The Tank brings you five shows this fall season! Three Core Productions will be at The Tank—Holes in the Shape of My Father, The Maenads, and Malapert Love. We’re also presenting two off-site productions: Everything is Here at 59E59 and Adult Relationships at The Collapsable Hole.

Buy a 3-show “Core Productions 3-Pack” to see Holes in the Shape of My Father , The Maenads, and Malapert Love. Discount packages start at just $70.

HOLES IN THE SHAPE OF MY FATHER
RUNNING NOW
Written and Performed by Savon Bartley
Directed by Adam Coy

Holes in the Shape of My Father is a blues about boys becoming men. Written and performed by Savon Bartley, this solo show is told entirely in verse, where poetry, rhythm, and raw emotion collide. Developed at The Public Theater and featured at the Under the Radar Festival, this one-man play explores fatherhood, masculinity, and generational trauma with lyrical grace and unflinching vulnerability.

THE MAENADS
Performances begin September 18, 2025
By Stephen Foglia
Directed by Phillip Christian Smith

Five modern-day men climb a mountain to roleplay as Dionysus-worshipping women and break free of the prison of masculinity. Desperate to survive but equally desperate not to leave the mountain unchanged, they are forced to confront the lies and fears that drove them to this performance of ecstatic femininity in the first place.

MALAPERT LOVE
Performances begin October 16, 2025
By Siah Berlatsky
Directed by Julian Hester

The Winner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work, Malapert Love is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's comedies from 21'-year old playwright Siah Berlatsky. Featuring the play's original cast from Chicago's award winning Artistic Home theater company, Malapert Love takes audiences to a farcical, faraway kingdom where personas are concocted, plots are hatched, and paint thinner is sniffed '– all for unrequited love!

ADULT RELATIONSHIPS
Performances begin November 1, 2025
By Ben Gassman
Directed by Tara Elliott
Playing at The Collapsable Hole
A dark comedy that starts at a wake and ends with a cough, Adult Relationships follows two former lovers brought together by the death of a troubled mutual friend.

EVERYTHING IS HERE
Performances begin December 3, 2025
By Peggy Stafford
Directed by Meghan Finn
Playing at 59E59
Everything is Here unfolds at the Center in The Heights, an assisted living facility on the edge of the suburbs. Three residents, Bev, Bonnie, and Janice, mark time in a common room that looks out on a man-made pond, remembering what was and wasn't, what might have been, and acting out scenes from a community theater production.