Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
Four eyes, two minds, two keys, one choice. Do you trust the man who calls the shots?
Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie tells the story of Golem, a non-copyright infringing creature who owns a non-copyright infringing smoothie shop called Tropical Smoothie in Panama City Beach, Florida. All is going well – until Smeegle, the notorious CEO of the mega-corporate Smoothie Kingdom, threatens to drive him out of business with tax loophole trickery. To save the shop, Golem and his loyal employees (Ian, a high school kid; Gabby, his overachieving older sister; and Kyle, a stoner college dropout) must come up with a plan to raise $60,000 in one week – or maybe 5 days? It doesn’t really matter. The point is, Golem owned a Tropical Smoothie.
SUNSHOWER is an attempt at being funny and sexy while crying and desperate to not have your home - and by extension you - looked upon with disgust or remorse.
Celebrated novelist Nat has returned home for their sister's wedding. But when they meet their soon to be brother-in-law, dark things that should've been left buried in the backyard arise...
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series continues with James Cougar Canfield's DRACULA: BLOOD & GLITTER.
Minnie has just started a wonderful new job. The pay is great, the job is easy, but the catch is it will drain the blood out of her if she isn't careful.
There are no coincidences… only connections. Remarkable “follow-signs” lead a jaded writer to Scotland, where a bucket-list pilgrimage becomes an unexpected, life-changing exploration of kindness. Bonus: singing, Satanic nuns. #Edinburgh
Halloween night: six teens gather to confront the evil that's haunted their town for generations. But as everything goes wrong they're each forced to choose: save themselves or save each other?
Rose Kanj shares her journey of self-love in her autobiographical one-woman show told through silly yet vulnerable anecdotes and the music that shaped the imperfect human she is today.
"Doubt That the Stars Are Fire" is a queer mythological fairytale that explores the intersection of queerness, faith, and identity in a world where societal and divine expectations reign supreme.
Looking for a fun and unique way to spend Halloween night?
Join us on the 6th Floor of The Tank Theater for Movie Night, where there will be a special screening of the cult classic Troll 2, widely regarded as the best worst movie ever made!
Whether you're a fan of campy horror or just looking to embrace the spirit of the season, this movie promises a wildly entertaining and hilariously bad ride.
Troll 2 has garnered a cult following for its so-bad-it's-good charm, filled with strange creatures, bizarre plot twists, and unforgettable (for all the wrong reasons) performances. It’s the ultimate Halloween treat for lovers of weird and wonderful cinema!
COSTUMES ARE ENCOURAGED! Wear your spookiest, funniest, or most creative costume for a chance to be part of the night's eerie fun! 👻🎃
Prize Drawing: Every ticket will earn you a spot in our raffle for 3 FREE hours of rehearsal space at The Tank! 🎭 Drinks & Snacks will be available, so grab some goodies while enjoying the movie!
Come for the movie, stay for the laughs, and enjoy a night of spooky cinema fun!
WARNING: Troll 2 contains: Sex & Nudity, Violence & Gore, Profanity, Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Frightening & Intense Scenes.
A Wild.Mess Production will present a collection of works by rogue wave and wild.DANCE. The evening will consist of a variety of pieces that accentuate the unique and exciting voices of choreographers/directors Catherine Messina and Emmy Wildermuth.
Television! “The Boob Tube Plays” reveal how T.V. affects relationships, impacts story lines, and blends fantasy with reality. Join us on a 70-minute journey referencing notable actors, shows, fictional characters and, yes, a very special hyena.
A Simple Herstory - Stress Buster Event
November 3, 7PM
Jocelyn Kuritsky (Series Creator, Executive Producer)
Jonathan A. Goldberg (Series Executive Producer, S1 & S2 Writer)
Meghan Finn (Series Presenting Partner, S2 Excerpts Director)
Jenny Turner Hall (Series Executive Producer, S2 Co-Writer)
Donya K. Washington (Series Executive Producer, S1 Director)
Florencia Lozano (Margaret Chase Smith), David Shih (Clyde/Bill)
Colleen Werthmann (Host/Eleanor Roosevelt)
Grace Flavien (Stage Manager)
Peter McCabe (Stress Buster Event Producer)
Nina Hellman (S2 Excerpts Swing)
A Simple Herstory — a Webby Award-honored and Telly Award-winning theatrical, multi-platform, audio fiction exploration of the 100+ women who have run for President of the United States — will throw a pre-election day party on November 3rd at The Tank (312 West 36th Street, 7PM) to build community, audience, and raise a couple a bucks in small change for A SIMPLE HERSTORY - SEASON 2.
Tier5 finishes its SpookyFest staged reading series with Matilda Corley Schulman's scars & stains!
In an apocalyptic future, four survivors Lionel, Lude, Virgile and Gog seek shelter in a cave to survive. There, they find something impossible: a little girl named Sophia protecting a gigantic egg she claims contains the future of humanity. How will they react to such news where all seems lost? Will they believe? Doubt? Or worse...
A joy-saturated dance-theater quartet that plays with memory, grief, community care, and a big clothesline! Built from father-daughter conversations about an ancestor, dancers excavate memory through storytelling, fabric, and bones.
The Betrothed is a farcical comedy set in the nineteenth century. Featuring an all-female cast, The Betrothed reshapes Victorian parlor comedies into a sapphic exploration of gender roles and desires.
PATRICK (bitter wheelchair user) must enlist the help of his cantankerous neighbor ROBERT (double amputee) to transport the four-year-old daughter he never knew he had to live with her maternal grandparents on the other side of the country.
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.
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.
How do our identities and relationships change when money and power come into play?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The International Human Rights Arts Festival:
TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
Monday, December 9th @ 7:00pm
Featuring:
Passed Tents presented by Scene 24 Productions
Catastrophe presented by Hattimatim-Team, Inc.
