Face Tape is back for another year of the chaos, camp, and all out hilarity that you know and love!
KTCO presents two world premieres choreographed by Katie Corrao in collaboration with company dancers. Sauadade and Grève Rèvolte, though starkly different, will together guide the audience from introspection towards awakening. Prompting a deconstruction of ourselves, a reflection of personal truths, shared responsibility, and the values that define us.
Jenny just got engaged and she's very very excited although her fiancee doesn't seem to want to help plan the wedding or talk to her. But when a Prince on a unicorn offers Jenny some sexy solace, maybe things will work out ok? I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!! is a frothy satire about wedding culture, addiction, societal pressure on women, and just how far we will go to avoid the truth.
Pop is a sapphic romp through paintings as we follow Sedna and Lani’s love from before life to after death.
He Hates Me! is a comedy where dormant guilt spirals into obsessive overcorrection, unleashing escalating chaos- and landing on the brutal, hilarious truth: not everyone is going to like you.
Join us for another PUNCH puppet slam - where a diverse group of puppet artists use a wide variety of puppet styles to tell one story or collaborate on one wonderful puppet experience. This time we are taking on the epic story of Odysseus. Come for Sirens and Cyclops, Gods and Goddesses, Lotus-Eaters, the Underworld and more!
Set in the late 1980s, two performers set out to revive variety television with a vibrant show blending U.S. and Mexican pop culture through dance, comedy, and music.
"Percolating" is a dance showcase presented by Chutzpah Dance, focusing on refined works-in-progress pieces allowing artists to explore new experimental ideas.
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.
In T-BOY ON GRINDR, João d’Orey traces transmasculine desire through the fragmented landscape of digital intimacy. Moving between humor and vulnerability, the performance unpacks the politics of visibility, the commodification of bodies, and the search for connection in queer online spaces.
Through a budding relationship with a Black, trans Rootworker, evangelical youth pastor Jason finds himself thrust into the unfamiliar world of queer identity politics.
An impossible tale of ambition gone wrong. Part comedy, part romance, part portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-menace, TASMANIA! explores what happens when we don’t know when to stop or who to turn to next.
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
The trajectories of two gay couples are thrown off-balance as their non-monogamous relationships collide. OPEN is a comedy about relationships– why we get into them and how we keep them.
EGGS is a transvestigation into grief, grooming, parentification, and smoking magical joints amidst climate catastrophe, following Emory and Jude, two young-adult trans Bostonians desperately in need of change.
GET LOST is a sexy solo drag clown poetry play about chronic pain, gender, intimacy, and the nakedness that comes with those terrible topics. This show is very bad. You do NOT want to come see it.
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.
Emma is a lost Gen-Z’er, Sagittarius is a chatbot, and it’s been Teddy’s nanny for years. But now it’s Emma’s turn to raise her kids in the Age of Sagittarius.
There Once Was A…
June 27 at 9:30pm
Eleanor Babwin, playwright
Celia Krefter, director
Anne Percy, a celebrated limerist, has run out of rhymes—quite the pickle for a woman with a stack of limericks to write and an Angry Town Mob on her tail. She might have a way out if she can write one final limerick for a wealthy benefactor, only to realize it means she has to reunite with an old flame to do so. There Once Was A… is a comedy about love, passion, limericks, what it means for our dreams to change, and what happens when what we once thought defined us no longer rings true.
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.
Confirmed bachelor Paris has to marry the Capulet's teenage daughter Juliet. He has just accepted his fate when the love of his life appears and he’s forced to take action.
& Taxes
July 1st-3rd 7:00 PM
Michael Thomas Kennedy: Writer, Performer, Producer
Emma Kate Harris: Director
Dying is kinda funny. In this solo clown show, Jasper the Ghost explores the ups and downs of death, and may even help you cross something off your bucket list.
Trigger warning: Discussions of death
An interactive gameshow play, (No) Refunds offers one premium ticket holder the chance to win back a refund live onstage. Do you have what it takes?
A kaleidoscopic queer comedy where two performers unravel the forgotten Hollywood film The Pearl of My Oyster, a tragic melodrama about a socialite’s love affair with a brutish fisherman.
