MTC's FOOL FOR LOVE and RIPCORD Set Rush Policies

Manhattan Theatre Club has just announced its rush policies for the productions of Fool for Love (on Broadway at the Friedman Theatre) and RIPCORD (at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I). Scroll down for details!

FOOL FOR LOVE:

Student rush tickets are available at the theatre when the box office opens on the day of the show, subject to availability and at the box office's discretion. They are $27. There is a maximum of 2 tickets per valid, degree-seeking institution ID.

RIPCORD:

Student rush tickets are available at the box office, on the day of the show, subject to availability and at the box office's discretion. They are $25+ facility fee. There is a maximum of 2 tickets per valid ID.

In addition, "30 Under 30" is MTC's program where people 30 years old or younger can buy a pair of tickets for $30 to every show in the MTC season. For more information, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/season-tickets/30-under-30/.

The Broadway premiere of Fool for Love by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard, directed by Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin, will star Tony winner Nina Arianda, Sam Rockwell, Tom Pelphrey and Gordon Joseph Weiss. The limited engagement of Fool for Love begins previews Tuesday, September 15 and opens Thursday, October 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Holed up in a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two former lovers unpack the deep secrets and dark desires of their tangled relationship, passionately tearing each other apart. Beaten down by ill-fated love and a ruthless struggle for identity, can they ultimately live with, or without, each other? The company brings an explosive intensity to Sam Shepard's (Buried Child, True West) landmark myth of the new Wild West.

RIPCORD, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce, begins previews Tuesday, September 29, 2015 for a Tuesday, October 20, 2015 opening night at MTC at New YorkCity Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Daoud Heidami (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, "What's Your Emergency") and Nate Miller (Peter and the Starcatcher, MTC's Of Good Stock) complete that cast that also features previously announced Drama Desk Award winner Marylouise Burke (Kimberly Akimbo, Fuddy Meers), Rachel Dratch (Love's Labour's Lost, "Saturday Night Live"), Glenn Fitzgerald (Hamlet, The Sixth Sense), and Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Holland Taylor (Ann, "Two and a Half Men"). David Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rabbit Hole, Fuddy Meers, and Good People, returns to MTC with RIPCORD, a high-stakes comedy about two women of a certain age locked in a no-holds-barred battle to the death, directed by Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce.

A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Assisted Living Facility so when the cantankerous Abby (Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Holland Taylor) is forced to share her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn (frequent Lindsay-Abaire collaborator and Drama Desk Award winner Marylouise Burke), she has no choice but to get rid of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A seemingly harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a dangerous game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of these worthy opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather remain hidden. As heartfelt as it is deliciously inappropriate, this hilarious world premiere marks the author's sixth collaboration with MTC.