The company where he’s worked for the past ten years is moving to another planet, and playwright Ethan Lipton doesn’t want to go. Part love letter to his co-workers, part query to the universe, part protest to his company and country, No Place to Go delivers a hilarious, irreverent and personal musical ode to the unemployed. Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra perform this OBIE Award-winning theatrical song cycle steeped in musical traditions including jazz, blues, folk, country and lounge.

“...[LIPTON] MAKES SWEET (AND OCCASSIONALLY SOUR) SOUNDS THAT EVOKE A WHOLE, HIGHLY PERSONALIZED HISTORY OF AMERICA SINGING THROUGH ITS TROUBLES.”—The New York Times

 

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ABOUT ETHAN LIPTON

Ethan Lipton is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and performer who has been a Kesselring nominee, an O’Neill Conference finalist, and a resident playwright at New York Stage & Film. He is the 2012/13 Playwright’s Realm’s Page One resident playwright, an alum of The Public Theater’s emerging writers group and a Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist. Ethan has received playwriting grants from NYFA, NYSCA and the NEA, as well as numerous commissions.

Cast

Vocals	Ethan Lipton
Saxophone	Vito Dieterle
Electric Guitar	Eben Levy*
Bass / Acoustic	Ian Riggs
*Substitute	Rick Snell

Creative

Written by	Ethan Lipton
Music Composed & Performed by	Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra
Original Direction by	Leigh Silverman
Originally Produced by	Joe's Pub / The Public Theater
Produced in Association with	Arktype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann