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THE TANK NYC

312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor New York, NY 10018-6494
New York, NY 10018

Upcoming Shows

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,...

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...

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...



Review: NOT NOBODY at 59E59 Theaters-Thought Provoking


by Marina Kennedy - February 13, 2026

Brian Dykstra's Not Nobody at 59E59 Theaters explores justice and moral dilemmas as a former ethics professor becomes a person of interest after aiding a wounded officer....

Past Shows

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.

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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...

Free Parking: A Comedy About A Game Night (One Night Only Staged Reading)
Free Parking: A Comedy About A Game Night (One Night Only Staged Reading)
Aug 20

THE TANK, presents a one night only staged reading of FREE PARKING, a laugh-out-loud comedy about a game night that goes totally wrong. The play follows...

Jersey Shore Fantasia, or a play about the making of a play about MTV's Jersey Shore, and also a fallout guide to sexual assault in academic institutions and a record of the messiest senior thesis szn in SUCK University history
Jersey Shore Fantasia, or a play about the making of a play about MTV's Jersey Shore, and also a fallout guide to sexual assault in academic institutions and a record of the messiest senior thesis szn in SUCK University history
Aug 8

In 2017, a pretentious senior thesis play about masculinity and queerness in the show Jersey Shore spirals into chaos. Closeted playwright Amaya makes the play...

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...

Final Bell
Final Bell
May 17 – May 24, 2025

In a world where survival of the fittest reigns supreme and high-achieving high school students kill to secure their class rank, no student is safe....

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.

Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas
Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas
Apr 6 – Apr 13, 2025

’Seeking Fair and Lovely : Rishtas and Rasas’ is a one-act play that takes place in a matchmaking office in Portland. Told through a style...

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...

Agency for the Lost by Serena Norr
Agency for the Lost by Serena Norr
Jan 28 – Feb 2, 2025

Where do the "lost" go and can you ever be found?

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...

Coffin Room Confessionals (aka: is my green your green?)
Coffin Room Confessionals (aka: is my green your green?)
Feb 26

A coffin room is an enigma. It’s a sarcophagus... A coffin room was not just a shrine to things I loved, but a shrine to...

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...

The Power of Boston Pills - bostonpills.com
The Power of Boston Pills - bostonpills.com
Jul 29 – Jul 30, 2023

In her one woman show debut. Olivia Nguyen reflects on her journey with autism and how she has faced many challenges along the way and...

Flower Power
Flower 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
Muse
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
Letters 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
Moral 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...

Text, Magic, Performance: A Text Magic Performance in 3 Acts
"Text, Magic, Performance": A Text Magic Performance in 3 Acts
Sep 20 – Sep 22, 2018

"Text, Magic, Performance": A Text Magic Performance in 3 Acts combines the aesthetics of powerpoint comedy, “magical” spectacle, and traditional theatrical performance. The show both...

Doppelbanger
Doppelbanger
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...

Sand in a Memphis Glass/or, the Grace of a Good Woman
Sand in a Memphis Glass/or, the Grace of a Good Woman
Mar 22 – Mar 31, 2018

Recently nominated in the Best Play and Best Actress Category at the NY Winter Festival, "Sand in a Memphis Glass/or, the Grace of a Good...

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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