Kitchen Theatre Offers Pay What You Can Night at THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT, 4/24

The Kitchen Theatre is offering a limited number of Pay What You Can tickets to Wednesday night's performance of The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis.

The concept of Pay What You Can for admission to theater performances began a number of years ago. It was championed by TCG, the national theater organization, which encouraged theaters across the country to designate a specific night when people who cannot afford the usual ticket price pay what they can afford. It has grown to be a part of many theaters' performance schedule. Over the years, the Kitchen Theatre Company has had a variety of programs in place to encourage and support people for whom the regular price of a ticket is a barrier. For example, the Thursday 2pm Matinee Series is sponsored by Tompkins Trust Company, which allows the Kitchen to offer discounted tickets to seniors. This season the Kitchen began a Pay What You Can option on the third Wednesday night performance of each play.

Pay What You Can night for The Motherf**ker with the Hat will be on Wednesday, April 24th. The play closes on Sunday, April 28, and it has been a sell-out. Here's what the critics are saying:

To get a Pay What You Can ticket, show up at the Kitchen Theatre between 7 and 7:15 PM on Wed. April 24, and pay as much or as little as you'd like at the ticket counter.

Read more about the show at http://kitchentheatre.org/mhat.html.

Bold, intimate, engaging... Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC), in its 22nd season, is downtown Ithaca's critically acclaimed and nationally recognized year-round professional theater company, specializing in regional and world premiere plays and musicals. KTC's intimate 99-seat theater is in its LEED-certified "green" building in the West End neighborhood of downtown Ithaca, New York. KTC is the first not-for-profit recipient of the David R. Strong Memorial "Small Business of the Year" Award from the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce and receives public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, and the Tompkins County Tourism Program. The Kitchen Theatre Company also receives general operating support from the Shubert Foundation.