The Tank

Johnny G. Lloyd's play about two longtime best friends with the same birthday—but from different races and classes—had its Columbia thesis-project production in 2022 as part of the MFA program's New Plays Festival (the same year that Second Stages premiered Lloyd's Patience). Now it returns for a longer run at the Tank, directed once again by Will Steinberger. Portland Thomas and Justin Ahdoot play the central duo, joined by Dana Berger, Anita Castillo-Halvorssen, Omari Chancellor and Remy Germinario.

The Mars One Project, a sketchy Dutch enterprise that raised millions of dollars in the 2010s with talk of establishing a human colony on Mars, is the inspiration for this new play by Heloise Wilson, a mixture of physical theater and projections directed at the Tank by Saki Kawamura. The piece is based in part of interviews with scientists and real participants in the Mars One project; in addition to Wilson herself, the cast includes Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez, Regan Hicks, Gibran García and Katherine Bahena-Benitez.