No Reservations: The Play

New York Times best-selling humorist Josh Piven gives theater audiences a best-case scenario for a surefire hit with the world premier of No Reservations. This highly original madcap holiday comedy satirizes our celebrity-obsessed, media-saturated culture, and asks what the age-old story of Christmas might look like today. Written by author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook and directed by Allison Heishman, the production runs November 26 through December 15, 2013 at Skybox @The Adrienne Theater. Tickets are available now for $18 to $25. For more information, call 267-225-7175.

No Reservations, a thoroughly modern retelling of the Nativity, is a classic tale re-imagined for our times: iPhones, TMZ, the Twitterverse, and an unforgettable “reality” show featuring a very timely birth. 

Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the cash-strapped innkeepers of The Speckled Partridge, have cleared their reservation books for a quiet Christmas. But when two young women—one of them very famous, and very pregnant—appear through a snowstorm, desperate for a place to stay, the relaxing holiday quickly begins to unravel. In short order the innkeepers are juggling a band of sarcastic carolers; a self-absorbed reporter; a fundamentalist carpenter; a washed-out Idol winner, and a big-shot TV producer—along with their own pseudo-feminist daughter—all fighting off a blizzard to take advantage of an innocent single mother on her way to Bethlehem. But how innocent is she, really?