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The Tank is a non-profit space for performing arts emphasizing new work by emerging performers, designers, writers, directors and producers.

Improvodox

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 9:30pm
Mon, 01/11/2010 - 9:30pm
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 9:30pm
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 9:30pm
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:30pm
Mon, 02/15/2010 - 9:30pm
$8

Improvodox is a non-denominational, Jewish, Improvisational and Sketch Comedy group that explores both Jewish and secular themes in the tradition of Chicago-style longform improv.

Improvodox has performed in a variety of settings in the New York metropolitan area since 2006 -- we have made people laugh in black box theaters, synagogues, nursing homes, and even birthday parties!

Improvodox is: Evi Simons, Mordy Lahaskey, Dovid Schwartz, Marc Spear, Josh Erich and Andrea Steiner

Directed by: Roy Koshy

http://www.improvodox.com

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/93270

Take Two

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 6:00pm
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 6:00pm
$8

A monthly event pairing theater and film, both past and present, across cultures.

The 2nd Tuesday of each month, TAKE TWO begins with a short piece and is followed... by something full-length. If we screen a short film, we follow with a full-length play; if we read a short play, it is followed by a feature-length film.

Both the play and film have a connecting socio-political theme, which has in the past ranged from the psychological trauma of war, to the divide between first- and second-generation immigrants, to the fine line between zeal and zealotry.

Deep discussions, debates, drinking and dancing are encouraged during intermission and after the event.

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Presented by Direct Arts

The Reunion

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 7:00pm
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 7:00pm
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 3:00pm
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 7:00pm
Sun, 02/07/2010 - 3:00pm
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 7:00pm
Thu, 02/11/2010 - 7:00pm
Fri, 02/12/2010 - 7:00pm
Sat, 02/13/2010 - 3:00pm
Sat, 02/13/2010 - 7:00pm
Sun, 02/14/2010 - 3:00pm
$15

James Marentic’s The Reunion: Miles, Bird and Trane follows the lives and work of Miles Davis, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and John Coltrane. The play details a fantasy reunion concert where these jazz icons explore the nature of their creativity as they confront their own and each other's demons. Directed by Chuck Patterson, Reunion… features Michael Wright, Marcus Naylor*, Stacey Dotson* and Ellen Martin.

Presale tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96698

*Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association.

South Pathetic

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 7:30pm

A comic chronicle of stand-up comedian JIM DAVID's misadventures in directing A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE for a community theater in a small southern town.

MacGuffin

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 01/13/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 01/20/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 9:30pm
Wed, 02/17/2010 - 9:30pm
$6

MaGuffin Comedy, because sometimes you just need to be like "What was that?"

. . . in a good way.

True to its name, MACGUFFIN, which is a term used to describe an event, character, or object that motivates the scene forward but isn’t what the scene is about, is one step ahead of the audience’s expectations. MacGuffin members have studied with New York’s finest improv theatres including The Upright Citizens Brigade, Gotham City Improv, and The PIT. Come see for yourself what people have been raving about for centuries and what Alfred Hitchcock once called, "brilliant, astounding, and my f****ng word"!

MacGuffin is Nash Bennett, Nick Carrillo, Patty Devery, Josh Hurley, Brandon McTavish, and Tracy Mull.

www.macguffincomedy.com

Chocolateboy CD Release Party featuring Wombats in Combat and Field Theory

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 7:30pm
$5