Banana Bag & Bodice's LONGYARN to Open at Bushwick Starr
This highly anticipated new work, LongYarn, listed in Time Out NY's 20 Best Theatre Shows in NYC in 2016, is an outrageous shaggy-dog folktale of the adventurous and long-lived 'Mother', a character based on strong, peculiar and compelling women from history. The outlandish poetic adventures of her youth include tales of riverboat piracy, a stint as a professional wrestler, lost days as a crack addict and being raised by a family of cows, spun through a tenor of joyful hopelessness.
Summerstage Concludes With BEOWULF â€" A THOUSAND YEARS OF BAGGAGE 8/25
After a successful smash-hit run in 2009 in New York City, Banana Bag & Bodice brings their award-winning epic SongPlay to SummerStage. This show concludes SummerStage's summer-long FREE theater program and will take place on Wednesday, August 25 through Friday, August 27 at East River Park, Manhattan at 8:00 p.m.
Summerstage Concludes With BEOWULF â€" A THOUSAND YEARS OF BAGGAGE 8/25
After a successful smash-hit run in 2009 in New York City, Banana Bag & Bodice brings their award-winning epic SongPlay to SummerStage. This show concludes SummerStage's summer-long FREE theater program and will take place on Wednesday, August 25 through Friday, August 27 at East River Park, Manhattan at 8:00 p.m.
Ars Nova Announces Dave Malloy in Concert 5/24
A rusty old tambourine nailbin of a night, with hurt trombones and mournful accordions, rowdy raccoons and sweet honeybees, silhouette charms and whiskey tenors screaming at the rain. Composer Dave Malloy (Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, Three Pianos, Clown Bible, 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant winner) and an ensemble of ten, including members of Banana Bag & Bodice, Three Pianos and The TEAM, work their way through a cacophonous pile of songs spanning four musicals and ten years of never before performed solo work. It's raucous anti-musical musical theater at its best.
Ars Nova Announces Dave Malloy in Concert 5/24
A rusty old tambourine nailbin of a night, with hurt trombones and mournful accordions, rowdy raccoons and sweet honeybees, silhouette charms and whiskey tenors screaming at the rain. Composer Dave Malloy (Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, Three Pianos, Clown Bible, 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant winner) and an ensemble of ten, including members of Banana Bag & Bodice, Three Pianos and The TEAM, work their way through a cacophonous pile of songs spanning four musicals and ten years of never before performed solo work. It's raucous anti-musical musical theater at its best.
Ars Nova Announces Their May Events
Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing theater, comedy and music artists in the early stages of their professional career. Our unique development programs are designed to support outside-the-box thinking and encourage innovative, genre-bending work.
Photo Flash: Ice Factory Festival at The Ohio Theatre
Artistic Director Robert Lyons proudly presents the 16th annual ICE FACTORY summer festival of new work. ICE FACTORY 2009 opened July 8th, and presents six New York premieres in six weeks, and wraps up August 15th. All performances are at the Ohio Theatre - 66 Wooster Street (between Spring & Broome) in Soho.
Beowulf: A Thousand Years Of Baggage Opens 4/1
2008 winner of the Bay Are Glickman Award for Best Play, Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay, presented by the Shotgun Players. Beowulf was written by written by Jason Craig with music by 2009 Larson Award Winner Dave Malloy, and directed by Rod Hipskind. Beowulf will be begin performances on March 31, opening on Sunday, April 5 and will initially run through April 18 at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street @ Pitt).
BEOWULF:A THOUSAND YEARS OF BAGGAGE Starts at Abrons Arts Center Mar. 31
Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical. Presented by San Francisco's infamous Shotgun Players and New York's infectious Banana Bag & Bodice, this new SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood soaked Scandinavia! The award winning Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is written by Jason Craig with music by 2009 Larson Award Winner Dave Malloy and directed by Rod Hipskind.