Robbie Sublett News

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) proudly kicks off its 2011 season with The Wii Plays, by Ars Nova's Play Group.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director) proudly kicks off its 2011 season with The Wii Plays, by Ars Nova's Play Group.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based theatre company known for investigation-style theater, and WNYC, the nation's largest public radio franchise, today announced a new collaboration - an interactive online forum for sharing stories of divorce.

The Civilians will premiere their latest work, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce on November 13 and 14 at 8:00 p.m. at Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn).

The Civilians will premiere their latest work, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce on November 13 and 14 at 8:00 p.m. at Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn).

The Civilians will premiere their latest work, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce on November 13 and 14 at 8:00 p.m. at Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn).

The Civilians have announced the premiere of a new interactive performance series, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on November 12th, 13th, and 14th at 8pm. Created by Civilians actors Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Jennifer Morris, and Robbie Sublett, director Anne Kauffman and dramaturg Janice Paran You Better Sit Down was developed from the actors' interviews with their own parents, exploring their parents' marriages and subsequent divorces. The actors will portray their parents in these live performances, retelling their stories in a unique theatrical event. The performances will also be captured in a high-definition, multi-camera shoot and edited into episodes for online release.

The Civilians, the acclaimed New York-based experimental theater troupe, will play a rare local summer season (and make their commercial Off Broadway debut) with their documentary musical of loss, Gone Missing.