12.31.2007
NEW YEAR'S EVE

12.30.2007
DARK

12.29.2007
DARK

12.28.2007
DARK

12.27.2007
DARK

12.26.2007
DARK

12.25.2007
CHRISTMAS DAY

12.24.2007
CHRISTMAS EVE

12.23.2007
DARK

12.22.2007
DARK

12.21.2007
DARK

12.20.2007
MOVIE GEEK: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

That clever team behind the critically-acclaimed MOVIE GEEK has thought up a crazy movie trivia game show of their own. An all out MG extravaganza featuring audience contestants competing for fabulous cash and prizes (ok maybe not cash)! Who will win this game that includes challenging rounds such as 'whose famous mustache is that?' and 'name that theme song'? You've seen the show Gothamist named a "Must see!", now grab a drink and enjoy everything else these incredibly talented newcomers have to offer.

Hosted by the hilarious Josh Halloway

12.19.2007
THE 52nd ANNUAL DAVENPORT CLAN YEARLY FAMILY X-MAS SPECTACULAR

The Davenport siblings return in this original, alternative holiday pageant. Join Dickie, Stanley and Violet Davenport as they attempt this eccentric extravaganza for the very first time without their recently (but hilariously) deceased parents. Tap-dancing, pyrotechnics and taxidermic animals together at last in a dark comedy that’ll make even your family seem normal.

Starring
Dickie DiBella, Violet Krumbein & Stanley Richardson

Musical Direction by
Rachel Peters

12.18.2007
THE 52nd ANNUAL DAVENPORT CLAN YEARLY FAMILY X-MAS SPECTACULAR

The Davenport siblings return in this original, alternative holiday pageant. Join Dickie, Stanley and Violet Davenport as they attempt this eccentric extravaganza for the very first time without their recently (but hilariously) deceased parents. Tap-dancing, pyrotechnics and taxidermic animals together at last in a dark comedy that’ll make even your family seem normal.

Starring
Dickie DiBella, Violet Krumbein & Stanley Richardson

Musical Direction by
Rachel Peters

12.17.2007
Anthony Rapp: WITHOUT YOU

An evening of love, loss and the musical RENT

Although his credits include, "A Beautiful Mind," "Dazed and Confused," and "Six Degrees of Separation," Anthony Rapp is best known for creating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson's landmark musical "Rent." Rapp returns to the stage for one night only in this new rock n' roll memoir, freely based on his best selling book Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the musical Rent. This exciting stage show highlights Rapp's matchless talent through music from RENT, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, REM, Radiohead, and original songs from his album, Look Around.

Band
Pete Asisiri - Drummer
Paul Gil - Bass
Dave Matos - Musical Director/Guitars

12.17.2007
Anthony Rapp: WITHOUT YOU

An evening of love, loss and the musical RENT

Although his credits include, "A Beautiful Mind," "Dazed and Confused," and "Six Degrees of Separation," Anthony Rapp is best known for creating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson's landmark musical "Rent." Rapp returns to the stage for one night only in this new rock n' roll memoir, freely based on his best selling book Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the musical Rent. This exciting stage show highlights Rapp's matchless talent through music from RENT, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, REM, Radiohead, and original songs from his album, Look Around.

Band
Pete Asisiri - Drummer
Paul Gil - Bass
Dave Matos - Musical Director/Guitars

12.15.2007
STARSKY + COX: OVER THE HILL AND EVERYWHERE

“Brilliant and sexy”—Vogue

“Wonderfully Dirty”—O, The Oprah Magazine

Stella Starsky + Quinn Cox celebrate the celestial underpinning’s of the holiday season by chronicling their magical realistic life. Astrologers, authors of the bestselling Sextrology, cosmic consultants and modish metaphysicians—the statuesque Starsky and her compact consort Cox will belt out songs, amid witty patter, in signature sophisticated style that is at turns folky, loungey, punky and scroungey.

With Musical Director Billy Hough, Sue Goldberg, Paul Hough, and Jon Fried + Deena Shoshkes (The Cucumbers)

Conceived & Written by Stella Starsky & Quinn Cox

12.14.2007
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HO

An Evening of Old School, R&B, Hip Hop & Healing with Wendy Ho

Blasting straight out the ass of New York City's underground comedy scene, Wendy Ho blurs the lines between music and illness. She will steal your purse, warn you about the dangers of flossing your teeth before oral sex, and demand that “you feather Susan’s Loochey.” All of these subjects and more are elegantly penetrated in, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HO. Expect old school rhymes and one Ho’s own take on healing and self love.

12.14.2007
STARSKY + COX: OVER THE HILL AND EVERYWHERE

“Brilliant and sexy”—Vogue

“Wonderfully Dirty”—O, The Oprah Magazine

Stella Starsky + Quinn Cox celebrate the celestial underpinning’s of the holiday season by chronicling their magical realistic life. Astrologers, authors of the bestselling Sextrology, cosmic consultants and modish metaphysicians—the statuesque Starsky and her compact consort Cox will belt out songs, amid witty patter, in signature sophisticated style that is at turns folky, loungey, punky and scroungey.

With Musical Director Billy Hough, Sue Goldberg, Paul Hough, and Jon Fried + Deena Shoshkes (The Cucumbers)

Conceived & Written by Stella Starsky & Quinn Cox

12.13.2007
Thursdays at Ten: THURSDAYS AT TEN: HAPPY SUNSHINE KUNG FU FLOWER

In the battle to infiltrate the American psyche, how will a group of not-so-good ninjas called Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower stand up to the American Media, Pop Culture and Politics? Digest America’s most dramatic absurdity in this pseudo-like-kinda-socio-political-satire-play-ish-sketch-comedy-esque-not really-almost-like-a-musical-slash-hippopatamus-with-martial-arts-choreography-sex-orgy...dog-show!

Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Music Arranged by Ian Wehrle
Produced in association with Jesse Raynes and Praxis Productions

Featuring
Nicole Alesi
Michael Brusasco
Heath Calvert
Colette Hawley
Brooke Ishibashi
Stephen Sheffer

THURSDAYS AT TEN brings the raw underbelly of New York’s alternative music and comedy scene to the Ars Nova stage. Each week Ars Nova encourages creative risk-taking by showcasing an innovative artist or group.

12.13.2007
STARSKY + COX: OVER THE HILL AND EVERYWHERE

“Brilliant and sexy”—Vogue

“Wonderfully Dirty”—O, The Oprah Magazine

Stella Starsky + Quinn Cox celebrate the celestial underpinning’s of the holiday season by chronicling their magical realistic life. Astrologers, authors of the bestselling Sextrology, cosmic consultants and modish metaphysicians—the statuesque Starsky and her compact consort Cox will belt out songs, amid witty patter, in signature sophisticated style that is at turns folky, loungey, punky and scroungey.

With Musical Director Billy Hough, Sue Goldberg, Paul Hough, and Jon Fried + Deena Shoshkes (The Cucumbers)

Conceived & Written by Stella Starsky & Quinn Cox

12.12.2007
THE ART OF BEING NICK

Follow our charmingly clever anti-hero, Nick Reece as he journeys from the wild plains of the Jewish mafia to the arid desert of Arizona to the dingy, sexy absinthe bars of Berlin. Complemented by Reece's 'gay Henry Rollins meets David Sedaris' stylings, the dulcet tones of Lemuel Wade and the guitar stylings of internationally acclaimed and Grammy-nominated guitarist/songwriter Gary Lucas (co-wrote "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" with Jeff Buckley), THE ART OF BEING NICK is a hilarious travelogue you won't want to miss. www.myspace.com/artofnick

12.11.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

12.10.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

12.09.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

12.08.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

12.07.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

12.06.2007
THE AMAZING TED SHOW!

Named one of the "Ten Best" at the 2007 National Arts Festival in South Africa, The Glass Contraption's THE AMAZING TED SHOW takes you on a wildly funny journey inside the beautifully stupid, chaotic, and poignant world of the clown. With music, tap dancing, attempted acrobatics, falling in love and falling down, plus Ted juggling 56 chain saws, lighting himself on fire, holding his breath for twenty minutes and then turning himself inside out, this is no less than an epic dramedy!

Created by the ensemble Katie Down, Robert Grant, Andy Grotelueschen, Piper Harrell, Catherine Mueller, Justine Williams, and director Virginia Scott.

12.05.2007
THE AMAZING TED SHOW!

Named one of the "Ten Best" at the 2007 National Arts Festival in South Africa, The Glass Contraption's THE AMAZING TED SHOW takes you on a wildly funny journey inside the beautifully stupid, chaotic, and poignant world of the clown. With music, tap dancing, attempted acrobatics, falling in love and falling down, plus Ted juggling 56 chain saws, lighting himself on fire, holding his breath for twenty minutes and then turning himself inside out, this is no less than an epic dramedy!

Created by the ensemble Katie Down, Robert Grant, Andy Grotelueschen, Piper Harrell, Catherine Mueller, Justine Williams, and director Virginia Scott.

12.04.2007
THE AMAZING TED SHOW!

Named one of the "Ten Best" at the 2007 National Arts Festival in South Africa, The Glass Contraption's THE AMAZING TED SHOW takes you on a wildly funny journey inside the beautifully stupid, chaotic, and poignant world of the clown. With music, tap dancing, attempted acrobatics, falling in love and falling down, plus Ted juggling 56 chain saws, lighting himself on fire, holding his breath for twenty minutes and then turning himself inside out, this is no less than an epic dramedy!

Created by the ensemble Katie Down, Robert Grant, Andy Grotelueschen, Piper Harrell, Catherine Mueller, Justine Williams, and director Virginia Scott.

12.03.2007
Out Loud: OUT LOUD: SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE

A lifetime can pass in the sixty miles between a boy's soccer game and his father's new house. For divorced father Ky and his son Denny, California freeways and sticky pleather car seats form the backdrop for the boy's coming of age in this evocative, theatrical new play.

Written by: Dan LeFranc
Directed by: Anne Kauffman

OUT LOUD is Ars Nova's play-reading series dedicated to supporting new work from emerging playwrights. OUT LOUD supports the playwright’s process by selecting leading directors and actors to work on each reading; and meeting with each writer before and after the reading to offer feedback and discuss script development. Each reading proves to be an essential step for playwrights in developing new work.

