Small town librarian Arthur Huey’s world is crumbling.  It seemed best friend Chuck’s was too, but wooing Esther dressed as a caveman and chasing her around his museum with a spear meant that things got better for Chuck. Not so for Arthur. He’s lost his library which is being turned into office space. Bad enough, but when you are a direct descendant of the man who invented the Dewey Decimal Classification System there’s a legacy at stake. A history. If Arthur’s wife was around things might be okay. But Arthur's wife is, in fact, Esther, the woman who was chased around the museum by Chuck.

Arthur and Esther, the dark comedy that won acclaim at the New York Fringe 2007 and just recently in February 2008 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco, probes the murky and marvelous world of Arthur Huey. The story of one man’s spectacular and unorthodox attempt to reconcile the ghosts of the past with the promise of the future. 

Taylor Hanes appears as Arthur, the role he originated and performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre at the New York Fringe Festival.. Over the last eight years he has been a regular guest artist with the Nevada Conservatory Theatre performing in everything from Hamlet to The Laramie Project. British playwright Ross Howard is hot. In the past twelve months, his plays have been performed in Alaska, Nebraska, Minnesota, California, New York and in April 2008 was awarded a Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation for Arthur and Esther. He was described in Las Vegas Review Journal as having a “demented vision of life that is worth experiencing”.