Review: More than Just Kids: "Lobster" Lands with a Splash at The Tank
Lobster Written by Kallan Dana Directed by Hanna Yurfest Presented by Needy Lover and The Tank at The Tank 312 West 36th Street, Manhattan, NYC April 25–May 17, 2025 Coco McNeil, Cricket Brown, Felix Teich, and Sarina Freda in The Tank's 2025 production of Lobster . Photo by Maria Baranova Art, adolescence, and portable classrooms collide in Lobster , Kallan Dana’s striking coming-of-age play, currently running at The Tank. Both a play of young artistic awakening and a memory play, Lobster is by turns hilarious, raw, and heartbreaking. At its center is Nora (Cricket Brown), a high school student obsessed with creating something real. She rather boldly stages a student production of Cowboy Mouth —the 1971 one-act by Patti Smith and Sam Shepard—in a disused portable classroom, hoping to transcend the pedestrian confines of high school theatre. Next door, Beauty and the Beast rehearses, starring her sometimes-girlfriend Imogen (Annie Fang) as Belle. But in the portable, Nora tells...