Requiem for the Wretched presented by Robert Galinsky
You Can Untie Them The Guards Can't Stop You presented by Wolf Mountain Workshop, Monte D. Monteleagre
Today's América presented by Zareh Artinian, Jr.
Across The Lake presented by Equity Library Theater of New York
Angelic Virtues presented by Rhys Collins
IHRAF: Celebration of Immigration
IHRAF: Celebration of LGBTQIA+
Best friends, unfiltered internet access, and the summer before 8th grade. Growing up is virtually impossible.
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.
It's a very special episode highlighting the best of Armory sketch house team Road House... and some heartfelt lessons learned along the way. Join the studio audience on Tuesday, October 15th at 7pm.
Down in the Holler: a Staged Reading with The Bechdel Group
Monday, October 14 at 7pm
written by Val Dunn
directed by Marina Zurita
When two women vacation in a cabin just off The Appalachian Trail near DC, they have some unexpected visitors who dredge up more than the past.
All the way from Scotland following a wonderful run at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Critically acclaimed storyteller Niall Moorjani (Mohan: A Partition Story) queers a Scottish folk classic in an evening of strangeness, sexy fairies and the fantastical.
Affecting Expression, a new queer tragicomedy: As three queer female artists in 1852 navigate their intersecting artistic paths and relationships, the walls of their home and boundaries between art and reality become increasingly unreliable.
Vote for us, hope for the future!
Something Blue is a gay story told through straight weddings
Bill’s Rice, a restaurant that serves only rice, runs out of rice. With a tempting business proposition and a vengeful ferret, the owners must navigate love, legacy, and letting go.
September 26, 27, 29, 30 at 7 PM
September 28 at 3 PM
October 3, 5, 7, 10, 12 at 7 PM
October 6, 13 at 3 PM
This play is based on the true story of a couple whose relationship was affected by Trump’s travel ban In 2017.The relationship serves as a metaphor, symbolizing the intricate dynamic between the nations of Iran and the US over the preceding four decades.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series kicks off with Justin McDevitt's gay ghost story, Haunt Me.
Haunted prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are due to settle the estate of Sloane's ailing grandmother. When Gwyn's childhood friend Beckham arrives to help the couple bury the hatchet, they soon discover there may be more to the dusty old house, and to Sloane's twisted past, hidden beneath the foundation.
Suficiente is a short film that follows a Mexican immigrant exploring the different personas she's had to create to be accepted in American society.
Mujer!
September 22 at 5pm
Leo Torres - Playwright
Rodrigo Ernesto Bolaños - Director
1934, on an isolated rancho in Mexico, Luisa yearns to leave behind the life that was forced on her. Through movies and magazines, she daydreams about what her life could be. Will Luisa's dreams remain a source of complacent comfort, or will she find the courage to turn them into reality?
Inspired in a real story, Dr. Joaquín finds a new meaning of life and healing in a community that prefers using puppets, magic and laughter to fight the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
Triple Bill: (Limón) Daddy Issues, Esclavo y Amo, Huapango Veracruzano
Experience <de>const.tru.y.END//o by Arantxa Araujo, featuring the symbolic deconstruction of 39 plaster altars, each containing a cempasuchil flower. This powerful performance invites reflection on personal identity and cultural narratives through striking visuals and an evocative soundscape.
The Loves of Diego Rivera is two person play about the art and women of Diego Rivera's amazing life.
September 20 at 7:30pm
September 21 at 3pm
CAGED focuses on the “zero tolerance” policy of the Trump Administration that separated families at the US-Mexico border and left thousands of immigrant children incarcerated in detention centers.
A raucous night of serialized plays featuring the hottest actors, directors, and playwrights in the indie theater scene. You vote for what stories return next time with a new episode.
"Goat Blood" fuses passion, queer identity, and the fierce battle against personal demons, all pulsing within the heart of Latine folklore.
Triple Bill (Sal): Last Christmas; Recordar; The Chemistry of Salt
Juliet’s Nurse hits the road to correct the record on "the greatest love story ever told." Love! Death! Aging! Teenagers!
A love letter to the queer community! Experience Where the Violets Bloom, a groundbreaking dance theatre production by Kaleid Dance Collective that redefines traditional narratives around being queer in America.
The Frontera Series is a play reading series dedicated to highlighting the next frontier of great American Playwrights.
A double-bill exploring boyhood's transition to manhood and cycles of violence through history and media, from the late River Phoenix to the medieval mystery of the Princes in the Tower.
In eighteen days the world will end by Flood—at least according to drag queen Lizzie Fine, who receives a frightening prophecy of Old Testament proportions. Meanwhile, a gaggle of gay "chosen family" considers unchoosing each other. Nathan the Demon Twink seeks transcendence through Kabbalah (and Adderall), Christopher bravely transitions (into a DJ), and Gnocchi the Cat WILL be Bat Mitzvah'd, God willing. Vile Isle is a precocious and party-fueled dark comedy about how we fail and forgive one another and what faith is worth when our limits are existentially tested.
Join The Bechdel Group as we workshop and discuss two new plays in progress!
We Are Actors Presents a Night Of Scenes. Join us for A night of incredible theater Headlined by "Japanese Porno" by John Patrick Shanley.
Set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world unraveling under the weight of late-stage capitalism, the play explores the complexities of female friendship, fame, and the absurdities of our digital age.
Walls: Chloe’s Story is a Forum Theatre play about a young person with chronic vulvar pain. Audience members are given the chance to intervene and change Chloe's fate.
Award winning 1 woman show: 8 vastly diverse characters' dance with cancel culture and how mental and spiritual health are connected. Could a 5 minute conversation Save a life? All stories based on real interviews
