Pulitzer Prize Winner THE FLICK Sets New Opening Night at Barrow Street Theatre

Previews begin tomorrow (Tuesday, May 5) for playwright Annie Baker's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Flick. The production returns to Off-Broadway in May, directed once again by Sam Gold and featuring Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher, and Aaron Clifton Moten, reprising their acclaimed performances. Opening night is Monday, May 18 at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street, corner of Seventh Avenue), and the show will play a 16-week limited engagement through Sunday, August 30.

Tickets to The Flick are available by visiting www.smarttix.com, calling 212-868-4444, or visiting the Barrow Street Theatre box office (27 Barrow Street, opens 1pm daily). During previews, tickets for Tuesday - Thursday performances at 7:30pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2:30pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm are priced at $55, with performances Sunday evening at 7:30pm priced at $45. Beginning May 29, Tuesday through Sunday matinee performances are priced at $75, with Sunday evenings priced at $59. Student tickets are also available for $25 the day of the performance via www.smarttix.com or the box office. $25 student tickets are limited to one ticket per student ID.

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

The Flick premiered at Playwrights Horizons in March 2013 and, in addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, won its author a 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting.

The production will also reunite The Flick's original design team: David Zinn (Scenic and Costume Design), Jane Cox (Lighting Design), and Bray Poor (Sound Design).

Over the last decade, the Barrow Street Theatre has been home to some of Off-Broadway's most successful productions. Memorable past attractions include Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter; Bug, by Tracy Letts; Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow; Nilaja Sun's No Child; The Civilians' Gone Missing; Thornton Wilder's Our Town; Fiasco's Cymbeline; Nina Raine's Tribes; and, most recently, Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing.

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