Rambunctious, daring, hilarious, provoking, and fun. Trust us - You've never experienced a night of improvisation quite like this.
In eighteen days the world will end by Flood—at least according to drag queen Lizzie Fine, who receives a frightening prophecy of Old Testament proportions. Meanwhile, a gaggle of gay "chosen family" considers unchoosing each other. Nathan the Demon Twink seeks transcendence through Kabbalah (and Adderall), Christopher bravely transitions (into a DJ), and Gnocchi the Cat WILL be Bat Mitzvah'd, God willing. Vile Isle is a precocious and party-fueled dark comedy about how we fail and forgive one another and what faith is worth when our limits are existentially tested.
A double-bill exploring boyhood's transition to manhood and cycles of violence through history and media, from the late River Phoenix to the medieval mystery of the Princes in the Tower.
A love letter to the queer community! Experience Where the Violets Bloom, a groundbreaking dance theatre production by Kaleid Dance Collective that redefines traditional narratives around being queer in America.
Triple Bill (Sal): Last Christmas; Recordar; The Chemistry of Salt
"Goat Blood" fuses passion, queer identity, and the fierce battle against personal demons, all pulsing within the heart of Latine folklore.
A raucous night of serialized plays featuring the hottest actors, directors, and playwrights in the indie theater scene. You vote for what stories return next time with a new episode.
September 20 at 7:30pm
September 21 at 3pm
CAGED focuses on the “zero tolerance” policy of the Trump Administration that separated families at the US-Mexico border and left thousands of immigrant children incarcerated in detention centers.
The Loves of Diego Rivera is two person play about the art and women of Diego Rivera's amazing life.
Experience <de>const.tru.y.END//o by Arantxa Araujo, featuring the symbolic deconstruction of 39 plaster altars, each containing a cempasuchil flower. This powerful performance invites reflection on personal identity and cultural narratives through striking visuals and an evocative soundscape.
Triple Bill: (Limón) Daddy Issues, Esclavo y Amo, Huapango Veracruzano
Inspired in a real story, Dr. Joaquín finds a new meaning of life and healing in a community that prefers using puppets, magic and laughter to fight the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
Mujer!
September 22 at 5pm
Leo Torres - Playwright
Rodrigo Ernesto Bolaños - Director
1934, on an isolated rancho in Mexico, Luisa yearns to leave behind the life that was forced on her. Through movies and magazines, she daydreams about what her life could be. Will Luisa's dreams remain a source of complacent comfort, or will she find the courage to turn them into reality?
Suficiente is a short film that follows a Mexican immigrant exploring the different personas she's had to create to be accepted in American society.
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.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series kicks off with Justin McDevitt's gay ghost story, Haunt Me.
Bill’s Rice, a restaurant that serves only rice, runs out of rice. With a tempting business proposition and a vengeful ferret, the owners must navigate love, legacy, and letting go.
A Wild.Mess Production will present a collection of works by rogue wave and wild.DANCE. The evening will consist of a variety of pieces that accentuate the unique and exciting voices of choreographers/directors Catherine Messina and Emmy Wildermuth.
Something Blue is a gay story told through straight weddings
Vote for us, hope for the future!
Resilience reimagines strength on a journey of uncomfortable couches.
Affecting Expression, a new queer tragicomedy: As three queer female artists in 1852 navigate their intersecting artistic paths and relationships, the walls of their home and boundaries between art and reality become increasingly unreliable.
All the way from Scotland following a wonderful run at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Critically acclaimed storyteller Niall Moorjani (Mohan: A Partition Story) queers a Scottish folk classic in an evening of strangeness, sexy fairies and the fantastical.
SUNSHOWER is an attempt at being funny and sexy while crying and desperate to not have your home - and by extension you - looked upon with disgust or remorse.
Tier5's SpookyFest staged reading series continues with James Cougar Canfield's DRACULA: BLOOD & GLITTER.
Minnie has just started a wonderful new job. The pay is great, the job is easy, but the catch is it will drain the blood out of her if she isn't careful.
There are no coincidences… only connections. Remarkable “follow-signs” lead a jaded writer to Scotland, where a bucket-list pilgrimage becomes an unexpected, life-changing exploration of kindness. Bonus: singing, Satanic nuns. #Edinburgh
People are going missing, taken in the night. No one knows where or why they go; and it’s happening more and more. On Halloween night, Otho stumbles upon his classmate's plan to stop it…by ritualistically sacrificing the New Kid in Town.
Rose Kanj shares her journey of self-love in her autobiographical one-woman show told through silly yet vulnerable anecdotes and the music that shaped the imperfect human she is today.
Tier5 finishes its SpookyFest staged reading series with Matilda Corley Schulman's scars & stains!
A joy-saturated dance-theater quartet that plays with memory, grief, community care, and a big clothesline! Built from father-daughter conversations about an ancestor, dancers excavate memory through storytelling, fabric, and bones.
