Thursday, June 5 2025

Arts at the Armory’s Spotlight Series Presents Tinder Live! with Lane Moore
on June 5, 2025.

Tinder Live! With Lane Moore is the critically-acclaimed comedy show where Moore projects her dating app onto a screen, swipes through profiles live on stage, and the audience votes whether she swipes right or left, to cathartic, hilarious, and surprisingly kind results.

Tinder Live is known for being one of the best comedy shows on earth, selling out shows across the U.S. and Canada, headlining festivals like SF Sketchfest, and maintaining a long-running monthly residency in New York City. The show has been named a critics’ pick for Best Comedy Show in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Spin Magazine, The Guardian, Paper Magazine, VICE, Paste Magazine, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, New York Magazine, The New York Post, Time Out, Huffington Post, CBS, and New York Observer. 

Tinder Live regularly features special guests like David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Anna Faris, Paul F Tompkins, Amber Tamblyn, Sasheer Zamata, Ed Solomon, Lamorne Morris, Busy Phillips, David Koechner, Jon Glaser, Hari Kondabolu, Aparna Nancherla, Mara Wilson, Stacy London, Ashley Nicole Black, Jo Firestone, Laura Benanti, Amanda Knox, Stephanie March, James Urbaniak, Lizz Winstead, Heather Matarazzo, Scott Adsit, Grace Helbig, Sondre Lerche, JD Samson, Jean Grae, and many more. 

PRESS

“Truly addictive entertainment…it’s ingenious. The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form.” —The New York Times

“Tinder Live is great, it’s so fucking funny. Fantastic. Highly recommend.” – David Cross

“Consistently funny. One of the best comedy shows around.” – Vulture

“Compassionate and hilarious…it’s a smash.” – Spin Magazine

“A hilarious comedy show. Moore isn’t cynical about love, she’s just put in a lot of time in the trenches.” —New York Magazine

“Tinder Live captures all the magic of this truly ridiculous era in app-based dating in real time. You’ll relate to Moore’s live-swiping and laugh at her reactions and messages to would-be suitors.” — Vulture, who listed Tinder Live in their list of vital NYC comedy shows

“Blisteringly hilarious. In anyone else’s hands this could feel mean-spirited, but Moore makes it cathartic, a bracing comedic espresso shot. ” —Brooklyn Based

“Always hilarious. Tinder Live with Lane Moore is one of our favorites.” —Time Out

“Moore flips the online dating experience on its ear; swiping right on everyone who you wouldn’t date, while refusing to pursue someone ordinary. The show [is] magic.” —SF Gate

“A ridiculously good time. It’s a gonzo romance extravaganza with a treasure trove of ridiculous tips, tricks, and swipe etiquette. Lane Moore hilariously rips apart arrogant, misogynist, or frightening creepers, while genuine, sweet, or earnest schlubs receive a merciful left swipe and remain unmocked.” —Village Voice, who listed Lane Moore in their Best Of NYC

“Tinder Live makes light of just how absurd and soul-sucking swiping through an endless procession of other human beings can become. Moore expertly steers the crowd from mean-heartedness to substance with each match.” — VICE

Don’t miss the chance to see Moore upend the world of online dating on June 5th! Doors will open at 7:00PM, the show will start at 8:00PM with a local opener.

Tickets purchased for Tinder Live! with Lane Moore are non-refundable. All sales are final.

We strive to be a welcoming, accessible community arts space. We are delighted to announce we have joined Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture program.

Arts at the Armory will offer 10 free tickets (max of 2 free tickets per person) to EBT, WIC and ConnectCareholders for each Spotlight Series performance. Please contact administrator@artsatthearmory.org for more information.

Arts at the Armory Spotlight Series welcomes the legendary 10,000 Maniacs May 28, 2025

May 28th at 7:00PM

Arts at the Armory welcomes the legendary 10,000 Maniacs to the Spotlight Series stage on May 28, 2025!

Celebrating their 40th Anniversary, 10,000 Maniacs has a lot in common with Jamestown, New York, the city that spawned them back in 1981. Both are honest and hardworking, a step outside the mainstream, and both possess a bit of magic. “It’s a city of blue-collar poetry,” says keyboardist Dennis Drew. “And that’s what we’re about, real-life stories. We’re a family, we do real work and we keep moving forward.”

The band has covered plenty of ground in its 40 years, from cult-stardom to international stardom, to their current status as a cornerstone alternative band. But the sound and spirit of 10,000 Maniacs remains consistent. The live shows embrace their entire catalog, and the lineup is still anchored by four of the six original members. Drew, guitarist John Lombardo, and bassist Steven Gustafson co-founded the band in 1981. Drummer Jerome Augustyniak joined in 1982, solidifying the rhythm section. And the two “new” members have long been part of the family: Mary Ramsey toured and recorded with the Maniacs as a viola player and backup singer beginning in 1991 before stepping into the front woman’s role 27 years ago. 

Experience 10,000 Maniacs live this spring at Arts at the Armory! Doors will open at 7:00pm, music will kick off at 8:00PM with an to-be-announced opening act.

Arts at the Armory Spotlight Series Presents From Baghdad to Brooklyn by Michelle Azar

Sunday, March 16th at 5:00PM

From Baghdad to Brooklyn is Azar’s story of her ancestors’ immigrant journey charted in a map of music traditions and cultural celebrations.

Arts at the Armory’s Spotlight Series is thrilled to present Michelle Azar’s original one-woman show on March 16, 2025.  

With an angelic voice, deep sentiment and humor, Michelle tells a timely story of a family’s love and dysfunction set against an historical and redemptive background.

Azar describes the evolution of From Baghdad to Brooklyn since it’s inception in 2017: “The show has morphed and continues to do so. Sometimes the story is more about fear. Sometimes it is more about redemption. Sometimes the story tracks more my Ashkenazi background, and sometimes, more my Sephardic. Whatever the course this show takes, it is an ongoing discovery of what it still means to live in vague prejudice, in moments of hidden fears and intolerance as fueled by the historical backdrop that I never lived.”

Azar’s performance will be accompanied by Oud player Yonatan Battat and a soon-to-be announced pianist.

From Baghdad to Brooklyn is presented by Arts at the Armory in partnership with the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music. A special performance by a local Klezmer band will follow Azar’s play – stay tuned for more details!

Doors will open at 5:00pm, music will start at 5:30pm followed by the performance at 6:00pm.