“Ethan Lipton’s outstanding new concert play…sly, smart as heck, and somehow both extremely tender and laugh-out-loud funny…charming tunes and clever lyrics…a rare and humane gem.” – Sara Holdren Read more from New York Magazine/Vulture here.
“Ethan Lipton’s compact, tuneful jewel of a play seems charmingly analog: No algorithms are whirring in the background, and the show is essentially a live concept album interspersed with patter, as Lipton and his three bandmates—yes, they’re really a band—jam…
“The hepcat stylings of Ethan Lipton and his jazz combo give Lipton’s meticulously funny, often wise We Are Your Robots (a co-production of Theatre for a New Audience and Rattlestick Theatre, directed by Leigh Silverman) a delightful throwback air.” – Helen Shaw…
“We Are Your Robots is delightful, and also a perceptive look at humanity—our foibles, but also, our capacity to grow. As Lipton says in the show, lightly, ‘Screwing up is how you become a better human.’” Read more from Playbill here.
“We Are Your Robots at Theatre for a New Audience (in a co-production with Rattlestick Theater) and Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway—forward a history of robot representation on stage and, in a time of anxiety around artificial intelligence, grant more…
Tony winner Darko Tresnjak will direct the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools Off-Broadway for Theatre for a New Audience. The production will begin performances June 1, 2025, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, TFANA’s home, and run through June 29.…
Happily, our favorite playwrights all seem to have premières this season…Ethan Lipton switches on his new musical, “We Are Your Robots” (Polonsky Shakespeare Center; Nov. 7). – Helen Shaw Read more from The New Yorker here.
“I expect it to be a funny, sardonic, yet moving time.” – Diep Tran Read more from Playbill here.
We Are Your Robots reunites Lipton and Silverman, who previously worked together on Tumacho, The Outer Space, and No Place to Go. Here, Lipton and his bandmates of 20 years will play robots who’ve come to the theatre to answer…
Theatre for a New Audience has revealed its 2024-25 season, with American and world premieres of plays by Ethan Lipton, Wole Soyinka, and Taylor Mac, and works by William Shakespeare. Horowitz observes, “TFANA presents Shakespeare alongside some of the theatre’s…