TICKETS
$10
Pearl Rhein performs an evening of her nerdymelodic & sadfunny songs. Will include old friends and brand-new ones about magic potions, Peg Entwistle, breakups, and Ada Lovelace. Special guest Javier Ignacio!
TICKETS
$5
Dox Modern Middle is a play exploring Jewish-American Queer identity. Drawing on drag, video, and dance, it follows Raphaela, a young modern-orthodox Jew who is outed and sent to Israel to heal for the summer. While overseas, she finds healing - but it is far from the process her family intended.
This reading is an opportunity to hear the play out loud for the first time, and will be followed with a talkback with the audience centered on audience responses to the play.
A play by Megan Pope
Directed by Aaron Simon Gross
RAPHI -- Jessie Klueter
GIL --
CAROLINE/TAL -- Julius Powell
ZVI/ABED -- Yarin Brosh
ANI/MAYA -- Yael Shavitt
NADAV -- Anthony DeRita
STAGE DIRECTIONS -- Shara Feit
TICKETS
$10
Pearl Rhein performs an evening of her nerdymelodic & sadfunny songs. Will include old friends and brand-new ones about magic potions, Peg Entwistle, breakups, and Ada Lovelace. Special guest Javier Ignacio!
TICKETS
$5
Dox Modern Middle is a play exploring Jewish-American Queer identity. Drawing on drag, video, and dance, it follows Raphaela, a young modern-orthodox Jew who is outed and sent to Israel to heal for the summer. While overseas, she finds healing - but it is far from the process her family intended.
This reading is an opportunity to hear the play out loud for the first time, and will be followed with a talkback with the audience centered on audience responses to the play.
A play by Megan Pope
Directed by Aaron Simon Gross
RAPHI -- Jessie Klueter
GIL --
CAROLINE/TAL -- Julius Powell
ZVI/ABED -- Yarin Brosh
ANI/MAYA -- Yael Shavitt
NADAV -- Anthony DeRita
STAGE DIRECTIONS -- Shara Feit
TICKETS
$5
In traditional clowning, the audience laughs at the clown. In bouffon, the clown laughs at the audience. I WOULD FUCK ME is a queer solo show that uses this provocative form of French anti-clown, in order to expose and mock the cracks in queer culture, one ugly truth at a time.
Created by THE BOOF
TICKETS
$12
Queerly Comedic Is a monthly comedy show with a focus on LGBTQ voices. Come see a great lineup of comedians including
Jay Jurden
Chloe Kozer
Glo Butler
Sarah Kennedy
Eman El Husseini
TICKETS
$15
When Flappy and Chappy, two mime magicians, are banished from ancient biblical Egypt, they must embark on an epic journey to find their new home, and more importantly, themselves. Featuring original music by Roxie Maisel and book co-written by director/choreographer Carter Shocket, Exodus 2 has everything: slapstick comedy, murderous plots, mistaken identities, burlesque, trans pride, and the World Pride 2019 disco anthem of the summer, “Feet up off the Ground.”
Book by: Carter Shocket and Roxie Maisel
Music by: Roxie Maisel
Director and Choreographer: Carter Shocket
Music Director: Roxie Maisel
Associate Director, Tech Op: Henry Lombino
Cast: Roxie Maisel, Carter Shocket, Ricky Downes III, Rebecca Hunt, Tiffany McCue, and William Frenzel
Written, choreographed, and directed by Dat Nguyen, Will The Sheep Come to be Clean is an evening of performance that reflects on his disjointed experience living in a foreign country as a gay man. By employing collage and avoiding the traditional narrative structure, Dat creates vibrant dreamscapes and juxtapositions to develop a multidimensional experience that parallels his internal turmoil of past relationships. The layers of guilt, humor, desire, nostalgia, resentment, and atonement all piece together, forming a bigger picture of extreme anxiety and despair to be felt in all its lows and highs. These fragmented sensations, in return, foster various spaces for his own reflection: a solitary state that is neither lonely nor fulfilling; a playground to examine the selfless giving that is conditioned by selfish desires; and a battleground to grapple with the pain and delight of belonging and yet wanting to belong.
“Nguyen shakes things up nicely, commanding even those audience members who think they are progressive and enlightened sufficiently to realize that many artists might prefer playing it safe in Utah’s peculiar culture of sanctioned perfectionism.” - Les Roka from The Utah Review
“With an approach based on the chopping, blending, obfuscation, and scrupulous arrangement and rearrangement of visual collages, Nguyen ricocheted between nearly a dozen wildly diverse and splintered stories, both masterfully and delightfully.” - Emily Snow from loveDANCEmore
“Will The Sheep is mesmerizing in its complexity. The overall work is a collage of movement, sounds, and narrative. This is a dance experience that certainly transcends the usual expectations of most dance concerts.” - Brian Gray from Front Row Reviewers Utah
Written, Directed, and Produced by Dat Nguyen
Choreography: Dat Nguyen in collaboration with performers
Performers: Eliza Kitchens, Erica MacLean, Tori Meyer, Nora Lang, Emma Sargent, Emma Wilson
Stage Manager and Lighting Designer: Aileen Norris
TICKETS
$5 online
$10 door
En route to Transylvania in the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Keanu Reeves says “I got the distinct impression that I was leaving the west and entering the east.” Effigy & Jimbo follows a distant vampire named Effigy as she pursues a boy’s beloved clown Jimbo.
written and directed by Jordan J. Baum
featuring Sierra Leverett and Andrew Hardigg
assistant director Sebastián Felipé Alarcon
produced by Zach Donovan
A SISSY'S PHYSIOLOGY, Tank Associate Artist Kev Berry's follow-up to last year's A Faggot's Theology, digs into the same man's quest for a passably good body as it relates, again, to his own queerness. Why are gay men so obsessed with desirability? Why do gay men wish they were born into a different body entirely, with a better metabolism and a better ass? And why the hell is the fitness journey as an entity so Sisyphean? This frank Traffic Jam tries to unpack all of this with a few swigs of cider.
TICKETS
$10
Dr. Roby Jackson, a closeted transgender man and scientist who is fascinated with the study of fungi and mushrooms, has created what he believes is a cancer cure from an extraction of a lethal fungus. Pushing to bring his drugs to human trial in a rush against the clock of his veteran mother's diagnosis, Dr. Jackson takes some morally ambiguous risks to complete his miracle drug. In his frenzy to believe in his own work, he turns to his creation for not only the cure for his mother’s cancer – but his own body dysphoria as well. In this inaugural reading of a new play by Raine Grayson whose work “never shies from throwing wrenches into the mix” (The New Paltz Oracle), the Jacksons explore how far people will go to prove that their body belongs to them.
Director/Playwright: Raine Grayson (he/him)
Stage Manager: Christine Nicole LaBoy (she/her)
CAST
Elliot Frances Flynn (they/them) as Dr. Roby Jackson
Barbara Thomas (she/her) as Erna Jackson
Susan O’Doherty (she/her) as Sandra Moriah
with Cess Jones (he/him) reading stage directions
Written, choreographed, and directed by Dat Nguyen, Will The Sheep Come to be Clean is an evening of performance that reflects on his disjointed experience living in a foreign country as a gay man. By employing collage and avoiding the traditional narrative structure, Dat creates vibrant dreamscapes and juxtapositions to develop a multidimensional experience that parallels his internal turmoil of past relationships. The layers of guilt, humor, desire, nostalgia, resentment, and atonement all piece together, forming a bigger picture of extreme anxiety and despair to be felt in all its lows and highs. These fragmented sensations, in return, foster various spaces for his own reflection: a solitary state that is neither lonely nor fulfilling; a playground to examine the selfless giving that is conditioned by selfish desires; and a battleground to grapple with the pain and delight of belonging and yet wanting to belong.
“Nguyen shakes things up nicely, commanding even those audience members who think they are progressive and enlightened sufficiently to realize that many artists might prefer playing it safe in Utah’s peculiar culture of sanctioned perfectionism.” - Les Roka from The Utah Review
“With an approach based on the chopping, blending, obfuscation, and scrupulous arrangement and rearrangement of visual collages, Nguyen ricocheted between nearly a dozen wildly diverse and splintered stories, both masterfully and delightfully.” - Emily Snow from loveDANCEmore
“Will The Sheep is mesmerizing in its complexity. The overall work is a collage of movement, sounds, and narrative. This is a dance experience that certainly transcends the usual expectations of most dance concerts.” - Brian Gray from Front Row Reviewers Utah
Written, Directed, and Produced by Dat Nguyen
Choreography: Dat Nguyen in collaboration with performers
Performers: Eliza Kitchens, Erica MacLean, Tori Meyer, Nora Lang, Emma Sargent, Emma Wilson
Stage Manager and Lighting Designer: Aileen Norris
A SISSY'S PHYSIOLOGY, Tank Associate Artist Kev Berry's follow-up to last year's A Faggot's Theology, digs into the same man's quest for a passably good body as it relates, again, to his own queerness. Why are gay men so obsessed with desirability? Why do gay men wish they were born into a different body entirely, with a better metabolism and a better ass? And why the hell is the fitness journey as an entity so Sisyphean? This frank Traffic Jam tries to unpack all of this with a few swigs of cider.
TICKETS
$12
Its all about me. Its all about speaking yourself into Iconhood. Its all about taking up space as a queer person. Its all about demanding attention. Its all about being a worthless slut. Its all about creating discourse. Its all about being both gorgeous and hot at the same time. Its all about toeing the line. Its all about ripping that line up and eating it because it was put there by the cisheteropatriarchy, hunny! But most importantly its all about me, Jamie Lowenstein, and this part stand-up, part cabaret, part drag show, part living room drama, part TEDTalk, all party experience.
Written and Performed by Jamie Lowenstein (jamielowenstein.com)
Directed by Yoni Weiss (yoniweissnyc.com)
Stage Managed by David Drew Herndon
Dramaturgy by Ryan Beaghler
Costume Design by Adrianna Covone
TICKETS
$15
A young man is ushered into an ex-gay conversion therapy camp, and discovers that love can be electric in more than one way.
This will be a stage reading of Ex-Gay: the Musical!
Cast: Matthew Ruehlman, Rachel Wilson, James V. Murray, Brenton Tyler Schlosshauer, Jo Cutrona, Jake Smerechniak, and Ann Marie Moloney
Composer: Dominic Frigo, Playwright/ Director: JP Pelletier
TICKETS
$12
Leviathan Lab, in association with The Tank, presents a workshop of
FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Directed by Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Andrew Borthwick-Leslie
Dramaturgy by Lynde Rosario and Gaven Trinidad
Stage Managed by Danitra Faithe
What does it mean to have a body? Ariel Estrada investigates his experiences as a 20-year survivor of a brutal martial arts cult, interweaving his Filipino father's immigrant story with his own coming-of-age as a gay man at the height of the AIDS crisis. Through these histories, he brings to life the emotional battle between father and son, and his ongoing battle to take pride in himself as a gay Filipino American man against all odds. Presented as part of The Tank's 2019 PrideFest.
In the final summer of their youth, three love stories unfold between a group of friends in a small apartment in Washington Heights. Following an acclaimed run at LenFest Center for the Arts, Santino DeAngelo's tender exploration of millennial love comes to The Tank for two performances only. Directed by Austin Tooley, Dramaturgy by Anisa Rose Threlkeld, Stage Management by Alexis Nalbandian*, Original Music by Brandon Woodruff, Projections by Callastate, Featuring PJ Adzima*, Katrina Colletti, Roberto Tolentino*, Katy Early, Robert Barlow, and Malcolm Opoku. (*Appears courtesy of actors equity)
TICKETS
$15 General
Revival blends honest storytelling with dynamic music. At its core, Revival is a first-hand unpacking of playwright Bobby Britton Jr.'s Texas upbringing, experience with Conversion Therapy, and the music of the Church that raised him. Revival is recommended for mature audiences and explores themes such as self-discovery, religious conflict, deep sorrow, and transcendent joy. Revival is Bobby's second writing adventure. Revival has been in development since late 2017 and has performed at various venues around Boston featuring a rotating guest list of cast members. Bobby, John, and Patrick met at Emerson College in Boston while pursuing their Masters Degree in Theatre and Community Engagement. Featuring John Thiel and Patty Bourree (Patrick Burr). For more info, visit revivalcabaret.com.
TICKETS
$12
Leviathan Lab, in association with The Tank, presents a workshop of
FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Directed by Sheila Bandyopadhyay and Andrew Borthwick-Leslie
Dramaturgy by Lynde Rosario and Gaven Trinidad
Stage Managed by Danitra Faithe
What does it mean to have a body? Ariel Estrada investigates his experiences as a 20-year survivor of a brutal martial arts cult, interweaving his Filipino father's immigrant story with his own coming-of-age as a gay man at the height of the AIDS crisis. Through these histories, he brings to life the emotional battle between father and son, and his ongoing battle to take pride in himself as a gay Filipino American man against all odds. Presented as part of The Tank's 2019 PrideFest.
In the final summer of their youth, three love stories unfold between a group of friends in a small apartment in Washington Heights. Following an acclaimed run at LenFest Center for the Arts, Santino DeAngelo's tender exploration of millennial love comes to The Tank for two performances only. Directed by Austin Tooley, Dramaturgy by Anisa Rose Threlkeld, Stage Management by Alexis Nalbandian*, Original Music by Brandon Woodruff, Projections by Callastate, Featuring PJ Adzima*, Katrina Colletti, Roberto Tolentino*, Katy Early, Robert Barlow, and Malcolm Opoku. (*Appears courtesy of actors equity)
