The Civilians to Bring LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: FLOPS, FAILURES AND FIASCOS to The Met Room

The Civilians, the award-winning New York-based theater company, presents LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: FLOPS, FAILURES AND FIASCOS on February 23, 2016, at the Metropolitan Room.

Curated by current Civilians R&D Group members Sanaz Ghajar and Colette Robert, with the support of the Civilians Field Research Team, LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: FLOPS, FAILURES AND FIASCOS is a one-night-only performance celebrating disasters of all shades as told by those who have survived the shame, horror and glory of failing big.

The evening will feature original songs written by established and emerging musical theater talents, created from the company's interviews with real people. Songs will be by Trevor Bachman; Samantha Chanse and Christopher Larkin; Jo Lampert, Adam Cochran and Matthew Dean Marsh; Julia Meinwald and Gordon Leary; and Eric March.

The cast will feature Ally Bonino, Cindy Cheung, Nic Cory, Cornelius Davidson, Alex Grubbs, Jen Kwok, Teri Madonna, Nedra McClyde, Maria-Christina Oliveras and Chris Tyler.

LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU is The Civilians' ongoing cabaret and podcast series. Live performances are recorded and released online as a free podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud.

LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: FLOPS, FAILURES AND FIASCOS is set for February 23, 2016 at 9:30 PM at The Metropolitan Room. $15 tickets can be purchased directly from the Metropolitan Room, online at metropolitanroom.com, or in person at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street (Between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York, NY 10010.

Doors will open at 9PM, and as a courtesy to the artists, we recommend arriving no later than thirty minutes before show time. Please note there is a two beverage minimum per person.

Led by Artistic Director Steve Cosson, The Civilians supports the creation of new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present. Recent credits include Pretty Filthy, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, and The Great Immensity. Last season, the company was the first ever theater company in residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since its founding in 2001, the OBIE award-winning company has been produced at The Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barrow Street Theater, Playwrights Horizons; and nationally at Center Theatre Group, A.R.T., La Jolla Playhouse, HBO's US Comedy Festival, the TED Conference, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. Visit www.thecivilians.org for more information.

Current projects include Another Word for Beauty, by Jose Rivera, co-commissioned and developed with Goodman Theatre, at Goodman Theatre through February 21, 2016 and Rimbaud in New York, written and directed by Steve Cosson, at Brooklyn's BAM Fisher Theater from March 1 - 6, 2016.