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Road House is taking over The Tank for three fast-paced, high-energy sketch comedy shows. Experience the latest work from one of The Armory’s resident sketch ensembles. Each performance is a unique, one-night-only event filled the weird characters, crazy premises and other comedy buzz words!
When I was in middle school, I was obsessed with North Korea. This is why. Answers include, but are not limited to: Tumblr, John Green, The Hunger Games, Christianity, aliens, and the United States Government. Gay and trans BTW.
"Two Birds from Manchester try to recover from being fired and involuntarily celibate when they are informed that, without paying rent by the morning, they will be evicted, resulting in a clusterfuck of chaos. Blending fast-paced farce with biting humor, TWO BIRDS AND A BAG OF BONES explores female friendship,…
RETURNING after its popular run at NYC Fringe: Former English undergraduate, Walter Schlinger, stands alone in a wide, infinite, green field. In this meta-theatrical solo performance, Walter reckons with the roles our mentors play in our development and attempts to provide insight into the world's most famous love…
Bigtan and Teresh, two extremely minor biblical characters, emerge from destruction to find themselves exiled, lovelorn, and pawns in someone else’s story. Will they let their tragedy define them? Unmask them? Or will they shatter unassailable narrative forces to write their own fate?
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…
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A group of childhood friends come together for a New Year’s Eve dinner to discuss where their lives have led and speculate on what happened to their idealism and Dreams which had been abundant when they were younger. The trouble is, this isn’t any ordinary dinner party. These friends are harboring deep secrets.…
Comedian Bryan Stoops has performed in twenty-two countries on five continents. He has made audiences laugh in such exotic cities as Melbourne, Casablanca, and Newark. Bryan will headline and the show will also include some of the best stand-up comedians in NYC, including such greats as NYC comedy legend Al Lubel. Be…
Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
Inspired by seven of Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings usually given the collective title Ages of Man; Pop, follows the relationship between Sedna and Lani as the world is formed and falls apart around them. We are captivated by their relationship as they realize the love and connection they have found in life…
"Fresh off its 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut, ""Strangers I Know"" returns to NYC for a limited run. It's not every day you get to eulogize your own funeral, but Samantha is doing just that. Thing is, she's not really dead - just her past selves are. In order to move on, she throws a memorial attended by all…
Come spend the afternoon celebrating four self-produced plays by trans authors published by 1319 Press: Bloom Bloom Pow by Genevieve Simon, My Cousin Nilu Is Not Gay by Di Lobontiu, and Os Confederados and Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist and Os Confederados by Andy Boyd. See excerpts of the plays, followed…
"DanceLink presents 10 dances, all made for a 4x4 foot ""tiny"" stage. Each piece combines into a metaphorical voyage towards finding what matters most. This performance provides a wild ride from innocence to seduction, from heartbreak to spite, from soul-searching to revelation; all with a touch of humor. "
He Hates Me! is a comedy about overwhelming guilt. You know when you feel like you did something wrong? And you can’t stop thinking about it? So you become obsessed with making it right? But you never really can? And that makes you only want to try harder to fix it? But in the process of rectifying you kind of… make…
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…
Set in the late 1980s, The Dylan & Bella Show follows two rising performers determined to revive the fading world of variety television. Blending U.S. and Mexican pop culture through high-energy dance, comedy sketches, and music, the show dazzles on the surface, but behind the scenes, a toxic producer exerts control…
"Percolating" is a dance showcase presented by Chutzpah Dance, led by Erica Isakower, focusing on refined works-in-progress pieces allowing artists to explore new experimental ideas. This show includes works by Chutzpah Dance, Claudia Logi, Amanda Egan, Taylor Gordon, Breath Dance Project, Alessia Palanti, Josh Luna,…
"KTCO presents an evening of dance, highlighting two world premieres for the company. Suadade, choreographed by Katie Corrao, serves as a personal reflection of grief, memory, and longing. The work questions our relationship to others in the wake of loss and the residue left behind. Grève Rèvolte is Corrao’s most…
T-BOY ON GRINDR is a solo performance exploring transmasculine desire, digital intimacy, and the politics of visibility. Blending autofiction, humor, and musical elements, João d’Orey navigates the contradictions of queer connection in online spaces — between empowerment and exposure, fantasy and reality. Raw,…
This weekend of radio theater invites listeners to experience two highly acclaimed radio plays with decidedly queer subplots. Friday is a night of suspense: ""The Strange Case of Nick M."" concerns a podcaster who stumbles upon a series of questionable medical experiments conducted on a concert pianist with a…
"Lovers of the Good" follows Jason, a fledgling youth pastor in suburban North Carolina whose world begins to fracture when a kid in his youth group comes out to him as nonbinary. Through a budding relationship with a Black, trans Rootworker named Levi, Jason finds himself torn between the dogmatic Christianity of…
Creativity comes at a cost for two playwrights as they fight to theatrically produce the fictional best-seller Letters to Tasmania-- an epistolary romance novel by the infamous (and deceased) Willy Lowski. Amid the staging of a tumultuous rock-opera adaptation, a classic mentor-versus-mentee feud unfolds between the…
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.