12.02.2007
THE CITIZENS BAND: The Panic Is On

The Citizens Band, the sexy, ribald musical troupe renowned for their dazzling song and dance performances, brings you THE PANIC IS ON, the latest of the group's critically-acclaimed socio-political productions. Set in a fantastic neverland somewhere between 1918 and 1943, the troupe finds itself confined to a makeshift bomb shelter and forced to make its own bawdy entertainment while they ponder such issues as war, immigration, xenophobia, poverty and their own hopes for political change. The resulting mix of song, dance and elegant aerial ballet is both wildly entertaining and intensely thought-provoking. http://www.thecitizensband.net/

12.01.2007
THE CITIZENS BAND: The Panic Is On

The Citizens Band, the sexy, ribald musical troupe renowned for their
dazzling song and dance performances, brings you THE PANIC IS ON, the
latest of the group's critically-acclaimed socio-political productions.
Set in a fantastic neverland somewhere between 1918 and 1943, the troupe
finds itself confined to a makeshift bomb shelter and forced to make its
own bawdy entertainment while they ponder such issues as war,
immigration, xenophobia, poverty and their own hopes for political
change. The resulting mix of song, dance and elegant aerial ballet is
both wildly entertaining and intensely thought-provoking. http://www.thecitizensband.net/

11.30.2007
THE CITIZENS BAND: The Panic Is On

The Citizens Band, the sexy, ribald musical troupe renowned for their
dazzling song and dance performances, brings you THE PANIC IS ON, the
latest of the group's critically-acclaimed socio-political productions.
Set in a fantastic neverland somewhere between 1918 and 1943, the troupe
finds itself confined to a makeshift bomb shelter and forced to make its
own bawdy entertainment while they ponder such issues as war,
immigration, xenophobia, poverty and their own hopes for political
change. The resulting mix of song, dance and elegant aerial ballet is
both wildly entertaining and intensely thought-provoking. http://www.thecitizensband.net/

11.28.2007
DARK

11.27.2007
PETER NEOFOTIS: CONCORD, VIRGINIA

"A stunningly eloquent collection of interwoven tales and detailed character portraits in the comic grotesque tradition of Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor." —Backstage

Deftly weaving together stories from his novel CONCORD, VIRGINIA, writer-performer Peter Neofotis spins colorful and moving anecdotes of life in one small, Virginia town. With his gift for narrative detail and exuberant performance style, Neofotis pays homage to the oral storytelling traditions of his home state by relaying chapters of his prose from memory.

11.26.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

11.25.2007
DARK

11.24.2007
DARK

11.23.2007
DARK

11.22.2007
THANKSGIVING

11.21.2007
DARK

11.20.2007
OKAY

Becky Yamamoto has been thinking a lot about two things lately: her estranged biological father and the 1955 film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! These competing obsessions are the subject of OKAY, her latest karaoke-musical cum soul-searching comedy extravaganza. With the help of her good friend Adolpho the Chorus Boy, Becky navigates the scatological world of deadbeat dads and dancing cowboys, where there are no easy answers, but odds are good everything's going to turn out okay. Featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the caterwauling vocal stylings of Ms. Yamamoto herself.

Written and performed by Becky Yamamoto, featuring Adolpho Blaire as Adolpho the Chorus Boy
Directed by Travis Chamberlain
Choreography by Adolpho Blaire

11.19.2007
Out Loud: OUT LOUD: SMILE

A fluke fire launches Cassie and her stressed-out pet turtle into New York City apartment limbo. Somewhere between shacking up with the local coffee shop cutie, having freaky visions of a 2,000-year-old saint, and plumbing the self-help wisdom of Virginia Woolf, Cassie wonders if contentment is really all it's cracked up to be, in this unexpected comedy about not being happy.

Written by: Kathryn Walat
Directed by: Lisa Peterson

The event is free but RSVP’s are a must. RSVP at RSVP@arsnovanyc.com

OUT LOUD is a bi-weekly play-reading series dedicated to supporting new work from emerging playwrights. OUT LOUD supports the playwright’s process by selecting leading directors and actors to work on each reading; and meeting with each writer before and after the reading to identify and discuss script issues. Each reading proves to be an essential step for playwrights in developing new work.

11.18.2007
SETH RUDETSKY’S BOOK RELEASE

This book made me laugh out loud. Seth Rudetsky is the funniest man I know. Period. —Kristin Chenoweth

Seth Rudetsky (SIRIUS radio host, currently starring in THE RITZ at Studio 54) celebrates the release of his first novel Broadway Nights, a tale of a judgmental/overly-chatty/Broadway-obsessed pianist who's working on a new Jukebox musical with a cast of neurotics, a two-timing boyfriend, and phenomenally cheap-ass producers!

Join Rudetsky and friends, including Broadway sasstresses Andrea McArdle, Andrea Martin (YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN), Mary Testa (XANADU) and the cast of [TITLE OF SHOW], for readings from the book and of course, some high belting!

A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit The Actors Fund.

11.17.2007
DARK

11.16.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

11.15.2007
Thursdays at Ten: THURSDAYS AT TEN: COLETTE HAWLEY in THE SHUSHIE BUSH

The hilarious and irreverent Colette Hawley brings her comedy/variety show back to Ars Nova with special guest comic Kurt Metzger. With favorite segments like Box of Sadness and Porno Corner, SHUSHIE-BUSH fills the space with sharply clever parodies and wince-worthy anecdotes. Most importantly, she reminds us that there is no “too far” when nothing is off-limits.

THURSDAYS AT TEN brings the raw underbelly of New York’s alternative music and comedy scene to the Ars Nova stage. Each week Ars Nova encourages creative risk-taking by showcasing an innovative artist or group.

11.15.2007
WANDERLUST

After more than a decade of temping, both at work and in relationships, Martin Dockery embarks on a solo journey deep into West Africa and across the Sahara, where he demands an Epiphany. Any Epiphany. Some proof that though we may be temporary, we're more than mere temps. Comic, affecting and startlingly honest, WANDERLUST is one man’s quest for the perfect meaningful story. Or at the very least, something to take his mind off his ex-girlfriend.

11.14.2007
TIM MINCHIN

"Minchin plays like an angel, sings like a rock star, and has a devil sense of humor!" —The Scotsman

Tim Minchin’s superb musicality and dark, wickedly funny style combine to push the limits of good taste. Since launching his piano-driven, pop-comedic cabaret stylings onto the scene at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Perrier Comedy Award - Best Newcomer), the Australian-born Minchin has played celebrated venues around the world. Fresh from earning the title of 2007 Best Alternative Comedian at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Minchin will make his New York debut at Ars Nova for 3 nights only!
Tim on MySpace | Tim's Site

11.13.2007
TIM MINCHIN

"Minchin plays like an angel, sings like a rock star, and has a devil sense of humor!” —The Scotsman

Tim Minchin’s superb musicality and dark, wickedly funny style combine to push the limits of good taste. Since launching his piano-driven, pop-comedic cabaret stylings onto the scene at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Perrier Comedy Award - Best Newcomer), the Australian-born Minchin has played celebrated venues around the world. Fresh from earning the title of 2007 Best Alternative Comedian at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Minchin will make his New York debut at Ars Nova for 3 nights only! www.timminchin.com

11.12.2007
TIM MINCHIN

"Minchin plays like an angel, sings like a rock star, and has a devil sense of humor!” —The Scotsman

Tim Minchin’s superb musicality and dark, wickedly funny style combine to push the limits of good taste. Since launching his piano-driven, pop-comedic cabaret stylings onto the scene at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Perrier Comedy Award - Best Newcomer), the Australian-born Minchin has played celebrated venues around the world. Fresh from earning the title of 2007 Best Alternative Comedian at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Minchin will make his New York debut at Ars Nova for 3 nights only! www.timminchin.com

11.08.2007
Thursdays at Ten: THURSDAYS AT TEN: KASPER HAUSER’S SKYMAUL

An event of magnitude! —Time Out New York

Acclaimed sketch comedy artists Kasper Hauser draw from the rich alternate universe of their catalog parody, SkyMaul (St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books) to bring you a hot night of live comedy where new items like the "iPod Shredder", "Reality Canceling Headphones" and "Get-Out-of-Cult Free Card" vie for your disposable income! www.kasperhauser.com

11.05.2007
Uncharted: UNCHARTED: THE MUSIC OF ALLEN, ALTER AND NEWMAN

GEEKS, FREAKS AND GOOD OL' BOYS

Wondering why that scratched up old record of 42nd STREET doesn’t hit the spot the way it used to? Emerging musical theatre artists and collaborators Gaby Alter, Mark Allen and Tommy Newman present songs from three brand-spanking new musicals guaranteed to get your heart started. The trio will share from their pop-rock score, 29; their country-rock breakout, TINYARD HILL; and their upcoming high school marching band musical. GEEKS, FREAKS AND GOOD OL' BOYS promises to be an evening of straight-up, southern-fried, rockified goodness!

UNCHARTED blasts through industry blockades, providing a forum for burgeoning singer/songwriters to perform their original music in front of a live audience. Focusing on emerging talents who have yet to break the Billboard 100, this series sets out to cover a wide range of styles while providing music lovers and industry taste-makers an introduction to exciting new music.

11.03.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Renowned as a psychic by heads of state, A-list stars, members of the mob and former skeptics alike, Pattie Canova's thrilling new show explores our need to answer life's big questions, our growing fascination with the paranormal, and the difference between psychics and psychotics! Throughout this dynamic evening, Canova uses her unique, no-nonsense approach and impromptu audience tarot card readings to reveal that we are all ultimately asking the same question: "Am I okay?". Skeptics beware - she may make a believer out of you yet!

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

11.02.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Renowned as a psychic by heads of state, A-list stars, members of the mob and former skeptics alike, Pattie Canova's thrilling new show explores our need to answer life's big questions, our growing fascination with the paranormal, and the difference between psychics and psychotics! Throughout this dynamic evening, Canova uses her unique, no-nonsense approach and impromptu audience tarot card readings to reveal that we are all ultimately asking the same question: "Am I okay?". Skeptics beware - she may make a believer out of you yet!

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

11.01.2007
Thursdays at Ten: THURSDAYS AT TEN: HAPPY SUNSHINE KUNG FU FLOWER

In the battle to infiltrate the American psyche, how will a group of not-so-good ninjas called Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower stand up to the American Media, Pop Culture and Politics? Digest America’s most dramatic absurdity in this pseudo-like-kinda-socio-political-satire-play-ish-sketch-comedy-esque-not really-almost-like-a-musical-slash-hippopatamus-with-martial-arts-choreography-sex-orgy...dog-show!

Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Music Arranged by Ian Wehrle
Produced in association with Jesse Raynes and Praxis Productions

Featuring
Nicole Alesi
Heath Calvert
Colette Hawley
Brooke Ishibashi
Vincent Madero
Stephen Reyes
Stephen Sheffer

Also Playing: Nov. 29th and Dec. 13th @ 10pm

THURSDAYS AT TEN brings the raw underbelly of New York’s alternative music and comedy scene to the Ars Nova stage. Each week Ars Nova encourages creative risk-taking by showcasing an innovative artist or group.

11.01.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Renowned as a psychic by heads of state, A-list stars, members of the mob and former skeptics alike, Pattie Canova's thrilling new show explores our need to answer life's big questions, our growing fascination with the paranormal, and the difference between psychics and psychotics! Throughout this dynamic evening, Canova uses her unique, no-nonsense approach and impromptu audience tarot card readings to reveal that we are all ultimately asking the same question: "Am I okay?". Skeptics beware - she may make a believer out of you yet!

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.31.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Renowned as a psychic by heads of state, A-list stars, members of the mob and former skeptics alike, Pattie Canova's thrilling new show explores our need to answer life's big questions, our growing fascination with the paranormal, and the difference between psychics and psychotics! Throughout this dynamic evening, Canova uses her unique, no-nonsense approach and impromptu audience tarot card readings to reveal that we are all ultimately asking the same question: "Am I okay?". Skeptics beware - she may make a believer out of you yet!

