Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
Do you have siblings? Are you the favourite? No? Are you sure? A play about 3 sisters, but actually only 2 sisters, being sisterly, or whatever that means. It’s only 75 minutes, you can figure it out for yourself.
A pitch black comedy, this is a brutal, blood-drenched portrait of an American family in crisis.
Ioli Andreadi masterfully directs a ritualistic “Helen”, overthrowing the clichés of how tragedy is usually being played and leading Vasiliki Troufakou to her personal acting transcendence.
A lonely, genderfluid cockroach at the end of the world searches for divine purpose in this solo-show about grief, exile, queer desire, and the dance of solitude.
Some ideas need time to brew. Night Coffee is a gathering of works in progress, artistic experiments, and bold choices in their earliest stages, all served with a side of bagels and caffeine at an objectively bad hour.
The storytelling series, Queer To Tell, presents "Captured In Color," a show where storytellers share tales inspired by the six initial colors of the Pride Flag and their meanings.
A Prophet Muhammad impersonator takes the right-wing Indian conspiracy theory of love jihad, in which Muslim men seduce, marry, and forcefully convert Hindu women, to. a new level in America.
Gregory (the bug) itches to tell A Travel Story. Through the Big Forest and to the Molting River to shed his exoskeleton and then come Home (the coming Home matters).
On the eve of a catastrophic flood, two Bostonians reunite along the Charles River esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs.
Miles, a firefighter-in-training, meets Jake, a man with body-swapping abilities. Their encounter ignites a supernatural battle over masculinity, vulnerability, and desire in a world where strength isn't everything.
Retro(aid): A Sankofa Musical Offering is a Black Queer Church experience that uses music as a vessel to connect us to those who came before us. Gather, reflect, and look back in order to move forward.
In this queer coming-of-age tale with a folkloric twist, Mayari finds her other half in her goth classmate Glorianne, and fends off her uncle in his hunt for the manananggal.
A carnal dissection of trans identity, gender performance, and the razor-thin line between affirmation and transgression.
Hugo, obsessed with perfection, decides on cartography as his next project, leaving Hamlin to pack his lunchbox. An absurd quest to complete the impossible, and a parable of unrequited love.
Five middle schoolers navigate chaos, play, (un)masking, queer friendships, intimacy, and finding their part through theatre and dance, all in the middle of a dodgeball game.
Using her magical voice and charisma, Lena Horné presents “Lena Sings!” An evening of song, love, and whimsy, expect to be transported to a land where the heart beats fast and eagerly for love in every form.
Its final callbacks for Glinda and Early might be the first non-binary Glinda. This dark comedy exposes what happens when the personal cost of having a dream ignites righteous anger.
A hungry boy, a drag queen, and Mariah Carey save the world.
Inspired by Carolee Schneeman's Fuses, (softspells) is a ritual space unfolding from the flesh of two trans lovers’ embodied + visual experiences of domesticity via vessels of movement + projection.
like Freaky Friday, but you're on acid and boys are kissing and it's half theatre and half film
In the “tank” of surveillance and control, two queer “fish” embark on a wave-like, poetic quest for truth and freedom. How can they escape – through love, death, or something beyond?
In honor of our first anniversary, Dyke Theater Co. presents The First Timers’ Club: an evening of pre-selected first draft showings and an open mic with the theme “My First __.”
Real couples. Real booze. Real gay people.
Jake is a recent college graduate and aspiring gay porn star. The only problem is his family doesn't approve because they are all colonial pilgrims except for him.
This one-man comedic true-crime thriller follows Dylan Guerra as he attempts to solve a mystery that's been looming over another Dylan Guerra for years.
Jack, Spencer, and Audrey have two things in common. 1) Best friends, and 2) Obsessed with horses. Their enrollment at a prestigious horse camp tests these friend and equine bonds.
Using drag, clown, and audience participation, Shell confronts what we know and don’t know about our bodies, their power, and what happens when we truly ask for what we want.
