Broadway's THE ENCOUNTER Announces Student Ticket Policy

Producers of the Broadway production of Complicite's The Encounter announced today the show's student ticket policies.

$40 student tickets will be available both at the box office and in advance through www.Tix4Students.com. Student Rush tickets will be cash only and available on the day of performance when the box office opens (Mon. - Sat. at 10 AM, Sun. at 12 PM).

Tickets through www.Tix4Students.com are available in advance to students who have verified ID through the program. Two tickets per valid student ID. Subject to availability.

Direct from London and an international tour, Complicite's acclaimed production of The Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, will play a limited engagement at Broadway's John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), opening on Thursday, September 29 and closing on January 8 2017. Previews begin on September 20.

Critics have reached for superlatives to describe the transcendent and unforgettable event which has stunned audiences in its previous engagements in London, Edinburgh and across Europe.

In 1969, Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life: bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.

Simon McBurney traces McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, using binaural technology (3D audio) to build an intimate and shifting world of sound. Audience members are given headphones to be worn throughout the performance in order to fully experience the visually stunning world created on stage - and inside their heads. Through innovative aural technology and brilliant storytelling, this is a heart-stopping, riveting, and slyly witty night of theater.

Richard Katz will perform the role at certain performances.

The creative team is Kirsty Housley (co-director), Michael Levine (design), Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin (sound design), Paul Anderson (lighting), Will Duke (projection) and Jemima James (associate director).

The Complicite production of The Encounter is produced on Broadway by Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Douglas L. Meyer, James D. Stern, Barbara & Alan D. Marks, Timothy Headington, Ian Bentley, Don Clark, Dan D'Angelo, Jim Kierstead, Willette & Manny Klausner, D. ReBecca Davies/Marks-Moore-Turnbull Group, Gary Goddard Entertainment/Jerry Katell, Larry Kroll/David L. Shapiro. It is originally a Complicite co-production with Edinburgh International Festival, the Barbican, London, Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens,Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre.

The Encounter runs two hours with no intermission. For more information regarding hearing impaired customers, visit the show's website.