Step into the chaos of **ANARCOAFEMINADO** — a raw, unapologetic live experience where rebellion meets glamour, vulnerability collides with rage, and queer nightlife becomes performance art. Blending underground energy, provocative visuals, music, movement, and emotional intensity, ANARCOAFEMINADO is not just a show…
What happens when Abbott Elementary has a baby with Insecure? We, The Feminists! (Or WTF!) is a workplace comedy for the person who has ever donated to a nonprofit, worked inside and burnt out from one, and thought: someone needs to make a show about this. This staged reading humorously balances nonprofit politics,…
A one woman play chronicling a true 2014 road trip with a stranger. Pragmatic polyamorous Olishka may be just the thing to heal a freshly-heartbroken-constantly-weeping-to-Joni-Mitchell 22 year old. Enjoy a cross-country cabaret of queer confusion. Their journey from NYC to California will explore everything from sex…
The light fixture is full of water. A stair went missing between the 2nd and 3rd floor. There’s a face in the cracked paint on the wall. OR CURRENT RESIDENT is a new play about the tenants and spirits of a crumbling building in Bushwick. Written by Penelope Gould Directed by Annabel Heacock Produced by Naomi Schiller
Actor Kiran Ramesh has just regained Twitter’s attention with his new romance movie Snow Song. When he gets an email from Marley Park, an entertainment journalist best known for their candid marathon interviews with Hollywood giants, he’s met with a proposal: a one-hour interview every day, for a full 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 professional, sexual, and romantic boundaries of two gay couples from different generations are crossed and re-evalued when their non-monogamous relationships collide. Open is a comedy about why we get into relationships and how we get each other to stay.
Before The Flood, Emory attempts to care for their grandmother whilst obsessing over Jude. The night of The Flood, Emory and Jude spontaneously reunite along the Charles River Esplanade to smoke, change, and turn into eggs. After The Flood, Jude attempts to reconcile with their father whilst obsessing over Emory.
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. Unless it’s always been your dream to see Véro (or anyone) naked at The Tank NYC, then you absolutely should come see this play.
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.
In Failure Confetti Maeve, A former child actor faces adulthood; unemployed and haunted by the question: who am I? She would like it to be "Broadway diva." Tragically, she can neither sing nor dance. Desperate for reinvention, Maeve joins a hardcore method acting class, and unearths actual childhood reports…
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. She has also made him promise to never die. In some distant future, Sleth delivers this lecture, which gradually falls apart into misinformation,…
Tonight is the night. To change everything. To upset the past and uplift the future. With drag, spells, and some songs, Jazzie has a whole load of mess for you. Heartbreak! Wigs! In depth conversations about the social and emotional nature of living as a human being! It’s A Travesty! One Night With Jazzie Mercado is…
After a tragic “accident” leaves her estranged trans-sister Tarantula dead on the concrete, Lip brings Tarantula’s body home, steals her unborn baby, and starts making a Shabbat dinner that she believes will bring Tarantula back to life along with the 26 trans children they raised together years before.
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters meets the world on pause. Masha + 3 is a bold reimagining of the beloved classic, told through the perspective of Masha, a Black gay man confronting questions of identity, love, loyalty, and what we owe the people we call family ,all set against the haunting stillness of the 2020…
In MANAQUEEN, Annie and Sourdoe are two drag queens on a mission to rob Mary's Department Store. To end capitalism, to get rich, to find a kazoo -- who knows? But their plans are complicated by two evil talking mannequins who threaten to tear them apart forever. Who will prevail in this absurd and farcical heist?
Vernissage takes place at an exclusive museum members' party celebrating culture, the polished social veneer dissolves into rowdy, territorial, almost animal-like behavior as the night spirals. By morning the damage is mostly superficial, and while the technology, branding and designer names move forward, humanity's…
AMELIA EARHART WAS A LESBIAN by Nicole Streger is a 90 minute rom-com two hander that follows Sam and Chris, ex-best friends and former writing partners, face to face for the first time in three years. Together they must race against the clock to protect Sam’s authorship of her screenplay before a career altering…
While living rent-free at his slightly older boyfriend’s place, a 20-something twink becomes obsessed with dating a “vampire” he meets online in lieu of looking for a new apartment or job. No One’s Really a Vampire is about bad habits, gay sex, hot people, obsession, and the delusions we can fool ourselves into…
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.…
Hey Mom, I Got Engaged is a one-act play that explores unconditional love, facing your fears, and healing from trauma. A week after Maya accepts Tricia’s engagement proposal to her, Maya rescinds the proposal because she can’t face how her traditional Asian mother will react to it. On a park bench under the setting…
Maxine has just lost her job, is sleeping on her ex-boyfriend's couch and is three months behind on rent. So when she starts making fetish content to pay her bills she enlists the help of her one and only friend, Elena. As the duo's popularity rises, the requests from their “fans” become stranger and darker, and…
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.
