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BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY presents
OBIE AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL ODE TO THE UNEMPLOYED
NO PLACE TO GO
WITH ETHAN LIPTON & HIS ORCHESTRA
OCTOBER 10-11 at MR. FINN’S CABARET

(Pittsfield, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, presents Ethan Lipton’s No Place to Go, the Obie Award-winning musical ode to the unemployed, for three performances October 10-11 at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.

Composed and performed by Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra, which includes Eben Levy (guitar), Ian M. Riggs (upright bass), and Vito Dieterle (sax), No Place to Go received an Obie Award and was commissioned and originally produced by Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater. Originally directed by Leigh Silverman, No Place to Go is produced in association with ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann.

The corporation where he’s worked for the past 10 years is moving to Mars, and Ethan Lipton doesn’t want to go. The work of a truly original American theater artist, No Place to Go is a deeply compassionate musical ode to America’s work force, steeped in musical traditions including jazz, blues, folk and country. Capturing the vagaries of everyday life with wry humor and universal appeal, No Place to Go is a love letter to friends, family and country.

“Ethan Lipton brings a fresh new sound to Barrington Stage, blending folk, rock and jazz,” says Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. “He adds a truly unique sensibility to his work both as a playwright and with his Orchestra, a trio of fantastic musicians.”

Ethan Lipton (Writer/Vocals) As a playwright, Ethan Lipton’s work has been seen and heard in NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Edinburgh and Berne. He is the 2012-13 Playwright’s Realm’s Page One resident playwright, an alumnus of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist. Ethan has received playwriting grants from NYFA, NYSCA, and the NEA, as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb and True Love. He has received an Obie Award and a Drama League Award, been a Kesselring nominee, an O’Neill Conference finalist, a Kleban Award finalist and a resident playwright at New York Stage & Film. His play Luther was published in Theater Magazine in April 2013. The script of No Place to Go will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2014. As a performer, Ethan has backed up Laurie Anderson on The Late Show with David Letterman, originated the role of Klipspringer in ERS’s Gatz, and sung with Matt Berninger of the National.

About the Band Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra (EL&hO) has been a band since 2005, playing around New York (Joe’s Pub, Barbes, Rockwood, Celebrate Brooklyn) and beyond (MASS MoCA, Camden Opera House, Grand Performances). The band includes Ethan Lipton (vocals), Eben Levy (guitar), Ian M. Riggs (standup bass) and Vito Dieterle (sax). Ethan writes the lyrics and melody, and the quartet arranges the songs together. EL&hO has released five albums (three studio, two live) and been named the city’s “Best Lounge Act” by New York Magazine. In 2012, the four members of the band won an Obie Award for No Place to Go, produced in Joe’s Pub by the Public Theater. The show has since been produced theatrically at Two River Theatre and in concert venues across the U.S., as well as at the ATP music fest in East Sussex. The band has been featured on radio shows such as Weekend Edition, The World, Word of Mouth, and Soundcheck, and contributed to The Clash cover album Sandinista. Currently, EL&hO is working on material for a sixth album, due out in 2014.

Performances of No Place to Go are Friday and Saturday at 8pm. Tickets: $35, reserved seating. $15 tickets for patrons ages 18-35 are also available. No Place to Go will be performed at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden Street). For more information, call the Barrington Stage Box Office at 413-236-8888 (or toll-free at 855-TIX-2BSC) or visit www.barringtonstageco.org.

About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity regional theatre located in the heart of the Berkshires, in Pittsfield, MA, was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. Barrington Stage’s mission is three-fold: to present top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways to bringing new audiences into the theatre—especially young people. Barrington Stage garnered national attention in 2004 when it workshopped, and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which later transferred to Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards. In 2009/2010 Barrington Stage produced the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, which later moved Off-Broadway and played for two years. St. Germain’s Becoming Dr. Ruth (which premiered at BSC as Dr. Ruth, All the Way in 2012) played Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in fall 2013. Barrington Stage was voted “Best Live Theatre” by The Berkshire Eagle readers in 2011 and 2012 and was named “Best Theatre Company” in Metroland’s Best of the Capital Region 2009-2012.

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