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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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Think your family group chat is complicated? Try being married to the first emperor of Rome. Livia: A Roman Tragedy is a new play by Paul David Young about Livia, wife of Augustus, a woman history has spent two thousand years calling either a genius or a poisoner, sometimes in the same sentence.
Danilo Gambini directs, and Baize Buzan is in the cast. The play has already had a staged reading, and now it gets a full run downtown at The Flea, the scrappy Tribeca theatre on Thomas Street where a lot of New York writers get their first real shot.
Expect palace politics, succession drama and the kind of family dinner where nobody touches the figs. If you like your history with a body count and your togas with a side of ambition, put this one on the calendar.
It is a limited engagement: first preview October 23, opening October 26, closing November 15, 2026. The Flea is a small house, so seats are close to the action and there are not many of them. Book early, and maybe skip the mushrooms beforehand. Just in case.
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