COCK Celebrates 100th Performance at The Duke, Aug 11

Mike Bartlett's hit play c*ckwill play its 100th performance this Saturday, August 11 at 8pm.

The Royal Court Theatre's Olivier Award-winning play c*ckis written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James MacDonald and stars Jason Butler Harner as M, Amanda Quaid as W, Cory Michael Smith as John and Cotter Smith as F, c*ckopened on May 17 (previews began May 1) and is now playing through Sunday, October 7 only at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42nd STREET project, 229 West 42nd Street.

The performance schedule for c*ckis Tuesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2:30pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm and 7pm. Tickets are available by calling The Duke on 42nd Street Box Office at 646-223-3010 or online at www.Dukeon42.org. Ticket prices are $79.50 for all performances except Friday and Saturday evenings which are $89.50. Box office hours are Tuesday-Fridays from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Saturdays from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM and Sundays from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM. A limited number of $25 Student Rush tickets are available, subject to availability, two hours prior to curtain at the Duke Theater box office. A valid ID is required and there is a limit of two tickets per ID per person.

For more information about COCK, visit www.CockfightPlay.com.

Founded in 1990, The New 42nd Street is an independent, nonprofit organization charged with long-term responsibility for seven historic theaters on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. In addition to running The New Victory Theater, The New 42nd Street built and operates the NEW 42ND STREET Studios a ten-story building of rehearsal studios, offices and a 199-seat theater named The Duke on 42nd Street for national and international performing arts companies. Since its opening on June 21, 2000, the NEW 42ND STREET Studios has been fully occupied by both nonprofit and commercial theater, dance and opera companies. With these institutions and the other properties under its guardianship, The New 42nd Street plays a pivotal role in fostering the continued revival of this famous street at the Crossroads of the World.

The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate 199-seat black box theater built and operated by The New 42nd Street. Since opening in 2000, the theater has been available on a rental basis to international and domestic nonprofit organizations to present their work. Companies that have presented at The Duke on 42nd Street theater include: Theatre for a New Audience; Playwrights Horizons; Lincoln Center Great Performers; The NYC Tap Festival; and 92nd Street Y's Harkness Dance Project. In October 2008, Lincoln Center Theater launched "LCT3" at The Duke on 42nd Street. NEW 42ND STREET presentations at The Duke on 42nd Street have included: Karole Amitage's Armitage Gone! Dance; Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Rose Rage; Naked Angels and Dan Klores's Armed and Naked in America; and Classical Theater of Harlem's production of Langston Hughes's Black Nativity. Notable NEW VICTORY presentations at The Duke on 42nd Street include Joan McLeod's The Shape of a Girl, Steppenwolf Theater Company's The Bluest Eye and the smash hit, Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen, presented by The New Victory Theater in cooperation with The Under the Radar Festival.