The Public Theater Creates Public Studio to Premiere New Work, tickets $10
This week the Public Theater announced PUBLIC STUDIO, a new program dedicated to staging new plays. This Spring the program will stage two new plays, in repertory, for ten days. Tickets are only $10. The productions are more than staged readings, less than fully staged productions.
The first play, The Urban Retreat by A. Zell Williams, directed by Liesl Tommy, is about a failed writer who works as an English teacher and is hired to write the memoir of a successful rapper. It turns out the superstar is a former student, who he once failed. The two men embark on a candid exchange about success and failure, artistic integrity, and racial identities in America.
The second play, Manahatta, written by Mary Kathryn Nagle, directed by Kate Whoriskey, is the story of Jane Snake, a Native American woman who reconnects with her ancestral land, Manahatta, when she moves to New York to work as an investment banker. Her inner struggle to reconcile her background, traditions, and expectations intertwines with a broader narrative about the Lenape people who were forced from their land.
Both shows will run in repertory from May 15 through May 25, 2014.
Tickets cost $10 and will go on sale in April.
For more information, visit Public Studio on The Public Theater website.
UPDATE, April 10, 2014
Tickets to The Urban Retreat and Manahatta are on sale. There are only seven performances of each show and demand for the tickets appears to be quite high. We recommend buying tickets soon if you want to see the first two productions in Public Studio series.
To purchase tickets, visit Public Studio on The Public Theater website.