{"id":118166,"date":"2023-05-06T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118166"},"modified":"2023-05-06T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:09:19","slug":"comedian-jacqueline-novak-coming-to-artsquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118166","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Jacqueline Novak coming to ArtsQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"date\">Friday, May 12<\/b>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelstacks.org\/event\/14094\/jacqueline-novak-get-on-your-knees\/#daystimes\">view days &amp; times<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Price: $32 | $30 ages 25 and under &amp; senior*<\/b><b>\u00a0| $29\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/support\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArtsQuest Member<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Venue:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelstacks.org\/event\/14094\/jacqueline-novak-get-on-your-knees\/#venue\">Visitor Center presented by St. Luke&#8217;s University Health Network<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tix\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.artsquest.org\/Online\/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&amp;BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=BACD6A93-6496-4FDB-961E-925AF6054DCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doors: 7 p.m. | Show: 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em>About GET ON YOUR KNEES<\/em><br \/>\nOstensibly a hilarious stand-up show about the blowjob, Get on Your Knees is also an unexpectedly philosophical, coming-of-age tale of triumph. A break-out hit off-Broadway, audiences returned for repeat viewings across multiple sold out runs in NYC. This New York Times \u201cCritic\u2019s Pick&#8221; earned Jacqueline a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. Jacqueline has since toured the show nationally and internationally. This tour is the very last chance to see Get on Your Knees live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrilliant&#8230;&#8221;-\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly her masterwork.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn overthinker\u2019s delight&#8230; &#8211;\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe true subject of Get on Your Knees is language and its beautiful, delusional attempts to make amends for human finitude.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<em>New York Review of Books, by Andrea Long Chu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a moment when the boundaries between high and low culture have all but dissolved, Novak has found one of the few remaining tensions to play with.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Paris Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jokes are tremendous.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<em>Natasha Lyonne for Interview Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a staggering show.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<em>Miranda July<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;as if Andrea Dworkin and Spaulding Gray had a child they made listen to only Moms Mabley and read only Mary Oliver.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<em>Jeremy O. Harris<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I howled the whole time.&#8221; \u2013\u00a0<em>Amy Sedaris<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ladies and Gentlemen, I have seen the Muhammad Ali of comedy.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<em>John Mulaney<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>About Jacqueline Novak<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JACQUELINE NOVAK (<em>Writer\/performer<\/em>)<br \/>\nJacqueline Novak is a touring comedian and author and regular on \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers\u201d and \u201cThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.\u201d Jacqueline\u2019s memoir\u00a0<em>How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows<\/em>\u00a0was published by Crown in 2016 and is now available as an audiobook. New episodes of POOG, a Time Magazine Top Ten Podcast 2021, come out every Tuesday, cohosted with Kate Berlant. Follow Jacqueline for tour information at: Instagram: @jacnov<\/p>\n<p>This show will contain adult language and\/or situations. Seating will be assigned by ArtsQuest staff upon arrival into the showroom. Anyone coming in between the ages of 13 and 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. No child 12 or under will be admitted. All performers and staff must adhere to our codes of conduct found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelstacks.org\/events\/comedy\/artsquest-comedy-codes-of-conduct\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*Ages 25 and under &amp; senior discounts apply at the box office only.<\/p>\n<h5>SCHEDULE<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday, May 12, 2023 @ 7:30 PM\u00a0<a id=\"atedrop1\" class=\" addthisevent-drop\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steelstacks.org\/event\/14094\/jacqueline-novak-get-on-your-knees\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>VENUE INFORMATION<\/h5>\n<p><b>Visitor Center presented by St. Luke&#8217;s University Health Network<\/b><br \/>\n711 E. First St.<br \/>\nBethlehem, PA 18015<br \/>\n610-297-7201<a id=\"map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/711+E.+First+St.++Bethlehem%2C+PA+18015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees &nbsp; Friday, May 12\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0view days &amp; times Price: $32 | $30 ages 25 and under &amp; senior*\u00a0| $29\u00a0ArtsQuest Member Venue:\u00a0Visitor Center presented by St. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=118166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comedian Jacqueline Novak coming to ArtsQuest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Novak.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}