Book and Lyrics by Andy Mientus
Music by Van Hughes, Nicholas LaGrasta, and Brett Moses
Directed by Jenny Koons
In an age of uncertainty, four lost souls come to the city in search of themselves. An unflinching look at being young on the eve of global catastrophe, this world premiere musical directed by Jenny Koons (A Sucker Emcee, In This Moment) and choreographed by Tony nominee Sam Pinkleton (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) features a synth-pop score by Teen Commandments members Van Hughes, Nicholas LaGrasta, and Brett Moses with a book and lyrics by Andy Mientus (“SMASH”).
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Burn All Night performs in OBERON’s immersive 18+ nightclub setting (standing room on the dance floor).
While many dates are already sold out, there may be tickets available at the door the night of each performance or there is a daily lottery run through TodayTix. Ticket availability will vary per night and is not guaranteed.
Need to know
The Dance Floor is standing room only. Patrons will move with the show as actors and scenic elements move around the space. Due to the immersive nature of the show, programs will be distributed after the show.
Please note: This production contains haze, strobe lights, sexual themes, strong language, and loud music. Ear plugs are available upon request.
Read more
Take a look inside rehearsal —
Read these blog posts to learn more about the production:
Read a program note by writer Andy Mientus.
There Is No Line:
Director Jenny Koons on the Politics of Participation
by Robert Duffley
Kicking Out The Chorus Boy:
How Choreographer Sam Pinkleton is Breaking the Mold
by Elizabeth Amos
When the World Ends, We Burn All Night
An interview with Andy Mientus and Van Hughes
by Yan Chen
Read about Burn All Night and other upcoming productions in the A.R.T. Guide.
Click here to access the electronic press kit for Burn All Night.
Notable dates
The Dance Floor is standing room only. Patrons will move with the show as actors and scenic elements move around the space. Due to the immersive nature of the show, programs will be distributed after the show.
Please note: This production contains haze, strobe lights, sexual themes, strong language, and loud music. Ear plugs are available upon request.
Age Appropriateness
OBERON is an 18+ venue. Audience members under the age of 18 may attend with a parent or guardian. Burn All Night is a production intended for mature High School students. Must be 21+ to drink alcohol.
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Credits
Creative team
Book
Andy Mientus
Book
Andy Mientus
Andy Mientus makes his theatrical writing debut with Burn All Night. Together with his husband, Michael Arden, he conceived Deaf West Theatre’s Tony Award-nominated revival of Spring Awakening, in which he also acted at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles and the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at theaters such as The Mark Taper Forum and The Kennedy Center, and on television. He has twice been named in Out Magazine’s list of the 100 most compelling LGBT people of the year. Education: Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, University of Michigan.
Music by
Van Hughes, Nicholas LaGrasta, Brett Moses
Director
Jenny Koons
Director
Jenny Koons
Recent projects: A Sucker Emcee, National Black Theatre; Airness, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville; What Are You Doing Here? (by Charles Fuller), Golden State Freeway (by John Guare), My Anniversary (by David Henry Hwang), Deja Vu and This Moment After (by Regina Taylor), Barrel Wave (Naomi Wallace), Theatre for One (World Premieres); The Blueprint, NYU Graduate Acting; K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Huntington Summer Workshop; {my lingerie play}, Joe’s Pub; Runaways, New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center; Instant SPKRBOX, SPKRBOX Festival commission, Norway; Bars and Measures (World Premiere), National New Play Network; Gimme Shelter, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games commission; Abyme, Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, Dixon Place; A Sucker Emcee, LAByrinth Theater, SPKRBOX Festival, Verkstedhallen, Dramatikkens Hus; Queen of the Night (Associate/ Resident Director, 2014 Drama Desk Award); The Odyssey Project, Dixon Place, Site-speci c across NYC. Jenny is curator of the New York City Center's Encores! O -Center Lobby Project, co-curator of the 2016 Toronto ThisGen Conference, and co-founder of Artists 4 Change NYC (National Black Theatre). She is on the steering committee for The Ghostlight Project, serves on the advisory board for UK-based Artistic Directors of the Future, and is a member of New York City Center’s Artists' Board.
