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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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Remember Job? The two-hander that had the whole city arguing on the sidewalk afterward? Max Wolf Friedlich is back, and this time he has brought Robert Pattinson along as an executive producer, which is the kind of sentence you only get to write about downtown theater.
The Holes takes place in a run-down bar in a rapidly gentrifying city upstate. There is a padlocked room out back. Inside it: pleasure, relief, and possibly something a lot worse. Michael Herwitz directs, reuniting the Job creative team, and the cast is stacked with Bubba Weiler, Grantham Coleman, Tina Benko, and Jack Mulhern.
Friedlich writes the kind of play where two people talk and you slowly realize the floor is gone. Expect shame versus desire, tradition versus progress, and a lot of very uncomfortable laughing.
This is a strictly limited six-week run at The Wild Project on East 3rd Street — a room small enough that there is no bad seat and no hiding. Previews start September 8, opening night is September 22, and the whole thing is done by October 18. Blink and it is gone.
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