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Ars Nova

Off-Broadway theatre in New York City

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.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Ars Nova
Photo: Jeffrey O. Gustafson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

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.2

Products and brands

Past mainstage productions

Past Ars Nova productions include Game Play, Eager to Lose, Core Values, The Netflix Plays, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Urban Dictionary Plays, 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, and The Woodsman.

Film and television production

Ars Nova produces films and television series under Ars Nova Entertainment, most notably the 2009 film Black Dynamite. The company was associated with Cartoon Network at one point, producing an animated Black Dynamite series as well as a pilot by collaborator Freestyle Love Supreme for its programming block Adult Swim.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ars Nova (theater), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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