Choreographer
Sam Pinkleton
Choreographer
Sam Pinkleton
A.R.T./OBERON: Kansas City Choir Boy. Broadway: Machinal, The Heidi Chronicles. Recent: Amélie, Berkeley Rep; Significant Other, Roundabout; Heisenberg, MTC; Pretty Filthy, The Civilians; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Kazino; Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play; Fly By Night; Stage Kiss; Playwrights Horizons; I Promised Myself to Live Faster, Pig Iron/Humana Festival; HAIR: Retrospection, Kansas City Rep;The Understudy, McCarter. Sam is an Associate Artist with The Civilians and Witness Relocation and is co-director of The Dance Cartel’s ONTHEFLOOR. Upcoming: Rimbaud in New York, BAM; The Good Swimmer, Prototype Festival. sampinkleton.com
Scenic Designer
Sara Brown
Scenic Designer
Sara Brown
A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge. A.R.T. Institute: Bob: A Life in Five Acts. Selected designs include: A House in Bali, BAM and CalPerformances; World of Wires, The Kitchen NYC and Festival d’automne Paris; Temperamentals, Lyric Stage Company; Distracted, Central Square Theater; The Gacy Play, Slideshow Theater Co. Chicago. She is the Director of Design at MIT.
Costume Designer
Evan Prizant
Costume Designer
Evan Prizant
Broadway (Associate Costume Designer): Sunday in the Park with George (with Jake Gyllenhaal). Off-Broadway: The Providence of Neighboring Bodies, Ars Nova/Dutch Kills; Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot Wars, Ars Nova/The Mad Ones; Gormanzee and Other Stories, The Flea/Anna+Meredith. Regional: James and The Giant Peach, And Then They Came for Me, Stage One Louisville; I Saw His Body and Forgot My Own, Soaking WET; Some Editing and Some Theme Music, FringeNYC, NOLA Fringe. Education: MFA, Boston University; BA, Tulane University.
Lighting Designer
Bradley King
Lighting Designer
Bradley King
A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, We Live in Cairo, Endlings, Burn All Night, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, O.P.C. Broadway: Fat Ham, Hadestown (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards), Flying Over Sunset (Drama Desk Award, Tony Nomination), The Great Comet(Tony, Drama Desk, OCC awards), Bernhardt/Hamlet. Numerous shows Off-Broadway, regionally, and around the world. Upcoming musicals: Water For Elephants, Alliance; Buena Vista Social Club, Atlantic; Lempicka; Goddess; How to Dance in Ohio. bradleykingld.com
Sound Designer
Jessica Paz
Sound Designer
Jessica Paz
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway (Associate Designer): Bandstand; Dear Evan Hansen; Fela!, Workshops, Off-Broadway, Broadway, National Theatre London, European Tour, Lagos, Nigeria, US National Tour. O -Broadway (Designer): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Delacorte Theatre; A Sucker EmCee; The Muscles in Our Toes, LAByrinth; Becoming Dr. Ruth, Westside Theater; Looking for the Pony, Vital Theater Co.; Women Beware Women, Red Bull Theater; STRETCH–A Fantasia, New Georges.
Casting
Stephanie Yankwitt
Casting
Stephanie Yankwitt
Theater (current projects): Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa; Tectonic Theater Project, NYC. Film (current projects): Sweet Home Tennessee, Opening Night Prods/Opus Films; Give Me Liberty, Animal Kingdom/ A24. Stephanie Yankwitt is the Director of Casting for TBD Casting. Stephanie also partners with founding producer Hunter Arnold for TBD Theatricals' projects, including Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen, Anastasia, and the upcoming Once On This Island, as well as the film adaptation of the musical stage play A Little More Alive, set to shoot in April, 2018. Burn All Night has been in development with TBD since Fall 2014.
Associate Choreographer
Ari Groover
Associate Choreographer
Ari Groover
Broadway: Holler If Ya Hear Me. Off-Broadway: Bare: The Musical; Half Time (World Premiere). Regional: The Donna Summer Musical (World Premiere), La Jolla Playhouse. TV/Film: “Law and Order: SVU,” Spider-man: Homecoming; 72 Hours: A Brooklyn Love Story?. Choreography: In the Heights, NYU; Broadway Dreams; She Created It.
