NO PLACE TO GO’s 2012 premiere at The Public Theater was celebrated as one of the most unique and deeply relevant musical theater works to arrive in years. The company where he’s worked for the past 10 years is moving to another planet, and Ethan Lipton doesn’t want to go. Part love letter to his co-workers, part query to the universe, part protest to company and country, NO PLACE TO GO delivers an irreverent and personal musical ode to the unemployed.

One of NYC’s most loved live bands, the songs of Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra are steeped in American traditions of yore (jazz, blues, country, lounge), but his subjects are thoroughly modern (internet romance, racism, pets, police). It all adds up to a hilariously cockeyed view of an odd, disjointed age, combining the political wit of Woody Guthrie with the writing chops of Woody Allen. Popmatters calls Lipton, “A sardonic voice that offers an unlikely kind of comfort against the vagaries of everyday life.” Lipton is joined by his incomparable “Orchestra” of Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (upright bass) & Vito Dieterle (sax).