All About Fellatio: Jacqueline Novak Brings 'Get On Your Knees' to Boston

ATG Colonial announces the Boston engagement of Jacqueline Novak's "Get On Your Knees," fresh off its four-time-extended hit off-Broadway engagement. The run is the first-stop of a national tour for the show.

Written and performed by comedian Jacqueline Novak, directed by John Early, executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and originally presented by Natasha Lyonne, ATG Colonial presents the Boston engagement in the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA for an intimate experience, the show will play a 16-performance run beginning Tuesday, March 31, 2020 and running through Sunday, April 12, 2020.

Tickets are $45 and go on sale to the general public this Friday, March 6, 2020 at 10 a.m. Tickets may be purchased online at https://www.bostontheatrescene.com; by calling 617-933-8600 or by visiting the box office at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA at 527 Tremont Street in Boston's South end. Please visit BostonTheatreScene.com for current box office and phone room hours. Online and phone ticket purchases are subject to standard service fees.

Comedian Jacqueline Novak's "Get On Your Knees" is the most high-brow show about blow jobs you'll ever see. Novak spins her material on the femininity of the penis and the stoicism of the vulva into an unexpectedly philosophical show that's part feminist outcry, part coming-of-age tale of triumph. Ira Glass calls it a "nearly Talmudic dissection of a subject. Really funny and just really like nothing else."

In picking the show as a New York Times' Critic Pick, critic Alexis Soloski wrote: "In 'Get On Your Knees,' a stand-up set that inclines toward theater, Ms. Novak provides a personal and intellectual history of fellatio. Shrewd, explicit, though not exactly raunchy, this is the funniest show about Cartesian dualism you will see all year."

And comedienne Ilana Glazer ("Broad City") says of the show: "I felt my teenage self seen and heard. I hope a lot of young women, older women, young men, older men and also non-binary peeps of all ages see this show because it's funny and healing."

"We are so excited for Boston audiences to experience this artist," said Erica Lynn Schwartz, general manager of the Colonial for Ambassador Theatre Group. "Presenting outside the four walls of the theatre is a new venture for us, but an important one, especially in terms of broadening our programming offerings and setting them in the right spaces."

For more information on the Boston engagement of "Get On Your Knees," For more information on the "Get On Your Knees" tour, visit Ms. Novak's website.