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EGGS

EGGS

Jun 23 – Jun 24, 2026

Clay Baker-Lerner's new play "EGGS" to be presented as part of Pridefest 2026 at The Tank NYC curated by Max Mooney starring Achille Vann Ricca as...

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play

Jun 21 – Jun 24, 2026

A one woman play chronicling a true 2014 road trip with a stranger. Pragmatic polyamorous Olishka may be just the thing to heal a freshly-heartbroken-constantly-weeping-to-Joni-Mitchell...

T-Boy on Grindr

T-Boy on Grindr

Jun 19 – Jun 21, 2026

T-BOY ON GRINDR is a solo performance exploring transmasculine desire, digital intimacy, and the politics of visibility. Blending autofiction, humor, and musical elements, João d’Orey...

The Late Night Radio Fest

The Late Night Radio Fest

Jun 19 – Jun 20, 2026

As part of The Tank’s PrideFest 2026, The Late Night Radio Fest is offering listening parties for a pair of radio plays with decidedly queer subplots....

Chutzpah Dance presents Percolating

Chutzpah Dance presents Percolating

Jun 17 – Jun 18, 2026

New York City-based dance company, Chutzpah Dance, presents Percolating, an evening showcase of works-in-progress dance pieces at The Tank on June 17 & 18, 2026. Percolating...

LAST. GOOD. NIGHT.

LAST. GOOD. NIGHT.

Jun 7 – Jun 14, 2026

What happens when the ghosts of your past collide with the uncertainty of your future? Join the journey of six friends reuniting for a fateful...

Samantha Dunne: Strangers I Know

Samantha Dunne: Strangers I Know

Jun 12 – Jun 13, 2026

Fresh off its 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut, "Samantha Dunne: Strangers I Know" returns to NYC for a limited run.It's not every day you get...

Cal and Johnny: A Queer Love Story

Cal and Johnny: A Queer Love Story

Jun 6 – Jun 7, 2026

Cal and Johnny: A Queer Love Story will be coming to The Tank NYC June 6th & 7th at 9:30pm!On a seemingly normal night just...

Étude

Étude

Apr 8 – Apr 18, 2026

"If Thornton Wilder wrote Gruesome Playground Injuries,” ÉTUDE brilliantly explores the question of eternal connection from award winning playwright Ashley Griffin. When two soulmates, happily...

PLAN C

PLAN C

Mar 12 – Apr 12, 2026

In “PLAN C,” Hook & Eye Theater’s darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, resourcefulness, and rebellion, 17th-century espionage collides with a modern small-town shop. 1620...

Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)

Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)

Apr 4 – Apr 5, 2026

From a young age, Queer kids are sold the idea, “It gets better.” But what happens when you're in college and are still gay, miserable,...

The Phil Mitchell Radio Hour

The Phil Mitchell Radio Hour

Mar 4 – Mar 8, 2026

The Phil Mitchell Radio Hour follows an evangelical radio host who is live on-air when the rapture happens.This 70-minute solo performance is equal parts comedy...

Maxwell Anderson 137th Birthday Benefit

Maxwell Anderson 137th Birthday Benefit

Dec 15

The play “Sea-Wife” is a singular piece written in 1924 that has neither been published nor professionally staged. A thing of “strange and peculiar beauty”

In the Same World

In the Same World

Dec 11

"In the Same World" is a 20-min Short-Play, part of the Celebration of Immigration Block at the International Human Rights Art Festival at The Tank...

Men are Trash and I'm a Raccoon

Men are Trash and I'm a Raccoon

Nov 21 – Nov 22, 2025

After yet another heartbreak, a gay man dives headfirst into Grindr. Guided by the wisdom of Lana Del Rey, he simultaneously obsesses over his latest...

Dream Team

Dream Team

Nov 18

In 2005, Dream Team was a teen girl pop-punk sensation, until Hannah, the star of the band, mysteriously died. In 2025, the now middle-aged members...

Obit Play

Obit Play

Nov 8 – Nov 15, 2025

People are missing. So are the snacks. Evel Knievel died ten years ago. Or will it be tomorrow? A new dark comedy about what it...

Doing a Bradbury

Doing a Bradbury

Nov 14

On the brink of his last Olympic chance, plucky Aussie speed skater Steven Bradbury accidentally summons the Devil. Haunted by a checkered skating history and...

Before it hurts.

Before it hurts.

Nov 12

Before it hurts is a dance theater piece structured like a concept album. With form, we intend to stretch and explore the boundaries of dance...

