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Playwrights Horizons now accepting online lottery entries for $5 tix to KAMA SUTRA

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 12:15 pm EDT 03/19/14

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS IS NOW ACCEPTING “LIVEforFIVE” LOTTERY ENTRIES STARTING TODAY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 FOR $5 TICKETS TO TWO EARLY PREVIEWS OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA A NEW PLAY BY KIRK LYNN DIRECTED BY OBIE AWARD WINNER ANNE KAUFFMAN AT ITS OFFICIAL WEBSITE www.PHnyc.org “LIVEforFIVE” Ticketing Initiative Makes Available $5 Tickets for the First Performance of Every Production at Playwrights Horizons via an Online Ticket Lottery Previews begin Friday, March 28 Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) begins accepting entries today, Wednesday, March 19, for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to the World Premiere of YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA, a new play by Kirk Lynn (Co-Artistic Director, Austin’s Rude Mechanicals) and directed by Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman (Detroit, Maple and Vine at PH; Belleville; This Wide Night; The Thugs). The LIVEforFIVE lottery for YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA will be for tickets to two performances: the first preview on Friday evening, March 28 at 7:30 PM, as well as the preview on Sunday evening, March 30 at 7PM. The production has an Opening Night set for Monday, April 21 at 7PM and will play a limited engagement through Sunday, May 11 at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). 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.PHnyc.org). Details for the LIVEforFIVE lottery are as follows: beginning today, theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at www.PHnyc.org. Entries will be accepted until Monday, March 24 at 12 Noon. Winners of the lottery will be notified via email no later than 3PM on Tuesday, March 25 with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets. Winners may choose the Friday, March 28 or Sunday, March 30 evening performances. Unclaimed tickets will be offered via email to a limited standby list starting at 12 Noon on Wednesday, March 26 on a first-come, first-served basis. One or two tickets may be purchased for $5 each. A limited number of tickets will be available via the lottery. The cast of YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA features Maxx Brawer (Don’t Go Gentle), Zoë Sophia Garcia (La Ruta), Rebecca Henderson (The Whale, The Retributionists at PH; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many), Will Pullen (Marie Antoinette), Chris Stack (Marie Antoinette, Killers & Other Family) and Sarah Sutherland (Beneath the Harvest Sky, Catherine Meyer on Veep). Carla (Ms. Garcia) agrees to marry Reggie (Mr. Stack) on one condition: to break down any walls between them, they’ll reenact their individual sexual histories with one another, good and bad, for better or worse. Years later, these stories bring unexpected hope to their household, now forced to confront those barriers a second time. Kirk Lynn’s tough-love comedy navigates the boundaries of intimacy, finding startling empathy in the story of a father hell-bent on saving his family. The production features scenic design by Laura Jellinek, costume design by Tony Award winner Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Ben Stanton and original music and sound design by Daniel Kluger. Production Stage Manager is Vanessa Coakley. The performance schedule for YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA will be Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 2 & 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 & 7PM. Single tickets ($60-75) may be purchased online via www.TicketCentral.com, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily) and in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Through the new ticketing program FIRST ROW SUNDAYS, launched this season, Playwrights Horizons makes available front row tickets for all Sunday evening performances. Tickets, $25 each, will be available for those age 30 years and younger and can be purchased in advance online via www.TicketCentral.com, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily), or in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Tickets are limited to one per customer and are subject to availability. Purchased tickets for FIRST ROW SUNDAYS can be picked up one hour before curtain on the day of the performance, with proof of age required at the door. Also reflecting Playwrights Horizons’ ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, the theater company will offer HOTtix, $25 rush tickets, subject to availability, day of performance only, starting one hour before showtime to patrons aged 30 and under. Proof of age required. One ticket per person, per purchase. Cash only. LIVEforFIVE, FIRST ROW SUNDAYS and HOTtix are three of Playwrights Horizons’ popular Arts Access initiatives, which allow the institution to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket. This program is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, McGraw Hill Financial and an Anonymous Individual Donor. Currently playing at Playwrights Horizons on the Mainstage Theater is the critically-acclaimed hit STAGE KISS, the New York premiere of a