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.30.2007
SHOCKWAVE: THE HALLOWEEN MIXTAPE

Straight from the hip-hop sensation Freestyle Love Supreme, human beatbox extraordinaire Shockwave fronts his own evening of seamless music and comedy packed with a line-up of the hottest special guests in town. THE HALLOWEEN MIXTAPE brings you hip-hop, rock and roll, indie-pop, and even a little blues through the trick-or-treat travels of a beatboxer. Special guests include members of Freestyle Love Supreme, Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner (I EAT PANDAS), Livia Scott, Cock Lorge, Arthur Lewis, Jon Braman, Kid Lucky, Mindy Raf (as Leibya Rogers) ) ERIN AND HER CELLO, THE ROB AND MARK SHOW, Jesse Hartman of LAPTOP and Adira Amram.

10.29.2007
Out Loud: OUT LOUD: OUR ENEMIES: LIVELY SCENES OF LOVE AND COMBAT

Two Arab-American novelists struggle to balance artistic integrity and commercial success as artists in a post-September 11th world. A third puts art aside when his political passions begin to surge. In a country where they are forever being ostracized as outsiders, celebrated as exotic, or accused of selling out to the mainstream, the lines between art and politics begin to blur. A fierce and funny story of shifting loyalties in love and combat.

Written by: Yussef El Guindi
Directed by: Joanna Settle

The event is free but RSVP’s are a must. RSVP at RSVP@arsnovanyc.com

OUT LOUD is a bi-weekly play-reading series dedicated to supporting new work from emerging playwrights. OUT LOUD supports the playwright’s process by selecting leading directors and actors to work on each reading; and meeting with each writer before and after the reading to identify and discuss script issues. Each reading proves to be an essential step for playwrights in developing new work.

10.27.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.26.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.25.2007
Thursdays at Ten: THURSDAYS AT TEN: TASTISKANK

Billed as the rockin' love child of Tenacious D and the Indigo Girls, Sarah Litzsinger and Kate Reinders are TASTISKANK. Recently awarded the Jury Award for "Breakout Performance 2007" at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and voted the "Top 25 Sexiest New Yorkers" by the New York Post, these titillating girls sing about everything from sex to pills to dirty boys!

10.25.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.24.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.22.2007
Uncharted: UNCHARTED: MICHAEL HEITZMAN & ILENE REID

Acclaimed for their recent off Broadway production of BINGO and Grammy nominated for their participation in the Broadway musical SWING, composer/lyricist team Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid will premiere new material along with their collection of witty “trunk songs” that will bring down the house! Joined by a roster of exciting special guests including some of Broadway's finest - Judy McLane, Ann Harada, Everett Bradley, Eric Jordan Young, plus the reunion of the three fabulous BINGO broads Liz McCartney, Liz Larsen and Janet Metz. The evening will be backed by Jeffrey Lee Campbell, Paul Adamy and Ray Marchica of the fabulous Mamma Mia Band.

10.20.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.19.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

10.18.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Movie Geek

MOVIE GEEK, a hilarious multimedia satire, follows the epic rise and fall of “Geek,” a passionate movie-lover who would grow up to become the world's biggest movie nerd and most powerful Hollywood mogul. With all new onstage spoofs of classic movies and on-screen interviews from movie-star friends including Kathleen Turner, Henry Winkler, Lea DeLaria and even Bill Cosby, MOVIE GEEK combines Citizen Kane with a Ken Burns-style documentary and ends up with an award-winning play destined to attract both film and theater lovers alike. Written by Dylan Dawson, directed by Andy Donald, and co-conceived by Dylan Dawson and Andy Donald.

10.18.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.17.2007
Featured Run: Pattie Canova: TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Spiritual Entertainer, Pattie Canova has often been referred to as the psychic who wins over skeptics with her unique, no nonsense, straight up approach. In TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Pattie speaks candidly about the paranormal and the realm of the mystic while humorously illuminating the differences between psychics and psychotics. Through impromptu audience tarot card readings, Pattie will address questions ranging from "Will I ever find love?" and "How will the sex be?" to "What happens after death?" and "Why are we here?"

THIS SHOW CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

10.15.2007
Out Loud: OUT LOUD: THE JESUS YEAR

When New Yorker Max Walsh's thirty-third birthday sends him into spiritual crisis, he takes off on a pilgrimage to Los Angeles. Can a pink-haired bartender with a Magdalene complex and a recovering addict with a fancy car help him find redemption? A story of the desert, the city, and solace.

Written by: Brooke Berman
Directed by: Trip Cullman

CAST:
ZAB - Katherine Waterston
MAX - Eddie Kaye Thomas
REED - Lucas Papaelias
ANNA - Ari Graynor

The event is free but RSVP’s are a must. RSVP at RSVP@arsnovanyc.com

10.07.2007
JUNK IN THE TRUNK: Some Songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda

As Lin-Manuel Miranda prepares to take In the Heights to Broadway in March 2008, he dives into his trunk and serves up songs from his past, present, and future. JUNK IN THE TRUNK will be performed by Miranda and cast members of In the Heights, with internationally renowned beatboxer Shockwave providing tasty beats and a bevy of special guests to be announced. Preseted as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

10.06.2007
PAUL SCOTT GOODMAN: SONGS, STORIES, FRIENDS

Since his splash onto the New York scene with his 1999 musical Bright Lights Big City, Paul Scott Goodman's work has developed a cult following. Join the singer/songwriter and his special guests, who will perform some of his greatest hits from Bright Lights Big City, Rooms (NYMF ’05) and his forthcoming musical, Alive In the World (NYMF ’06 Developmental Series). Music Direction by Jesse Vargas. Directed by Scott Schwartz. Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

10.05.2007
DANIEL REICHARD'S KEGGER

KEGGER is a celebration of music and beer and the stupid things that happen when you put the two together. Fill up at the keg and join Jersey Boy Daniel Reichard and his special guests who will perform classic rock songs all night long. Be prepared to chug beer and dance! (This party is standing room only.) Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

10.04.2007
TODD ALMOND LOVES YOU

Singer-songwriter Todd Almond (People Like Us at NYMF ’05) has quickly emerged as someone to watch on the theater scene. Having performed choice roles such as Charlotte in I Am My Own Wife and the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Almond, joined by surprise guests, takes an evening to present his own material from favorite and upcoming projects. With downtown rockers and theater stars alike flocking to see Mr. Almond—this is a concert you won't want to miss! Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

10.01.2007
JEREMY SCHONFELD: NEW YORK STORYBOOK

A true piano man and storyteller through song, Jeremy Schonfeld (Drift, NYMF ’06) chronicles New York through his richly layered blend of rock-theater fusion. Joined by an invited cast of all-star Broadway talent, Schonfeld will demonstrate why he is quickly becoming a sensation on New York's art-rock scene. Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

09.29.2007
Clear Blue Tuesday

Director Elizabeth Lucas (NYMF: The View From Here, Captain Gravy’s Wavy Navy, The Last Starfigher) presents an evening of songs from the rock movie musical Clear Blue Tuesday, featuring the film’s extraordinary cast of actor-singer-songwriters. Weaving together the stories of eleven New Yorkers whose lives change course after 9/11, Clear Blue Tuesday explores how we examine our lives against the backdrop of catastrophic world events. Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

09.28.2007
MEL & EL: THIS SHOW RHYMES!

If Bette Midler, Carol Burnett and Roz Russell all got drunk and did it—Mel & El would be the result. With memorable songs like "Nice Jewish Boys" and "Fagnet," MEL & EL: THIS SHOW RHYMES has been described as a musical “Kathy & Mo” meets “Sex & the City.” Created and performed by funny femmes Melanie Adelman and Ellie Dvorkin, with music by Patrick Spencer Bodd, Evan Toth, Kimberly Stern, Noah Diamond and Amanda Sisk. Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

09.24.2007
ICONIS AND MADDOCK VARIETY HOUR

Songwriters Joe Iconis (2007 Kleban Award winner) and Robert Maddock invite you to come and take a gander at the gooses they've been cooking at THE ICONIS AND MADDOCK VARIETY HOUR. A spasmodic concert full of your favorite tunes, featuring special celebrity guests, animal acts, ghosts, confetti (definitely), bubbles (probably), full frontal nudity (not really) and an offensive amount of twinkling Christmas Lights. Directed by John Simpkins.

Formerly titled:
HEARKEN TO A PIE HOLE: Tantrams and Tales by Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock

09.23.2007
Chopsticks Larry: A Tribute

Enthusiastic fans Eli Bolin & Sam Forman perform a series of outrageously funny songs by their favorite cult musical theatre composer, "Chopsticks" Larry Mendelbaum (aka Bolin & Forman). Some Mendelbaum classics on this program include: "Blinded By Love" (From Mendelbaum's 1971 musical Gay Oedipus) "Midnight Train To Moscow" (From the infamous R&B Chekhov adaptation, Tree Sistaz!) and "Naked Brunch" (the title song from what critics have called "the most criminally offensive show of all time"). Presented as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival.

09.22.2007
WITHOUT SKIN OR HAIR: The music of Nick Jones and Benjamin Ickies

Nick Jones (ringleader of the pirate puppet rock opera consortium, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang) and Benjamin Ickies (frontman of the 18-piece rock band, Ambitious Orchestra), join forces and combine bands to present new arrangements of their individual work as well as songs from their musical, Little Building. Presented as part of The New York Musical Theatre Festival.

09.20.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Movie Geek

MOVIE GEEK, a hilarious multimedia satire, follows the epic rise and fall of “Geek,” a passionate movie-lover who would grow up to become the world's biggest movie nerd and most powerful Hollywood mogul. With all new onstage spoofs of classic movies and on-screen interviews from movie-star friends including Kathleen Turner, Henry Winkler, Lea DeLaria and even Bill Cosby, MOVIE GEEK combines Citizen Kane with a Ken Burns-style documentary and ends up with an award-winning play destined to attract both film and theater lovers alike. Written by Dylan Dawson, directed by Andy Donald, and co-conceived by Dylan Dawson and Andy Donald.

09.19.2007
MIKE DAISEY: TONGUES WILL WAG

Master monologuist Mike Daisey, called "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by the New York Times, returns to Ars Nova for one night only with his latest monologue, TONGUES WILL WAG, a heartbreaking and hilarious story about the eternal love affair between Man and Dog.

09.16.2007
STEPHEN K. AMOS: ALL OF ME

Supremely warm and wickedly funny, Stephen K. Amos has an ability to charm onlookers right into the palm of his hand. As a black, gay, second-generation immigrant, Amos jokes about subjects close to his heart such as racism, sexuality, and religion. With turbulent personal history, Amos has many sacred cows to slaughter, but his fuel-injected comedic brain ensures that the show is both redemptive and achingly funny.

09.15.2007
LATE NIGHT LIVE

Ronnie Golden (of the UK band Ronnie and the Rex) hosts a rotating line up of comedians and special guests including headliners Stephen K. Amos, Hattie Hayridge and Nick Wilty. Get ready for late night laugh mania!

09.15.2007
HATTIE HAYRIDGE

HATTIE HAYRIDGE pays close attention to the woes of living in the 21st century by examining the differences between the town and the country, whether drive-through McDonald’s should be part of the practical driving test, and why they put a fish gene in tomatoes (“Does it need to breathe underwater?”). Hayridge will also reveal why, with the imminent threat of an avian flu pandemic, she has fearfully thrown away her rubber duck.

