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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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Aasif Mandvi crossed an ocean as a boy, chased the American dream, got very good at being the funniest person in rooms that were not built for him — and then, somewhere around 3am with a kid asleep down the hall, started wondering who exactly the joke had been on.
Aasif Mandvi: A Work in Progress is his solo show about that, and it is funny and furious in roughly equal measure. Part immigrant epic, part celebrity confession, part parental spiral, all of it about the stories we tell about ourselves and how long they hold before they stop fitting. He wrote it and performs it; Kimberly Senior directs.
It opens the inaugural Primary Stages Studio Series, which is the company's space for artists to test the big swing in front of an audience while it is still moving. The upshot for you: over a limited run, no two nights are the same, and you are watching the thing get built.
Ninety minutes, no intermission, at 59E59 Theaters from January 9 through February 6, 2027. First Look seats are $27 on January 9 and 10.
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