Production Stage Manager
Taylor Brennan
Production Stage Manager
Taylor Brennan
A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD!; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/Training: Graduate of Boston University (Summa cum laude) College of Fine Arts.
Music Supervision & Vocal Arrangements
Cian McCarthy
Music Supervision & Vocal Arrangements
Cian McCarthy
A.R.T.: Burn All Night. Broadway: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Book of Mormon, In the Heights. Off-Broadway/
Cast
Bobby
Lincoln Clauss
Bobby
Lincoln Clauss
Regional: All Shook Up, My Fair Lady, Tent Theater. Concerts: Best of Broadway with Sutton Foster, The Cincinnati Pops; Times Have Changed, Joe’s Pub. Education: BFA (Musical Theatre), Ball State University.
Zak
Kenneth Clark
Zak
Kenneth Clark
A.R.T.: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Broadway: The Great Comet. Off-Broadway: The Great Comet, Kazino; February House, Public Theater. First National Tour: La Cage aux Folles. Regional: Moonshine (Bucky Jr.), Dallas Theater Center; Camelot (Arthur), Drury Lane Theater; Rent (Roger), Syracuse Stage; Urinetown (Bobby), Connecticut Rep; Sweeney Todd (Anthony), The Gateway. TV: “House of Cards,” Net ix; “The Blacklist,” NBC; “Gotham,” FOX. Education: University of Miami.
Holly
Krystina Alabado
Holly
Krystina Alabado
A.R.T.: Burn All Night. Broadway: Mean Girls (Gretchen Wieners), American Psycho (Original Broadway Cast, Vanden), Green Day’s American Idiot. National Tours: Evita (Mistress), American Idiot, Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: David Bowie’s Lazarus, NYTW; Camp Wanatachi (Titi), La MaMa. Regional: Miss You Like Hell, La Jolla Playhouse; Beautiful Room, Long Wharf Theatre; Pregnancy Pact, Weston Playhouse. Workshops: This Ain’t No Disco, Between The Lines, Whisper House, American Psycho, Lazarus, among others. TV/Film: “Tyrant,” FX; First Reformed (2018 release).
Will
Perry Sherman
Will
Perry Sherman
Broadway: Fun Home. National Tours: Next to Normal, Spring Awakening. New York: Milk and Honey (David), York Theatre. Toronto: Les Misérables (Marius). Regional: Amélie (Lucien, World Premiere), Berkeley Rep (choreo. Sam Pinkleton); Ballad of Little Jo (Ernie), Two River Theater. Education: Carnegie Mellon University.
The Kids
Gabrielle Carrubba, Aurie Ceylon, Marquis Johnson, Ashley LaLonde, AJ Rafael, MJ Rodriguez, Jamar Williams
The Kids
Gabrielle Carrubba, Aurie Ceylon, Marquis Johnson, Ashley LaLonde, AJ Rafael, MJ Rodriguez, Jamar Williams
Band
Bandleader/Keyboards
Michael Mastroianni
Bandleader/Keyboards
Michael Mastroianni
Music director, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist for over 100 musical theater productions. Off-Broadway: Green Card the Musical. Regional: Next to Normal, Carrie, Sister Act, Avenue Q, Gypsy, The Full Monty, Rent, Les Miserables, Cabaret, The Wiz, Legally Blonde. Current student of Berklee College of Music studying film scoring.
Drums
Maxime Cholley
Drums
Maxime Cholley
Music: Performances and/or recordings with Tigran Hamasyan, Mono Neon, Darren Barrett, Omar Offendum, and more in Boston and France. Awards: “Prix des Neiges,” Savoiexpo Foundation; “Bourse de la Vocation,” Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation. Education: Artist Diploma (Drums Performance; Avedis Zildjian Endowed Scholarship), Berklee College of Music.
Bass
Maddie Jay
Bass
Maddie Jay
Music: Moondog (2017), Meanwhile... (2016), Not Going Back (2015), Maddie Jay and the pH Collective; other work on electric bass and ddle. Education: Berklee College of Music.
