If You're a Man at Night...You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning at The Tank
Dates: 5/15/2026 - 5/23/2026
📍 Theatre: The Tank
312 W 36th St
New York City, NY 10018
Tickets: $25, $35 or $45 tickets.
If You’re a Man at Night…You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning, created by Di Lobontiu, will premiere at The Tank May 15th and run until May 23rd, 2026.
The year is 2016 and Ryan L*chte has just won his sixth Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. He is riding impossibly high until he fabricates a story about being robbed at gunpoint which was actually a drunken incident at a gas station. This results in a 10-month suspension, intense international scrutiny, and the loss of major sponsorships.
The year is 2020 and Ryan Lochte is trying to claw his way back to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. He is dying of loneliness in his McMansion. He does crazy things in order to feel seen. He manifests a robot composite of his wife, he fights his longtime rival Michael Ph*lps, he begs the audience for compliments.
The year is 2026, and 2016, and 2020, and we are gathered for a theatrical meditation on Ryan L*chte and the extinction burst of masculinity he represents. An all trans/gender nonconforming cast asks us how we can feel empathy for those whose bodies are so different from our own? What would you do if everything that once made you happy disappeared? How would you avoid hardening after a ritual shaming? Can we, the audience, give Ryan L*chte grace? Is there a way for us to “create the ‘Lympics inside us,” as Ryan says, and fill each others’ wells of loneliness? One way to find out.
If You’re a Man at Night…You Gotta Be a Man in the Morning features creator Di Lobontiu as well as performers Utkarsh Rajawat and Dani Koenig, and is directed by Em Hausmann.
This creative team is joined by Cori Diaz (Stage Manager), Whimzee Lee Hanna (Lights/Projections Designer), Sid Diamond (Sound Designer), and Steffany Poveda-Solorio (Videographer).
The show will play at The Tank, 312 West 36th Street, New York, NY 10018 on the 6th floor according to the following schedule:
05/15/26 at 7:00 ET
05/16/26 at 9:30 ET
05/18/26 at 7:00 ET
05/20/26 at 7:00 ET
05/21/26 at 9:30 ET
05/22/26 at 7:00 ET
05/23/26 at 7:00 ET
To purchase tickets visit thetanknyc.org ($25, $35, or $45 tickets available).
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