Get ready to laugh your Face Tape off! Come see The Armory's newest sketch comedy team, led by director Emily Claypoole and head writer Kali Doyle. They’re serving chaos, camp, and deeply funny nonsense. See you there!
An ode to New York City’s grit, grime, and glamour, “3 Bucks! 2 Bags! 1 Drag Queen!” highlights the journey of 1 special diva from innocent ingenue to delightful debutante. See Lena Horné navigate renting in 3 out of 5 boroughs, finding and maintaining a career, and ultimately leaning in to the beauty of the chaos.…
We’re all going to die! So we might as well laugh about it. In this solo clown show, Jasper the Ghost (Michael Thomas Kennedy) will finally achieve his lifelong (and deathlong) dream of being a world-famous comedian, explore the ups and downs of being a ghost, process the harsh truths of his own death, and may even…
In A Man Called Paris we get to follow Paris, a 40 year old gay man and professor of classical literature, who is being forced to marry the ruthless Capulet's teenage daughter Juliet, or they will out him to the world and destroy his life and reputation. Paris has just about come to terms with his fate when a dashing…
"(No) Refunds is an interactive gameshow-play hosted by the dazzling, delightful, and only occasionally dastardly Tiffany Gold, an old-school American gameshow host and model presenter all-in-one – who quite literally depends on your entertainment. One premium ticket holder, dubbed the “Star Player” for the evening,…
In a long-forgotten Hollywood melodrama, a plucky young socialite falls for a brutish older fisherman. At a gay bar, a drag queen and king rehearse a live send-up of the film. In a living room, a queer couple watches the drag send-up online. Each pair recreates, adapts, destroys, and starts over. Something new…
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Until recently, Irene Woo embodied the 'Golden Child'. As a Senior Software Engineer at Google, she had it all: the six-figure salary, the impressive job title, and the unconditional approval of her immigrant parents. But when she turned 28, she quit her job to tell jokes in damp basements. With the unrelenting…
Tommy’s life is upended when he accidentally kills two baby birds and is cursed to slowly transform 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
"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. a Frankenstein-esque tale on hating men, being a man, and becoming a man.
A new play by Jack Frederick about family, life, and finding light in the darkness.
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 >:) It's way too dark and I'm too fast for ya! Lmao! XD But hey, if you're around, maybe I'll letcha in on a little secret... :O
Beach Pageant is an immersive spiritual service dedicated to the healing properties of the ocean. Lead by Pearl Emerson, this bizarre quasi-cultish performance piece will leave audiences with a metaphorical sunburn and sand between their toes. Grab your bathing suit and your iced coffee, and lets make the beach!
Waiting In A Time of Revelation is about three Black women who wait in a world of things discarded. With each woman having been 'discarded' for years, decades, or centuries-- Phyllis, Zora, and Candy sit tossed away in the trash the world leaves behind, and are deadset on convincing themselves they can only leave…
What happens after the applause ends? As the final bows fade and the theater empties, a cast and crew remains behind to dismantle what once felt larger than life. Set during the loadout and closure of a production, this new work from The Choreojoey Project follows performers, technicians, and lingering spectators as…
Imagination Strings: Art, Puppets & Participation is a visually inventive puppet experience featuring handcrafted marionette puppetsmade from scrap materials, discarded objects, recycled materials, and handmade creatures brought to life. Blending clown, physical theater, and unexpected transformation, the show…
Harper unknowingly made out with her sperm-donor father. After that, nothing was ever quite the same. This darkly comic, confessional one-woman show traces that event’s fallout – as shame, grief and reckless desire collide in one woman’s messy, defiant search for love. In a landscape of dating apps, modern polyamory…
Two women-- Alicia, a naval officer and Viv, an oceanographer-- are on a mission from the US military to find the source of a mysterious deep sea humming. But when their tiny submersible gets knocked loose, they must contend with their respective land-bound griefs, tension with each other, and the fear of the…
A celebrated knight and his loyal squire arrive at a witch’s cave to carry out a righteous execution. What follows is a fast, profane, and increasingly absurd debate about honor, faith, and obedience, as certainty collapses into circular logic and sanctioned violence. A fantastical dark comedy about what we excuse in…
When Jack's roommate gets into a relationship with another trans guy, he begins to rethink his life. Who is a man? What is a Yeti? And what would happen if the sun disappeared? Where the Yetis Will Be is a frenetic, episodic play about transition and how we've learned to define ourselves.
