See This, Not That – Off Broadway Week
During Off Broadway Week (two weeks actually, February 17 – March 2, 2014) you can buy two tickets for the price of one at 56 different Off Broadway shows.
Discounted tickets to many of Maxamoo’s recommended shows are available through the special, including Saint Joan, Disaster, and Buyer & Cellar.
Also interesting are several shows in previews, meaning they haven’t officially opened and critical reviews are not available.
Here are three shows in previews that look interesting and have strong early buzz.
Visit the Off Broadway Week website for a full list of available shows.
Book of Mormon is an irreverent comedy about religion with puppets. Hand to God, a play by Robert Askins, is also an irreverent comedy about religion with puppets.
Your only chance for tickets to Book of Mormon this weekend is the lottery, we hear odds are about 1 in 20, so good luck with that.
Hand to God is set at the “Christian Puppet Ministry” in Cyprus, Texas and things go awry when a sock puppet takes on an aggressive personality. It had a popular run at the Ensemble Theater Studio and it’s lead actor, Steven Boyer won an Obie Award for his performance. He is returning for the current, bigger run at Lucille Lortel Theatre.
The acclaimed production of The Glass Menagerie with Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto closes this weekend, tickets are scarce.
If you’re looking for award-winning family drama, checkout a new play at Second Stage from recent Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegria Hudes. The Happiest Song Plays Last is the final play in a trilogy about the Ruiz family in North Philadelphia. Hudes won a Pulitzer for the second play in the trilogy, also staged by Second Stage.
After Midnight is the wildly popular musical tribute to the famous Cotton Club, featuring Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars and exciting guests stars (currently, k.d. lang). Expect to spent over $200 for two tickets to see it (if you can find any available).
Satchmo at the Waldorf tracks the origins of another jazz legend – Louis Armstrong. In this one-man show, the celebrated actor John Douglas Thompson plays Armstrong as he recounts his incredible career. There are no flashy musical numbers but earlier productions in New Haven and Boston were well-received and it’s hard to go wrong at a one-man show with Thompson in the lead.