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Ars Nova (theater)

Ars Nova is an Off-Broadway, non-profit theater in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Ars Nova develops and produces theater, comedy and music created by artists in the early stages of their careers. Besides its Off-off Broadway home in Hell's Kitchen, Ars Nova also operates the former Barrow Street Theatre at Greenwich House as a space for Off-Broadway productions.

Address

511 West 54th Street
New York City
United States

Off-Broadway

2002

The theater was founded in 2002 in memory of Gabe Wiener, a music producer who died at the age of 26, by his sister, Jenny Steingart and her husband Jon Steingart.[1] The theater's mission is to provide a venue for smart, surprising new work from emerging artists.[2]

Mainstage productions[edit]

Past mainstage productions[edit]

Past Ars Nova productions include Game Play,[3] Eager to Lose,[4] Core Values,[5] The Netflix Plays,[6] Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,[7] The Urban Dictionary Plays,[8] The Lapsburgh Layover, Be a Good LIttle Widow, The Wii Plays, Now Circa Then, Bloodsong of Love, Missed Connections NYC, Sax & Dixon: We Thee Wed, Mel & El: Show & Tell, Two Girls for Five Bucks and the Ten Dollar Heartbreakers, Playlist, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Boom, From up Here, Dixie's Tupperware Party, At Least It's Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Wau Wau Sisters,[9] and The Woodsman.[10][11]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2008, the Village Voice awarded Ars Nova its "Best Theater Concessions" honor, commenting that "Ars Nova satisfies those few disconsolate [theater concession consumers] among us: In addition to reasonably priced cocktails, it features snacks thematically linked with the play on offer."[23]


Ars Nova's commissioned production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 won several awards and nominations, including the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, a Special Citation from the OBIE awards, and five Drama Desk nominations.[24][25][26]

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Joe Iconis

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Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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Jack McBrayer

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Alex Timbers

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Reggie Watts

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Edward W. Hardy

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John Gallagher Jr.

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Beau Willimon

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Liz Meriwether

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Semi Precious Weapons

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Michael Patrick King

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Carly Mensch

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Liz Flahive

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