creation stories and all the important importants
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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.
Why “still confirming”. The theatre details above are solid. What we haven’t nailed down is whether this particular production does a stage door — that changes with the cast, and no source publishes it. We’d rather say so than guess.
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Mfoniso Udofia — the playwright behind the sweeping Ufot family saga — brings creation stories and all the important importants to LCT3's Claire Tow Theater up at Lincoln Center.
Directed by Tamilla Woodard, this new play digs into where we come from, the stories families pass down, and the ones they quietly leave out. It's tender, funny, and the kind of theater that sneaks up on you and leaves you thinking about your own people on the walk home.
The Claire Tow is Lincoln Center's little 130-seat room on the roof, which makes it one of the coziest places to catch a world premiere in the city. Previews start in mid-September ahead of an October opening — a great excuse to head uptown this fall.
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