When French-Chinese engineer Irene Woo turned 28, she quit Google to do the only logical thing: stand-up. A debut hour exploring tech culture, immigrant expectations, and dating French men.
MEAT
Monday, July 13
Zara Roy (Playwright)
Ethan Manuel Homen (Director)
Isabelle Chirls (Producer)
Jack Wallace (Costume Designer
Sean Lillis (Scenic Designer, Props Designer)
Sophie Lynd (Lighting Designer)
Ham, a West Texas meatpacker, longs for a promotion. He will do anything to get it. Beleaguered by his grim career, eccentric libertarian coworker, and stalled long-distance relationship with a woman 30 years his senior, Ham is plagued by the looming presence of his manager and visions of his dead mother. MEAT fleshes out the unsustainable nature of capitalism, climbing the ladder, and a hunger for your own piece of the pie.
After accidentally killing two baby birds, Tommy is cursed and begins transforming into one, forcing him and his partner, Miles, to confront the cracks in their relationship.
An experiment, a return to form, a performer in the dark, for one night only
The Devil You Know
Tuesday, July 14th
Thea Belle Flanzer (Playwright)
Lex Laas (Director)
The second installment in the Greek Myths for Our Troubled Times play cycle, The Devil You Know, is about a young woman who takes a four-year lease in Hell --- and the roommate who embarks on a mission to get her back. This play explores the purpose and meaning of friendship in these troubled times through a postmodern retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice.
"Where Grief Gathers" is a contemporary drama told through a series of interconnected, intimate vignettes that explore how love and loss intertwine, and how grief reshapes the ways we love, endure, and connect.
oz is tired of Men. the most reasonable conclusion is to become God.
DeepDeepDeepDeepDeep down... there's something there.
Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you... I see you over there. Come on over to The Tank and track my feet please! Betcha can't do it hehehehe >:)
Beach Pageant is an immersive spiritual service dedicated to the healing properties of the ocean. This bizarre quasi-cultish performance will leave audiences with a metaphorical sunburn and sand between their toes.
What do you do when three Black women, stuck behind in the annals of time, refuse to realize they have the power to make their own future? Well, you talk.
Amidst fading stage lights and discarded props, performers question what it means to create for Miss Rose, and whether theater can remain a lasting place of memory, ritual, connection, and return.
Imagination Strings: Art, Puppets & Participation blends handcrafted marionettes made from scrap materials, clown, and physical theater into a playful puppet experience where discarded objects transform into imaginative theatrical worlds.
big blue explores our complicated relationship to the ocean, conservation, and the collective grief of a world plummeting towards its end.
Harper unknowingly made out with her sperm-donor father. Raw, funny and unflinchingly honest, this show asks, in a culture obsessed with connection, why is it so hard to feel held?
A knight and squire arrive to execute a witch. What follows is a profane, absurd debate where honor, faith, and righteous violence collapse into circular logic.
When Jack's roommate gets into a relationship with another trans guy, he begins to rethink his life.
You’ve actually been reading the Bible wrong this whole time.
Love, Denial and 20 Years of Barely Contained Fury
Pietro is a clown who only wants to be normal. But when a childhood friend disappears, she’s sent down the rabbit hole, full of distorted faces demanding something that she can’t give.
Dunesical is a mix of camp musical theater, raunchy fanfic, and meta exploration of adaptation- posing the following questions: “Are Dunesicals good? Do they suck? Do Dunesicals contribute anything to the world?”
In this dark comedy, newlyweds Claire and Patrick are presented with the ultimate test. Will it bring them closer together, or will death do thy part?
Living with roommates is killer, especially when their latest art project is a series of murders and a “work-in-progress” is banging on the front door.
OVERFLOW is a multidisciplinary fever dream blending contemporary dance, theatrics, humor, and tragedy to explore severe personality disorder, emotional fragmentation, and a woman’s distorted sense of reality through fast moving vignettes.
Lilith, a new play by Adina Aaron and directed by Samantha Ozeas, is new interpretation of the myth that investigates the gender dynamics, narratives about desire, and embrace of duality which continues to define our culture.
