Has anyone seen Venus in Fur? Like? Dislike?

Has anyone seen Wit?

Anyone looking for a winning Broadway (non-musical) experience should put Other Desert Cities at the top of his/her list. It's an outstanding, well constructed play, featuring five outstanding performances. And, to make it even more attractive, you can take advantage of a discount offer on both playbill.com and broadwaybox.com.
It is, indeed, theater at its best.

Saw Book of Mormon this last weekend. Put me in the 'loved it' category. My friends and I are now calling everyone who pisses us off 'frog f*ckers' .

I really want to see Book of Mormon, but I've been checking dates, and it seems like there aren't any tickets available for months. Is there a good secondary source to go to, or are we out of luck? I haven't read all the posts - apologies if this has already been discussed.

That depends, volcanogirl, on how much you are willing to spend on tickets. If you're willing to shell out the bucks, you'll always be able to get tickets! What's the maximum price you are willing to pay?

When I search for the days we were interested in it said that nothing was available but Premium seats and American Express seats. The Premium seats would cost us over $700 which just seems a little nuts. I don't have an AmEx account so not sure what those would cost... They told us we would have better luck if we started looking at October or later.

You could look on secondary sites such as StubHub; I've used them to buy and sell tickets a few times and had a good experience. It was recommended to me by a friend who buys and sells tickets more frequently than I do.

Thanks, musicfan - we've used them for sporting events. I'll check that out.

Good--I hope it works out for you. When I was researching my trip and tickets (I bought the BOM tix before the plane tickets!) there were quite a few listed on StubHub. People must buy them on "speculation" a lot.

Good luck with these secondary sites. Just be prepared to pay more than the "regular" ticket price.

If the tickets are still too pricey, we may look at going to War Horse - it seems to get consistently good reviews.

For outstanding drama, you might also consider Other Desert Cities. Discount tickets are available for all but Friday and Saturday evening performances at broadwaybox.com and playbill.com.

The Broadway show Memphis will be broadcast as part of the PBS Great Performances series next week. Check your local listings. In New York, it'll be shown next Friday, the 24th.

I saw WIT last night.

You want a very good performance from an actress in a dramatic role? Go see WIT.

I had serious doubts whether Cynthia Nixon could really act. I had never seen her in anything except Sex in the City, and I am not a big fan of that show, although I do like her and Kim Catrall's performances in that show.

I figured we would find out very quickly if she Nixon could act, because in this play she wears nothing but a hospital gown (and dons that for nakedness in the final scene), has and has shaved her head and eyebrows for the role. No nice clothes to get behind. No hair. No makeup. Just a professor of medieval English lit who focuses on John Donne durng her academic career, and then gets stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer.

So this is not a feel good show. But it moved me incredibly. Laughed (a lot) and I cried (a lot), which is a first for me at any Braodway play, and I have seen a lot of drama.

"How are you?" I'll not forget that line.

We had 2nd row seats so we could literally see the spray from Nixon's breath. Which intnsified the drama. She was 4 ft. from us for about 1/4 of the play, including the last death and freedom scene where she disrobes her hospital gown.

Wow. Great performance. I knew she had won a Tony in the last. But I had no idea she had THIS type of performance in her. I have a hard time thinking of any other actress who could have done this role as well and as real as Nixon did.

Four thumbs up (husband liked it very much also).

TIP: Ladies behind us got their tickets from TICS on Sat.

Opps sorry for typos, that is what I get for typing in a reclining position.

Sorry on the dons also. De-dons? Disrobes.

We saw War Horse today. We were in the second row, right side of stage. One thing I need to get off my chest (and KNEES) is that the side sections of this theater at Lincoln Center have absolutely the most restricteive seating I have ever experienced, and I have been to many theaters that have restrictive seating. I am 5'8" and my knees were flexed and crammed up against the seat in front of me. When the man in that seat leaned back, it was painful, and I had to keep asking him not to press back on his seat. No space to the sides. My knees were touching (actually not just touching but leaning against) the knees of the person's on ether side of me. If you are claustrophbic, forget it. I am not sure that all the seats in the theaater are this restricted; it appeared to me that some others had more room in front of them. Second row seating put us right in the action and close to the horses and actors, but that was not worth the restrictive aspects of the seating.

The play was very good. The puppetry was incredible, not just the movements but the sounds of the horses coming from the puppeteers (is that the way one refers to those actors?) The acting was very good, some characters much better than others, but overall very good. The stage production was phenomenal. I was not expecting it to be such an emotional play.

Very glad we waited to see the play instead of seeing the movie first. I liked establishing a relationship w/the horses in the play (and we were particularly happy that the horses were brought out for the curtain call). It would have been much more enjoyable if we had had even a smidgen more seating room.

emd, I've talked about the seats at the Vivian Beaumont before myself. It's not just where you sit. They are all that way. I suffered with leg cramps when I couldn't budge my legs and the seat in front of me was cutting off all blood passing through my knees. I was thrilled when the French couple next to me left at intermission of Light in the Piazza as I was then able to turn sideways.

For a beautiful "modern" theatre, there was no regard for leg comfort in that theatre -- a real problem with "stadium" style seating.

Re Wit - friends who teach with Maggie (who wrote the screenplay) are over the moon with excitement with and for her. Such great excitement here right now :-)