DarkFest 2025

July 21st - July 27th, 2025

For over a decade, The Tank has presented DarkFest, a week-long celebration of performance that challenges our relationship to energy and light. Each show in DarkFest operates without conventional theatrical lighting, inviting artists to explore storytelling in low light, candlelight, flashlight—or no light at all. The result is a striking array of work that asks what is essential in live performance, while embracing sustainability and resourcefulness. DarkFest is a reminder that innovation often begins in the dark.

EVENTS

Featured

Agoraphobic/Claustrophobic

Agoraphobic/Claustrophobic is a retelling of the myth of Icarus through the "non-man" body exploring how to grow into oneself

Jul 21

sylvia, beginning to end and onward

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.

The End of The World Radio Hour

Two theater geeks and a mad scientist bunker down in an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese for the apocalypse.

Jul 24

18 West 11th Street

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.

Jul 25

Fireflies Taught Us Pyromania

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.

Jul 26

A Thousand Rainy Mornings

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.

Jul 26

BLACKOUT

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?

Jul 27

Brett, Age 26

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?

The Mushroom God of Leafcutter Ants

A solo show with voices on the seductions of climate nihilism and how we should live in the end times.