PRIDEFEST 2026
JUNE 19 – JUNE 30
The Tank’s PrideFest is a festival of new and imaginative performances from queer artists that center the LGBTQ+ community. The shows of PrideFest 2026 address queer joy, laughter, struggle, resistance and beauty through a range of mediums including theater, comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and music. These performances will reflect where we've come from, where we are, and where we can go.
2026 Curator: Max Mooney
A weekend of radio theater: Friday night is the suspenseful "The Strange Case of Nick M." Saturday night is the philosophically farcical "Price in Purgatory." Pre-recorded. Strictly audio. Eye-masks provided.
Tempest & The Black Madonna is a myth masquerading as a band: a volatile theatre ritual where live music, poetry, testimony, and storytelling build a temporary archive of Black queer memory and collective survival. Led and conjured by Brent Thomas Whiteside.
ANARCOAFEMINADO** is a fierce collision of queer chaos, rebellion, nightlife, and performance art — raw emotion, unapologetic energy, provocative visuals, and liberation without rules. Enter the beautiful collapse.
A Black queer feminist’s journey in fighting for gender justice gets complicated when her sugar daddy becomes her nonprofit's biggest donor. WTF!?
Why get breakup bangs when you can cross the country with a stranger?
OR CURRENT RESIDENT is a new play about the tenants and spirits of a crumbling building in Bushwick. Do you see that face in the cracked paint on the wall?
Vanity Fair staff writer Marley Park puts their journalistic integrity on the line as they interview (and fall for) Hollywood heartthrob Kiran Ramesh every day for a calendar year.
Jahne's love's her girlfriend, no, partner, eX. I love eX But am I in love with them? Or did I Used to Love Her
On the eve of a catastrophic flood, two Bostonians reunite along the Charles River esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs.
Inspired by heart-warming all-star classics including VALENTINE'S DAY, MOTHER'S DAY, and NEW YEAR'S EVE, the even more heart-warming, even more star-studded BI VISIBILITY DAY celebrates friends, lovers, and strangers brought together in celebration of the queerest day of the year.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has tasked Sleth, a horse fancier and maniac, with creating a lecture immortalizing Horses for a far-off future where Horses no longer exist.
Is reliving her disastrous method acting class, reading her Special-ed childhood reports, and chasing Broadway diva dreams despite being unable to sing or dance a good show idea? Yes. #FailureConfetti
Wigs! Singing! Heartbreak! Spells! Hanging & Chatting! Jazzie Mercado comes to bear it all. It’s A Travesty! One Night With Jazzie Mercado is a cabaret whirlwind of healing, tears and frivolity!
A transsexual codependent family tragedy about childbirth, murder, and Shabbat dinner.
Masha + 3 reimagines Chekhov’s Three Sisters through the eyes of Masha, a Black gay man navigating identity, duty, and love during the 2020 pandemic.
Two drag queens' plans to rob Mary's Department Store are foiled by a pair of evil mannequins who threaten to tear them apart forever.
A play about an exclusive museum members' party where the geusts are more interested in each other than the art.
AMELIA EARHART WAS A LESBIAN, the snappy two hander from Nicole Streger, follows ex writing partners racing against the clock to save a sapphic screenplay… forcing them to deal with their own homoerotic mess.
While living rent-free at his slightly older boyfriend’s place, a 20-something twink becomes obsessed with dating a “vampire” he meets online instead of looking for a new apartment or job.
Maya’s mother doesn’t know she’s engaged to Tricia. Maya doesn’t want to tell her, so she rescinds Tricia’s engagement proposal. On a park bench at sunset, they confront Maya’s decision.
When a t-girl gets fired from her job for using her phone too much, the only thing left to do is to start making fetish content with her best doll friend.
WARNING: You’re not just reading this. You’re being read. Think you found this show by accident? There are no accidents. See you at The Clarence Show. He’s expecting you.
With the grit of NYC in her purview and the voice of an angel, Lena Horné weaves a tale of finding joy in the midst of struggle.