09.15.2007
TITLE TATTLE Episode 3

THE CRACKENHEDGE FLASHER
If you're a soap fan or you just like to laugh, TITTLE TATTLE is right up your alley! Nine performers play twenty different characters in these soap operas, written for the stage by celebrated British writer Lesley Clare O'Neill. Each twisted episode, a 50 minute chunk of cartoon-like comedy, is set in the North of England in 1959 - a time when communities meant something, everybody knew everybody and gossip was rife. Three new episodes over three nights!

09.14.2007
LATE NIGHT LIVE

Ronnie Golden (of the UK band Ronnie and the Rex) hosts a rotating line up of comedians and special guests including headliners Stephen K. Amos, Hattie Hayridge and Nick Wilty. Get ready for late night laugh mania!

09.14.2007
STEPHEN K. AMOS: ALL OF ME

Supremely warm and wickedly funny, Stephen K. Amos has an ability to charm onlookers right into the palm of his hand. As a black, gay, second-generation immigrant, Amos jokes about subjects close to his heart such as racism, sexuality, and religion. With turbulent personal history, Amos has many sacred cows to slaughter, but his fuel-injected comedic brain ensures that the show is both redemptive and achingly funny.

09.14.2007
TITLE TATTLE Episode 2

MUCKY MILDRED AND THE MISSING MONEY
If you're a soap fan or you just like to laugh, TITTLE TATTLE is right up your alley! Nine performers play twenty different characters in these soap operas, written for the stage by celebrated British writer Lesley Clare O'Neill. Each twisted episode, a 50 minute chunk of cartoon-like comedy, is set in the North of England in 1959 - a time when communities meant something, everybody knew everybody and gossip was rife. Three new episodes over three nights!

09.13.2007
LATE NIGHT LIVE

Ronnie Golden (of the UK band Ronnie and the Rex) hosts a rotating line up of comedians and special guests including headliners Stephen K. Amos, Hattie Hayridge and Nick Wilty. Get ready for late night laugh mania!

09.13.2007
HATTIE HAYRIDGE

HATTIE HAYRIDGE pays close attention to the woes of living in the 21st century by examining the differences between the town and the country, whether drive-through McDonald’s should be part of the practical driving test, and why they put a fish gene in tomatoes (“Does it need to breathe underwater?”). Hayridge will also reveal why, with the imminent threat of an avian flu pandemic, she has fearfully thrown away her rubber duck.

09.13.2007
TITLE TATTLE Episode 1

IRMA BULLOCK
If you're a soap fan or you just like to laugh, TITTLE TATTLE is right up your alley! Nine performers play twenty different characters in these soap operas, written for the stage by celebrated British writer Lesley Clare O'Neill. Each twisted episode, a 50 minute chunk of cartoon-like comedy, is set in the North of England in 1959 - a time when communities meant something, everybody knew everybody and gossip was rife. Three new episodes over three nights!

09.12.2007
LATE NIGHT LIVE

Ronnie Golden (of the UK band Ronnie and the Rex) hosts a rotating line up of comedians and special guests including headliners Stephen K. Amos, Hattie Hayridge and Nick Wilty. Get ready for late night laugh mania!

09.12.2007
NICK WILTY: INCIDENT PRONE

NICK WILTY chronicles his true adventures and misadventures in the years B.C. (before comedy) in INCIDENT PRONE. The laidback raconteur recounts what led to the impressive tally of 38 jobs across 111 countries. From buying himself out of the British Army post-Faulklands War service to becoming a professional comedian, Nick promises an autobiographical romp of Paraguayan bandits, drink and rug related shenanigans and generally trying to nearly snuff it across 4 continents. Nick effortlessly mines laughs from jaw-dropping ‘it could only happen to me’ horror stories – he’s like the best bar mate you’ve never had.

09.08.2007
Semi Precious Weapons

Imagine David Bowie escaping from a lunatic asylum and parachuting into the middle of an amped-up Led Zeppelin and you are just starting to get the picture of a live Semi Precious Weapons concert. In advance of their highly-anticipated album We Love You, which drops in October, the effervescent band returns to the Ars Nova stage to blow the roof off.

PERFORMERS:
Justin 'Precious' Tranter- Vocals
Aaron Lee Tasjan- Guitar and Backing Vocals
Cole Whittle- Bass - Bass
Dan Crean- Drums

OPENING ACT:
Red Wanting Blue

08.31.2007
Rock Star Karaoke

No bouncing ball. No skipping of disks. This is real Rock n' Roll with a live band backing you up! Choose from a long list of your favorite new and classic rock songs, shoot a cheap shot at the bar and grab the mic. You are the star on Friday nights in August at Ars Nova!

SONG LIST:
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
AC/DC-Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith- Sweet Emotion
Bryan Adams- Summer of 69
Bad Company-Feel Like Making Love
Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian
Bangles- Manic Monday
Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right
Beastie Boys- Girls
Beatles- Come Together
Beatles- Birthday
Beatles- Yellow Submarine
Bel Biv Devoe- Poison
Pat Benatar- Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Blondie- One Way or Another
Bon Jovi- Living on a Prayer
David Bowie- Suffragette City
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
The Cars- Just What I Needed
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash-Cocaine Blues
Cheap Trick- I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick- Surrender
The Clash- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Elvis Costello- Radio, Radio
Elvis Costello- Pump It Up
The Cure- Just Like Heaven
The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry
Def Leopard-Pour Some Sugar on Me
Devo-Whip It
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline
Divinyls- I Touch Myself
Go-Go’s- We Got the Beat
Grease Soundtrack-Summer Lovin’
Green Day- Basket Case
Green Day- Longview
Guns n’ Roses- Sweet Child of Mine
Guns n’ Roses- Welcome to The Jungle
Buddy Holly- That’ll Be the Day
Billy Idol- White Wedding
Joan Jett- I Hate Myself For Loving You
Joan Jett- I Love Rock N’ Roll
Joan Jett and the Runaways- Cherry Bomb
Billy Joel- It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
The Killers- Mr. Brightside
Kinks- You Really Got Me
Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Madonna- Material Girl
John Cougar Mellencamp- Hurts So Good
Alanis Morrisette- You Oughta Know
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty- Stop Dragging my Heart Around
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis- Wonderwall
Pearl Jam- Black
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
Tom Petty- You Don’t Know How it Feels
Pixies- Here Comes Your Man
Poison- Talk Dirty To Me
Police- Roxanne
Radiohead- Creep
Ramones- Beat on the Brat
Ramones- I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones- Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Scandal- The Warrior
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under The Bridge
Rolling Stones- Dead Flowers
Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made for Walking
Rick Springfield- Jesse’s Girl
Stone Temple Pilots- Plush
Sublime- Date Rape
Sublime- Santeria
Sublime- What I Got
Sugar Hill Gang- Rappers Delight
U2- With or Without You
Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Weezer- Buddy Holly
White Stripes- Fell In Love With a Girl
Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

08.30.2007
FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME

Join FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME as they bid farewell to summer with a special thirty minute performance, featuring the usual whirlwhind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. As always, FLS will use audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

08.29.2007
From MOD to G-D

In MOD TO G-D, David Silver tells stories from his days as a counter-cultural talk show host, rock and roll film-maker and mind explorer. Through music and flashes of his films, Silver brings concerts and conversations right to the stage. Co-starring Malcolm X, the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Marley, Sioux medicine chief Henry Crowdog, Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Muddy Waters, Allen Ginsberg, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Roger Waters, Joey Ramone and Ram Dass.

08.27.2007
The Bird and the Two Ton Weight

THE BIRD AND THE TWO TON WEIGHT

Chelsea Shapiro returns home to find her ground and help
her family. Instead, she finds a package on her front stoop.
Sometimes we find strength in the most unlikely of places.

Written by Darcy Fowler
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi

The event is free but RSVP’s are a must. RSVP at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

08.24.2007
Rock Star Karaoke

No bouncing ball. No skipping of disks. This is real Rock n' Roll with a live band backing you up! Choose from a long list of your favorite new and classic rock songs, shoot a cheap shot at the bar and grab the mic. You are the star on Friday nights in August at Ars Nova!

SONG LIST:
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
AC/DC-Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith- Sweet Emotion
Bryan Adams- Summer of 69
Bad Company-Feel Like Making Love
Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian
Bangles- Manic Monday
Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right
Beastie Boys- Girls
Beatles- Come Together
Beatles- Birthday
Beatles- Yellow Submarine
Bel Biv Devoe- Poison
Pat Benatar- Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Blondie- One Way or Another
Bon Jovi- Living on a Prayer
David Bowie- Suffragette City
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
The Cars- Just What I Needed
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash-Cocaine Blues
Cheap Trick- I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick- Surrender
The Clash- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Elvis Costello- Radio, Radio
Elvis Costello- Pump It Up
The Cure- Just Like Heaven
The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry
Def Leopard-Pour Some Sugar on Me
Devo-Whip It
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline
Divinyls- I Touch Myself
Go-Go’s- We Got the Beat
Grease Soundtrack-Summer Lovin’
Green Day- Basket Case
Green Day- Longview
Guns n’ Roses- Sweet Child of Mine
Guns n’ Roses- Welcome to The Jungle
Buddy Holly- That’ll Be the Day
Billy Idol- White Wedding
Joan Jett- I Hate Myself For Loving You
Joan Jett- I Love Rock N’ Roll
Joan Jett and the Runaways- Cherry Bomb
Billy Joel- It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
The Killers- Mr. Brightside
Kinks- You Really Got Me
Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Madonna- Material Girl
John Cougar Mellencamp- Hurts So Good
Alanis Morrisette- You Oughta Know
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty- Stop Dragging my Heart Around
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis- Wonderwall
Pearl Jam- Black
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
Tom Petty- You Don’t Know How it Feels
Pixies- Here Comes Your Man
Poison- Talk Dirty To Me
Police- Roxanne
Radiohead- Creep
Ramones- Beat on the Brat
Ramones- I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones- Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Scandal- The Warrior
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under The Bridge
Rolling Stones- Dead Flowers
Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made for Walking
Rick Springfield- Jesse’s Girl
Stone Temple Pilots- Plush
Sublime- Date Rape
Sublime- Santeria
Sublime- What I Got
Sugar Hill Gang- Rappers Delight
U2- With or Without You
Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Weezer- Buddy Holly
White Stripes- Fell In Love With a Girl
Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

08.18.2007
Uncharted: UNCHARTED: REBECCA HART

With her sultry and complex sound, Rebecca Hart breathes fire into every compelling lyric she sings while playing the hell out of her guitar! Often considered a powerful, funky take on the coffehouse folk singer, Hart has a rocker's soul with something to say and she knows how to get her point across. Add in drama and the occasional power chord and you might just think she is the love child of Suzanne Vega and Steely Dan.
Rebecca Hart (guitar, vocals), Dan Barman (drums), Matt Epstein (bass), Dave Lott (guitar). Danny Dworkin opens.

08.17.2007
Rock Star Karaoke

No bouncing ball. No skipping of disks. This is real Rock n' Roll with a live band backing you up! Choose from a long list of your favorite new and classic rock songs, shoot a cheap shot at the bar and grab the mic. You are the star on Friday nights in August at Ars Nova!

