Hope for Off-Off-Broadway: How The Tank Is Defying the Odds [Video]

Rumors of the death of off-off-Broadway have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (the organizing entity, such that there is one, of off-off-Broadway companies) will tell you it has more members than it did twenty years ago. However, there is no doubt that things feel dire. We’ve lost dedicated venues, hard-fought pay battles have led to smaller cast sizes, and places are presenting less. But there is hope out there and some of that hope comes from The Tank, an off-off-Broadway house that is still hosting 350-400 distinct works per year. In an age when many well-known theater companies are operating in a deficit, The Tank is consistently in the black. And Tank Artistic Director Meghan Finn is now trying to use The Tank model to help other venues through a recently launched initiative called RE/VENUE NYC.

“The goal is to have that energy where you have …