One Day Dance: Season 5
November 16, 3:00PM and November 17, 12:00PM
Artistic Director, Choreographer, Editor, Videographer: Joseph Heitman
Director of Administration, Cast Member: Malia Lam
Editor, Cast Member: Julia Asher
Cast Member: Sarah Gottfried, Richard Sayama, Catherine Messina, Daniel Rocha, Mayu Nakaya, & Steven Upegui
Choreographers: Alex Schimdt, Alex Swader, Colin Heininger, Emmy Wildermuth, Faustine Lavie, NewBrese Dance Project, Rosa Allegra Wolff, & Stephen Agisilaou
Join One Day Dance for our 5th season of dance on camera! This year we are premiering nine original films from an array of incredible choreographers. selected by the cast of One Day Dance. From the first rehearsal to the finished product, each film is crafted within a non-consecutive 24 hours time frame. Through this economical time structure we challenge our guest choreographers to reach new levels in their creative process. Join us for this awesome evening!
Season 5 Choreographers include: Stephen Agisilaou, Colin Heininger, Joseph Heitman, Faustine Lavie, NewBrese Dance Project, Alex Schmidt, Alex Swader, Emmy Wildermuth, and Rosa Allegra Wolff.
Content Warnings: Gun use depicted on screen. Flashing Images.
PILLOW TALK is a play that follows Ty, a gay trans man in his early twenties, as he embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery and self-love
Juliet’s Nurse hits the road to correct the record on "the greatest love story ever told." Love! Death! Aging! Teenagers!
The Frontera Series is a play reading series dedicated to highlighting the next frontier of great American Playwrights.
Join The Bechdel Group as we workshop and discuss two new plays in progress!
We Are Actors Presents a Night Of Scenes. Join us for A night of incredible theater Headlined by "Japanese Porno" by John Patrick Shanley.
Set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world unraveling under the weight of late-stage capitalism, the play explores the complexities of female friendship, fame, and the absurdities of our digital age.
Walls: Chloe’s Story is a Forum Theatre play about a young person with chronic vulvar pain. Audience members are given the chance to intervene and change Chloe's fate.
Award winning 1 woman show: 8 vastly diverse characters' dance with cancel culture and how mental and spiritual health are connected. Could a 5 minute conversation Save a life? All stories based on real interviews
Geoff's lonely. His girlfriend Juliet hires actors to pose as his friends. Whitney's in love with Juliet. The therapist they all go to keeps trying to hang out?
Will you come to Homecoming with us this year? Road House High School is back at The Tank on Tuesday, September 3rd at 7pm. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.
How do you go from a single point in space to the largest object in the universe and back to a single point, when you're surrounded by existential dread?
Fiona finds a metal arm in the woods. She starts having dreams about it. They're not sex dreams, exactly.
Four college students embark on a road trip across post-Roe America to avenge the trauma of their explosive and charismatic leader, but the friend group fractures as secrets emerge.
The night before their wedding, Max and Josh must practice their first dance as a married couple. As the clock ticks and wine is poured, their impending union brings up old traumas, secrets, and shame.
Join us for the year anniversary celebration of Ghetto Alchemy: Vol 1! This exciting evening will feature live performances , a special visual screening, and a freestyle session OTA.
A one-hour comedic version of William Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet on the Run. Seven actors play twenty-four characters in one hour. It’s the play we all know but shorter.
An Alien lands in the Middle of Trinidad Carnival and discovers all sorts of Vibes!
Oversteegen is a story about sisterhood, resilience, and resistance.
Jenny's Doll Hospital is an experimental chamber musical about devotion, brokenness, and just how much of ourselves we will (or should) sacrifice to heal the one we love.
Four rocks sit on the tracks. The earth is hot. The beasts return. Cycles repeat. The Train rumbles by asking, “What if the scariest thing in the woods is you?”
Prudence Play is a new play about a young nun who’s having unholy (horny) dreams. In confession and in her diary, she’s only just starting to admit the truth.
Brace Yourself is an original pop-rock musical following Holly and her friends on a quest to find her orthodontist and get her braces off during the apocalypse.
Attending Catholic high school as a teenage girl in the early 2000s is Moira’s perfect recipe for ecstasy. The secret ingredient? A dead body. And she can’t wait to eat.
A struggling, first-generation college student named Leti considers becoming a party clown to pay her bills. But before she does that, she has to meet her clown pimp.
Loosely based on "As You Like It," "If You Want" tells the story of best high school friends Rosa, Celia, and Stone, who stumble upon their Arden, a fantastical green world where they find themselves free, loved, and full of joie de vivre. But can they stay in this world forever?
The seniors of the Ruby Valley High School Jaguars Marching Band, victims of an elementary school shooting in 2006, navigate life after traumatic adolescence. Written by Mehrnaz Tiv and directed by Sabina Sethi Unni, This group dromedy explores being a band kid geek and trauma and gun violence in America.
When best friends, Sam and Kiki, embark from Texas on the lesbian road trip of their dreams, shenanigans and insecurities threaten their chances of reaching New England liberal arts paradise.
Set in Vermont in 1991, 25-year-old famous linguist Nicolet Diana is trapped in her apartment on house arrest for a crime she didn't commit.
A woman explodes, splattering her parts all over Hollywood. Her ghost discovers her vulva (a sassy vape-smoking muppet named Carol) on an IN-N-OUT sign who helps her understand why…
What do you believe in next when the Wizard is just a bald man behind a curtain?
A dark, queer love story told through the tangling of bodies, classes, and species, Spew’s Little Baby examines desire and its power to spark life, unleash decay… or both.