Inspired by two of the most important stories of our time; Twilight and Point Break. Moonlighters is a piece about Vampires, Undercover Cops, the power of the stars love.
Baby Bipolar
Friday, August 7th
Maria Mainelli (Writer and Performer)
Fiona Campbell (Director)
Have you ever been personally victimized by MyChart or found yourself writing a bad review for your therapist? Maria has. Baby Bipolar is the story of one woman’s journey from getting diagnosed with bipolar 1 to embracing a life where that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Winner of the “Old Greeny Laughs Too” award at Old Greeny Fringe Festival.
Baby Bipolar is the culmination of the first five years of being “officially bipolar”, hundreds of hours of writing, years of therapy, and several psychiatric breakups. They say laughter is the best medicine but in Maria’s experience, Lexapro does a damn good job, too.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mental health, strong language, and potentially triggering themes.
“CCC: A Montalk In the PanMonticon” is an interactive one-woman-show performed, directed, and written by Montgomerie West that physicalizes the digital experience of ideas, information, and social media circulating.
And Eat It Too
Sunday, August 9th
Avery L. Ingvarson (Playwright)
Aaron Clark Burstein (Director)
Described as a mix between The Boys in the Band, The Exterminating Angel, and No Exit, And Eat It Too follows a long term friend group through what should be a normal unspecific game night hang, if not for each member bringing in their own self centered baggage to derail the evening.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Discussions of addiction
Ten years after Tom and Julia parted ways as creative partners, Julia has finally completed her Great Gatsby adaptation. However, she has been turned into a giant pile of scarves.
Equal parts true story, theatrical play, live music, and spiritual gathering, Godfriend asks audiences to practice radical belief in each other while facing uncertain futures
a demonic comedy about having pain in the "wrong" places
by Laura Neill
co-directed by Kelleen Moriarty and Thalia Sablon
co-produced by Thalia Sablon and Murmuration Theatre Company
August 24 - September 4, 2026
a New Georges Supported Production
Supported by the OPportunity Fund
Fed up with the pain in their uteruses, 5 friends form an amateur coven to cast a healing spell... but they don't know what they're doing, and may have accidentally summoned a demon….
The story of Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta told through a new light, written for a modern audience.
The Accidental Doctor is a mash-up comedy with a queer romance at its core, blending Shakespeare and Moliere into a frenzy of daring disguises, gut-busting gags, and rapid repartee.
A scientist and assistant conduct trials to elicit memory acquisition. Two subjects recover echoes of their lives as worlds intertwine, revealing the scientists’ profound stake in their experiment’s success ultimately.
She kills bad men. He taught her how. Somewhere between the blood and the bodies, it became something else. Close Distance Disappearing Acts — sexy, funny, and dangerously romantic. Some love stories just have a higher body count.
Two girls trapped in purgatory must confront each other and their own demons to face what they’re truly willing to do to escape.
A new play by Tyler Anthony Smith about Halston designing a gown for Elizabeth I.
“◼️⚫🅾” culminates a four yearslong choreographic exploration of geometric shapes: spatially, geometrically, and physically. This hourlong quintet features original sound design by Ross Daniel utilizing the sonic landscape created by the movement itself.
An evening of sketch-comedy, drag, music, burlesque, and more! This lively, elegant, and bold duo just keeps getting better with time.
Waco, 1993. The true story of the standoff between cult leader David Koresh and the FBI, with a script crafted entirely from hundreds of hours of recorded government negotiation transcripts.
Come spend the afternoon celebrating four self-produced plays by trans authors published by 1319 Press.
DanceLink presents 10 dances all made for a 4x4 foot "tiny" stage. Each piece combines into a metaphorical voyage towards finding what matters most. Join us for a wild ride of emotional revelation, all with a touch of humor.
To let go of who she was, Samantha does what anyone would--throw a funeral for her past selves and invite everyone who knew-her-when to the party. "Skilled comedy voice" (FringeReview).
Bryan Stoops has performed in twenty-two countries on five continents, in such exotic cities as Melbourne, Casablanca, and Newark. Featuring some of the best stand-up comedians in NYC. Bryan headlines.
Two Birds from Manchester try to rebound from being fired and involuntarily celibate when they’re informed that rent is due and that they have no more bailouts on speed dial.