SONG LIST:
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
AC/DC-Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith- Sweet Emotion
Bryan Adams- Summer of 69
Bad Company-Feel Like Making Love
Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian
Bangles- Manic Monday
Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right
Beastie Boys- Girls
Beatles- Come Together
Beatles- Birthday
Beatles- Yellow Submarine
Bel Biv Devoe- Poison
Pat Benatar- Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Blondie- One Way or Another
Bon Jovi- Living on a Prayer
David Bowie- Suffragette City
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
The Cars- Just What I Needed
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash-Cocaine Blues
Cheap Trick- I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick- Surrender
The Clash- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Elvis Costello- Radio, Radio
Elvis Costello- Pump It Up
The Cure- Just Like Heaven
The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry
Def Leopard-Pour Some Sugar on Me
Devo-Whip It
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline
Divinyls- I Touch Myself
Go-Go’s- We Got the Beat
Grease Soundtrack-Summer Lovin’
Green Day- Basket Case
Green Day- Longview
Guns n’ Roses- Sweet Child of Mine
Guns n’ Roses- Welcome to The Jungle
Buddy Holly- That’ll Be the Day
Billy Idol- White Wedding
Joan Jett- I Hate Myself For Loving You
Joan Jett- I Love Rock N’ Roll
Joan Jett and the Runaways- Cherry Bomb
Billy Joel- It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
The Killers- Mr. Brightside
Kinks- You Really Got Me
Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Madonna- Material Girl
John Cougar Mellencamp- Hurts So Good
Alanis Morrisette- You Oughta Know
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty- Stop Dragging my Heart Around
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis- Wonderwall
Pearl Jam- Black
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
Tom Petty- You Don’t Know How it Feels
Pixies- Here Comes Your Man
Poison- Talk Dirty To Me
Police- Roxanne
Radiohead- Creep
Ramones- Beat on the Brat
Ramones- I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones- Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Scandal- The Warrior
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under The Bridge
Rolling Stones- Dead Flowers
Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made for Walking
Rick Springfield- Jesse’s Girl
Stone Temple Pilots- Plush
Sublime- Date Rape
Sublime- Santeria
Sublime- What I Got
Sugar Hill Gang- Rappers Delight
U2- With or Without You
Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Weezer- Buddy Holly
White Stripes- Fell In Love With a Girl
Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

08.15.2007
One-Offs: FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME infuses new blood into the mix and continues to provide non-stop action throughout this whirlwind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. FLS uses audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

Since the audience is different every time, the show is never the same: you have to see it more than once to believe it!

08.13.2007
One-Offs: Journey to Jersey Boys

You’ve heard the story of The Four Seasons, now hear the amazing stories of the five performers who make Frankie Valli and his family come to life eight shows a week. From wild auditions to singing in front of a crowd of 1300, Travis Cloer, Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Naimo, Erica Piccinnini and Sara Schmidt tell the story of their journey to JERSEY BOYS and what has kept them in the hit Broadway show for three years. Musical direction by Jim Abbott (TARZAN) and directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero (Assistant Director JERSEY BOYS).

08.10.2007
Rock Star Karaoke

No bouncing ball. No skipping of disks. This is real Rock n' Roll with a live band backing you up! Choose from a long list of your favorite new and classic rock songs, shoot a cheap shot at the bar and grab the mic. You are the star on Friday nights in August at Ars Nova!

SONG LIST:
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
AC/DC-Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith- Sweet Emotion
Bryan Adams- Summer of 69
Bad Company-Feel Like Making Love
Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian
Bangles- Manic Monday
Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right
Beastie Boys- Girls
Beatles- Come Together
Beatles- Birthday
Beatles- Yellow Submarine
Bel Biv Devoe- Poison
Pat Benatar- Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Blondie- One Way or Another
Bon Jovi- Living on a Prayer
David Bowie- Suffragette City
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
The Cars- Just What I Needed
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash-Cocaine Blues
Cheap Trick- I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick- Surrender
The Clash- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Elvis Costello- Radio, Radio
Elvis Costello- Pump It Up
The Cure- Just Like Heaven
The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry
Def Leopard-Pour Some Sugar on Me
Devo-Whip It
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline
Divinyls- I Touch Myself
Go-Go’s- We Got the Beat
Grease Soundtrack-Summer Lovin’
Green Day- Basket Case
Green Day- Longview
Guns n’ Roses- Sweet Child of Mine
Guns n’ Roses- Welcome to The Jungle
Buddy Holly- That’ll Be the Day
Billy Idol- White Wedding
Joan Jett- I Hate Myself For Loving You
Joan Jett- I Love Rock N’ Roll
Joan Jett and the Runaways- Cherry Bomb
Billy Joel- It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
The Killers- Mr. Brightside
Kinks- You Really Got Me
Cyndi Lauper- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Madonna- Material Girl
John Cougar Mellencamp- Hurts So Good
Alanis Morrisette- You Oughta Know
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty- Stop Dragging my Heart Around
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis- Wonderwall
Pearl Jam- Black
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
Tom Petty- You Don’t Know How it Feels
Pixies- Here Comes Your Man
Poison- Talk Dirty To Me
Police- Roxanne
Radiohead- Creep
Ramones- Beat on the Brat
Ramones- I Wanna Be Sedated
Ramones- Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Scandal- The Warrior
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under The Bridge
Rolling Stones- Dead Flowers
Nancy Sinatra- These Boots Are Made for Walking
Rick Springfield- Jesse’s Girl
Stone Temple Pilots- Plush
Sublime- Date Rape
Sublime- Santeria
Sublime- What I Got
Sugar Hill Gang- Rappers Delight
U2- With or Without You
Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl
Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun
Weezer- Buddy Holly
White Stripes- Fell In Love With a Girl
Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

08.09.2007
Yoga Bitch

Suzanne Morrison brings to life her true-life tales about what can go wrong on the road to enlightenment. While attempting to find her Higher Self during a two-month yoga retreat in Bali, she discovers a strange world where blenders become possessed by spirits, Prada lust is at a fever pitch, and a milkshake can throw a guru into a rage. Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory (21 DOG YEARS), YOGA BITCH takes a hilarious and irreverent look at modern spirituality.

08.07.2007
One-Offs: Elephant Larry

ELEPHANT LARRY journeys on the high seas from the deck of a whaling ship, then launches into Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” all while eating pizza. Geoff Haggerty, Chris Principe, Jeff Solomon, Stefan Lawrence, and Alexander Zalbin (Five Cornell graduates!) perform sketch comedy the New York Times has called "a hilarious mix of deadpan and maniacal" – New York Times.

08.06.2007
Play Group: The Wikipedia Plays

Friday, August 03, 2007 through Monday, August 06, 2007

What is “The Defenestration of Prague”? And how is it seventeen steps removed from “Castration Anxiety”? Wikipedia knows. In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries.

Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group Writers: Mike Batistick, Evan Cabnet, Ron Fitzgerald, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Etan Frankel, Kyle Jarrow, Nick Jones, Barry Levey, Carly Mensch, Elizabeth Meriwether, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Aurin Squire, Adam Szymkowicz and Beau Willimon

Directed by: Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz Von Stuelpnagel

08.05.2007
Play Group: The Wikipedia Plays

Friday, August 03, 2007 through Monday, August 06, 2007

What is “The Defenestration of Prague”? And how is it seventeen steps removed from “Castration Anxiety”? Wikipedia knows. In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries.

Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group Writers: Mike Batistick, Evan Cabnet, Ron Fitzgerald, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Etan Frankel, Kyle Jarrow, Nick Jones, Barry Levey, Carly Mensch, Elizabeth Meriwether, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Aurin Squire, Adam Szymkowicz and Beau Willimon

Directed by: Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz Von Stuelpnagel

08.04.2007
Play Group: The Wikipedia Plays

Friday, August 03, 2007 through Monday, August 06, 2007

What is “The Defenestration of Prague”? And how is it seventeen steps removed from “Castration Anxiety”? Wikipedia knows. In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries.

Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group Writers: Mike Batistick, Evan Cabnet, Ron Fitzgerald, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Etan Frankel, Kyle Jarrow, Nick Jones, Barry Levey, Carly Mensch, Elizabeth Meriwether, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Aurin Squire, Adam Szymkowicz and Beau Willimon

Directed by: Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz Von Stuelpnagel

08.03.2007
Play Group: The Wikipedia Plays

Friday, August 03, 2007 through Monday, August 06, 2007

What is “The Defenestration of Prague”? And how is it seventeen steps removed from “Castration Anxiety”? Wikipedia knows. In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries.

Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group Writers: Mike Batistick, Evan Cabnet, Ron Fitzgerald, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Etan Frankel, Kyle Jarrow, Nick Jones, Barry Levey, Carly Mensch, Elizabeth Meriwether, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Aurin Squire, Adam Szymkowicz and Beau Willimon

Directed by: Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz Von Stuelpnagel

07.26.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Movie Geek

MOVIE GEEK, a hilarious multimedia satire, follows the epic rise and fall of “Geek,” a passionate movie-lover who would grow up to become the world's biggest movie nerd and most powerful Hollywood mogul. With all new onstage spoofs of classic movies and on-screen interviews from movie-star friends including Kathleen Turner, Henry Winkler, Lea DeLaria and even Bill Cosby, MOVIE GEEK combines Citizen Kane with a Ken Burns-style documentary and ends up with an award-winning play destined to attract both film and theater lovers alike. Written by Dylan Dawson, directed by Andy Donald, and co-conceived by Dylan Dawson and Andy Donald.

07.24.2007
Accident

In her new one woman show, ACCIDENT, Amy Ziff (from the pop group BETTY), uses a cast of comedic characters, music, and monologues to explore the meaning of Life and After-Life. This is a great opportunity to preview a brand new piece in progress, from a Helen Hayes nominee, who the New York Times has called "a remarkable caricaturist."

07.23.2007
Accident

In her new one woman show, ACCIDENT, Amy Ziff (from the pop group BETTY), uses a cast of comedic characters, music, and monologues to explore the meaning of Life and After-Life. This is a great opportunity to preview a brand new piece in progress, from a Helen Hayes nominee, who the New York Times has called "a remarkable caricaturist."

07.21.2007
Lost Tricks

Lost Tricks, a piano driven foursome, creates wall-to-wall harmonies and blow out choruses culminating in a wholly fresh, earnest, and memorable sound. Lost Tricks are Trevor Oswalt, Cami Yankwitt, Agustin Frederic, and Dave Smith. Special guests include the comedic antics of The Carlough Brothers and the talented solo singer/songwriter Jesse Lenat.

07.20.2007
A Joe Iconis Mini-Musical Triple Feature

"One of something is fine, but three of something makes me shake my ass with joy."
– Abe Lincoln

A night of three, count ‘em, THREE 25-minute musicals written by Joe Iconis for your viewing and listening pleasure. Three tiny musicals explore such topics as asking Jenny Vecharelli to the prom, how to prepare for a high-stakes dinner party, and the fantastical journey into the mind of a writer. John Simpkins directs a cast of rebels and rogues who will provide laughs, shocks, and ‘tween show palate cleansers that are sure to delight.