St. Hospital City

St. Hospital City

Oct 30 – Nov 9, 2025

A 1970's soap opera taping goes off the rails when all the regular actors get sick with an STD and the director has to rely...

Stain

Stain

Nov 1

STAIN is intimate, urgent, and quietly explosive, a play about what so many women of all different ages go through in silence everywhere.

piss.jpg (Working Title)

piss.jpg (Working Title)

Oct 26

“The Next Great American Drama,” piss.jpg (Working Title) might be described as The Gen Z Waiting for Godot. It might not. There will be no...

Right before I go.

Right before I go.

Sep 7 – Sep 22, 2025

An all-star cast incorporates real suicide notes from war veterans, LGBTQ+ members and kids that were bullied, but ultimately ending on a message of hope.

Big Wave

Big Wave

Sep 9 – Sep 14, 2025

What would you do if you realised you were living a memory? In this story, an antique dealer helps her hoarder friend avoid losing her...

Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Jul 28

Adapted and directed by James Cougar CanfieldFrom the iconic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson Monday, July 28th, 2025 at 7pmat The Tank NYCA one night only...

Wailsong

Wailsong

Jul 23

The premeire of Wailsong, a new play by Julia Smith and directed by Molly Greenwold, will be performed at The Tank in the 98-seat theater on...

Lizzy Sunshine

Lizzy Sunshine

Jul 19 – Jul 20, 2025

With her co-star unaccounted for, Lizzy Sunshine must carry a double act... alone. A positively chaotic comedy hour by addiction's (fun!) little sister. It's like...

HomeBody: A Queer Modern Folktale

HomeBody: A Queer Modern Folktale

Jun 27 – Jun 29, 2025

Take a dive to the bottom of the ocean with Silvia, the Octopus living inside of her chest, and Blue, her charming new lover.

it's been ten years since everyone died

it's been ten years since everyone died

Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2025

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...

The Devil's Due

The Devil's Due

Apr 7 – Apr 19, 2025

The damned soul of Doctor Faustus appears to a young scientist - together they will either save the world, or destroy it.

The Ulysses Protocol

The Ulysses Protocol

Apr 7

After being arrested for attempting to rob a liquor store, Maxwell is given a choice: serve a lengthy prison sentence or participate in The Ulysses...

Counterbalance

Counterbalance

Feb 8 – Mar 18, 2025

Counterbalance: A family’s journey through wealth, power, forgiveness and love.One of America’s most influential and respected families is forced to address their internal problems and...

Failsafe

Failsafe

Dec 8 – Dec 14, 2024

Ivy and Jones should be dead. But 4 - going on 5 - tries in, they're still breathing. I guess sometimes the universe has other...

while I was homegrowing

while I was homegrowing

Nov 14 – Nov 17, 2024

"while I was homegrowing" is a joy-saturated movement quintet that plays with memory, grief, community care, and a big clothesline. This contemporary dance-theater work excavates...

Loving Me

Loving Me

Oct 25 – Oct 27, 2024

NEW YORK, New York—LOVING ME, a one woman show by playwright, performer, and producer Rose Kanj is coming to New York City. The production will...

The Last Grain of Rice

The Last Grain of Rice

Sep 27 – Oct 6, 2024

Bill’s Rice, a restaurant that serves only white rice, runs out of rice.Things are only complicated further when a vengeful reanimated ferret, Lil’ Pip, ropes...

Last Christmas

Last Christmas

Sep 19

A family saga about crisis, consequences and angelitos....

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Mar 22

The Dyon Collective presents Dorian Gray; A Salon Reading is a staged, immersive reading of Maeve Aurora Chapman’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s infamous novel. This...

First Flight: A New Works Showcase

First Flight: A New Works Showcase

Jan 17 – Jan 27, 2024

First Flight features four comedic one-act plays making their NY premiere from emerging playwrights, performed by new and undiscovered NYC actors, directed by four exceptional...

60 DAYS: A NEW ROMCOM

60 DAYS: A NEW ROMCOM

Aug 9 – Aug 17, 2023

Welcome to the origin story of a Turkish immigrant who has to get married in 60 days to keep her visa status upon rage-quitting her...

here's to all the broken girls

here's to all the broken girls

Aug 4

“here’s to all the broken girls” tells the story of five girls, nearly half of the entire grade, who are about to graduate from their...

