Obie-winning playwright and songwriter Ethan Lipton (2023 Awardee) has been thrilling and tickling audiences for nearly 20 years as the lead vocalist of his quartet, the wryly titled Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra, featuring Eben Levy (guitarist), Ian Riggs (bass), and Vito Dieterle (sax). The band’s undeniably catchy songs split the difference between Whitmanesque Americana and the dryly zany comedy of James Thurber, providing insight, giggles, and big feelings at roughly equivalent dosage. Now, in this new commission for Lincoln Center, Ethan & His Orchestra will realize its music with an actual orchestra, with arrangements and conducting by Giancarlo Vulcano, performing tracks from their new album, Did You Do the Thing We Talked About?, and the rest of their eclectic catalog. This one-of-a-kind event in Alice Tully Hall will celebrate the ridiculous, amplify the everyday, and thumb-wrestle with the gnarly challenge of being human.