{"id":109906,"date":"2026-01-23T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109906\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:03:22","slug":"ars-nova-will-honor-matt-rogers-and-bowen-yang-at-2026-nova-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109906\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Nova Will Honor Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang at 2026 Nova Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"eyebrow eyebrow-custom\" title=\"Benefits and Galas\" style=\"color:#030303;\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/category\/benefits-and-galas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benefits and Galas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArs Nova Will Honor Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang at 2026 Nova Ball<\/p>\n<p>The pop culture mavens and hosts of the Las Cultaristas podcast will return to one of their first artistic homes for the fundraising event.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bowen-Yang-nd-Matt-Rogers.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers<\/p>\n<p>NYC artistic incubator Ars Nova will honor\u00a0Las Cultaristas hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang at its\u00a02026 Nova Ball, set for March 9 at City Winery in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The honor will see the pop culture mavens returning to one of their earliest artistic homes; both Rogers and Yang are Ars Nova alum. Yang went on to star on seven seasons of NBC&#8217;s\u00a0SNL, a tenure that ended just last month; along with playing friend-of-Glinda Pfannee in\u00a0Wicked and\u00a0Wicked:\u00a0For Good on screen. Rogers has appeared on screen with Yang in\u00a0Fire Island, and has also starred in\u00a0No Good Deed and\u00a0I Love That For You. Their podcast,\u00a0Las Cultaristas, is among the genre&#8217;s most popular, earning the title of Podcast of the Year at the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards in 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Ball will begin with a cocktail party followed by dinner and a performance and live auction. Proceeds from the event will support the company&#8217;s new work development program and world premiere productions as it enters its third decade.<\/p>\n<p>Individual tickets, tables, sponsorships, and journal ads are all currently available at <a href=\"https:\/\/arsnovanyc.com\/nova-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ArsNovaNYC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benefits and Galas Ars Nova Will Honor Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang at 2026 Nova Ball The pop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-109906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}