Michael Arthur specializes in both drawing the intimate moments of theater, dance and music as well as performing "live drawings", visually accompanying music and performers with projected, real time illustrations. He draws mostly in ink without any pencils or rough drafts: each drawing is a live reaction to the moment. Michael's drawings have appeared at Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Departures Magazine, NPR, The Huffington Post and many other places.

I’ll be drawing live along with these wonderful folks at City Winery, NYC Sunday March 17. Tickets available here.

Really Looking forward to this! More details and tickets here.

I Get Wild makes its Cutting Room debut on Friday, September 22 and I’ll be drawing along and singing a bit too! Click here for tickets and more details. (poster by Jeremy Haines)

I Get Wild returns to the Falcon in Marlboro, New York. They have a great big screen where I can draw great big heads during the show. Click here for tickets, details and more info! (Poster by Jeremy Haines!)

If you’re in the Hudson Valley area, I’ll be selling limited edition prints and one of a kind things this weekend at World’s End Comics in Kingston, New York. Stay tuned here for a few new prints being added to my web store in conjunction with this event!

I made this video to accompany the It’s No Secret podcast, available wherever fine podcasts are found. It tells the tale of the epic (failed) audition that Twang Twang Shockaboom did for Tommy Mottola and the heads of CBS Records a long, long time ago. Come for the showbiz story; stay for Mariah.

Due to popular demand, here’s a limited edition print of The National at the Bearsville Theatre, drawn at their surprise show on March 4, 2023. There are only fifty available in the store, HERE.

Drawing soundcheck for the Piano Recital at Carnegie Hall. Photo by Vince Brazen.

A Little Night Music, drawn for Symphony Space’s gala event honoring Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical. The event, CELEBRATING SONDHEIM: SONGS FROM A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC took place on April 25, 2022.

Symphony Space celebrated Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music on April 25th with an all star concert presentation. They asked me to create this piece, a live drawing done while listening to the original Broadway soundtrack a few weeks earlier. Limited edition prints were given to gala attendees and a large print, signed by myself and the cast, was auctioned to raise money for Symphony Space.