Take a dive to the bottom of the ocean with Silvia, the Octopus living inside of her chest (yes you read that right), and Blue, her new lover who harbors a big blue secret.
What happens when a transexual is swallowed by a whale? My guess... Indegestion.
David Quang Pham returns with CHEMICALS IN THE WATER, a musical romantic comedy where two chemicals fall in love during an environmental disaster.
One drag queen. Four hard-front wigs. The greatest tele-script of all time.
tess' white gay friends from tisch discuss misogyny, diva culture, and meisner in front of a live studio audience. just in time for pride!
Mercutio and the band from Verona are dead and pissed. They are also in NYC for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, telling the TRUE story of the infamous star-crossed lovers through their debut album.
SISYPHUS'S STONE is about the choices we make, the hope we have, and who - or what - we’re willing to live for.
As part of our annual PrideFest, The Tank is proud to host a PrideFest Puppet Slam, featuring the work of puppeteers making new visual work surrounding queerness.
The Sickness of Wanting is a short one act play about desire, intimacy, and allowing one’s self to reach beneath the facade of casual romantic connection.
Mickey, Moe and Miriam roadtrip it east to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to pull a Dustin Hoffman at the end of “The Graduate” and reunite Mickey and Maude in “Dead End Kids”!
A night of pure, ridiculous fun! @roadhousecomedy on Instagram
A brother and sister embark on an epic quest in search of their mother, whose newfound obsession with techno has taken her to an infinite nightclub city of dreams.
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—OPEN takes the stage Off-Broadway July 8–27 as a recipient of the WP Space Program.
Who is Anonymous? Who is the God of Beans? This Dream Has Teeth is a savage comedy about dangerous truths, the lies that keep us safe, and finding the courage to resist,
Craig and Elaikay reveal the word of Ramu Davi™ through miracles, ceremony, and divine transmission. Walk the Ramuvian path and become Fully Loaded — the ultimate state of human consciousness.
A new comedy about a bunch of raccoons in a Brooklyn dump.
SERIALS is a late-night episodic play competition series. Each weekend of performances, five original, never-before-seen 10 minute works are rehearsed, teched, and fully staged, premiered live in front of our audience.
Five lonely women. A grocery store. A blizzard. An ex-girlfriend's surprise arrival. They all get trapped in a grocery store together, slowly realizing they all know one another.
Four years, one gender transition, and copious amounts of psychedelics later Ryann Lynn Murphy tells a story about a girl who got groomed
Join us for a swashbuckling, hilarious, and heartrending high seas adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, adapted by the award winning James Cougar Canfield. One night only staged reading!
LILI/DARWIN
Written & Performed by Darwin Del Fabro
Featuring Costumes by Darwin Del Fabro in collaboration with DIOR
August 2, 2025 - August 23, 2025
A poetic solo performance exploring the intimate, overlapping journeys of Lili Elbe and Darwin Del Fabro, LILI/DARWIN invites the audience into a raw, unflinching world of identity, memory, and becoming. Through voice, projection, and powerful language, Darwin brings to life the blurred lines of self and story, history and present.
Darwin Del Fabro is a Brazilian writer, performer, and producer based in New York. After years of creative work in theater and music, LILI/DARWIN marks her return to the stage following her gender transition. Drawing from an inspiring lifelong connection to the story of Lili Elbe, Darwin intertwines personal narrative with historical record in this intimate, genre-defying piece.
A magical comedy about grief and the consequences of living truthfully, with a crow fued, ghosts, and little german boy.
An antique dealer helps her hoarder friend to not lose her apartment. While they work their way through thousands of objects, the complexity of their relationship rises, in the same pace that one of them realises she is not where or when she thought she was.
"Let Me Interrupt You" contends with grief, terror, and the other complex feelings that arise when we no longer have control over our bodies, our voices, and our freedoms.
An interactive odyssey through time (with a mail-man).
