A story about that girl Eve and some fruit she picked.
Dovecote by Maya T. Weed is an eco-dramedy about sisterhood, seabirds, science, and secrets all coming to a head in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane!
Helena Hadid — the sister of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid—reckons with her failing writing career and a family scandal that makes her spiral a bit out of control.
Nemesis tried to warn them - “In all beings' final tallies, it is the hostility, harm, and hurt they cause that leaves their most long-lasting legacies.” Will you heed the warning?
Delia, a mentally closed-off ex-nurse, maintains a lighthouse on a secluded island. Claire, a newly divorced and unemployed tourist, gets caught in a storm, stumbling upon Delia's lighthouse for safety.
Girls. Friendship. Girl-friendship. Secrets. Confession. Secret-confessions. Period blood, glitter, dolphins, ponies and, obviously, Mr. Darcy.
A magical comedy about grief and the consequences of living truthfully, with a crow fued, ghosts, and little german boy.
Stan Zimmerman’s suicide awareness play, Right before I go runs this September. The Golden Girls/Gilmore Girls writer will appear on stage alongside a casts of all-star actors.
An antique dealer helps her hoarder friend to not lose her apartment. While they work their way through thousands of objects, the complexity of their relationship rises, in the same pace that one of them realises she is not where or when she thought she was.
LaRouge, a drag queen, is perfomring her cabaret act. Through stories and songs, she recalls her life's journey being eerily similar to a short story she read in high school.
A prison chef has made 217 last meals for death row inmates. But his 218th wants to eat dirt. . Can he be saved? Can anyone on death row be saved? Inspired by real events, Huntsville asks: what is the value of a last meal, when everyone gets "Texacuted" anyway?
The untold story of a bombshell
Mickey, Moe and Miriam roadtrip it east to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to pull a Dustin Hoffman at the end of “The Graduate” and reunite Mickey and Maude in “Dead End Kids”!
The Sickness of Wanting is a short one act play about desire, intimacy, and allowing one’s self to reach beneath the facade of casual romantic connection.
As part of our annual PrideFest, The Tank is proud to host a PrideFest Puppet Slam, featuring the work of puppeteers making new visual work surrounding queerness.
SISYPHUS'S STONE is about the choices we make, the hope we have, and who - or what - we’re willing to live for.
Mercutio and the band from Verona are dead and pissed. They are also in NYC for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, telling the TRUE story of the infamous star-crossed lovers through their debut album.
a wide ranging discussion with my gay actor friends
One drag queen. Four hard-front wigs. The greatest tele-script of all time.
David Quang Pham returns with CHEMICALS IN THE WATER, a musical romantic comedy where two chemicals fall in love during an environmental disaster.
What happens when a transexual is swallowed by a whale? My guess... Indegestion.
Take a dive to the bottom of the ocean with Silvia, the Octopus living inside of her chest (yes you read that right), and Blue, her new lover who harbors a big blue secret.
Using drag, clown, and audience participation, Shell confronts what we know and don’t know about our bodies, their power, and what happens when we truly ask for what we want.
Jack, Spencer, and Audrey have two things in common. 1) Best friends, and 2) Obsessed with horses. Their enrollment at a prestigious horse camp tests these friend and equine bonds.
This one-man comedic true-crime thriller follows Dylan Guerra as he attempts to solve a mystery that's been looming over another Dylan Guerra for years.
Jake is a recent college graduate and aspiring gay porn star. The only problem is his family doesn't approve because they are all colonial pilgrims except for him.
Real couples. Real booze. Real gay people.
In honor of our first anniversary, Dyke Theater Co. presents The First Timers’ Club: an evening of pre-selected first draft showings and an open mic with the theme “My First __.”
In the “tank” of surveillance and control, two queer “fish” embark on a wave-like, poetic quest for truth and freedom. How can they escape – through love, death, or something beyond?
like Freaky Friday, but you're on acid and boys are kissing and it's half theatre and half film
Inspired by Carolee Schneeman's Fuses, (softspells) is a ritual space unfolding from the flesh of two trans lovers’ embodied + visual experiences of domesticity via vessels of movement + projection.
A hungry boy, a drag queen, and Mariah Carey save the world.
Its final callbacks for Glinda and Early might be the first non-binary Glinda. This dark comedy exposes what happens when the personal cost of having a dream ignites righteous anger.
Using her magical voice and charisma, Lena Horné presents “Lena Sings!” An evening of song, love, and whimsy, expect to be transported to a land where the heart beats fast and eagerly for love in every form.
Five middle schoolers navigate chaos, play, (un)masking, queer friendships, intimacy, and finding their part through theatre and dance, all in the middle of a dodgeball game.
Hugo, obsessed with perfection, decides on cartography as his next project, leaving Hamlin to pack his lunchbox. An absurd quest to complete the impossible, and a parable of unrequited love.
A carnal dissection of trans identity, gender performance, and the razor-thin line between affirmation and transgression.
In this queer coming-of-age tale with a folkloric twist, Mayari finds her other half in her goth classmate Glorianne, and fends off her uncle in his hunt for the manananggal.
Retro(aid): A Sankofa Musical Offering is a Black Queer Church experience that uses music as a vessel to connect us to those who came before us. Gather, reflect, and look back in order to move forward.
Miles, a firefighter-in-training, meets Jake, a man with body-swapping abilities. Their encounter ignites a supernatural battle over masculinity, vulnerability, and desire in a world where strength isn't everything.
On the eve of a catastrophic flood, two Bostonians reunite along the Charles River esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs.