Haunt Me
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series kicks off with Justin McDevitt's gay ghost story, Haunt Me.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series kicks off with Justin McDevitt's gay ghost story, Haunt Me.
Haunted prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are due to settle the estate of Sloane's ailing grandmother. When Gwyn's childhood friend Beckham arrives to help the couple bury the hatchet, they soon discover there may be more to the dusty old house, and to Sloane's twisted past, hidden beneath the foundation.
Pitbull takes the stage at his final New Years Eve concert. Think Miami, think Jewish Cubans, think apocalypse, and mangroves.
In a world where art is banned, the Raccoon Princess creates a secret sanctuary in her bar's basement, building a shrine to a goddess she prays will save her.
A small farming town grapples with the eternal darkness that they believe they caused when Sun quits its galactic responsibilities in the sky during the town's annual Sunflower Festival.
Recycling the refuse of earlier writing projects, uncollected trash collection is an essay-in-dross about the relationship between art, trash, love, death, and transformation.
When Princess Frankie of Sewer City is flushed away by The Evil Clog, she must rediscover who she is and find her path to destroy the evil plaguing her kingdom.
Written and performed by Jesse Winton, this darkly comedic one-man show tackles the mundane issues of death, mortality, and what they have to teach us about the meaning of life.
Planting Day grapples with the inescapable fact that two things can be true at the same time. How do we plan for an uncertain future in a world that is slowly burning?
A muralist. A firefighter. Four claustrophobic walls covered in paint. Houses invites you into a troubled home and implores you to embrace your mistakes with ferocity.
About the complex life of Isabella Stewart Gardner following the people she meets, the losses she encounters, and the garden she grows.
Emily and Lorraine meet for the first time at Lorraine's home, under somewhat special circumstances. This one-act play explores love, grief, and complicated female companionship.
February 7th and 13th at 7:00 PM
February 10th and 17th at 3:00 PM
“Confessions” follows Alana Daniels, the founder of a matchmaking company for black love, and her group of friends as they navigate through their relationships, friendships and confront issues about who they are and what they really want.
Dec 6 @ 7pm
Dec 8 @ 9:30pm
Dec 10 @ 3pm
Join Friends & Lovers & Others in this delightful, heartfelt, and queer world where no matter how much these characters face heartbreak they're still ready to dance it off.
Geoff is lonely, so his girlfriend Juliet hires two actors to keep him company. But everything goes wrong when one actor wants to be Geoff’s friend for real.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
November 3rd at 7:00 PM
1 Improviser, 2 Actors on different scripts, 3 Hilarious acts.
October 23rd at 7pm
A retelling of Shakespeare's classic, set in the Harlem in the 1930s, exploring what it means to be a a Black man in a white man's world.
9/14, 9/15, 9/17 and 9/24 at 7:00
9/22 at 9:30
9/23 at 3:00
The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams is the true story of Jewish immigrant Eve Adams, self-proclaimed “Queen of the Third Sex,” in 1920’s New York.
8/12 at 7PM, 8/13 at 3PM, and 8/15 at 7PM
Emily Dickinson might not be a star employee at Build-A-Bear Workshop, but she sure is… descriptive. Join us on this tale of lovers struggling to express themselves. Death’s carriage awaits.
8/11 at 9:30pm, 8/12 at 3pm, 8/13 at 7pm, 8/14 at 7pm, 8/18 at 9:30pm, 8/19 at 9:30pm, 8/20 at 7pm (IRL + CYBERTANK)
ACT 39 (A comedy about suicide) is a provocative new play that raises questions about autonomy, death, morality, faith, dignity, generational trauma and mental health. Oh and it's a comedy.
August 7th at 7pm
August 8th at 9:30pm
As Agnes navigates the D&D game made by her deceased sister Tilly, she begins to learn how to remember and grieve for the sister she barely knew.
August 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 24 at 7:00 PM
August 6, 12, 20, 27 at 3:00 PM
In Tia Talk, two Latinas, Karen and Amelia, try to prove their Latinidad to themselves and the audience by embodying every stereotype they have been fed by the media, their peers, and even their families.
August 4th at 9:30pm
When Cathy hires a life coach in this satirical comedy, it’s unclear who really needs the help more.
August 4th at 7pm
Progressive, edgy, and perfectly full of justified rage, “here’s to all the broken girls” amplifies voices being used to speak out against childhood trauma caused by the catholic church.
August 3rd at 7pm
Let’s go, Scouts! Skippy, Rascal, Tiny, Pup, and Scoutmaster Waldo are off on their hiking weekend. But there's something watching them in the woods. Are any of them prepared?
July 28th at 7pm
July 29th at 7pm
Nick and John are artists in America, which means their life is a zany backstage comedy.
July 20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd
Shakespeare's Hamlet and Chekhov's Tusenbach encounter their epic loves, Ophelia and Irina, in Purgatory. H+T in P, written by James Costello, explores the nature of true love, forgiveness, and hope.
July 15, 16, 22 at 3:00PM
July 19 at 7:00PM
Set in the near future, the play is a love story corrupted by society's inhumane intervention designed to control and ensure the successful perpetuation of a country's population following a global disaster.
Love Interest
June 27 and 29 at 7:00 PM
July 1 at 3:00 PM
Three women navigate public image, personal sacrifice, and how being part of a massive superhero film franchise forces them to confront their place in the universe – and also, thirst Tweets.
June 25 at 3:00 PM
In 1999, two teenage boys deal with their closeted sexuality and a violent incident changing them both forever. In 2012 and beyond, the scars of their past define their future.