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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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You have just written the greatest play in the language. What now? Ideally not another Timon of Athens. Will Shakespeare's luck is that the plague of 1603 shuts every theater in London for a year and locks him indoors with a young Puritan lawyer and a worldly, sharp-tongued prostitute — which is a writers' room, whether or not anyone involved would call it that.
God's Spies: The Making of King Lear is Bill Cain's answer to the follow-up problem, and it is as much about mortality and quarantine and bad career anxiety as it is about the play that came out the other end. Nathan Winkelstein directs for Red Bull Theater, the company that has spent two decades making Jacobean drama feel like it was written last week.
A hundred minutes, no intermission, no interval to lose the thread. If you liked Cain's Equivocation, this is the same trick pulled on a bigger target.
At 59E59 Theaters from January 19 through February 14, 2027. First Look tickets are $27 on January 19 and 20.
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