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Second Stage Theatre toOffer $19.79 Preview Tickets for SUBSTANCE OF FIRE in 35th Anniversary Season

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 02:57 pm EDT 03/19/14

SECOND STAGE THEATRE To Once Again Offer $19.79 Preview Tickets In Celebration of Its 35th Anniversary Season Limited Number of Special Retro Preview Tickets Available for Upcoming Production of The Substance of Fire Beginning Performances April 10 Plus free birthday cake for all audience during first week of previews Second Stage Theatre will continue to celebrate its 35th Anniversary Season by once again offering its popular retro prices ($19.79 – the year in which the Company was founded) as well as audience perks for all of the productions this season. $19.79 TIX! For the first week of previews for all shows during the 35th Anniversary Season, 35 tickets per performance will be available for only $19.79 (the year in which the company was founded). These retro tickets for Substance of Fire will be available for all performances April 10th – April 16th and will go on sale March 20th at 10am. They can be purchased at the Second Stage Theatre box office (305 West 43rd Street) or by phone at 212-246-4422. JON ROBIN BAITZ’s drama, THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE directed by Trip Cullman will feature Halley Feiffer (2ST’s suburbia, The House of Blue Leaves), Daniel Eric Gold (2ST’s subUrbia, Ugly Betty), Carter Hudson (The Whipping Man), John Noble (TV’s Fringe and Sleepy Hollow), and Charlayne Woodard (2ST’s Sorrows and Rejoicings, Ain’t Misbehavin’). THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE will feature scenic design by Anna Louizos, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff. The production stage manager is Lori Ann Zepp. FREE BIRTHDAY CAKE What’s a celebration without sweets? Audience members are invited to enjoy complimentary post-performance birthday cake during the first week of previews of The Substance of Fire. FREE WINE Subscribers and Donors (at the $125 Friends level and above) can raise a glass and toast Second Stage Theatre’s 35 years with a complimentary glass of wine at every performance this anniversary season. POST IT, SHARE IT, TWEET IT… Second Stage Theatre’s “Photo-style booth” will remain in the theatre’s café where patrons can continue to take photos celebrating their night at Second Stage. These photos can be automatically posted, shared and tweeted via social media. ABOUT THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON Second Stage Theatre’s (Carole Rothman, Founder and Artistic Director) 35th Anniversary Season kicked off last fall with the new musical LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, by James Lapine and William Finn. In addition to the current production of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST, the season will also include THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE by Jon Robin Baitz, and the New York Premiere of Laura Eason’s provocative play, SEX WITH STRANGERS, directed by David Schwimmer. Second Stage Theatre’s 35th Anniversary Season, which will celebrate the company’s Founder and Artistic Director Carole Rothman with a spring gala this May, continues the company’s mission of producing bold new plays and musicals by American playwrights as well as second stagings of the best of contemporary theatre. For subscription or ticket information, please call the Second Stage Box Office at 212-246-4422 or visit the company’s website, www.2ST.com. All productions are staged at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street (just west of Eighth Avenue). ABOUT SECOND STAGE THEATRE Founded in 1979 under the leadership of Artistic Director Carole Rothman, SECOND STAGE THEATRE produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre, including Tiny Alice and Peter and Jerry by Edward Albee; The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry; The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane; The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; Little Murders by Jules Feiffer; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin; A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller; Afterbirth: Kathy & Mo’s Greatest Hits by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy; Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo; Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe; Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes; Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and On the Stem by Ricky Jay; Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; Living Out by Lisa Loomer; This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan; Some Men by Terrence McNally; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage; Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Peter Duchan; eurydice by Sarah Ruhl; Everyday Rapture by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott; Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith; Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim; Crowns by Regina Taylor; Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein; Trust by Paul Weitz; Spoils of War by Michael Weller; Before It Hits Home, Jar the Floor and Birdie Blue by Cheryl L. West; Jitney by August Wilson; Lemon Sky, Serenading Louie and Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson; and Metamorphoses and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman. The company’s more than 130 citations include the 2010 Pulitzer prize for Next to Normal, the 2009 Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Orchestrations, and Best Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley) for Next to Normal, the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed), 2005 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical (Rachel Sheinkin, ...Spelling Bee) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Dan Fogler, ...Spelling Bee), 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play (Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses), the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, 27 Obie Awards, seven Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Clarence Derwent Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, nine Theatre World Awards, 17 Lucille Lortel Awards, the NY Drama Critics Circle Award and 23 AUDELCO Awards. In 1999, Second Stage Theatre opened The Tony Kiser Theatre, its state-of-the-art, 296-seat theatre, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. In 2002, Second Stage launched “Second Stage Theatre Uptown” series to showcase the work of up and coming artists at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. The Theatre supports artists through several programs that include residencies, fellowships and commissions, and engages students and community members through education and outreach programs. SECOND STAGE THEATRE AT THE HELEN HAYES Second Stage Theatre has acquired the right to purchase the historic Helen Hayes Theatre, located at 240 W. 44th Street. With this new home, Second Stage will be the only theatre company on Broadway dedicated exclusively to the development and presentation of contemporary American theatrical productions. Second Stage will also become one of only four non-profit theatre companies that own and operate theatres on Broadway. The company will continue to lease and operate their original theatres on the city’s Upper West Side and in Midtown Manhattan. For more information, please visit www.2ST.com
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