Do you enjoy ingeniously crafted rock tunes, with brilliant lyrics and arrangements for accordion, keyboard, ukulele, guitar, bass and drums? Do you like pirates? How about puppets? Rum based drink specials? Laughing until your sides hurt? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, you’re ready to set forth on the dread ship Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, the rollicking “pirate puppet rock odyssey” that’s currently docked at Ars Nova....

Photos: Carol Rosegg Writing about Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s marvelous Boom is going to require a bit of bomb squad finesse: after the first twenty minutes, the action takes such an unexpected left turn that to describe it without spoilers won’t be easy. And that’s not to say those first twenty minutes are very conventional, either; the play begins when a woman with a nametag that reads Barbara (Susan Wands) welcomes the audience with all the......

THEATER: This week marks your last chance to see TRUTH {the heart is a million little pieces above all things}, a one-man show by Mike Daisey that NYMetro declares “a delirious, brainy, hilarious, infuriating experience from which one emerges perversely hopeful.” The play follows the fictional and non-fictional stories of James Frey's self-destruction, the sordid and shocking tale of J.T. LeRoy, and Fernando Pessoa, a Portuguese poet whose great works were written by warring multiple......

Jewcy (a politics and culture webzine featuring "fierce and funny writing and artwork" with commentary in the Jewish world and beyond) will be relaunching this summer. Tonight, however, is the launch of their variety show-style reading series (you see, Jewcy produces offline too!) Hosted by comedian Chelsea Peretti and featuring author Hal Niedzviecki and his new book, Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity - the night will be filled with writers, divas,......

From the looks of the shows opening and already running, this is a good week for nontraditional, multidisciplinary theater around town. OK, so maybe just about every week is good for it, especially in comparison with cities where theater options are limited to high school plays and (maybe) traveling versions of Beauty and the Beast. But the eclectic quotient seems to be running particularly high at the moment. First, there’s InsideOut, a show by Live......

Gothamist’s family has never been the type to take to the yard after our Thanksgiving meal for a rousing game of touch football. That’s so Kennedy’s in Hyannisport, and so the opposite of everything our sedentary upbringing represents. Our family is less competitive, opting to sit quietly before getting what we lovingly refer to as our “second wind” where we continue our Pilgrim and Indian inspired binging. This week we’d like to suggest some shows......

Today Gothamist has quite the conundrum on its hands…with so many good shows happening this week all over our fair city, how do we narrow it all down? There’s a bit of a hodge-podge of things happening tonight, so rather than file them all under comedy, it’s probably safer to refer to them as a canon of miscellany. The first option we are mulling over is the eclectic variety show Sxip’s Hour of Charm, happening......

Writing sketch comedy is not an easy skill. Appealing to a wide audience, writing a good ending for each sketch, and rehearsing your material are not always taken into consideration. Which is why Gothamist loved the new sketch show The Incorrigible Mr. J, now up at the PIT [154 w. 29th Street]. Matt Donnelly, Rebekka Johnson and Jim Festante of the improv group Possible Side Effects, have created a world where reclusive hermits, “dynamic choreography”,......

Comedy comes in many forms. Musical, sketch, improvised, and sometimes the best of all, unintentional. This week is rich with all of the above. Freestyle Love Supreme is back this Thurday at 10pm at Ars Nova. For anyone who hasn’t seen them, the equation for FLS is human beat box + live musicians + comedians, all of whom are enormously talented. The six performers riff off audience suggestions to create a different show every night......

Looking for something to do tonight, here are some suggestions: Ana Gasteyer - Let it Rip! An Evening of Song Saturday Night Live cast member known for singing characters like Bobby Moughan-Culp and Celine Dion, Gasteyer will sing tonight as herself. when: Tuesday, July 13, 8pm where: Ars Nova Theater, 511 West 54th St how much: $20 Dahlia's Flix and Mix Audiovisual artists Daniel Vatsky and Mike Berk perform tonight using a system of linked......