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It’s the Serials Summer Cycle again! By popular demand, the reurning shows are the Beatles-adjacent Baby, It’s You [episode 3] by Sarah Jae Leiber, the Odyssey-adjacent The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown [episode 6] by A.J. Ditty and the Tropical Reality Show-adjacent chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s going to be sooo great) [episode 2] written by Jack Ventimilla. They’ll be up against by two new pilot episodes written by Leah Plante-Wiener and Georgia Wright in the first week! The winners of that week will face off against pilots by Serena Norr and the writing team of Phil Jamesson & Jeremy Kaplowitz in our second weekend of new play hijinks!

Join us July 17-19 and July 31-August 2 at The Tank and vote for your three favorite plays to return for another episode !

Here’s a quick little recap of our Spring Fling SERIALS Cycle 16. It was a doozy: full of upsets, continuing favorites, and exciting new storylines!

Last cycle’s double pilot upset was repeated in the first week as Baby, It’s You by Sarah Jae Leiber and Cody Hom’s Double Double displaced The Good, The Bad and the Undead and Flared Base, both on their episode 2. We were sad to see Kenjiro Lee’s zombie-infused Western reinterred and Ben Schrager’s medical drama by way of putting things up your rectum discharged but happy as always to have pilots come back! This Cycle also saw the light of Paige Esterly’s Everything I Know I Learned from The Simpsons pilot episode burn intensely but briefly across the SERIALS firmament only to disappear beyond the horizon… or Burbank, CA. Gone but not forgotten!

Baby, It’s You proved to have staying power and will continue into next Cycle following the mad adventures of a group of Beatles super-fans as they try to track down those Lovable Lads from Liverpool. Evelyn, a 1960s coed has particular designs on Paul: she needs him to get her pregnant. To be fair, he did tell her he was the only one who could do it–in song–when he visited her in a dream in her dorm room!

Double Double, the tale of three witchy sisters banding together to take over the family potion business, itself went down after just two episodes. Man, that second episode is so hard to land! In its place and continuing into next Cycle is current holder of the very-long-titled-Serial award: chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s gonna be sooo great) by SERIALS newcomer Jack Ventimilia. Our heroines are on a journey to test their bond– on national television, of course!

The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown by A.J. Ditty continued its gut-busting run with episode 4 & 5 which saw our wily swashbuckling clowns face off against cannibals, sirens, ex-girlfriends, mutant meth-addicted flying pig-men and Klops Corps Founder/CEO Sydon Klops. They even visited Florida…erm, I mean, Mime Country. We’ll follow them into our July-August Cycle as they track down a lost soul in Hell… Michigan… Hell, MI. Will Bungo ever make it home?

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Welcome Back you SERIALS stans! Introducing Serials Summer Cycle 2025! With another double pilot upset; The chosen (by you, the audience!) three returning plays are The Good, The Bad, And The Undead [episode 2] written by Kenjiro Lee, The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown written by A.J. Ditty and Flared Base [episode 2] written by Ben Schrager. They’ll be joined by two new pilot episodes written by Sarah Jae Leiber and Cody Hom!

Join us May 1st- May 3rd at The Tank and vote for your three favorite plays to return for another episode May 15th- May 17th! 

Our next Cycle (number 15 since the return) will take place at The Tank at the end of this month and over Valentine’s Weekend in February.

Last cycle ended in a major upset with two new shows taking the top spots: The Adventures of Bungo Calamity: Apocalypse Clown penned by SERIALS old-timer AJ Ditty (B.B.’s Inferno) and Sybil Creepe’s House of Mysteries by our belovèd erstwhile performer Laurel Andersen. These return in week 1 alongside the unstoppable Reggaeton juggernaut Watagatapitusberry by Karen Marulanda. We’ll have two more highly competitive pilots entering the fray, one by longtime favorite SERIALS writer Paige Esterly (Connie Lingus) and another by young upstart Grace Tomblin Marca. All in Week 1!

And in Week 2 we’ll see two new pilots including the eagerly-awaited return of champion Kenjiro Lee (Egg Quest) to the Serials stage (puppets? probably!) along with a blast from the way past– Ben Schrager on the keyboard putting up some Old School Serialized Magic for your viewing pleasure.

This cycle also sees the return of past favorite directors BUBECK and Alex Church-Gonzales as well as the versatilely-talented SMJ. Serials regulars like Will Vonada, Marx, and Nate Netzley will mix it up with old guard Serials directors like Tom Costello and Kristan Seemel– do these old dudes still have what it takes to put a show up in 6 hours? We’ll find out! And some brand new blood is always a welcome addition to the nearly instant theater fuss: A.G. Levy will show us her take on Serialized Theater, and we can’t wait to see what new tricks new kid Sarah Shapiro has in store for us.

The stage will be full of Serials Favorites including April Tuiolosega, Zavier Aujay-Barnhart, Sarah Alice Shull, Jem Palmieri, Marx, Nathaniel Stornelli, Maddie Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Emmie D’Amico, Natalia Mar Urzua, Hunter Levi Rothstein, Andie Fuentes, Stephanie Orta-Vazquez, Maddie Ryan, Christine Pollnow, Emily Oliveira, Jen Jarnagin, Eric Berger, Georgia Kate Cohen, Nicholas Louis Turturro, Macy Lanceta, Sanjna Narayan, Nikki Cannon, and Max Bowen. AND the acting return after a brief hiatus of our tireless hosts Elizabeth Spindler and Michael Ortiz (glad to have you back on stage, buddies)!

New faces in the performance ensemble will include Henri Brusasco, Ashley Renée Hurd, Jennifer Soraya Rose, Marina Fess, Josh Bloom, and Kristin KP Sgarro. Can’t wait to see what they’ll be putting down!

Buy your tickets on The Tank’s website (button below). Shows are:
Week 1 — 1/30 @ 7:00pm, 1/31 @ 9:30pm, 2/1 @ 9:30pm
Week 2 — 2/13 @ 7:00pm, 2/14 @ 9:30pm, 2/15 @ 9:30pm

All performances take place at The Tank 98, 312 West 36th Street, First Floor, in Manhattan, NYC. Livestream is available through the same ticket link! As always, each weekend is a completely different set of shows with brand new writing, directing and acting so come at least twice!

Join us after the show for Serials Saloon in The Tank lobby and hatch a plan for your next great theater adventure with our talented artists. And we’ll see you in the Spring for another two week Cycle (details soon)!