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You know it's officially Summer when we announce we're going to see SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK!!! The master of the iambic pentameter has gracefully penned his comedic Twelfth Night for your enjoyment. And YES, of course I know it's frigged early but the Delacorte Performances are always worth it and the price IS so right!! In fact, all RSVP and event fees are suspended for this special event!!

With Charles Borland, Michael Cumpsty, Clifton Duncan, Raúl Esparza, Herb Foster, Leslie Harrison, Anne Hathaway, Slate Holmgren, Kevin Kelly, David Kenner, Hamish Linklater, Dorien Makhloghi, Audra McDonald, David Pittu, Ray Rizzo, Jay O. Sanders, Julie Sharbutt, Stark Sands, Baylen Thomas, Zach Villa, Jon Patrick Walker, Julie White

This summer kicks off with a powerhouse production of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. The Public welcomes Academy Award Nominee Anne Hathaway as she makes her Public Theater debut playing Viola, one of the canon’s most charming heroines. This beguiling comedy follows the romantic adventures of Viola and her identical twin Sebastian, both shipwrecked in the enchanted dukedom of Illyria. At the helm of this time-honored story of cross-dressing and mistaken identity, all in the name of love, is Tony Award winning Director Daniel Sullivan.

Scenic Design: JOHN LEE BEATTY
Costume Design: JANE GREENWOOD
Lighting Design: PETER KACZOROWSKI
Sound Design: ACME SOUND PARTNERS
Composer: HEM
Wig Design: TOM WATSON
Fight Director: RICK SORDELET
Choreographer: MIMI LIEBER

HOW DO I GET TICKETS?
The tickets are FREE, but there are several caveats as nothing in life is really free.

For this meetup, two (2) tickets can be "EARNED" by waiting on the line in Central Park. Depending on the production, people start standing on line as early as 2-3 AM and if you get there later than 8:30AM, you will probably not get a ticket. Invite a friend to join you later for the performance!

If you choose to RSVP YES, we will meet at the 79th Street Central Park West entrance at 3:00AM SHARP. We'll get on line by 3:20 AM so if you want to wait in line with the group, please be prompt. Otherwise, you will have to go to the end of the line and wait. Tickets are handed out between 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM.

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO WAIT ON A TICKET LINE FOR 7 HOURS?
It's fun and the time passes quickly! It's summertime and you're outside! Come in your PJ's or nightie. Bring a chair, a blanket, towel or an air mattress. You can people watch, meet new people, talk about everything, read a book, listen to music, sleep and even order breakfast while on line!! Yes, there's a deli that delivers to us on line!!

I'M HUNGRY! WHAT ABOUT DINNER?
After we get our tickets, you're free to do whatever you want. I will arrange a non-mandatory 5:30 PM SITP Meetup dinner at a nearby restaurant for members with tickets. If you are interested, please call my cell phone (973.568.4911) after you have tickets in hand and I will let you know where we are meeting.

DELACORTE THEATRE LINE POLICIES
Public Theater staff will begin monitoring the free ticket lines before or by 8:00AM on performance days. The line monitor will explain and enforce the procedures and policies regarding ticket distribution. Such policies were designed to maximize fairness for all fans of Shakespeare in the Park.
1. No cutting, jumping, or saving spots in line is permitted. This is very strictly enforced. If you get there after the group is on line at 3:20AM, you will be directed to the end of the line. We cannot allow you to jeopardize the group's place in line.
2. If you leave the ticket line for any extended period of time, for any reason, you will forfeit your place in line. The reality is about 25 minutes for bathroom breaks.
3. You must line up along the path designated by Shakespeare in Park and The Parks Department
4. Any disagreements about the order or policies of the ticket line will be settled at the discretion of Public Theater management and the NYPD. Yes, you will lose.
5. Tickets will be distributed starting at 1:00PM, on performance days.

* Maximum 2 tickets per person
* Subject to availability

6. Public Theater management makes every best effort to ensure fair and equal treatment for everyone on the line and has the right to remove any persons who disrupts or negatively affects other patrons experience on the lines or in the audience. Yes, it's true. I've seen the police called to haul people off the line.
7. Public Theater management has tried to anticipate all foreseeable situations that require line policies but may need to occasionally issue rules not specified here should an unusual situation arise.

**THE ONLY WAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT IS TO PAY USING THIS LINK, but there are no refunds. Complete directions are at the end of this description. There are no refunds.

Pure Confidence is part of AMERICA'S OFF-BROADWAY, a festival of critically-acclaimed productions from theaters across the Country. Tickets are $25.99 including transaction fee (regularly $45 plus transaction fee).

Pure Confidence is a fact-based "funny and daring look at the complexity of race, love, and dignity."

What the Play is About

On the eve of the Civil War, champion jockey Simon Cato dominates the sport of horse racing. But Simon is also a slave. Hired out regularly by his owner to Colonel Wiley Johnson, owner of the prize thoroughbred Pure Confidence, Simon wants the one thing the Colonel by law can’t give him: his freedom. Pure Confidence chronicles the story of Simon’s race to freedom.

Reviews

Minnesota's Star Tribune pronounced it "a winner," and described how "it tackles a fraught subject with a blithe, easy-going naturalism."