Alternative Canon takes the Book of Genesis and flips it on its head by asking: What if God made contact with Sarah first instead of Abraham? Complete with tiny girlbosses, deities that transcend gender, and pillars of salt; this campy comedy will show you what really goes into the nitty gritty of Intelligent Design.
How to Swallow a Volcano is a solo show written and performed by Anne McDermott about anger, love, and the art of making bad choices with abandon. Moving between sessions with an unflappable therapist and the mess of real life, Anne navigates bad romances, family dysfunction, spiritual misadventures, and the kind of…
Pietro happens to be a clown, and also happens to be avoiding something from her past, in an attempt to move forward and be a beautiful normal girl who does what she's supposed to. But she can't seem to forget the thing from before, especially after the sudden appearance and disappearance of an old friend, which…
Made with a sincere love for Frank Herbert’s epic book series, Dune! The Dunesical (The Unauthorized 4D “Muad’Dib” Experience) – is a parody musical for everyone from musical theater fans and Dune-heads to musical cynics and Dune haters. Written and performed by one Letterboxd-obsessed man and one brave woman, Dune!…
"POV: you and hubby are driving to your Niagara Falls honeymoon, fresh off the altar, sipping on a mango lime La Croix. It’s the middle of the night and you haven’t had service for miles, but it's okay, you’re drunk off the bliss of married life! Or...trying to be? Out of nowhere, your La Croix goes flying and the…
Bananas follows two aspiring artists who share a garden-level apartment in the city. When the local news reports on a bizarre murder, one of them reveals that their current project is a series of durational killings. Instead of confronting this vicious creation, the two intellectualize, ignore, and argue. But when a…
**OVERFLOW** follows the life of a woman with severe personality disorder as she spirals through memories, relationships, emotional extremes, distorted perceptions, and a fragmented sense of reality in a fever dream like reflection of her life. Blurring the line between reality, memory, fantasy, delusion, and…
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. College professors and real-life couple Hal and Elle ask: should they have a child? As a trans man and a cis woman, the couple wonders if…
Five friends form an amateur witches’ coven to cast a healing spell... and accidentally summon a demon. As the demon draws people to it's space (a vacation rental property) to feed on their pelvic pain, the friends try and complete healing rituals to assuage their pain. The demon interrupts each ritual just as…
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A tragedy that occurred in history and immortalized in The Divine Comedy, Affairs Of The Heart tells the tragic love story of Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta. With moments inspired by the art pieces that helped tell their story throughout centuries. Written for a modern audience, this retelling decides to fix…
#4: A lost brain. Confused, disoriented, and searching for her memories about who she was. She has a strong attachment to words and language, and feels deeply compelled to investigate this feeling of unrest within her. Scientist: Tired yet entirely consumed by her great experiment. Clouded by her memories of the…
Not all RomComs deserve a happily ever after. But this one might just kill for it. Close Distance Disappearing Acts is sexy, funny, and deliciously dangerous. ANDY is a quirky vigilante on a mission: clearing nerd conventions of "bad bad men." PETER is the kind of man who shouldn't exist — unapologetically Irish,…
There are three rules… 1. You can do anything you want 2. You can’t leave until they let you 3. They are always watching In a purgatory plastered with graffiti, glitter, and teenage angst, two young girls find themselves trapped after their sudden deaths only to discover that they are not alone: something else is…
American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick (Will Lidke), known to the world simply as Halston, is down on his luck. He's packing up his chic-as-hell Olympic Tower office for reasons he doesn't want to discuss. To make matters worse, Elizabeth I (Tyler Anthony Smith) is knocking on his door. Yes, Elizabeth I, whose…
“◼️⚫🅾” culminates a four yearslong choreographic exploration of geometric shapes: spatially, geometrically, and physically. While this sounds simple, complexity arises from extremely rigorous application. This hourlong quintet features original sound design by Ross Daniel utilizing the sonic landscape created by the…
An evening of sketch-comedy, drag, music, burlesque, and more! This lively, elegant, and bold duo just keeps getting better with time.
"In 1993, the city of Waco, Texas was the site of a siege between the FBI and the ""religious group"" known as the Branch Davidians. Over the course of 51 days, the Branch Davidians and the FBI conducted negotiations over the phone in an attempt to end the standoff. With a script crafted entirely from hundreds of…