Experience "Inside Joke," a 45-minute play exploring a South Asian artist's emotional journey. Join us on December 17th at The Tank, followed by a Q&A with the cast and Life Coach.
A neat late night showing of three little cute plays such as:
Non-Advice to a Boat by Addison Vaughn
Inspired by the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and the poem “Blessing The Boats” by Lucille Cliffton, Non-Advice to a Boat is a non-linear discussion of personhood kinda
Zap! by Rhett Goldman
Madeline just got zapped! She’s turning green! She needs an antidote. NOW!
Baby Fish Mouth by Grace "Juice" O'Rourke
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
In the days of auld lang syne?
In a Massachusetts college town during winter break, three young people vie for each other's affection under the looming shadow of gentrification.
PEREGRINATIONS
January 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th, and 18th @ 7PM
January 19th @ 3PM
January 20th, 23rd, 24th, and 25th @ 7PM
January 26th @ 3PM
A co-production with Dutch Kills Theater and Long Story Short
Performed by Megan Campisi (she/her), Julia Cavagna (she/her), Jay Dunn (he/him), Blake Habermann (he/him), Malcolm Opoku (he/him), and Angela Parra
Outside Eye: Brendan McMahon
Original Sound Design and Live Sound Performance by Joan Hofmeyr
Peregrination: noun /ˌpɛrɪgrəˈneɪʃən/
A long journey or period of wandering, especially in foreign lands; from the Latin: peregrinus, meaning “foreigner”.
Peregrinations is a wordless play with original music and sound design exploring journeys of displacement and migration. It is drawn from interviews with displaced people and personal stories of our international performance collective and performed in masks. Peregrinations uses the poetic, metaphoric language of the masks to explore shared experiences of journeys across borders.
Best friends, unfiltered internet access, and the summer before 8th grade. Growing up is virtually impossible.
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.
Swallow Me Whole explores how we learn to love our bodies when we have been taught to hate them.
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.
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.
This interdisciplinary work combines storytelling, drawing, and movement as an exercise in loving, remembering, keeping, being, and forgiving.
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.
Touch is an intergenerational comedy about people in their sunset years living in the Sunshine State
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?
Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 7PM
Friday, March 21, 2025 at 7PM
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 7PM
Librettist and Composed by Jason Cady and Anna Heflin
Vocals by Sarah Daniels
Vocalizing Cello by Aaron Wolff
Directed by Shannon Sindelar
Costumes by Krista Intranuovo Pineman
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.
The INcomplete Cosmicomics
The INcomplete Cosmicomics is a stand-alone opera by composer/writer Anna Heflin for vocalizing cellist/actor and electronics in which author Italo Calvino’s mystical entity Qfwfq continues his journey. After being stuck in a void for thousands of years with only a cello and a looper, the incongruous and multifaceted Qfwfq comes to life. Upon exiting the void, he faces a choice: he can either explode into existence as all beings or end linear time. Inspired by Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics, Heflin’s work is an original creation in which Qfwfq takes the reins of his own narrative. Equipped with a sharp sense of humor and sensuality, Qfwfq ruminates, charms and hypnotizes in his quest to break the loops of life.
The work showcases Juilliard-educated cellist Aaron Wolff as Qfwfq, whose acting credits include Danny Gopnik in the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man.
This Is Not About Natalie
This is Not About Natalie is a one-act opera with words and music by Jason Cady. It features a solo singer with a ventriloquist doll and guitar. She portrays a songwriter who uploads a new, original song everyday to Youtube and introduces each song in dialogue with her puppet. She was formerly one half of the underground duo, “Kris and Natalie.” Her former partner, Natalie, went on to become a famous popstar. But this is not about her.
Sarah Daniels, soprano and guitar, stars in this one-woman opera.
