The Pass
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Stage Door
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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The Pass, by British playwright John Donnelly, arrives at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre for its US premiere. The play made its name in London for good reason: it is a three-scene gut-punch about ambition, closeted desire, and the price of the story you decide to tell about yourself. Sharp, funny in the way that hurts a little, and over before you have caught your breath.
La MaMa on East 4th Street has been the downtown home of exactly this kind of work since the sixties, and the 299-seat Ellen Stewart is the right room for a play that lives on close-up tension.
Previews begin July 30, opening night is August 3, and it closes September 4. Five weeks in the East Village, and then it is gone.
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