Minnesota's CityPages described the production as "evok the era of slavery (and its aftermath) with insight, subtlety, and a thorough respect for the lives it depicts."

To Purchase Tickets (Buy ASAP because they will sell out, but there are no refunds)
1. Visit this link where I am selling tickets for the show
2. Towards the middle of the page, choose the number of tickets you need.
3. Right below the quantity, click your method of payment (variety of credit cards or Paypal)
4. Fill in your billing information
5. Click Review Order and Continue on the bottom of the page
6. Keep the confirmation and bring it with you on that day, just in case.

**NOTE: The only way to make sure you have a ticket for this show is to purchase one by following this link, but there are NO refunds. Full directions are at the end of this description.**

**Raivenne and Mick, 2 wonderful group leaders & members of Culture for the Non-Cultured, will be leading this tour. Sheryl, the Organizer of Culture for the Non-Cultured, will NOT be in attendance because she went last time with the group.**

C'mon out and tour the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, a gathering place for the Freemasons, an ancient fraternity based on community service!
Why You Don't Wanna Miss This
-- The halls look downright gorgeous in the virtual tour

-- This place is drenched in history. The website says Freemasonry is the oldest fraternity in the world. There is evidence that the Masonry probably grew out of the guilds of stonemasons who built the castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages.

-- Famous people were members, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Irving Berlin, Fiorella LaGuardia, John Jacob Astor, Cy Young, and Harry Houdini. Regular folks were members too!

--A WONDERFUL time was had by everyone who went on this tour the last time! Click to see their comments.

To Purchase Tickets (Buy ASAP because they will sell out, but there are no refunds)

1. Visit this link where I am selling tickets for the show
2. Towards the middle of the page, choose the number of tickets you need (up to 2.)
3. Right below the quantity, click your method of payment (variety of credit cards or Paypal)
4. Fill in your billing information
5. Click Review Order and Continue on the bottom of the page
6. Keep the confirmation and bring it with you on that day, just in case.

**THE ONLY WAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT IS TO USE THIS LINK, but there are no refunds.** Complete directions are at the end of this description. There are no refunds.

Let's go on a guided tour of the Studio Museum of Harlem, shall we?! It'll be grand!

Exhibit

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool

The New York Times gave this exhibit a glowing review, saying Hendrick's "suave portraits from the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s in this exhibit give the right to use 'Birth of the Cool' as the title of his five-decade retrospective."

Other Cool Things About The Exhibit

-- It "mixes realism, abstraction and Pop life-size paintings of beautiful black people in extravagantly fashionable outfits against flat, single-color backgrounds capture a period sensibility with uncanny acuity." -- from The New York Times review

-- It combines art 'n history, because the portraits capture the iconic power in the years after the Civil Rights Movement.

-- There are also more recent paintings of outdoor landscape painting during vacations in Jamaica

-- Hendricks made his debut in 1971 at the Whitney Museum & his work is still being shown at numerous museums across the country

To Purchase Tickets (Buy ASAP because they will sell out, but there are no refunds)

1. Visit this link where I am selling tickets for the show
2. Towards the middle of the page, choose the number of tickets you need.
3. Right below the quantity, click your method of payment (variety of credit cards or Paypal)
4. Fill in your billing information
5. Click Review Order and Continue on the bottom of the page
6. Keep the confirmation and bring it with you on that day, just in case.

**THE ONLY WAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT IS TO USE THIS LINK, but there are no refunds.** Complete directions are at the end of this description. There are no refunds.

Come see Gates of Gold at the 59e59 Theatre, which is always reliable for good, interesting work.

Gates of Gold sounds like a lot of cool things rolled into one: history, social commentary, drama, and Irish right in time for St. Patty's Day! Plus, it's only $24.99, including transaction fee (regularly over $35).

It'll be fanTAStic!

Here's
1. Some quick stuff about the show's plot
2. Links to reviews of the show from when it played in England and Ireland
3. Directions for reserving your spot/payment

1. Some cool stuff about "Gates of Gold"

-- It's a fictionalized account of the two men who founded Dublin’s Gate Theatre in 1928. Gate Theatre was the first theater to offer Irish audiences an alternative to the more traditional fare produced at the Abbey Theatre. (Orson Welles got his start here)

-- It's about a couple who were openly gay in a society which did not decriminalize homosexuality until the 1990s.

--The play was written by acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness, whose Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me earned a Tony Award nomination.

-- Gates of Gold got good reviews when it played in Ireland and England, including the following, "Gates of Gold is a touching, lovingly written story about complex emotional and psychological relationships between vividly drawn individuals ... The blend of larger than life theatrics and quieter, more intimate moments of revelation proves to be a perfect blend of form and content."

2. Reviews of the Play (When it played in other venues)
The Stage
Culture Vulture
Alan Howard

To Purchase Tickets (Buy ASAP because they will sell out, but there are no refunds)

1. Visit this link where I am selling tickets for the show
2. Towards the middle of the page, choose the number of tickets you need.
3. Right below the quantity, click your method of payment (variety of credit cards or Paypal)
4. Fill in your billing information
5. Click Review Order and Continue on the bottom of the page
6. Keep the confirmation and bring it with you on that day, just in case.