International Human Rights Arts Festival: Ten Minute Performance Festival
International Human Rights Arts Festival: What to do? An evening of dance curated by Charly Santagado
International Human Rights Arts Festival: Celebration of Human Rights
International Human Rights Arts Festival: Celebration of Human Rights
International Human Rights Arts Festival: TRANSforms: Celebration of Trans Artists
International Human Rights Arts Festival: Human beings are members of a whole, Dance event curated by Tina Bararian
The International Human Rights Arts Festival: Climate Change Action
International Human Rights Arts Festival: CELEBRATION OF WOMEN
IHRAF: Celebration of LGBTQIA+
IHRAF: Celebration of Immigration
The International Human Rights Arts Festival: Pride Residency and Performance by WADE Dance
The International Human Rights Art Festival:
TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
Monday, December 9th @ 7:00pm
Featuring:
Passed Tents presented by Scene 24 Productions
Emily Seibert - Caitlyn,
David Macharelli - AJ
An unhoused person attempts to sell “affordable, available city real estate” to a successful nurse trying to downsize.
Catastrophe presented by Hattimatim-Team, Inc.
Written and Directed by Abhisek Bhattacharya
Stage Managed by Sayantan Bhattacharya
CAST
Didhiti Mukherjee (Cat)
Anushila Bagchi (Astro)
Nabamita Pal (Phoebe)
"Catastrophe" revolves around Phoebe, an international worker in a company, Astro, a young surgery resident, and Cat, who might or might not be a soft toy. When a severely stressed-out Phoebe muses about her work-related "issues" and potential impending death, Cat and Astro try to cheer her up, though in a dramatically opposite manner.
Requiem for the Wretched presented by Robert Galinsky
written, produced, and directed by Robert Galinsky
performed by Alexis Sadé Sailes and Robert Galinsky
In the oppressive heat of a 1987 summer day, a young woman, unraveling from the agony of having her prescribed medication withheld by her doctors, stumbles into a park. The air is suffocating, 102 degrees, and her desperation grows with every breath. Drawn by some skewed instinct or blind hope, she seeks comfort in a seemingly benign hot dog vendor. She begs for advice, some semblance of relief from her mental and physical torment. The conversation begins innocently, touching on small talk, but soon the vendor’s words grow disturbing. As his demeanor shifts from friendly to almost sinister, the woman, trapped in her own unraveling thoughts, starts to challenge the very nature of the man standing before her. What seemed like a moment of potential solace takes a macabre turn, leaving her second-guessing whether the pain from the medication withdrawal, the heat, or the encounter with the disturbing figure is the greater danger.
You Can Untie Them The Guards Can't Stop You presented by Wolf Mountain Workshop, Monte D. Monteleagre
Chase Guthrie Knueven
Katie Ploetz
Jimmy Kohlmann
You Can Untie Them The Guards Can't Stop You is a play where you can untie them because the guards can't stop you. Like most plays, there are prizes at the end.
Today's América presented by Zareh Artinian, Jr.
Written, Produced, and Directed by Zareh Artinian, Jr.
Annie Hartkemeyer *- América Jonze
Mark Coffin* William G. Bowman
"Today's América" pits Gen Z Congresswoman and disabled shooting survivor, América Jonze, against a Boomer career politician in a behind-the-scenes battle on Capitol Hill over legislation to curb gun violence. Dramatizing the stark differences between politicians at extreme ends of the generational spectrum, this play goes beyond the familiar public vigils and speeches, the hackneyed social media debates and "thoughts and prayers" posts and gives you a peek into the drama that occurs behind Washington's closed doors.
Cast:
Annie Hartkemeyer* (América Jonze) (she/they) is an actor, director, and curious spirit based in New York, NY.
Mark Coffin* (William G. Bowman) (he/him) is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and The Actors Center, and is represented by Dulcina Eisen and Associates.
Crew:
Zareh Artinian (Writer/Director) (he/him) is an award-winning playwright (Shattered! An American Fairy Tale) who believes theatre can be a transformative force that fosters empathy and prompts conversations about social justice.
