How Shakespeare Saved My Life
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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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Told he had a gift for poetry but wasn't quite right to play the poet, Jacob Ming-Trent decided to argue the point — out loud, for about ninety minutes, at The Public. How Shakespeare Saved My Life is his one-man dive into the corners of his own youth, a search for home told with the Bard riding shotgun alongside a chorus of rappers, half-crazed preachers, and soulful poets.
Directed by Tony Taccone, it's a propulsive, funny, deeply felt show about the power of language to pull a person back from the edge. Ming-Trent is one of those performers who can turn on a dime from belly laugh to gut punch, and this is him working without a net.
The Public's Shiva Theater is small, which is exactly how you want a show this personal. First previews September 15.
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