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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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Thirty plays. Sixty minutes. A kitchen timer. The New York Neo-Futurists have been running some version of this experiment for years, and The Infinite Wrench is the current one, playing at Asylum NYC on East 24th Street.
Here is how it works. Thirty short plays are strung on a clothesline above the stage, each with a number. You shout a number. They perform that play. Some are two minutes long, some are eleven seconds, some are funny, some will quietly wreck you, and the running order is different every single night because you picked it.
The performers write the pieces themselves and they play themselves — no characters, no fourth wall, no pretending the room is anywhere other than a room on East 24th Street. Plays retire and new ones arrive every week, so nobody sees the same show twice, including the cast.
The current engagement runs through September 26, 2026. Asylum seats about 150, it is late, it is loud, and it is one of the few nights out in this city where you are partly responsible for what happens.
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