Hillary and Clinton
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Hillary and Clinton, Imagine that in an alternate universe, very much like our own, is another world where a woman named Hillary is trying to become president of a country called the United States of America. In a hotel room in New Hampshire in 2008, Hillary is poised to lose her last Primary Election. When her husband Bill arrives in the middle of the night to offer support, he turns the campaign upside down. Fresh from the IGNITION Festival of New Plays, Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton is a fast-paced, no-holds-barred glimpse into a political storm of another world. Chay Yew directs Hnath’s 2008 Primary Election fantasy, exploring the extraordinary sacrifices one is willing to make in order to gain ultimate power.
Hillary and Clinton
John Golden on Broadway
First Preview 16, Mar 2019
Opening Night 18, Apr 2019
Closing Night 23, Jul 2019
After 37 Previews and 77 Performances
Cast
John Lithgow – Bill
Laurie Metcalf – Hillary
Peter Francis James – Barack
Zak Orth – Mark Penn
Creative
Produced by Scott Rudin
Written by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Joe Mantello
Scenic Design by Chloe Lamford
Costume Design by Ann Roth
Lighting Design by Hugh Vanstone
Playwright Lucas Hnath
Plays include Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop; Studio Theatre); The Christians (Playwrights Horizons; Humana Festival), A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep); nightnight (Humana Festival); Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Death Tax (Humana Festival; Royal Court Theatre). Hnath’s work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Overlook Press. He has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, and is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is the recipient of the 2016 Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Whiting Award, a Whitfield Cook Award and two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations. He is also a recipient of commissions from the EST/Sloan Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, and the Royal Court Theatre.
John Golden Theatre
The John Golden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish style along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J. Krapp for Irwin Chanin, it opened as the Theatre Masque on February 24, 1927 with the play Puppets of Passion. Seventy-six years later it housed another production known for its puppets, the award-winning Avenue Q. In 1937, impresario John Golden acquired the theatre and renamed it for himself. It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and ’50s before it was purchased by the Shubert Organization, who returned it to full-time theatrical use. The exterior of the theatre was used as the location of the movie version of the film A Chorus Line. It is also shown in the background during the opening scenes of All About Eve as the home of Margot Channing’s Aged In Wood.
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| Address |
| 252 W 45th St (between 8 Ave & 7 Ave) New York, NY 10036 |
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| Transport |
| Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Square |
| Phone |
| (212) 239-6200 |
| Box Office |
| Monday – Saturday 10am – 8.00pm – Sun – Noon – 7pm |
| Access Information |
| Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible.There are no steps into theatre from the sidewalk. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance. |
| Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only. |
| Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre. |
