Stuff Takes Center Stage in Geoff Sobelle's THE OBJECT LESSON, Opening Tonight at NYTW

THE OBJECT LESSON, the third production of the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) 2016/17 Season, by NYTW Usual Suspect Geoff Sobelle (all wear bowlers), is directed by NYTW Usual Suspect David Neumann (Restless Eye), with scenic installation design by Steven Dufala.

THE OBJECT LESSON opens tonight, February 9, at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003) for a limited run through Sunday, March 5, 2017.

Actor-illusionist-inventor and NYTW Usual Suspect Geoff Sobelle's "virtuosic" New York Times Critics Pick THE OBJECT LESSON comes to NYTW for a strictly limited engagement. This tactile installation turns the theatre into a storage facility of gargantuan proportion where audiences are free to roam and sift through the clutter.

Sobelle transforms this makeshift attic into a space of reflection and wonder as he unpacks our relationship to everyday objects: breaking, buying, finding, fixing, giving, losing, winning, trading, selling, stealing, storing, collecting, cluttering, clearing, packing up, passing on, buried under... a world of things. THE OBJECT LESSON is a meditation on the stuff we cling to and the crap we leave behind.

Single tickets for THE OBJECT LESSON are $65, with $45 tickets available for performances from February 2 to February 8. THE OBJECT LESSON can be purchased at NYTW.org and by phone at 212-460-5475. Standard ticketing fees apply to all orders.

In order to provide access to those in their surrounding community and those with income limitations, NYTW launched CHEAPTIX, an affordable ticket program. At the first two performances of every NYTW production, tickets will be sold to the general public for just $25. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, online at NYTW.org or by phone from the NYTW Box Office at 212-460-5475. Standard ticketing fees apply.

Additionally, a $25 day-of ticket rush will be available for young people, seniors, artists and Lower East Side residents. Rush tickets are subject to availability and are sold cash-only, limit two per person. Proper identification is required for all rush tickets. Youth (ages 25 and under) and seniors (ages 65+) may present an ID indicating date-of-birth; Artists may present an ID and a program or union card; Lower East Side residents may present an ID that includes your address.

The performance schedule for THE OBJECT LESSON is as follows: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday and Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm.

Currently running at New York Theatre Workshop is William Shakespeare's OTHELLO, directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold (Fun Home). Single tickets for OTHELLO are sold out. A limited number of tickets are available to members of NYTW's patron program, the Society of Repeat Defenders. The final production of the 2016/17 season will be NYTW Usual Suspect Mfoniso Udofia's SOJOURNERS and HER PORTMANTEAU, presented in repertory, directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and former NYTW 2050 Fellow Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (The Mysteries) in Spring 2017.

New York Theatre Workshop, now in its fourth decade of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village, NYTW presents four new productions, over 80 readings and numerous workshop productions for over 45,000 audience members. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs, including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies and artist fellowships. Since its founding, NYTW has produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent; Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Quills; Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh's Once; Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher; David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus; Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown; and seven acclaimed productions directed by Ivo Van Hove. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.