Flower Power

FeaturedFlower Power

Jul 26 – Jul 29, 2023

In Mum’s dystopian garden, human-flowers exist in a world plagued by pollution and climate destruction. The traditional Picking Season celebrated in Mum’s Garden invites Pickers...

Muse

FeaturedMuse

Apr 16 – Apr 30, 2023

Muse is an alluring tale of a passionate love affair between Sheila, a struggling artist, and Mathias, an aging dancer. When Sheila invites Mathias to...

Levi's Big Leap

Levi's Big Leap

Dec 7 – Dec 8, 2022

LEVI'S BIG LEAPBook, Music, & Lyrics by Dante GreenWhen twelve-year-old Levi's family is mysteriously forced out of their small-town home of "Rural", Pennsylvania, he decides...

Letters to Wendy

FeaturedLetters to Wendy

Oct 20 – Oct 21, 2022

What happened to the titular character of J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan'' after Wendy and the Lost Boys left Neverland? How do you grow up when...

Puffy Hair

Puffy Hair

Nov 4 – Nov 20, 2021

Puffy Hair is a night of existential stand-up performed by an id. Using Vaudeville-cum-Fosse dance moves, Puffy Hair investigates one womans ambivalent and tortured relationship...

First Sight: A Queer Indonesian Love Story

First Sight: A Queer Indonesian Love Story

Aug 15

1997 Jakarta, Indonesia. Sari is an aspiring singer hoping to achieve her dreams of stardom through her karaoke performances at her best friend Fina's parties....

The Seance Machine

The Seance Machine

Oct 10 – Oct 31, 2019

Do you believe in time travel? Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe in... science? What if you could listen to the voices of...

Party Animal

Party Animal

Jun 18

Mental illnesses lie to you and make you believe things that aren't real but for Becca, it's just made her REALLY bad at parties. Come...

Generation (Laz)Y

Generation (Laz)Y

Apr 9 – Apr 12, 2019

Lara Fox and Ashley Lauren Rogers in association with The Tank present the world premiere of Generation (Laz)Y April 9-12, 2019 at 8pm. Generation (Laz)Y...

We Don't Even Go Here

We Don't Even Go Here

Dec 15

Featuring 2 half hour stand up sets by 2 friends Becca Beberaggi and Rachel Lenihan who are nothing alike. Hosted by: Matt Hunziker BIOS: Becca...

Moral Dilemmas of the Modern Day Vampire

FeaturedMoral Dilemmas of the Modern Day Vampire

Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2018

What happens when two bored, centuries-old vampires end up stuck (and hungry) in a cheap hotel room for the night? "Moral Dilemmas of the Modern...

Doppelbanger

FeaturedDoppelbanger

May 3 – May 5, 2018

Part cabaret, part gallery-style Tarot reading, Doppelbanger is an original solo performance embodying gay obsession, identity, trauma, and joy. In it, Jonczak conjures look-alike ex-lovers...

Show Up

Show Up

Oct 18

Following the critically acclaimed, sold out run at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Peter Michael Marino's semi-improvised, semi-scripted, solo comedy "Show Up" plays one night...

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Broadway Magic Hour in Off-Off-Broadway Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (1/01-6/30) VIDEOS
The Braata Singers in Concert: All We A One in Off-Off-Broadway The Braata Singers in Concert: All We A One
A.R.T./NY (6/26-6/28) PHOTOS VIDEOS
Cock in Off-Off-Broadway Cock
East Village Basement (6/17-6/28) PHOTOS
Miss Julie in Off-Off-Broadway Miss Julie
Gene Frankel Theatre (6/24-6/28)
Operatini™ — A Boutique Opera & Live Music Series Presents: La Dolce Vita in Off-Off-Broadway Operatini™ — A Boutique Opera & Live Music Series Presents: La Dolce Vita
Green Room 42 (6/26-6/26) PHOTOS
Rock of Ages in Off-Off-Broadway Rock of Ages
Pebble Players (6/25-6/28)
SpinQueen™ in Off-Off-Broadway SpinQueen™
Brooklyn Art Haus (7/07-7/08)
The City Speaks: How New Yawkahs Tawk in Off-Off-Broadway The City Speaks: How New Yawkahs Tawk
Studio Dérive (6/14-6/28)
Who We Become: One-Act Plays by Lanford Wilson in Off-Off-Broadway Who We Become: One-Act Plays by Lanford Wilson
Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre (6/25-6/27) VIDEOS
waiting: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts in Off-Off-Broadway waiting: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts
The Flea Theatre (6/25-6/26)