new play by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, directed by Rebecca Taichman (extended through April 6). Following STAGE KISS and YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA, the Playwrights Horizons’ 2013/2014 Season will conclude with FLY BY NIGHT: A NEW MUSICAL, conceived by Kim Rosenstock, written by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Ms. Rosenstock, directed by Carolyn Cantor (May 16-June 29). Two ticket packages to Playwrights Horizons’ 2013/2014 season are still available: FlexPass (4+ tickets, $45-50 per ticket); and Membership ($55 membership fee + one ticket at $40 or less for any or all shows, as desired). In addition to discounts on all season productions, subscribers receive priority booking and seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins. Packages are available at www.TicketCentral.com. Playwrights Horizons’ recently-announced 2014-2015 Season will feature (in Season order): BOOTYCANDY, the New York premiere of a new play written and directed by Robert O’Hara; GRAND CONCOURSE, the World Premiere of a new play by Heidi Schreck, directed by Kip Fagan; POCATELLO, the World Premiere of a new play by Obie and Lortel awards winner Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Davis McCallum; PLACEBO, the World Premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Melissa James Gibson, directed by Obie Award winner Daniel Aukin; IOWA, the World Premiere of a new musical play by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Commendation winner (2008) and finalist (2013) Jenny Schwartz, music and lyrics by Todd Almond, directed by two-time Obie Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll; and a new play to be announced by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Bruce Norris. Subscription packages to Playwrights Horizons’ 2014/2015 season are now available: Subscription Plus ($500 per package, four Mainstage and two Peter Jay Sharp Theater productions, regular Subscription benefits with additional amenities, including a tax-deductible donation of $255, to support Playwrights Horizons’ programs and services); a 6-show Subscription package (starting at $245 for renewing subscribers, four Mainstage and two Peter Jay Sharp Theater productions); FlexPass (4+ tickets, $50 per ticket); and Membership ($60 membership fee + one ticket at $45 or less for each show, as desired). In addition, the company will continue to offer 30&Under Membership ($20 membership fee + one $20 ticket for each show, as desired); and Student Membership ($10 membership fee + one $10 ticket for each show, as desired). In addition to discounts on all Mainstage season attractions, subscribers receive priority booking and seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins. Packages will be available at www.TicketCentral.com shortly. Patron Program Memberships begin at $1,500 (all but $550 is tax-deductible) and include two reserved house seats and personalized concierge service to all six Playwrights Horizons productions, and as well as a variety of exclusive benefits including invitations to attend special events with artists, staff and board members. Complete benefit list at www.PHnyc.org. Generous support for YOUR MOTHER’S COPY OF THE KAMA SUTRA was provided by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation. Playwrights Horizons’ season productions are generously supported in part by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Time Warner Foundation. www.PHnyc.org Kirk Lynn (Playwright) lives in Austin, TX with his wife, the poet Carrie Fountain and their children, Olive and Judah. Kirk writes plays, generally with the Rude Mechs theater collective. He’s one of six artistic directors for the Rudes, whose new work, Stop Hitting Yourself, just concluded a run at LTC3. Kirk is the Head of the Playwriting and Directing Area in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. Kirk was the USA Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellow in 2011 in Theater Arts. Kirk wrote the first draft of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra at the MacDowell Colony in summer of 2012. Kirk is a Texan and likes to hunt and fish and camp and tell jokes with his Dad, who knows a lot of jokes because he’s barber. Anne Kauffman (Director) won an Obie Award for her work on The Thugs by Adam Bock (Soho Rep). She most recently directed the world premiere of Cherokee by Lisa D’Amour at The Wilma Theater; the co-world premiere of Smokefall by Noah Haidle at South Coast Repertory and Goodman Theatre; the world premiere of Somewhere Fun by Jenny Schwartz at the Vineyard Theater; the New York premieres of Belleville (previously at Yale Rep, New York Times top 10 productions of 2011) by Amy Herzog at NYTW; Detroit, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist play finalist by Lisa D’Amour at Playwrights Horizons (New York Times, New York Magazine and Time Out-NY top 10 productions of 2012); Slowgirl by Gregory Pierce for LCT3; and Maple & Vine by Jordan Harrison at Playwrights Horizons; as well as Body Awareness by Annie Baker for the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia (2011 Barrymore for Best Direction, Best Overall Production and Best Ensemble). Other production highlights include Tales from My Parents Divorce (Williamstown, The Flea), This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Direction), Becky Shaw (Wilma), Stunning (LCT3), Sixty Mils to Silver Lake (P73 & Soho Rep), God’s Ear (Vineyard, New Georges) and the new musical We Have Always Lived in a Castle (Yale Rep). Anne is a recipient of the Lilly Award, the Alan Schneider Director Award, Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity, and several Barrymore Awards. She is a member Usual Suspect at NYTW, an alumna of the Soho Rep Lab, a current member of Soho Rep’s Artistic Council, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League, a founding member of The Civilians and Associate Artist with Clubbed Thumb and New Georges. Maxx Brawer (Sean). Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Don’t Go Gentle (MCC). Other theater: Into the Woods (Kid City Theatre Company), Showcase (Player’s Loft). Film: Twelve. Television: Are We There Yet?, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children, Between the Lines, Another World, 100 Centre Street. Zoë Sophia Garcia (Carla). Playwrights Horizons debut. New York Theater: La Ruta (Working Theatre). Other theater: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, That Noise, Oh Gastronomy! (Actors Theater of Louisville). Film: Bed, One Day, The Heart of San Francisco. Rebecca Henderson (Tony). Playwrights Horizons: The Whale, The Retributionists. Other Off-Broadway: Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout); Red-Handed Otter (Cherry Lane); The Collection/A Kind of Alaska (Atlantic); Canary (Rattlestick); Three Sisters, The Misanthrope, Scapin (Classic Stage Company), Baby Face (Soho Rep). Other New York: Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb), Spin (StageFARM). Film/Television: True Story, The Good Wife. Will Pullen (Cole). Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep), Scarcity (Rattlestick). Other Theater: Breaking Heels, Curse of the Starving Class, Hamlet, Oleanna, As You Like It, The Lower Depths, The Black Box, True West. Chris Stack (Reggie). Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep), Killers & Other Family (Rattlestick), Vacuum (Cherry Lane), …in the absence of spring… (Second Stage), Joe Fearless (Atlantic). Other Theater: The Umbrella Plays (The Tank), Love & Communication (Passage Theatre Company), The Sit (Soho Shorts), Self Portrait in a Blue Room (EST), The Last Seder (Workshop Theater). Film/Television: School of Rock, White Collar, Damages, Third Watch. Sarah Sutherland (Bernie). Playwrights Horizons and Off-Broadway debut. Television: Catherine Meyer on Veep. Film: Shut Up and Drive, Innocence, Pretty Perfect, Beneath the Harvest Sky, Trouble, Snuggle Bunny, The Last Flower. BFA, Tisch School of the Arts. Stage work includes productions of Trojan Women, Oliver!, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Nylon, Six Degrees of Separation, Pavlik is My God (at La Mama) and her own The Skin of a Grape. She’s also appeared in the music videos “Abandon” by French Kicks and “Oh, I Buried You Today” by Raveonettes. Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of artistic director Tim Sanford and managing director Leslie Marcus, the theater company continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. In its 43 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 400 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, including a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for “ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work.” Notable productions include five Pulitzer Prize winners – Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award, Best Play), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George – as well as Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns – A Post-Electric Play, Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit (2013 Obie Award, Best New American Play); Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale (2013 Lortel Award, Best Play); Annie Baker’s The Flick (2013 Obie Award, 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play); Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (2012 Obie Award); Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn; Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal; Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan and After the Revolution; Bathsheba Doran’s Kin; Adam Bock’s A Small Fire; Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I; Melissa James Gibson’s This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards); Craig Lucas’s Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play); Adam Rapp’s Kindness; Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting); Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero; David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award); Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award); Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead (2000 Tony Award, Best Book); Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins; William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland; Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere; Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island; Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire; Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room; A.R. Gurney’s Later Life; Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins; and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet.

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