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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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Helder Guimarães is a Portuguese immigrant, a storyteller, and a sleight-of-hand magician, and he has built an entire show around the puzzle of landing in America at 29 and trying to make a home out of it. The Hope Theory comes from the team behind Invisible Tango and The Present, played a sold-out run at the Geffen, and now sets up at New York City Center's Stage II. Frank Marshall directs. If you've seen Guimarães before you know the drill: the card tricks are ridiculous, but they're really just the delivery system for a warm story about figuring out where you belong. Previews begin in early September ahead of a mid-month opening. It's an intimate room, the magic happens a few feet from your face, and you will spend the subway ride home trying to reverse-engineer how he did any of it. You won't. That's the point.
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