When tragedy strikes, will you let fate define you? Or will you shatter the narrative to write your own story?
When I was in middle school, I was obsessed with North Korea. This is why. Gay and trans BTW.
RETURNING after its popular run at NYC Fringe. This meta-theatrical solo performance grapples with youth, tragedy, and validation while attempting to provide insight into the world's most famous love story.
What happens when the ghosts of your past collide with the uncertainty of your future?
A Simple Herstory, the acclaimed podcast-performance hybrid created by Jocelyn Kuritsky and written by Jonathan A. Goldberg, returns June 7 at The Tank as a radio play presented in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival.
On a night just days before Christmas, a casual hook-up turns into something deeper as two men confront love, identity, and connection in this intimate and witty play with music.
Caribbean Cinderella : The Cocktail Experience
Saabiti: NOT Guilty
June 5th 7:00PM, June 6th 3PM & 7:00PM
Beyond the Grave
Sixty minutes. One final wish. A truth that will shatter your reality.
When two gravediggers grant a dying woman’s haunting last request, they give her one hour of stolen life before the soil claims her forever. But as the clock ticks down, her final revelation will leave you breathless and your mind forever shaken.
trigger Warning: Discussions of death
I’ve Arted is a new, live game show, rooted in improvisation and meant to celebrate the joy and creation of art!
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.
Trapped in a liminal and apparently timeless space, two still-emotionally-entwined exes have no choice but to confront the things that tore them apart.
freek is a piece that explores cancel culture and addresses inequality/inequity in America--within the context of a drag-out comedian beef.
A classic play through a contemporary lens: Follow a group of actors in 2026 as they rehearse, Dreyfus in Rehearsals and contemplate the relevance of antisemitism in the present day.
At her son’s birthday in the park, Rose gets a chilling call: her son’s in a sharpshooter’s crosshairs…igniting a taut, high-stakes cat-and-mouse political thriller.
Spring for Spring Dance Festival is a one-day choreographic showcase of local dance makers.
Get Fucked is NYC’s funniest, raunchiest play about sexually active 20-somethings.
Game Creek is a screwball comedy-noir about a woman who wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no memories, a dead man's ID, and a court date tomorrow.
The New Year
Wednesday, May 20 at 9:30pm | Friday, May 22 at 9:30pm | Saturday, May 23 at 9:30 pm
Max Rosenblum - Writer
Jake Keville - Director
Katy Shafer as "May"
Connor Strycharz as "Perry"
Kenzie Packer & Zoe Gray - Stage Managers
Kenzie Packer, Zoe Gray, & Jake Keville - Producers
The New Year is a romantic tragicomedy following two lonely teenagers who meet on New Year’s Eve in an online roleplay chatroom. May is May. Perry is British actor Matt Smith. Their conversation that night, unexpectedly intimate, forms a bond between the two: they become each other’s best friend, confidant, and lifeline through the turmoils of adolescence. That is, until “real life” intrudes…
After a blind date, visual artist, Ember, and budding writer, Den, find themselves entangled in a five year love story that shifts and turns like the phases of the moon.
Mikey is the queer coming of age story about Michelangelo. Tangled in an illicit affair during his rise to Renaissance fame after sculpting The David, Michelangelo finds himself in an existential crisis when he is forced to paint the Sistine Chapel. To finish the project he must risk it all to cement his legacy.
Come support the Brooklyn College BFA Acting Class of 2026 on May 18th @The Tank, 7pm!
Performers speaking without words. Won't you join us? Improvised, spontaneous, contradictory. This May, UN-LANGUAGE 4 Gender Equality creates a platform for a dialogue on feminism and gender equality.
Disgraced Olympic swimmer Ryan L*chte is dying of loneliness, trying to milk attention from his robot wife Deirdre, a Cyclops Michael Ph*lps, and terrifyingly…YOU! Can someone help this man??
Sex, Camp, Rock 'N Roll - A show that touches people, and then they touch themselves
Birding enthusiast Charlie Whitmire finds the woman who says, "Hello Charlie, I've been waiting for you. You've finally found me..." because where you are leads you to what you find!
