Playwrights Horizons 'Drunken City' $5 Ticket Lotto Now Open

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular online lottery LIVEforFIVE for $5 tickets to its next production, The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).  A total of 40 tickets will be available for the show via the lottery.

 

A new initiative created this season as part of the theater company's Arts Access program, LIVEforFIVE makes available $5 tickets for the first preview performance of each Playwrights Horizons production through a lottery via the company's website.  The LIVEforFIVE lottery for The Drunken City will be for tickets to the first preview on Thursday, March 13 at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater (

416 West 42nd Street

). 

 

Directed by Trip Cullman (Some Men, Swimming in the Shallows, Bad Jazz, The Last Sunday in June, Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons), the production features Cassie Beck (world premiere of Adam Bock's Thursday at Encore Theatre), Mike Colter (A Soldier's Play at Second Stage), Maria Dizzia (Eurydice at Second Stage), Barrett Foa (Avenue Q, Spelling Bee), Sue Jean Kim (BFE at Playwrights Horizons, 365 Days/Plays) and Alfredo Narciso (A Streetcar Named Desire at Roundabout, The Misanthrope at NYTW).

 

Details for the LIVEforFIVE lottery are as follows: theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at www.playwrightshorizons.org. Entries will be accepted until Monday, March 10 at 12 Noon.  Winners of the lottery will be notified via email by Tuesday, March 11 at 12 Noon with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets.  One or two tickets may be purchased for $5 each. 

 

"The Drunken City is a wildly theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps.  Off on the bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be (Ms. Beck, Ms. Dizzia, Ms. Kim) find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them (Ms. Beck) suddenly begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger (Mr. Colter)," states press notes. 

 

Debuting with the current 2007/2008 season, LIVEforFIVE is a new initiative as part of the theater company's Arts Access program, which allows the institution to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket.

 

Reflecting Playwrights Horizons' ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, the theater company will continue to offer 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.  The company will also continue to offer 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 student ID required.

 

LIVEforFIVE, HOTtix, and student rush are just a few of Playwrights Horizons' popular Arts Access initiatives, which allow the theater company to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket.

 

Playwrights Horizons is grateful to the lead sponsor of Arts Access at Playwrights Horizons, Goldman, Sachs & Co.  Arts Access is also supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation.

 

Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Council, the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.  In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Charina Endowment Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and Time Warner Inc.

 

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American Playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.  In its 37 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 375 writers and has received numerous awards and honors. Notable productions include four Pulitzer Prize winners: Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, as well as Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards), Bruce Norris's The Pain and the Itch, Lynn Nottage's Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting), Craig Lucas's Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play), Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, Kirsten Childs's The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey's James Joyce's The Dead, William Finn's March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Richard Nelson's Goodnight Children Everywhere and Franny's Way, Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire, Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room, A.R. Gurney's Later Life, Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet. 

 

For subscription and ticket information to all Playwrights Horizons productions,

call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200, noon to 8 pm daily, or purchase online at the Playwrights Horizons website at www.playwrightshorizons.org.

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