Starting Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00 AM, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will be accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the New York premiere of PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY, a new play by two-time Tony Award nominee, Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner Craig Lucas (Small Tragedy at Playwrights Horizons, The Light in the Piazza, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, The Dying Gaul). At least 50 tickets will be available via the online lottery.
A ticketing initiative created last season 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 PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY will be for tickets to the first preview on Friday, November 14 at 8:00 PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).
Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons, the current Broadway revival of South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza), PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY will have its official opening on Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 PM and continue through Sunday, December 21. The cast features Tony Award winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, the recent The Marriage of Bette and Boo at Roundabout, Follies and Juno at City Center, How to Succeed..., the film The Happening), Tony Award winner Michele Pawk (Hollywood Arms, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, Drama Desk nominations for Crazy For You, Cabaret and Off-Broadway’s The Paris Letter), Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, the recent and Broadway-bound Hair for Shakespeare in the Park, Ang Lee’s upcoming film Taking Woodstock), 2008 Theatre World Award winner Cassie Beck (The Drunken City), Zachary Booth (the current film Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, the upcoming Taking Woodstock, both Spine and Pentecost at The Barrow Group) and Skipp Sudduth (Lincoln Center’s current South Pacific).
Details for the LIVEforFIVE lottery are as follows: beginning Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00 AM, theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at www.playwrightshorizons.org. Entries will be accepted until Monday, November 10 at 12 Noon. Winners of the lottery will be notified via email no later than 3:00 PM on Monday, November 10 with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets. Unclaimed tickets will be offered via email starting at 12 Noon on Tuesday, November 11 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.
“Between wars, what is there to do but recall the last and plan for the next?” As the Red Sox fight the Yankees for the AL title, and an enigmatic outsider (Victoria Clark) unspools a tale of filial responsibility, an American family confronts its demons – a son (Jonathan Groff) returning from Iraq, a father (Skipp Sudduth) battling the bottle, and a triangle of unresolved romantic tension. Craig Lucas’s new play is a keenly-layered drama about the preciousness of life and the grace to share common ground – even with those we love the least.
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.
Reflecting Playwrights Horizons’ ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, the theater company will 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. 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 some 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 Goldman, Sachs & Co., lead sponsor of Arts Access at Playwrights Horizons. This program is also supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, McGraw-Hill Companies and the Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation.
Playwrights Horizons’ 2008/2009 Season is generously supported by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
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 State Assembly and the New York State Senate. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, Charina Endowment Fund, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Shubert Foundation 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 38 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 375 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, most recently being honored with a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for “ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work.” 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 Adam Rapp’s Kindness, John Dempsey, Michael Friedman and Rinne Groff’s Saved, Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (2006 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical), 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.