Leela S. Munsiff (Assistant to the Director) (she/they) is a Stage Manager and Singer-Songwriter known for her commitment to racial and disability justice and their community care, disability-first approach to theatre.
Marci Diamond, M.P.A.,SAG-AFTRA, AEA, (Intimacy Choreographer) (she/her) is a Vermont-based IC, actor, circus artist, and educator.
Andy Kasana (Stage crew) (he/him) is a student writer/filmmaker from Slovakia.
Barbare Sturua (Stage crew) (she/her) is an aspiring filmmaker and writer from the Republic of Georgia.
*These actors are members of Actors’ Equity and appear in this Equity-approved Showcase courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
Across The Lake presented by Equity Library Theater of New York
Directed by Johnny Culver
CAST
Sasha Henriques
Jonathan Beebee
Regina Yeager
An encounter on a railcar brings old memories to the surface.
Angelic Virtues presented by Rhys Collins
Rhys Collins (he/they), writer and director
Mia Vongsavang - Mabel
Emily Savona - Zeraquiel
In Angelic Virtues, Mabel prays to the Heavens above to ask if she’s allowed to be a lesbian. To her surprise, an angel answers. Through humor, queer joy, and religious revelations, the play tackles homophobia and religious trauma in order to prove that being both religious and gay is perfectly okay.
Sixth Annual International Human Rights Art Festival - an open space for performance artists-activists in New York City to tell their stories and influence society.
Ivy and Jones should be dead. But 4 tries in, they're still breathing. Sometimes the universe has other plans for you. A pitch black comedy about finding a way out.
1 and 2 are brothers. They haven't seen each other in a few years. 1 is stuck in here. 2 moved back home, and he can't stop visiting.
A workshop presentation of Mari: A solo show about time, trauma, family, aging, healing, and arriving that blends deep humor with stories of humiliation, survival and love. Marisela began to develop this piece at the MT+NYC Collaborative Montana writers' retreat in the Fall of 2023. Marisela continued to develop the piece; writing, editing and rewriting in preparation for this first ever showing, with the Tank Presents.
Five teams perform original, short plays. The audience votes for their favorites. Plays with the most votes come back with a brand new episode of the same storyline.
Testing² is an experimental dance theater performance, weaving together snippets of text, song, and audio sound bites from renowned celebrity artists. In this 3rd iteration of Testing2, actor/dance theatre artist Soomi Kim collaborates with choreographer Laura Peterson to intricately dissect and reassemble these recordings, delving into the spontaneous conversations and unplanned utterances – from the absurd to the profound and the spaces in between.
Pretty Delusional is a musical comedy about staying sexy in the face of rejection. Gianna marches heart-first into the battle of loving too much or not at all, while trying not to vomit in the process.
At defense contractor Boykin Dean, certified girlbosses Millie and Francine train computers to do…something. Something crucial for protecting our protectors, our ‘boys’ (sorry, our ‘people’) who fight for our freedom.
Join Don't Pass the Peppa Sauce for an Out of this World Production
When Dr. Nicholas A. Laurenstien isn't teaching archeology at Cambridge University, he's exchanging blows with the endless assortment of cartoony villians entering his office.
In 2021, Sarina confronted death and won. It took only one harrowing LSD trip. Now she's dying (not literally!) to reveal how she's really completely totally fine.
An autobiographical play that follows a queer, demisexual woman with OCD as she attempts to transcend her irrational fears and experience what it’s like to feel safe and loved.
PILLOW TALK is a play that follows Ty, a gay trans man in his early twenties, as he embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery and self-love
Set in contemporary Brooklyn, the romantic dramedy Walking Charlie is about the relationship between a Venezuelan political immigrant and a struggling small businessman who are brought together by a pug dog named Charlie.
How do our identities and relationships change when money and power come into play?
This is House is a trap house function that follows the highs and lows of party culture. We investigate that friendship is needed in life and how nobody is alone in their struggle.
Join One Day Dance for our 5th season of dance on camera! This year we are premiering nine original films from an array of incredible choreographers.