07.01.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.30.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.29.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.28.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Freestyle Love Supreme

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME infuses new blood into the mix and continues to provide non-stop action throughout this whirlwind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. FLS uses audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

Since the audience is different every time, the show is never the same: you have to see it more than once to believe it!

06.28.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.27.2007
Maddy Wyatt: Backdive CD Release

Folkified songstress Maddy Wyatt returns to the Ars Nova stage to celebrate the release of her debut album “Backdive”. Complex lyrics along with the remarkable musicianship of Alex Weinstein on electric guitar, Eric Day on bass, Dana Haynes on piano, and Jeff Devine on drums and percussion, create an exciting evening not to be missed!

06.26.2007
The Shushie-Bush

The hilarious and irreverent Colette Hawley brings her comedy/variety show back to Ars Nova with special guest comic Matt McCarthy. With favorite segments like Box of Sadness and Porno Corner, SHUSHIE-BUSH fills the space with sharply clever parodies and wince-worthy anecdotes. Most importantly, she reminds us that there is no “too far” when nothing is off-limits.

06.25.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: Wirehead

When the development of an intracranial implant that increases human intelligence exponentially creates an economic, social and mental chasm between the "haves" and the "have nots", two white-collar workers push their moral limitations to survive in a world that is rapidly leaving them behind.

Written by Matthew Benjamin / Logan Brown.
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell.

The event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

06.23.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.22.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.21.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Freestyle Love Supreme

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME infuses new blood into the mix and continues to provide non-stop action throughout this whirlwind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. FLS uses audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

Since the audience is different every time, the show is never the same: you have to see it more than once to believe it!

06.21.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.17.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.16.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.15.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.14.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Freestyle Love Supreme

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME infuses new blood into the mix and continues to provide non-stop action throughout this whirlwind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. FLS uses audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

Since the audience is different every time, the show is never the same: you have to see it more than once to believe it!

06.14.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.12.2007
Uncharted: Uncharted: Mike Pettry: The Voices in My Head

2007 Jonathan Larson Award winner Mike Pettry presents a night of songs written with various new music theatre writers. Blending classic sounds with alternative pop and punk rock, Mike's music and lyrics will cover topics such as time travel, sexual instruction manuals, Republicans, long distance relationships, God and Nintendo. There will various performers and a band led by Mike on piano and guitar. There will also be a cello. Featured collaborative songwriters include heidi hansen-young, Andrew Hertz, Joel B. New, Gaby Alter, and Tommy Newman. Directed by Claire Karpen.

06.11.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: TEMPO

Written by Mike Batistick
Directed by Anne Kauffman

When a down-on-his-luck pharmaceutical salesman hits rock bottom, he must go to absurd lengths to save his career and marriage. Mike Batistick weaves a humorous and poignant tale of a man pushed to the limit.

This event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com

06.10.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.09.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.08.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.07.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Hosted by Dixie Longate

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.05.2007
Tony Talk 2007

Provocative New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel will plunge into 2007 Tony Award nominations and host a panel discussion with such esteemed theater professionals as Tony nominated Steven Sater (Book Writer, Spring Awakening), Chris Boneau (Boneau/Bryan-Brown) and Adam Feldman (T.O.N.Y.). To complete the evening, Carol Fineman (Scott Sanders Productions) and Jeremy McCarter (NY Magazine) will join in the deliberation of this year’s nominations. Leave your tux at home and come listen firsthand to the rants and raves of theater’s most acclaimed at TONY TALK 2007!

06.04.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Broadway Spotlight: Marya Grandy

Marya Grandy (LES MISERABLES, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL) makes her Ars Nova debut in NICE TALKING TO ME. Grandy will share the stage with her musical alter egos, including 'Rocker Chick', 'R&B Diva' and 'Redneck Woman'. Pick your favorite or collect 'em all! Special Guests to be announced.

Musical Direction by Andrew Byrne and David Nehls
Arrangements by Nehls, David Matos, Paul Ranieri, Paul Davis & Matt Heimer

BROADWAY SPOTLIGHT is a rare opportunity to hear the Broadway stars of tomorrow in an intimate setting. Once a month Ars Nova gives the stage over to a Broadway up-and-comer so that they can branch out from their regularly scheduled nightly performance to try something different.

06.03.2007
Uncharted: DAN LIPTON

Composer Dan Lipton will present an evening of original music and collaborations with Gavin Creel, Celia Kennan-Bolger, Brian d'Arcy James, Sloan Just & David Rossmer. Special guests include Jason Danieley, Martha Plimpton, Clarke Thorell and more to be announced.

06.03.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.02.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

06.01.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.31.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.30.2007
Life in a Marital Institution

First comes love. Then comes marriage counseling. Two-time winner of The Moth's GrandSLAM James Braly returns to Ars Nova with his hilarious dissection of what thirteen couples counselors have called a passionate, bi-polar relationship. With one of New York City's sharpest wits, Braly dives head first into a tale of attraction, repulsion, reproduction, death, and the afterlife. 20 years of monogamy in one terrifying evening.

05.29.2007
Old Springs Pike

OLD SPRINGS PIKE blends the cricket chirp of a suburban slow-fade with the subway scream of metropolitan mayhem. Using four part harmony as a diving board, these early twenty-somethings find themselves in stylistic depths ranging from a fair-paced folk to a rarely restrained roots rock. With an energetic, spontaneous live act, OLD SPRINGS PIKE proves that it's not just a concert, but an event.

05.28.2007
Memorial Day

05.27.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.26.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.25.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.24.2007
Thursdays at Ten: AV LOUNGE

Ars Nova's late-night neo-variety experience is back!

Hosted by Colette Hawley, AUTOMATIC VAUDEVILLE will feature some of New York's hottest comedy, music and variety acts.

This event is free, but reservations are required. Please RSVP to tickets@arsnovanyc.com

05.24.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.23.2007
Life in a Marital Institution

First comes love. Then comes marriage counseling. Two-time winner of The Moth's GrandSLAM James Braly returns to Ars Nova with his hilarious dissection of what thirteen couples counselors have called a passionate, bi-polar relationship. With one of New York City's sharpest wits, Braly dives head first into a tale of attraction, repulsion, reproduction, death, and the afterlife. 20 years of monogamy in one terrifying evening.

05.22.2007
Uncharted: Lauren Pritchard

A 19-year-old singer-songwriter and Tennessee native, Lauren Pritchard boasts talent well beyond her years. She began playing piano at age 9, has performed in a funk band in LA, and currently plays the role of Ilse in the Broadway musical "Spring Awakening." Her Ars Nova performance will surely invoke her biggest influences such as Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, David Gray, and CSNY. Lauren will be accompanied onstage by Duncan Sheik.

05.21.2007
PRIVATE EVENT

05.20.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.19.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.18.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.17.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.16.2007
Life in a Marital Institution

First comes love. Then comes marriage counseling. Two-time winner of The Moth's GrandSLAM James Braly returns to Ars Nova with his hilarious dissection of what thirteen couples counselors have called a passionate, bi-polar relationship. With one of New York City's sharpest wits, Braly dives head first into a tale of attraction, repulsion, reproduction, death, and the afterlife. 20 years of monogamy in one terrifying evening.

05.14.2007
TASTISKANK

Two of Broadway's hottest leading ladies, Sarah Litzsinger and Kate Reinders, shred the term ingenue and reemerge as the hilarious and titillating band TastiSkank. With songs about everything from sex to pills to dirty boys who will remain nameless, TastiSkank is the newborn love child of the Indigo Girls and Tenacious D.

05.14.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: Drip

Written by Christina Anderson
Directed by Liesl Tommy

Brughjefferson is under house arrest while Mae, his grandmother, lies in the hospital suffering from the aftermath of a stroke. Mae's dreams intertwine with Brughjefferson's reality as each hunt for for freedom and forgiveness in this lyrically haunting play.

Featuring Starla Benford, Tinashe Kajase, Joy Lynn Matthews, LeRoy McClain, Erica Peeples and Ron Simons

The event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com

05.13.2007
Broadway Idol

Jaclyn Huberman, this year's Broadway Idol winner (sponsored by the New York Musical Theater Festival) will perform a smashing variety of songs in a shiny new one-woman show directed by Jim Augustine.

05.13.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.12.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.11.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.09.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.08.2007
Broadway Idol

Jaclyn Huberman, this year's Broadway Idol winner (sponsored by the New York Musical Theater Festival) will perform a smashing variety of songs in a shiny new one-woman show directed by Jim Augustine.

05.07.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Broadway Spotlight: Kristin Huffman

Kristin Huffman, of Broadway's COMPANY, presents her brand new one-woman show:

Actorquest, a Funnny Thing Happened on the way to Broadway.

BROADWAY SPOTLIGHT is a rare opportunity to hear the Broadway stars of tomorrow in an intimate setting. Once a month Ars Nova gives the stage over to a Broadway up-and-comer so that they can branch out from their regularly scheduled nightly performance to try something different.

Past BROADWAY SPOTLIGHTS have featured: Shoshana Bean (Hairspray), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Manoel Felciano (Sweeney Todd).

05.06.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.05.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.04.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

05.03.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.30.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: Incendiary

In a town where nightly fires have become routine--a star-crossed love blossoms between the detective who's on the hunt for the arsonist responsible and the cracker jack female firefighter who's suspiciously first at the scene of the crime every time.

By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Kip Fagan

The event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com

04.29.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.28.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.27.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.26.2007
Thursdays at Ten: AV Lounge

As guests of the lounge tonight, you will be treated to rollicking hijinks by the Oh Hello Boys, Seth Herzog, Miss Ruby Valentine, and more! So pull up a barstool and drink the night away with our own quick-witted playboy bunny Colette Hawley and her musical sugar daddy Eli Bolin.

Anything could happen!

04.26.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.25.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.24.2007
Old Springs Pike

OLD SPRINGS PIKE blends the cricket chirp of a suburban slow-fade with the subway scream of metropolitan mayhem. Using four part harmony as a diving board, these early twenty-somethings find themselves in stylistic depths ranging from a fair-paced folk to a rarely restrained roots rock. With an energetic, spontaneous live act, OLD SPRINGS PIKE proves that it's not just a concert, but an event.

04.23.2007
DANIEL ZAITCHIK: Losses and Reunions

Singer/songwriter Daniel Zaitchik brings his rich, dreamy tunes to Ars Nova. Part impressionism, part soul, definitely unique. With the Baleen Choir, Mike Davis, Nathan Tysen and other musical guests! The baleen choir includes: Amber Gray, Monica Hunken, Elin Eggertsdottir, Shannon Fitzgerald, Erika Christensen, Rachel Kornhaber, Sarah Shahinian, Liz Wisan, Michelle Nicklas, Karla Mosley, Adetola Abiade, Alexis Grausz, Madeleine Maby, Sara Montgomery, Rachel Rusch, Jessie Hain, Katherine Mcclain, Katie Binder, Emily Motherwell, Megan Bradley, Mary Guiteras, and Lynne Rosenberg.

04.22.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.21.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.20.2007
Featured Run: Dixie's Tupperware Party

Fast-talking Dixie Longate throws a good ol'fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which will be on sale after the show!

See for yourself why Miss Longate became the top Tupperware saleslady in the country within her first year of selling, and be amazed as she reveals the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products!

