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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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Long before Silicon Valley made a religion of inventing new things, Susan Glaspell wrote a heroine who wanted to grow something the world had never seen — and didn't much care who she broke to do it. The Verge, her strange, thrilling 1921 drama, arrives at The Public Theater's LuEsther Hall with Miriam Silverman in the lead as botanist Claire Archer.
When Claire's husband, her lover, and her closest confidant all turn up in her greenhouse looking for warmth in a snowstorm, things get combustible fast. Directed by Jesse Austrian, it's a century-old play that still feels ahead of its time — about a woman pushing against every boundary of her polite, well-bred life, wondering whether the only way past them is to blow them up.
Rarely revived and worth the trip downtown. First previews October 27.
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