Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the World Premiere of THIS, a new play by Obie Award winner Melissa James Gibson (Suitcase, [sic]).
A ticketing initiative created in 2007 as part of the theater company's Arts Access program, LIVEforFIVE makes $5 tickets available for the first preview performance of each Playwrights Horizons production through a lottery via the company's website (www.playwrightshorizons.org). The LIVEforFIVE lottery for THIS will be for tickets to the first preview on Friday, November 6 at 8PM at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).
Directed by Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin ([sic], eight seasons as Artistic Director of Soho Rep), THIS will have its official opening on Wednesday, December 2 at 7PM and continue through Sunday, December 13. The cast features JuliAnne Nicholson (Detective Megan Wheeler on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," Craig Lucas's Stranger at The Vineyard, the recently-opened film Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), Louis Cancelmi (The Singing Forest, Blasted), Obie Award winner Eisa Davis (Passing Strange, seen last in her own play Angela's Mix Tape produced by New Georges and the Hip-Hop Theater Festival), Glenn Fitzgerald (Lortel nomination for Lobby Hero at Playwrights Horizons, Brian Darling on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money") and Darren Pettie (Spatter Pattern at Playwrights Horizons, Butley on Broadway, the film Taking Woodstock).
Details for the LIVEforFIVE lottery are as follows: beginning Wednesday, October 28 at 10 AM, theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at www.playwrightshorizons.org. Entries will be accepted until Monday, November 2 at 12 Noon. Winners of the lottery will be notified via email no later than 3PM on Monday, November 2 with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets. Unclaimed tickets will be offered via email starting at 12 Noon on Tuesday, November 3 on a first-come, first-served basis. One or two tickets may be purchased for $5 each. At least 50 tickets will be available for Mainstage shows via the lottery.
In THIS, Jane (JuliAnne Nicholson) is not okay. She's a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her dating life's a shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy captures the uncertain steps of a circle of friends backing their way into middle age.
The Arts Access program at Playwrights Horizons allows the institution to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-prIce Theater ticket. This program is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, McGraw-Hill Companies and the Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation.
Other Arts Access initiatives, both of which reflect Playwrights Horizons' ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, include HOTtix, $20 rush tickets, subject to availability, day of performance only, starting one hour before showtime to patrons aged 30 and under. Proof of age required. One ticket per person, per purchase. STUDENT RUSH, $15 rush tickets, subject to availability, day of performance only, starting one hour before curtain to full-time graduate and undergraduate students. One ticket per person, per purchase. Valid full-time student ID required.
