Famed drug smuggler Billy Hayes shares his real-life story in RIDING THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (photo by Carol Rosegg)
Multiple venues
September 9-28, $20, 20 minutes before showtime
www.20at20.com
In addition to Broadway Week (September 1-14), during which two-for-one tickets are available in advance for such Great White Way shows as Cabaret, Pippin, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Matilda, Kinky Boots, and others, 20at20 is about to get under way, with twenty-dollar seats on sale twenty minutes before curtain for nearly four dozen off-Broadway productions. For twenty days, September 9-28, a Jackson will get you in to such shows as Lee Blessing’s A Walk in the Woods with Kathleen Chalfant at the Clurman, Sean J Quinn’s Money Grubbin’ Whores at the Lion, Zoey Martinson’s Fringe 2013 hit Ndebele Funeral at 59E59, Samuel J. Bernstein and Marguerite Krupp’s Olympics Über Alles about Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller at St. Luke’s, Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story at the Signature, Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes at the Barrow Street Theatre, Conor McPherson’s Port Authority with Peter Maloney at DR2, Mario Correa’s Tail! Spin! with Sean Dugan and Rachel Dratch at the Lynn Redgrave Theater, George Kelly’s The Fatal Weakness at the Mint, and Tony winner Billy Porter’s While I Yet Live at Primary Stages. With the price of off-Broadway shows on the rise, this is a great opportunity to sample some fine theater on the cheap.