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Hear ye, hear ye! And gather round! Audible Theater is teaming up with Together, a new accessible-theater initiative led by megastar Hugh Jackman and superproducer Sonia Friedman, for an eight-week series of programming at Off Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre this spring. The centerpiece of the series will be full productions of two new plays in rep, performed by casts that include Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, Justice Smith and Ella Beatty.
Tickets to these engagements will be made affordable in two different ways. A quarter of the total will be free: Audible and Together are working with the cheap tickets experts of TDF—best known for its TKTS discount booths in Times Square and at Lincoln Center—to distribute 25% of the seats at each performance, gratis, to TDF's community partners. (That includes seniors, students, veterans, teachers and more.) An additional quarter of the house will be priced at a mere $35 and set aside for same-day purchase at the box office or through a digital lottery. Tickets for the remaining half of the house go on sale at 10am on Monday, April 7; the prices for those ones have not been announced, but it's safe to say they'll be quite a bit higher than $35.
Starting April 28, Jackman will play a university professor and Beatty (Ghosts) will be his star pupil in the U.S. premiere of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, a prize-winning 2020 two-hander by Canada's Hannah Moscovitch. Starting May 10, Schreiber will share a romantic triangle with Siff (Mad Men) and Smith (I Saw the TV Glow) in Jen Silverman's new adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 psychothriller Creditors. Both productions are to be directed by Ian Rickson, the former artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre; once Creditors begins its run, the two shows will play on a rotating schedule through June 18. You can find out more about them here.
Audible and Together will also present a number of additional events at the Minetta Lane in May and June, including readings, panel discussions and workshops. (Details about these will be announced at a later date.) And if you can't get to the theater in person, Audible has a fallback audio-only option: Both Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Creditors will be recorded and released on Audible at some point in the future.