Written by Kris Andersson
With Additional Material by Elizabeth Meriwether

Directed by Alex Timbers

04.09.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: Hollywood Nurses

When the secret lives of young nurses collide at Holly View Hospital, forbidden passions erupt into dangerous scandal. An homage to the lesbian pulp novels of the 1950s.

Written by Sheila Head and Peter Michael Marino
Directed by Carl Andress

To RSVP send an email to rsvp@arsnovanyc.com

04.02.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Broadway Spotlight: Mara Davi

She doesn't just belt about the ballet. In her cabaret debut, A Chorus Line's Mara Davi is opening up her music box to share some of her favorite tunes -- old, new and renewed -- that inspire her, express her heart and tell her story.


MARA DAVI can currently be seen in her Broadway debut as Maggie Winslow in A Chorus Line. Before that Mara toured the U.S. and Japan as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. Recently, Mara had the privilege of portraying Princess Buttercup in the workshop of The Princess Bride. Other favorite credits include: Of Thee I Sing (City Center Encores!), Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Wang Center, Boston), Dames a Sea, Baby, Gypsy, George M! and Singin' in the Rain. Mara is online at www.maradavi.com.

04.01.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.31.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.30.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.29.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Thursdays at Ten: Creation Nation

Osama Bin Laden's 50th Birthday Celebration!

Billy Willing and Robin Lord present a 50th Birthday Salute to the legendary Osama Bin Laden! Although largely ignored by our celebrity driven culture, as well as our celebrity driven media and our celebrity driven celebrities, on March 10th of this year, the one and only Osama Bin Laden celebrated the big 5-0! And yes, he's evil, but for God's sake it's the man's birthday! So join the only comedy show in town celebrating the milestone that is Osama Bin Laden's recent 50th Birthday! You might not like his music...but you have to admit he's a survivor!

Written by Billy Eichner
Musical Direction by Eli Bolin with Lee Overtree on Drums
Production Design by Richard Dibella
Choreography by Jennifer Loryn
Directed by Benjamin Salka

03.29.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.28.2007
Private Event

03.27.2007
Private Event

03.26.2007
Out Loud: Out Loud: Connecticut

Written by Kathryn Walat
Directed by Leigh Silverman

The event is free but rsvp's are a must. Rsvp at rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

03.25.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.24.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.23.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.22.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Thursdays at Ten: TastiSkank

Hot off the heels of their award-winning performance at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the titillating gals of Tastiskank come home to Ars Nova!

Two of Broadway's hottest leading ladies, Sarah Litzsinger and Kate Reinders, shred the term ingenue and reemerge as the hilarious band TastiSkank. With songs about everything from sex to pills to dirty boys who will remain nameless, TastiSkank is the newborn love child of the Indigo Girls and Tenacious D.

Hosted by Michael Showalter

03.22.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.21.2007
Featured Run: At Least It's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.20.2007
Jollyship The Whiz-bang

CRABQUISTADOR: SCAVENGER OF GOD - The newest episode from New York City's Pyrate Puppet Rock-Opera Consortium!

Past the prime of his career and life of sin, a pirate captain looks for new avenues to explore. A trip to the Americas leads to his recruitment into a Conquistador "pyramid scheme" converting heathens for cash and prizes. But the gift of Christian Civilization is not given easily . . . In the throes of starvation, tempers flare in the jungle, and considerable sword fighting ensues. Can a pious crab help the captain and Skeevy discover the true meaning of Christmas?

03.19.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Broadway Spotlight: Drew Sarich

Drew Sarich, currently appearing on Broadway in LES MISERABLES, will mix his love of storytelling and melody with his affinity for good, dirty, simple rock music. Imagine Brian Wilson breaking up a bar fight between MC5 and the Stooges! Drew's Spotlight will also include original rock songs from his INTERNATIONAL VICTIM project. He will be joined onstage by wife Ann Mandrella (JACQUES BREL), Eric Svejcar, Steve Gilewski, Brad Carbone and other surprise guests.

Drew left New York for Berlin in 1999 to play the role of Quasimodo in the world premiere of Disney's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, and quickly made Europe his home. He has been seen by European audiences in HAIR, DRACULA, BARBARELLA THE MUSICAL, and HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Other New York credits include LESTAT and JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS.

03.18.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.17.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.16.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.15.2007
Thursdays at Ten: AV Lounge

As guests of the lounge tonight, you will be treated to rollicking hijinks by Jordan Carlos (Colbert Report) , Stuckey and Murray (E!, Fuse), Tastiskank and Varsity Interprative Dance Squad (VIDS). So pull up a barstool and drink the night away with our own quick-witted playboy bunny Colette Hawley and her musical sugar daddy Eli Bolin. Anything could happen!

Drink Specials all nights and $2 shots.

03.15.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.14.2007
Featured Run: At Least It's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.13.2007
Jollyship The Whiz-bang

CRABQUISTADOR: SCAVENGER OF GOD - The newest episode from New York City's Pyrate Puppet Rock-Opera Consortium!

Past the prime of his career and life of sin, a pirate captain looks for new avenues to explore. A trip to the Americas leads to his recruitment into a Conquistador "pyramid scheme" converting heathens for cash and prizes. But the gift of Christian Civilization is not given easily . . . In the throes of starvation, tempers flare in the jungle, and considerable sword fighting ensues. Can a pious crab help the captain and Skeevy discover the true meaning of Christmas?

03.12.2007
Out Loud: All Hail Hurricane Gordo

WRITTEN BY CARLY MENSCH
DIRECTED BY HAL BROOKS

Brothers Chaz and Gordo have been living in paralysis ever since they were abandoned in a strip mall parking lot long ago. But when Chaz decides to take in an undercover runaway, everything goes to hell in a French horn case. A dark and often violent comedy about what it means to be your brother's keeper.

03.11.2007
Movie Geek

"Smart and very creative" - amNew York

"Don't Miss!" - Gothamist

Winner of the 2005 Fringe Award for Outstanding Multimedia Production!

MOVIE GEEK, a hilarious multimedia satire, follows the epic rise and fall of "Geek," a passionate movie-lover who would grow up to become the world's biggest movie nerd and most powerful Hollywood mogul. With onstage spoofs of classic movies and on-screen interviews from movie-star friends including Kathleen Turner, Henry Winkler, Lea DeLaria and even Bill Cosby, MOVIE GEEK combines Citizen Kane with a Ken Burns-style documentary and ends up with an award-winning play destined to attract both film and theater lovers alike.

Written by Dylan Dawson
Directed by Andy Donald
Co-conceived by Dylan Dawson and Andy Donald

03.11.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.10.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.09.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.08.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.07.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Freestyle Love Supreme

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME infuses new blood into the mix and continues to provide non-stop action throughout this whirlwind of music, comedy and freestyle rap. FLS uses audience suggestions to spontaneously combust into musical creations inspired by jazz, improvisational comedy and hip-hop.

Since the audience is different every time, the show is never the same: you have to see it more than once to believe it!

03.06.2007
Uncharted: Electric Fiction

If Frankenstein author Mary Shelly joined a 1950s girl group and performed at an 80's dance party, it might have sounded something like Electric Fiction. Incorporating the musical stylings of bygone eras, their songs are peculiar little fairy tales featuring broken-hearted monsters and pill popping motorcycle mamas that leave you sweaty, dancing and eager for more.

Those with heart, back or neck problems and those under 38 inches tall, rock at your own discretion!

Electric Fiction came together in fall of 2005. Led by the dual vocals of real life high school prom dates, Sandy Cleary and Kevin Townley, the band features guitarist Jimmy Dale, bassist Tobi Parks, and drummer Cara Jeiven. Individually, the members of Electric Fiction have acted in major motion pictures with Uma Thurman, toured the country and performed with indie rock luminaries such as Fugazi, The Gossip, The Tiger Lillies and performance artist Murray Hill.

03.05.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Todd Buonopane

At a very early age, Todd Buonopane began his desperate attempts to win the love and approval of those in his life. Now, he brings his most desperate attempt to the stage of Ars Nova. Join him for a celebration of cheezy musical theatre, over-the-top sensitivity, and hilarious self-mockery!

03.04.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.03.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.02.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

03.01.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

"Loud and crude yet winningly warm!" -The New Yorker

Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), Kenny Mellman (KIKI AND HERB) and Bridget Everett team up for AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a "trashy little show" that makes for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.27.2007
75 Inches

In 75 INCHES, Dick Scanlan juxtaposes his experience as an erstwhile drag queen in the off-Broadway musical PAGEANT against the implications of manhood in his given name. The result is a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking monologue in which Mr. Scanlan challenges the concept of effeminacy and homosexuality, who you have sex with vs. how you behave. Filled with sequins, sex, sophistication, and set against the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic, 75 INCHES gives new meaning the expression size queen.

02.26.2007
75 Inches

In 75 INCHES, Dick Scanlan juxtaposes his experience as an erstwhile drag queen in the off-Broadway musical PAGEANT against the implications of manhood in his given name. The result is a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking monologue in which Mr. Scanlan challenges the concept of effeminacy and homosexuality, who you have sex with vs. how you behave. Filled with sequins, sex, sophistication, and set against the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic, 75 INCHES gives new meaning the expression size queen.

02.25.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.24.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.23.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.22.2007
WITHOUT SKIN OR HAIR: The music of Nick Jones and Benjamin Ickies

Nick Jones (ringleader of the pirate puppet rock opera consortium, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang) and Benjamin Ickies (frontman of the 18-piece rock band, Ambitious Orchestra), join forces and combine bands to present new arrangements of their individual work as well as songs from their musical, Little Building.

02.22.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.20.2007
Shockwave: the (Valentine's) Mixtape, Volume IV

Straight from the hip-hop sensation Freestyle Love Supreme, human beat-box extraordinaire Shockwave fronts his own hilarious evening of music and comedy packed with a line-up of some of the hottest special guests in town. THE MIX TAPE brings you hip-hop, rock and roll, indie-pop, and even a little blues through the travels of a beatboxer.

02.18.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.17.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.16.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.15.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.12.2007
The Becky Show

The Becky Show is a funny, dark musical glimpse at what happens to a woman whose dream of being an artist in New York takes longer to come true than she had planned. It explores the areas of dreams, disappointment, art, family and first love.

02.11.2007
The Becky Show

The Becky Show is a funny, dark musical glimpse at what happens to a woman whose dream of being an artist in New York takes longer to come true than she had planned. It explores the areas of dreams, disappointment, art, family and first love.

02.11.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.10.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.09.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.08.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Automatic Vaudeville

Ars Nova's late-night neo-variety experience is back!

Hosted by Colette Hawley, AUTOMATIC VAUDEVILLE will feature some of New York's hottest comedy, music and variety acts.

With:
Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy
Chelsea Peretti
Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad (VIDS)
And More!

02.08.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.07.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Mary Faber

Taking a break from AVENUE Q, the hilarious Mary Faber joins Ars Nova's Broadway Spotlight family with a night of songs, comedy sketches, special guests, and even fan testimonials from all over the world, via satellite. Well, that last part is a small percent totally true.

Faber will provide highlights from her practically illustrious and bordering on semi-famous year-and-a-half career on and off-Broadway.

Directed by Justin Paul.

