Tix to this show are Name Your Price starting at $15, meaning you decide what you pay! We take a small portion of ticket sales to pay for the show’s front-of-house and theater technicians then pass on the rest of the single ticket revenue directly to the show’s lead artists. You can learn more about What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price Tix by visiting our How We Do It page.
The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc will stream live from Ars Nova on February 13 @ 7pm on Ars Nova Supra. Following the live stream, you’ll be able to watch the show on-demand for up to a year. Get a cancel-anytime $15/mo subscription to stream live or on-demand.
Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Ali performed as Musical Director and pianist for the Stop Shopping Choir on their 2024 Love Earth Tour opening for Neil Young. In 2020 Ali was a recipient of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency. Ali is also the Musical Director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire Boxcutter Collective, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster.
Learn more about Ali at alideen.com or on social media @ali_dineen.
Aaron J. Banes (voice) is a Filipino-American performer from Honolulu, HI. Since graduating from NYU Steinhardt, credits include PJ Masks Live (Int. Tour), The Big One Oh! and Heart Strings (Atlantic Theater). Aaron made his debut as composer and music director with “The Healing Shipment”, by Maria Camia at La Mama in 2023. He has also collaborated with Sienna Aczon on an EP, “The Princess and the Witchboy” and her show “Celestial Siblings.”Aaron has also been a teaching artist at the Atlantic Acting School since 2023 and is also known for his expertise as an astrologer and tarot reader. @aaron.banes
Oren Bloedow (bass) is a prolific musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist and bassist. He is a founding member of the band Elysian Fields. Oren has played for many incredible projects including the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Fela! In 2015, Oren opened The Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn, which he books and usually runs.
Amy Carrigan (voice) is a multidisciplinary collaborative artist: singer, theater performer, director photographer and puppeteer and educator. She has performed in 7 countries and in New York venues from Rockwood Music Hall to Carnegie Hall. Largely a collaborative artist, Amy works in various performative worlds. She is core member of Drama of Works, (puppetry), has been in numerous bands, directed a music video for MeWithoutYou and worked with artists as varied as Mark Guiliana & Joan LaBarbara. She is currently a member of bands Ducarriganigan (Aaron Dugan), FADA, bALK, and is a frequent collaborator with singer songwriter Ali Dineen.
Gregory Corbino (voice) is an award winning designer, puppeteer and educator. His work has been called “gorgeously baroque” by The New Yorker and “crafty and audacious” by The New York Times. Collaborators include Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater, Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir, Charlotte Brathwaite and Sunder Ganglani, Jennifer Miller, Xaviera Simmons, Cecilia Vicuña and Becca Blackwell. His design work has been featured at Soho Rep (It’s That Time of the Month), The High Line, The Architecture League of New York, The Queens Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, HEREarts and the Smithsonian Institution.
Rima Fand (violin) is a Brooklyn-based composer, musician and educator. An innovator who is also strongly drawn to folk traditions, she creates on an edge where the traditional meets the experimental. She has created music for performances ranging from puppet theater to outdoor spectacle to tableau vivant to contemporary musical theater to clown shows. And she is currently composing her first opera, entitled Precipice, for which she was the recipient of a 2020 Opera America Commissioning Grant. She is very happy to be joining Ali on this musical journey!
Patrick Mangan (violin) Brooklyn-based violinist/fiddler and two-time All-Ireland champion, Patrick Mangan made his Broadway debut at age 16 with “Riverdance on Broadway.” He has performed in over 30 countries with the Grammy-winning Irish dance production and other Celtic music luminaries. Recent highlights include performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, and with the Broadway show “Come From Away.” Pat is also a regular guest at renowned NYC traditional Irish music sessions.
Benjamin Marcus (voice) is an educator, singer, and illustrator from Brookline, Massachusetts. He is honored to join Ali for another performance of The Loneliness of Either Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc. Ben has performed at the New York Theatre Festival, as part of the multimedia artist collective Apartment Sessions, and most recently with Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir. When he’s not singing, Ben enjoys two-step dancing, taking a cold plunge at the Russian & Turkish Bathhouse, and spending time with his big brother, Jonathan.
Shilpa Narayan (voice) is an advocate for those who strive to live authentically, seeking liberation from biases, borders and binaries. She is a civil rights lawyer, mother, and regular performer with Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir.
Hannah Sassoon (cello) is a writer and artist based in New York. Hannah’s work appears in Mizna, The Yale Review, Signal Hill, and elsewhere. Hannah is the recipient of a 2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, an Axinn Foundation Fellowship, and residencies at Saltonstall and Storyknife. Hannah has been performing cello with Ali Dineen since 2014. By day, Hannah works in a public park, stewarding forested land.
Eleonore Weill (voice, recorder, hurdygurdy) French vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill is acclaimed for her soulful interpretations of Yiddish, East European and French traditional Musics. Hailing from a musical family in Southern France and now based in Brooklyn, Weill performs and records in a variety of ensembles, from klezmer to Romanian and Occitane folk musics. In addition to her acclaimed socially-conscious Yiddish music ensemble Tsibele, she performs internationally with Frank London, the Baroque Music Center of Versailles (C.M.B.V.), Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar ensemble, Midwood, , Orchestre National de Toulouse, Les Saqueboutiers, Miqueu Montanaro, and many others. Performing on recorder, wooden flutes, piano, accordion and hurdy-gurdy, Weill’s music is informed by her conviction that traditional songs have great power to create social change.
