News: The Late Night Radio Fest, a Weekend of Radio Plays by Drew Pisarra, at The Tank on June 19-20

As part of The Tank’s PrideFest 2026, The Late Night Radio Fest invites you to two listening parties of highly acclaimed radio plays with decidedly queer subplots. Friday is a night of suspense: Drew Pisarra’s The Strange Case of Nick M. concerns a podcaster 
who stumbles upon recordings of some questionable medical experiments conducted on a concert pianist with a memory disorder. Saturday night is pure comedy as Pisarra’s Price in Purgatory follows the late, great, camp horror icon Vincent Price as he goes on a Dantesque journey with a lookalike spirit guide. Both shows are pre-recorded. Strictly audio. Eye masks provided.

Oregon ArtsWatch said of The Strange Case of Nick M.: "Pisarra & company keep things playful, speculative, entertaining, tickling the audience around the edges of consciousness." And Arts Independent said of Price in Purgatory: "The play is both hysterically funny and intensely thought-provoking...."




Drew Pisarra is the author of the plays Tea Towels (Theater for the New City, 2024) and Click (The Tank, 2023) as well as a pair of experimental theater works with writer-director Jerry Mouawad: My Bedroom Is an Installation (Imago Theatre, 2023) and Voiceover (Imago Theatre, 2022). His streamlined adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome premiered at Imago Theatre in 2025.

A grantee of Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, he was also a participating poet in A Gathering of the Tribes two-day reading marathon at The Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept.

The Strange Case of Nick M. cast includes Sean Doran, Stephanie Woods, and Danny Gray, along with Nancy Campbell and Vanessa Hopkins. Sound design is by Myrrh Larsen, and direction is by 
Jerry Mouawad.

The Price in Purgatory cast includes Mike Pinney, Jmar Reid, and Sai Thibodeau Bhattacharya.

Direction and sound design is by Douglas Wagner.

The schedule for the show is:

● The Strange Case of Nick M. - Fri., Jun 19 at 9:30pm

● Price in Purgatory - Sat., Jun. 20 at 9:30pm

Both performances are at The Tank NYC, 312 W 36th St., NYC, NY.

Tickets are $10/$15/$20 and are available by clicking here.


The Strange Case of Nick M. was initially made possible by a grant from the Oregon Cultural

Trust. Rated PG for language and sexual content.


Price in Purgatory was initially financed in part by public funds from the NYC Dept. of Cultural

Affairs, the NYC Council, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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