Mary Faber currently stars as Kate Monster/Lucy in AVENUE Q on Broadway, and was recently seen as Clea in FLOYD AND CLEA Under the Western Sky at Playwrights Horizons. Other credits include Feeling Electric (Village Theater), Princesses (Goodspeed/Fifth Avenue Theater), and the Actor's Fund Concert of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She studied and performed sketch and improv comedy at The Upright Citizens Brigade and The Second City.

02.06.2007
Langhorne Slim

Charismatic troubadour Langhorne Slim blends old-timey country blues with a punk-rock energy to create his own unique brand of music that refuses to be labeled. With a refusal to be categorized and an ability to wow all kinds of music fans, Langhorne Slim is a sensation who must be seen to be believed.

02.05.2007
Out Loud: Out of the Water

By Brooke Berman
Directed by Trip Cullman

When Polly's unexpected reunion with the stepbrother she hasn't seen since she was a kid turns into a hook-up in the backseat of a rental car in Libertyville, Illinois,
things start to take a turn for the more complex. A dark and funny contemporary odyssey: at least the part about the island.

This reading is free, but reservations are required. To make a reservation call 212-977-1700 or e-mail rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

02.04.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.03.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.02.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

02.02.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Mary Faber

Taking a break from AVENUE Q, the hilarious Mary Faber joins Ars Nova's Broadway Spotlight family with a night of songs, comedy sketches, special guests, and even fan testimonials from all over the world, via satellite. Well, that last part is a small percent totally true.

Faber will provide highlights from her practically illustrious and bordering on semi-famous year-and-a-half career on and off-Broadway.

Directed by Justin Paul.

Mary Faber currently stars as Kate Monster/Lucy in AVENUE Q on Broadway, and was recently seen as Clea in FLOYD AND CLEA Under the Western Sky at Playwrights Horizons. Other credits include Feeling Electric (Village Theater), Princesses (Goodspeed/Fifth Avenue Theater), and the Actor's Fund Concert of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She studied and performed sketch and improv comedy at The Upright Citizens Brigade and The Second City.

01.31.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.30.2007
Tom Shillue: DAD 2.0

Comedian Tom Shillue (Comedy Central Presents: Tom Shillue) has a new daughter at home, and wants to bring her up the right way.

Will he follow the path of his dad, and try to mirror his own conservative upbringing in suburban Massachusetts- or will he try to be more like these touchy-feely, new age, New York fathers he finds himself surrounded by?

Using hilarious stories from the past and present, Tom attempts to chart a third way for his family in This new show, DAD 2.0.

01.29.2007
Out Loud: The Red Beard of Esau

Written by Rachel Shukert
Directed by Alex Timbers

A Neanderthal woman and Cro-Magnon man embark on a passionate love affair at the very dawn of time. But fate, not to mention an assortment of mystics, priestesses, dwarfs, and beautful blonde Californian twins have other things in store for them. Things that could threaten their very existence! Can love survive? Find out in The Red Beard of Esau, the world's first genocidal romantic comedy.

Featuring: Elliotte Crowell, Billy Eichner, Sam Forman, Van Hansis, Julie Lake, Maggie Lauren, Austin Lysy, Reg Veneziano, Taylor Wilcox

This reading is free, but reservations are required. To make a reservation call 212-977-1700 or e-mail rsvp@arsnovanyc.com.

01.28.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.27.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.26.2007
365 Days/365 Plays

On November 13, 2002, Pulitzer-prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are very short, less than a page. Others last forever.

Ars Nova will be producing Week 11 of 365 Days/365 Plays, bringing to life the
seven plays that Suzan Lori-Parks wrote between January 22nd and January 28th.
The performance will feature a cross-section of Ars Nova "regulars" that includes
performers, comedians, writers, directors and musicians. Directed by Shira Milikowsky,
with original music by Daniel Zaitchik.

This event is FREE but reservations are required. Call 212-977-1700 or email rsvp@arsnovanyc.com for tickets.

01.26.2007
365 Days/365 Plays

On November 13, 2002, Pulitzer-prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are very short, less than a page. Others last forever.

Ars Nova will be producing Week 11 of 365 Days/365 Plays, bringing to life the
seven plays that Suzan Lori-Parks wrote between January 22nd and January 28th.
The performance will feature a cross-section of Ars Nova "regulars" that includes
performers, comedians, writers, directors and musicians. Directed by Shira Milikowsky,
with original music by Daniel Zaitchik.

This event is FREE but reservations are required. Call 212-977-1700 or email rsvp@arsnovanyc.com for tickets.

01.25.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.24.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.23.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.22.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.20.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.19.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.18.2007
Thursdays at Ten: Shushie Bush

Straight from Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival and Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, the hilarious and irreverent Colette Hawley brings sharply clever parodies, wince-worthy anecdotes, and deconstruction of the acting in some classic hardcore porno movies.

Colette Hawley's SHUSHIE-BUSH. It's fun to say. It's funnier to watch.

01.18.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.17.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.16.2007
Featured Run: At Least it's Pink

Ars Nova proudly presents AT LEAST IT'S PINK, a trashy little show about a wide-eyed girl from Manhattan, Kansas, who moves to the other, dirtier Manhattan and gets de-sunflowered in this raunchy new musical.

Written by Bridget Everett, Michael Patrick King and Kenny Mellman

Original Music and Lyrics by Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett

Directed by Michael Patrick King

Salacious downtown singer/songwriters Bridget Everett and Obie Award winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) team up with Emmy Award® winner Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") for an outrageously raunchy evening.

Bridget Everett will be making her theatrical debut at Ars Nova after setting the downtown scene ablaze with her fiercely original music concerts. The New York Blade called Bridget Everett, "Lust soaked, off-putting and adorable." Michael Musto adds of Everett, "The big girl is a large talent - picture WYNONNA JUDD meets MELISSA ETHERIDGE via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks."

KENNY MELLMAN's work with Justin Bond in Kiki and Herb has earned him an Obie, a Bessie, a GLAAD Media Award, an HX Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Their off-Broadway show, Kiki and Herb, Coup de Theatre, was directed by Scott Elliot at the Cherry Lane Theater, and they recently completed their Broadway debut in Kiki and Herb Alive on Broadway, directed by themselves. Kiki and Herb have performed at Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall London, the Sydney Opera House, the Bonn Bienalle, the Bowery Ballroom and Knitting Factory, among many other venues. They have also opened for Rufus Wainwright, Le Tigre, the Magnetic Fields and the Scissor Sisters. Mellman has also performed with artist John Kelly in Paved Paradise (portraying Georgia O'Keefe) in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Manchester, UK. He has shared the stage or recorded with artists including Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar), The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and the Three Terrors (Stephin Merritt, LD Beghtol and Dudley Klute). He has performed his solo show, Kenny Mellman Is Grace Jones, in New York, Portland and London, and his show with Neal Medlyn, Kenny Mellman Plus Neal Medlyn Equals R Kelly, in New York and Portland, as part of the TBA Festival at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Recently, he has written the music for That Pesky Rat, a children's musical at the Soho Theatre in London. Kiki and Herb will be touring the United States and the UK in 2007.

MICHAEL PATRICK KING is best known as writer/director/executive producer of the Golden Globe® and Emmy®-winning HBO series "Sex and the City.". For his work on that show, he has received the Emmy® Award for best director as well as numerous nominations from the Writer's Guild and the Director's Guild. King started his career in NYC as a playwright and standup comic. His short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles and at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. He was the artistic director of arcade... a performance space, which he founded in LA, dedicated to launching new and exciting work. Most recently he was the co-creator, writer, director and Executive Producer of the Emmy® nominated HBO series "The Comeback,". starring Lisa Kudrow. He is currently developing a new musical with composer/lyricist Nancy Shayne and writing the Sex and The City movie.

01.08.2007
Broadway Spotlight: Justin Bohon

Justin Bohon takes a break from the Broadway revival of LES MISERABLES to join Ars Nova's Broadway Spotlight family in ALWAYS SOMEONE COOLER, a rocking evening of everything from Ben Folds to Eva Cassidy to Garth Brooks, with a few musical theater tunes and original songs thrown in for good measure. Bohon is joined by an unbelievable group of Broadway performers and a band you have to hear to believe.

Also featuring Tory Ross (THE PRODUCERS), Nikki Daniels (LES MISERABLES), Jarrod Emick, Michael Scott (PIRATE QUEEN), Q Smith (LES MISERABLES)

The Band is Stephen Oremus, Rick Molina, Sean McDaniel, Michael Blanco

Music Direction by Stephen Oremus

JUSTIN BOHON Broadway: OKLAHOMA! (Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Susan Stroman); LES MISERABLES; ALL SHOOK UP; THE PRODUCERS; MISS SAIGON. Tours: SOUTH PACIFIC, PARADE. Regional: THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN', THE BOY FRIEND, GREASE. Film: The Good Shepherd (Directed by Robert DeNiro). Bohon has received the Fred Astaire Award and the Theater World Award as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award Nominations.

01.07.2007
British Invasion: The UK Stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

After Monty Python, but before Drew Carey, there was a comedy revolution. Stephen Frost revitalized improv and inspired a whole new generation of British comedians. The British cast of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" has paved the way for comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G") and Ricky Gervais ("The Office"). "Whose Line?" received the ultimate validation when it was turned into an American T.V. show by Drew Carey. See British comedy masters Steven Frost, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Richard Vranch in NYC in this special limited engagement!

01.06.2007
British Invasion: The UK Stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

After Monty Python, but before Drew Carey, there was a comedy revolution. Stephen Frost revitalized improv and inspired a whole new generation of British comedians. The British cast of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" has paved the way for comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G") and Ricky Gervais ("The Office"). "Whose Line?" received the ultimate validation when it was turned into an American T.V. show by Drew Carey. See British comedy masters Steven Frost, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Richard Vranch in NYC in this special limited engagement!

01.05.2007
British Invasion: The UK Stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

After Monty Python, but before Drew Carey, there was a comedy revolution. Stephen Frost revitalized improv and inspired a whole new generation of British comedians. The British cast of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" has paved the way for comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G") and Ricky Gervais ("The Office"). "Whose Line?" received the ultimate validation when it was turned into an American T.V. show by Drew Carey. See British comedy masters Steven Frost, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Richard Vranch in NYC in this special limited engagement!

01.04.2007
British Invasion: The UK Stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

After Monty Python, but before Drew Carey, there was a comedy revolution. Stephen Frost revitalized improv and inspired a whole new generation of British comedians. The British cast of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" has paved the way for comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G") and Ricky Gervais ("The Office"). "Whose Line?" received the ultimate validation when it was turned into an American T.V. show by Drew Carey. See British comedy masters Steven Frost, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Richard Vranch in NYC in this special limited engagement!

01.03.2007
British Invasion: The UK Stars of "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

After Monty Python, but before Drew Carey, there was a comedy revolution. Stephen Frost revitalized improv and inspired a whole new generation of British comedians. The British cast of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" has paved the way for comedians such as Sacha Baron Cohen ("Ali G") and Ricky Gervais ("The Office"). "Whose Line?" received the ultimate validation when it was turned into an American T.V. show by Drew Carey. See British comedy masters Steven Frost, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Andy Smart and Richard Vranch in NYC in this special limited engagement!