Guitar
Claudio Rainó
Guitar
Claudio Rainó
Regional: Bridges of Madison County (Guitar Chair), Speakeasy Stage Co.; The Fantasticks (Guitar Chair), Stonington Opera House; West Side Story, City of Angels, Avenue Q, Cabaret, Next to Normal, Berklee College of Music. Festivals: Outside the Box, Boston Book Festival, Annual Words and Music Festival. Education: BM (Guitar Performance), Berklee College of Music. Claudio is a Boston-based guitarist hailing from Rome, Italy.
Additional staff
Assistant Stage Manager
Alycia Marucci
Assistant Stage Manager
Alycia Marucci
A.R.T.: The Donkey Show, Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility, Burn All Night, Fingersmith, Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. Opera: Le Carnaval de Venise, works by Ulisse, Pergolesi, Charpentier (Production Stage Manager), Boston Early Music Festival; Guilio Cesare (Production Stage Manager), Boston Baroque. Musical Theater: Showboat, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rent, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddlehead Theatre Company. Plays: Finish Line (Production Stage Manager), Boston Theater Company. Education: BA (Arts Admin.), Suffolk University.
Assistant Scenic Designer
Madie Hays
Costume Design Assistant
Aislinn Brophy
Assistant Light Designer
Bailey Costa
Assistant Sound Designer
Peter Gangi
Voice and Text
Erika Bailey
Voice and Text
Erika Bailey
A.R.T.: Gatsby; Becoming a Man; Life of Pi; 1776; WILD: A Musical Becoming; Jack and the Beanstalk; Gloria: A Life; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Endlings; Othello; ExtraOrdinary; The Black Clown; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Waitress; O.P.C. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: Vanity Fair, Central Square Theater; New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As Head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as coaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; MFA, Acting, Brandeis University.
Assistant Director
Thomas Peterson
Script Consultant
Tony Meneses
Assistant Music Director
Brian Ge
Assistant Music Director
Brian Ge
A.R.T.: Endlings, The Black Clown (Rehearsal Accompanist), Jagged Little Pill (Music Intern), Burn All Night (Assistant Music Director), Violet (Assistant Music Director/
Keyboard & Computer Programmer
Nicholas LaGrasta
Keyboard & Computer Programmer
Nicholas LaGrasta
Based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nick LaGrasta creates original music and sound design for advertising, film, and interactive media. Nick has scored music for clients including Sundance Channel, Sprint, Nissan, and MTV, and is a founding member of Brooklyn synth-pop band Teen Commandments. Education: BM (Music Production, Composition, Guitar Performance), Berklee College of Music (2009).
Additional Programming
Brett Moses
Additional Programming
Brett Moses
Brett Moses is a modern- day tent revivalist and inducer of ecstasies. A punk-trained songwriter, singer, and keyboardist, Brett is commonly seen on stage with his synth-pop band, Teen Commandments. Education: BA (The Sociology of Music), New York University. Twitter: @paradiseinnyc. Instagram/Facebook: @teencommandments.
Copyist
Daniel Gittler
A.R.T. Institute Production Dramaturg
Yan Chen
Producing Assistant
Emily Bergquist
Production Assistants
Beckett Mullen, Claire Rivkin
A.R.T. Summer Internship Program
Tara Balan, Emerson College ’19, Development
Finn Bamber, Maumee Valley Country Day School ’18, Lighting
Hannah Berkowitz, New York University ’21, Artistic
Lily Davis, The Brearly School ’18, Artistic
Brian Ge, Harvard University ’18, Artistic^
Holden Higgins, Stuyvesant High School ’18, Artistic
David Lynch, Harvard University ’20, Education & Community Programs^
Ashley LaLonde, Harvard University ’20, Artistic^
Michelle LoRicco, University of Central Florida MFA ’18, Education & Community Programs
Beckett Mullen, Harvard University ’18, Artistic^
Thomas Peterson, Harvard University ’18, Artistic^
Allison Pichowicz, Carnegie Mellon University MAM ’18, Marketing
Claire Rivkin, Harvard University ’19, Artistic^
Zoë Sonnenberg, Stanford University ’18, Education & Community Programs
Jamie Tippett, Stanford University ’19, Sound
^With support from the Harvard University Office of Career Services