There are an estimated 450 million guns in this country. More guns, in fact, than people. Christopher has collected more than his share. He loves looking at them. For now.
1950. Prague. Milada Horáková vs. the communist regime in one of Eastern Europe’s largest sham trials. An absurdist satire of Stalinist propaganda and authoritarian justice. Whoever controls history, creates it.
In this raunchy dark comedy, journey through the bawdy backstories of six soiled doves, and learn how they thrived in a male dominated, lawless land.
Young Playwrights Ukraine founded by writer Laura Cahill, presents two new one acts: Boom by Karina Syrota, Life is Absurd, but Love is Good, by Asia Pshenychna.
Help internet-brained theatre artist Leo Grierson decode potentially steamy letters from Barbara Walters to his grandfather while exploring truth in media, Jewish American assimilation into whiteness, and more.
Come join Jake and Raul for a fun night of some of the best improv groups New York City has to offer
Video Games are an escape, but for Beatrice they are only a means to an end. When her own world becomes so tangled that she can't shut down, how and who does she rely on to try and fix it?
Fast and Furious is a variety show about all things urgent: whether it be the barrage of """"current events"""" in the news or things happening to just the artist on stage. To process it all, we create and share hectic, grasping, fast, and furious theater in the process of just two weeks.
ten years ago, four girls survived mass killings. today, three people are reunited at a therapeutical retreat for women to cope with their collective trauma. it’s a final girl play.
Performed with live drawing and painting, THE DRAW is an all-out brawl between two actors-slash-artists about rivalry, envy, and the dynamics of model and muse!
Diffraction Dance Festival
Dates:
May 30th, 2025 - 7pm (Livestream Available)
May 31st, 2025 - 3pm (Livestream Available)
June 1st, 2025 - 3pm
Creative Team:
David Cartahena Lee - Producer
Alexis Kiok - Administrative Assistant
Soho Su - Intern
Celebrate AAPI+ Month with Diffraction Dance Festival featuring, from the team behind Resonance, 20+ choreographers sharing street, contemporary, and cultural dance. Every show features a new lineup May 30-June 1.
Choreographers/Companies (by date):
May 30 : Destiny Nguyen, Madhuvanthi Sundararajan, Maria Edmond, Sasha Lane, Shuqi Cong, Soho Su, Valkyrie Yao, and featuring DCL Dance Company and Resonance
May 31 : Kyoko Fujimoto, Lobel Project, Mar Lures-Keller, Trina Sarkar, Shreyaa Suresh, Umami Playground Dance Inc., Yinqi Wang and Maggie Liang, Yuliya Chitose, and featuring DCL Dance Company and Resonance
June 1 : Ah-Molla Dance Collective, Alexis Vizons, Chengyao Zhou, Davinara Dance Collective, Emma Conrad & Lisa Kwak, Jayme Wong, ONJAY, Stephanie Shin, Yinqi Wang and Maggie Liang, and featuring DCL Dance Company and Resonance
Step into an evocative world where melody meets verse in Echoes and Chords: from Armenia to France—a stirring cross-cultural performance blending the intimacy of cabaret with the soul of storytelling.
Hand in Hand is an immersive live music and dance to explore relationships, growth, and transformation.
Sisters. Composers. Rivals. Atlas At Liberty explores the lives of sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger as they both compete for the Prix de Rome in composition.
Final Bell
In a world where survival of the fittest reigns supreme with high achieving high school students killing to secure their class rank, no student is safe. Melody, the salutatorian of Johnson High School, is the only student who claims to have obtained her rank without any schemes or violent acts. Yet, the top five students of Johnson High have been placed in a pressure cooker in the days leading up to the final rank calculation before graduation. Melody is forced to answer the question she’s avoided her whole life: What are you willing to do to survive?
