Kick off your 2026 at The Tank with four new Winter/Spring productions! We’re presenting DIRT, Scarecrow, Plan C, and THE MALL THE MALL THE MALL—a lineup of inventive, surprising, genre-stretching work all on our stages at 312 West 36th Street.
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DIRT
Created By SOUR MILK
Directed by Carsen Joenk
Text by Anna Jastrzembski
Game Design by Christina Tang
Produced by Most Unwanted Productions and Dani Turner
January 22-February 15, 2026
What if one day you woke up and the East River was... gone? In its place: a brand new plot of land, ripe for development. Performed with three actors, one printer, and fifteen pounds of pudding, DIRT is an interactive theatre piece by SOUR MILK that invites audiences to reimagine the landscape of NYC. Participants take on characters, campaign to become mayor, and decide how to develop their new neighborhood. Construction is completed in real time using food products as building materials in this collaborative act of urban planning, electioneering, and play.
Scarecrow
Choreographed by Mark Bankin
February 12-March 1, 2026
A looping fever dream in a house that keeps turning back into a wheatfield, Scarecrow is an experimental dance theater deathbed hallucination where mind and body stand in open confrontation—a quiet, disorienting psychodrama set in a 1950s interior-wheatfield where memories deteriorate, the unseen insists on being felt, and the body returns to its limits.
THE MALL THE MALL THE MALL
Written by Philip Kenner
Directed by James Wyrwicz
Produced by Twin Fruit Productions
February 26-March 22, 2026
Naomi, Viv, and Charlie spend their Friday nights at the mall, but this night is special: there is new “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” merchandise at Hot Topic, and Naomi is determined to get her hands on it. When the best friends discover that thieves have brutally ransacked the Hot Topic, they embark on a mission to save the merchandise. Along the way, they uncover a deeper conspiracy, and evil forces emerge to ensnare the teenagers. Their allegiances to each other are called into question, and when all hope seems lost, Naomi must fight back or risk losing her friends to the mall forever.
THE MALL THE MALL THE MALL is an adventure comedy about a group of teenagers who uncover an evil conspiracy at their local shopping mall and must fight their way – video game style – through Hollister, Hot Topic, Build-A-Bear, and more to save their beloved mall. An unapologetic love letter to nerd culture and food courts, THE MALL THE MALL THE MALL is both a laugh-packed nostalgia fest and an earnest meditation on what it meant to grow up at the dawn of the digital age.
PLAN C
Produced by Hook & Eye Theater
Directed and Conceived by Carrie Heitman
March 12-April 12, 2026
PLAN C — When Justice fails, Hope has couriers
PLAN C is (not) Bridgerton, set 200 years earlier, and Lady Whistledown runs a post office. Unfortunately there’s no sex*. Fortunately, the show works without it.
Meanwhile, in West Virginia, a small town family hardware store distributes more than just hammers and nails.
*at least not DURING the performance
PLAN C is a darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, relationships, and rebellion. In 1620 Brussels, imperial postmistress Alexandrine Von Taxis moves more than mail through the empire’s hands during The Thirty Years’ War. In present-day West Virginia, Charley Gibson runs her family’s hardware store, where lockers conceal more than tools. As 17th-century espionage collides with a small-town network, PLAN C exposes how rebellion takes shape.
PLAN C flips between two eras to bring history and the present into dynamic conversation with movement, original music, and ensemble-driven storytelling. This nine-person ensemble uses Hook & Eye’s signature devising style, to bring to life a story that reflects the urgency of the present moment.
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Hook & Eye builds inspiring, inquisitive original works of theater. We devise through ensemble co-creation and co-authorship on themes of history, science, and myth. Through Instant PlayLabs, Education Initiatives, and Full-Length Productions, Hook & Eye is a company committed to celebrating the power of creativity by making stories that honor the agency of the individual artist, as well as the group as a whole. Using an extended creative process that we have developed over our history, we create new works of performance as a collective, using improvisation, research, movement, soundscape, text, and debate. Any artist with whom we work, is a generator of content, revision, and performance. We create at the intersection of play-making and script-writing. www.hookandeyetheater.com