About the Show

The Tank presents an absurd episodic comedy about a 'Real World'-style reality show, featuring a cast comprised of characters Meryl Streep played in various movies.

This is the tale of nine characters once played by Meryl Streep, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped. The characters in 'STREEPSHOW!' have no knowledge of the actress Meryl Streep and think of themselves as real people with tragic biographies. But when the winner of 'STREEPSHOW!' is promised the opportunity to rewrite her sad story, it's every Streep for her exquisitely poised self. This is theater in reality TV drag, actors in Meryl drag, and America's pop-music canon in cabaret drag. There are four episodes in all, presented in two separate performances (installments 1 and 2, and 3 and 4).

Critic Reviews (1)

“Built on a concept that could have made for an ace sketch but instead takes up nearly five derrière-numbing hours…The evening starts off promisingly, if a bit shambolically…A lot of time is taken up by in-jokes about the movies. Songs spoofing well-known tunes eat more precious minutes…This might make Andrew Neisler’s production, for the Tank, sound like a fun evening in the East Village, which is when I need to remind you that...it goes on for hours."
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