Philip Mayer (percussion) is a drummer, percussionist and educator specializing in a variety of styles on both the drum set and a range of hand drums from all over the world, especially the Middle East, Turkey and Greece. Philip plays drums for multi-platinum selling artist Natalie Merchant, and originated the drum book for the Broadway musical ‘The Band’s Visit.’ Philip performs with the likes of Natalie Merchant, Kishi Bashi, The Knights, The National Symphony Orchestra, David Wax Museum, Marianne Trudel, Coleman Barks, Lonnie Holley, Ahmed Alshaiba, Seamus Egan, Hazmat Modine, The New York Arabic Orchestra, and many more.
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This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Seating is general admission and first-come first-served. So, the earlier you arrive at the theater, the more choice you’ll have about where you sit! (Bonus: cheapest drinks in Midtown are at Bars Nova!)
The only way to guarantee you reserved seats is to become a Super Nova. Super Novas never hear “sold out,” get reserved seats in prime locations, and make fair wages and accessible tickets possible. Learn more about becoming a Super Nova here!
Tix to this show are Name Your Price starting at $15, meaning you decide what you pay! We take a small portion of ticket sales to pay for the show’s front-of-house and theater technicians then pass on the rest of the single ticket revenue directly to the show’s lead artists. You can learn more about What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price Tix by visiting our How We Do It page.
If a performance is sold out, you can join a standby line for day-of-show tix made available by minute cancellations and no-shows. Standby will begin 1 hour prior to curtain and will form outsideFolks from the standby line will be admitted into the show on a rolling basis as availability is confirmed. Standby tix are name-your-price starting at $5 + fees.
Additionally, Supra is never sold out! If you can’t make the show in-person, you can always stream online for only $15/mo, which gets you unlimited streaming access to performances from the last year. You can cancel your membership anytime by emailing contact@arsnovanyc.com.
Once you’ve selected your performance date and time at check-out, you’ll see a number of ticket price options ranging from $5 to $100. Select the price point you want to pay and the number of tickets you’d like to purchase and they’ll be added to your cart. After that, continue through the check-out process and you’ll be all set!
Yes. The processing fees are charged by our ticketing and credit card processors, and increase along with the base price of your ticket.
Yes! Ars Nova Supra is our digital platform where you can live stream all of our one-night shows and watch premieres from the past year on-demand. For the low price of $15/mo, you can access an entire seasons worth of comedy, music and theater from our groundbreaking artists, and additionally you can cancel your subscription anytime!
All sales are final – there are no refunds or exchanges.
If you’re unable to use your tickets, you may donate them in exchange for a letter of tax credit by emailing tix@arsnovanyc.com.
We ask that you stay home if you aren’t feeling well or are awaiting the results of a COVID test. Please let us know prior to your ticketed performance, and we will work with you to find a solution if you’re unable to attend.
We welcome and encourage mask-wearing to protect yourself and others. However, as mask mandates have lifted and city, state and federal guidelines have changed, we will not be requiring them at performances.
We no longer require proof of vaccination, but we strongly encourage all audience members to get vaccinated and boosted in accordance with public health guidelines.
Our staff will clean and sanitize the theater and common areas and we’ll continue to provide hand sanitizer for your personal use.
Signage is posted in all spaces encouraging washing or sanitizing hands frequently.
Ars Nova is uncensored. We provide content advisories — to the best of our ability — to inform audiences when shows contain racial violence, racist language, sexual violence or nudity. We provide information about this type of content in advance, based on our core values, so that each audience member can make an informed decision about if and how they’d like to engage with that content. We welcome artists to share additional information about their shows based on their own core values.
Ars Nova is wheelchair accessible. If you wish or need to remain in your wheelchair throughout the show, our staff will remove the theater chair. This can be done by letting us know your needs/plans in advance; just email Declan Zhang. It can also be done without prior notice when you arrive! If you wish to transfer to the theater seat from your wheelchair, we are happy to store your wheelchair or motorized mobility aid in the lobby during the performance. The House Manager will return your mobility device to you at the end of the performance as this show has no intermission.
About 25% of the seating is on the ground floor of the theater and does not require using stairs to access. There are five six-inch steps to get into the building.
All remaining seats require no less than one and no more than three steps to access.
Licensed service animals (any dogs that are trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities) are welcome at Ars Nova. They must rest in your seating area throughout the performance and are unable to occupy the aisle. Please bring proof of certification or a license for your service animal and be prepared to present it to the House Manager upon request. You can send advance notice to Declan Zhang, which is appreciated, but not required.
Our bathrooms are stalled, all gender restrooms – everyone is welcome to use any bathroom of their choice. We have two single-person restrooms in the lobby; with the wheelchair accessible option located right outside the theater on the first floor (doors 7 feet 10 inches x 3 feet 10.5 inches).
We have space that can be made to offer privacy for feeding should you need at any time. See the House Manager onsite and they will arrange a comfortable space, with storage and refrigeration for your materials.
The audience seating locations could be in, around and throughout the playing area. Performers will be within 3’ of you.
The seating is a combination of chairs.
Black Chairs with back: 19” wide x 32.25” high x 21.75” deep with a 500lb capacity
Black Counter height: 16.5” wide x 38” high x 18” deep with a 500lb capacity
The doors for entry into the building are 7 feet 10.5 inches x 3 feet 7 inches (external) and 7 feet 10 inches x feet 10.5 inches (internal).
Box Office height is 3 feet 6 inches and the Bar height is 3 feet 8.5 inches.
