Ars Nova
511 West 54th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
January 29 – February 8, $15, 8:00
212-352-3101
www.arsnovanyc.com
Eleven of the world’s most famous board games will take center stage at Ars Nova as the Play Group turns those heated contests into short theatrical works and live music as part of its annual winter celebration of pop culture. Following in the footsteps of “The Wikipedia Plays,” “Missed Connections NYC,” “The Wii Plays,” and “The Urban Dictionary Plays,” among others, “Game Play” will run January 29 to February 8, with all tickets $15, which is cheaper than the cost of most of the actual games these days. Each night will include all eleven pieces: Sofia Alvarez’s Taboo, directed by Sash Bischoff; Max Posner’s Risk, directed by Portia Krieger; Sarah Burgess’s Snakes & Ladders, directed by Peter James Cook; Nick Gandiello’s Candy Land, directed by Sash Bischoff; Brian Otaño’s Scattergories, directed by Cook; Bess Wohl’s Pictionary, directed by Andrew Neisler; A. Zell Williams’s Guess Who? directed by Cook; Erica Saleh’s Life, directed by Bischoff; Daniel Pearle’s Mousetrap, directed by Andrew Neisler; Stephen Karam’s Sorry! also directed by Andrew Neisler; and that childhood favorite, Settlers of Catan, written by Sarah Gancher and directed by Portia Krieger. The plays will be performed by Peter Benson, Marcia DeBonis, Dashiell Eaves, Brandon Gill, Ben Graney, Susan Heyward, Jessica Love, and Carmen Zilles, with costumes by Tilly Grimes and Daniel Dabdoub, lighting by Richard Chamblin, projections by Caite Hevner Kemp, and live music by Crossfire.