This week Ars Nova, the Off-Broadway company behind such hits as Great Comet and KPOP, celebrated the official opening of its new downtown home at West Village's Greenwich House. The historic space, which opened on Barrow Street in 1917, is now named after its newest tenant: Ars Nova at Greenwich House.
“I've come here myself for the last 20 years, and felt a deep connection to the work that was being done in the space—it’s always felt a little outside the box, experimental, and risky in ways that excite me,” says artistic director Jason Eagan. “To carry that torch forward as the newest resident in this historical space seemed like the holy grail.”
While Ars Nova, which was founded in 2003, will continue to develop and present new work out of its intimate theatre on West 54th Street, Ars Nova at Greenwich House is now its primary venue for all Off-Broadway productions—including the current staging of The Mad Ones' Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie, directed by Lila Neugebauer, which opens April 8.
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