Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) begins accepting entries today, Wednesday, February 22, for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to the New York premiere of THE BIG MEAL, a new play by Dan LeFranc (Sixty Miles to Silver Lake at P73/Soho Rep, In the Labyrinth at Soho Rep), directed by Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation and Kin at PH, Seminar on Broadway, Tigers Be Still, The Aliens, The Coward).
A ticketing initiative created in 2007 as part of
Playwrights Horizons’ Arts Access program, LIVEforFIVE makes a limited number of $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 THE BIG MEAL will be for tickets to the first preview on Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 PM at
Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).
Details for the lottery are as follows: beginning today at 10AM, theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at
www.PlaywrightsHorizons.org. Entries will be accepted until Monday, February 27 at 12 Noon. Winners of the lottery will be notified via email no later than 3PM on Monday, February 27 with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets. Unclaimed tickets will be offered via email starting at 12 Noon on Tuesday, February 28 on a first-come, first-served basis. One or two tickets may be purchased for $5 each. At total of 40 tickets will be available for Sharp shows via the lottery.
The production will have its official opening on Wednesday, March 21 at 7PM and continue through Sunday, April 22. The cast features
David Wilson Barnes (
Becky Shaw, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Hamlet),
Griffin Birney (Billy Elliot),
Tom Bloom (Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry IV, Racing Demon), Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner
Anita Gillette (Chapter Two; Love, Loss and What I Wore; “30 Rock”), Drama Desk nominee
Jennifer Mudge (Dutchman, Oohrah!, The Philanthropist),
Rachel Resheff (The People in the Picture, Mary Poppins, Shrek), Cameron Scoggins (Off-Broadway debut),
Phoebe Strole (The Metal Children, Spring Awakening) and
Molly Ward (Kin at PH).
