One Thousand Nights and One Day is based on the play 1001 by Grote, which Time Out New York named one of the Year's 10 Best New Plays of 2007, and of which it said: "People and their passions fly off the page in Jason Grote's dynamic, intellectually agile 1001, more...
a postmodern epic about the cultural narratives that shape our lives." This kaleidoscopic musical reinvention of "The Arabian Nights" wraps stories within stories, deconstructing and examining narrative, the Middle East, and identity through a 21st-century lens: the love story of a Jewish man and Palestinian woman in New York City.
