Small town librarian Arthur Huey’s world is crumbling. His best friend Chuck’s was too, but wooing Esther as a Homo erectus 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 chased around the museum by Chuck.

Arthur and Esther, the dark comedy that won acclaim at the New York Fringe 2007 and in 2008 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco, probes the murky and marvelous world of Arthur Huey. The spectacular story of one man’s 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 ten years he has been a regular guest artist with the Nevada Conservatory Theatre performing in everything from Hamlet to The Laramie Project to The Music Man. The plays of British playwright Ross Howard have been performed in Alaska, Nebraska, Minneapolis, San Francisco and New York City 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".