Cast & Crew
Adeline Ferolo - Lead Producer/Sound Operator
JoJo Knott - Producer/Lighting Operator
France Violet Jones - Playwright
Louise Colin - Director
Tilly Lund - Stage Manager
Skylar Causy - Assistant Stage Manager/Production Coordinator
Camiryn Dorlinn - Melody
Marisa Gonzales - Daisy
Jonny–James Kajoba - Kendrick
Jordan Reilly - Alexandra
Feonix Russell - Judah
Kathrina Davila - Composer/Sound Designer
A series of monologues that combine to tell of the unique experiences and struggles of different female identifying and gender non-conforming people. The characters vary in age and experience, but we wach as all of them go through the world experiencing things that are very real, raw, and (hopefully) relatable to the audience.
A 23.5° Tilt Production
Marta Nesspek Presents…
Dates:
Thursday, May 15th, 2025 - 7pm
Saturday, May 17th, 2025 - 7pm
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 - 7pm
Creative Team:
Written by Kate Pressman
Directed by Logan Reed
Dramaturgy & Creative Producing from Elizagrace Madrone
Sound Design & Engineering from Sam Kaseta
Costume Design by Annie Hoeg
Compositions by Josh Brown, Alex Minier, and Grace Oberhofer
Starring Anik Zarkos! Dylan Guerra! Maddalena Provo!
Featuring Live Performance from Kate Pressman, Sam Kaseta, Jae Woo, Alex Minier, Elizagrace Madrone
Marta Nesspek Presents her Classic Collection with intimate Screenings of Live Cinema: A Monster! A Murder! A Romance! And More! Succinct Cinematic Selections - hand-rendered in Glorious Monochrome.
A Work-In-Progress birthday reading! Friends read Act 1 of Tsilala Brock's Junebug, her new sitcom-musical set in 1963 Detroit. Laughter, music, and meaning. Where satire meets soul.
An immersive, Queer play intended to bring joy, questions, and a safe space during these times.
When our personal worlds end, what's left to survive upon? Experience four apocalyptic plays, created by Floor Thirteen in our inaugural season, then join us onstage for an open-mic cabaret!
Home is where the heart is, but it's not always clear where THAT is.
Two twenty-somethings embark on a doomed collaboration that destroys their friendship -- and unravels the universe.
Some ideas need time to brew. Night Coffee showcases early-stage works—plays, comedy, and experiments—served with bagels and caffeine at an objectively bad hour. Bold choices, hot coffee, questionable decisions.
Fast and Furious is a variety show about all things urgent: whether it be the barrage of ""current events"" in the news or things happening to just the artist on stage. To process it all, we create and share hectic, grasping, fast, and furious theater in the process of just two weeks.
May 7th, 2025, 7pm
May 10th, 2025, 3pm
May 11th, 2025, 7pm
Alexandra Rogers - Playwright/Co-Director
Alex Olesky - Co-Director
Ghost Light Theatre Company - Producer
Kat Sloan Garcia - Producer
Logan Malczynski - PSM
Ethan Foley - Lighting Designer
Belle Alatorre - Sound Designer
Alex Attala - Associate Sound Designer
Anna Keeley - Props Designer
CAST
Jaden Lily Branson - Nick
Zack Cambronne - Leo
Sophia Carlin - Susan
Jess Jaffe - Charlie
Katie Kendrick - Stan
Aeris Lihau - Auctioneer
Liann Yu - Maxine
STAN is a fantastical romp based on a real life dinosaur, a real life auction, and a rumored feud. It tells the story of Maxine, a personal bidder working for a big auction house, who is called upon by two high profile celebrities to bid on the same lot— a T Rex fossil named STAN. Through prehistoric asides, childish taunting, and dangerous games, STAN warns us about the dangers of selling off our histories to the highest bidder.
"Mater Familias" tells the story of three generations through increasingly difficult times, as they sometimes help each other, and sometimes clash in order to survive.
Dev used to date Finn, Finn used to date Nico, and now Dev is dating Nico, and they are all very, very sorry.
