Our reviews from The Tank.
Falls for Jodie is an intense, intimate play set entirely in a hotel room, featuring strong performances by Boone Sommers and Harry Thornton. The evolving relationship between the characters explores themes of love, obsession, and loneliness with a simple but effective stage design. This immersive experience offers a powerful look at the emotional depths driving the characters, making it a compelling watch at The Tank.
*Very Blue Light* explores acceptance and trans rights with strong performances from Dom Martello and the cast. A standout alien-search sequence and clever lighting added memorable moments. But the static staging and long speeches sometimes kept us more like listeners than viewers, leaving us wanting more connection and everyday life.
Lunaticus introduces a compelling story about epilepsy and missing time through Danielle Allen's one-woman monologue, blending humor with unsettling experiences. The opening's inventive use of sound and light creates a strong atmospheric start, though much of the performance settles into straightforward storytelling. It's a promising work in progress with a script and story that invite curiosity about its future stage potential.
Honor Shmonor starts as a brilliantly silly medieval comedy before revealing something much sharper underneath. Packed with sword fights, physical comedy, and wonderfully over-the-top performances, it delivers plenty of laughs while taking aim at prejudice, power, and blind obedience. Smart, funny, and thought-provoking, it's the kind of show that keeps you smiling and leaves you thinking.
What a World! What a World! throws classic Hollywood, movement, drag, and meta-theatre into one inventive mix, creating a show that's always full of surprises. Queen-Tiye Akamefula and Annie Hoeg lead with great chemistry and commitment, while the creative staging keeps everything fresh. It doesn't all come together perfectly, but its imagination and willingness to take risks make it a fun and memorable watch.
Love Story is a tender, actor-led piece that blends humor and grief with quiet precision. Framed as a rehearsal that becomes something more, it explores memory, loss, and connection with honesty and warmth. Simple in staging but rich in emotion, it builds into a shared experience that feels intimate, human, and deeply affecting.
The Mall The Mall The Mall turns early-2000s mall culture into a gleefully absurd adventure. Packed with Buffy references, Pokémon dance breaks, and video-game style battles, this energetic comedy follows a group of teens on a quest through their local mall. Nostalgic, playful, and full of pop-culture chaos, it’s a fun tribute to the social universe of teenage malls.
Joyful, hilarious, and deeply heartfelt, A Drag is Born charts one performer’s journey toward self-expression through drag. Combining mime, music, comedy, and transformation, the show celebrates identity with warmth and wit. It’s bright, loving, and unapologetically fabulous, a feel-good celebration of becoming who you are.