Single Tickets for MTC's New York City Center Productions Now On Sale

Single tickets for Manhattan Theatre Club’s productions at New York City Center, including the announced productions of ROMANTIC POETRY, RUINED, and BACK BACK BACK, are on sale now.

Tickets to these three shows are available via the New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), City Tix (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Single tickets for ROMANTIC POETRY are $85, with RUINED tickets at $75 and BACK BACK BACK tickets at $50.

MTC will announce a second production at New York City Center – Stage II at a later date.

Additional listings information including the performance schedule for each production will be announced in the coming weeks.

You can purchase tickets several ways:

-Via New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), City Tix (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org

-By calling CityTix at (212) 581-1212. Group and student rates are also available. For group ticket information, call (212) 399-3000 x 4132. Student tickets are $25 and will be on sale for all performances based on availability on the day of the performance, up to one hour before showtime. Call (212) 581-1212 for further information.

-MTC Subscriptions: You can subscribe to MTC by calling (212) 399-3030, Monday - Thursday, noon - 6 PM and Friday, 10 AM – 2 PM, with a major credit card. Subscriptions are available online at www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

ABOUT ROMANTIC POETRY

ROMANTIC POETRY will feature book and lyrics by John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck), music by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls), and direction by Shanley.

The show will star Jeb Brown (Grease, Ring of Fire), Jerry Dixon (tick, tick… BOOM!; Once On This Island), Ivan Hernandez (Zhivago, The Fantasticks), Mark Linn-Baker (Almost An Evening, “Perfect Strangers”), Patina Renea Miller (Hair, “All My Children”), and Emily Swallow (High Fidelity, The Black Eyed).

ROMANTIC POETRY will begin performances at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street) on Tuesday, September 30. The limited engagement will open Tuesday, October 28.

From the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Doubt and the two-time Tonyâ-nominated composer of Dreamgirls comes this crackpot musical romance.

Connie of Woodmere has just married Fred of Newark, but her exes are back in the picture and not sure they approve of the union. Mary of Greenpoint climbs Frankie of Little Italy’s fire escape with amorous erotic intent - but things go awry as she reaches for her dream.

They are all mad and they are all sane and they are all creating ROMANTIC POETRY. Genuine emotion and the excitement of living an ideal crisscross like a night of shooting stars. When you have the Academy Awardâ-winning author of Moonstruck writing the book and lyrics, and the two-time Grammyâ-winning composer of Dreamgirls collaborating, you know something delicious is coming from the kitchen.

The creative team for ROMANTIC POETRY will include: David Korins (scenic design), Laura Bauer (costume design), Donald Holder (lighting design), Brian Ronan (sound design), Devanand Janki (musical staging), Sam Davis (music director / vocal arranger), August Eriksmoen (orchestrations), Howard Joines (Music Coordinator), and David Caparelliotis (casting).

ABOUT BACK BACK BACK

Does greatness always come with a price? Can only someone with nothing to lose tell the whole truth? From Itamar Moses, the acclaimed writer of last season's MTC Stage II hit The Four Of Us and Bach at Leipzig, comes a stirring new drama about America's favorite pastime. BACK BACK BACK follows the turbulent careers of three very different teammates in baseball's steroid era whose clubhouse secrets bring them under federal scrutiny.

Directed by Daniel Aukin, formerly the Artistic Director of Soho Rep, this New York premiere reveals a riveting portrait of pressure, paranoia and payback in professional sports.

The New York premiere of BACK BACK BACK will begin previews on Thursday, October 30. The limited engagement will open Tuesday, November 18 at New You City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

Casting for BACK BACK BACK will be announced in the coming weeks.

ABOUT RUINED

From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel, comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war.  Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi (Tony Awardâ winner Adriane Lenox), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war.  But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life? Directing is Kate Whoriskey, who staged Ms. Nottage’s Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons.

In addition to Lenox, the cast will also feature Quincy Tyler Bernstine (The Misanthrope at NYTW), Cherise Boothe (The Piano Lesson at The Kennedy Center), Chris Chalk (MTC’s Defiance), William Jackson Harper (Queens Boulevard), Chiké Johnson (The Crucible at Steppenwolf), Russell Gebert Jones (Our Lady of 121st Street), two-time Emmyâ Award winner Kevin Mambo (“The Guiding Light”), Tom Mardirosian (Wonderful Town, HBO’s “Oz”), and Condola Rashad (Pearl at The Kennedy Center).

RUINED is a co-production with the Goodman Theatre (Robert Falls, Artistic Director; Roche Schulfer, Executive Director), which will present the play this fall prior to the production coming to MTC.

Prior to coming to MTC, RUINED will open in Chicago on Monday, November 17 at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. After the Chicago run, the production will come to MTC at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street) where the limited engagement will begin previews on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 and open Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

ABOUT MTC

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned a total of 16 Tony Awards and five Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. Renowned MTC productions include Top Girls; From Up Here; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Receptionist; LoveMusik; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Kimberly Akimbo; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Sylvia; Four Dogs and a Bone; Putting It Together; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain’t Misbehavin’.

This season, MTC’s Broadway stage will be renamed the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The landmarked theatre has been the institution’s home on Broadway since 2003 and was rehabilitated by MTC following a two-year, $35 million capital campaign. In addition, MTC operates two theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street), its Off-Broadway home since 1984.

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