The Awful Truth

First Preview: Sep 02, 2015

Opening Date: Sep 02, 2015

Closing Date: Oct 18, 2015

Running Time: 02:10

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Connelly Theater Upstairs

220 East 4th St New York, NY 10009

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What is the foundation of a lasting marriage? Love? Convenience? Money? And when a marriage doesn’t last, what gives us the courage to try again?

In 1921, Arthur Richman scored his first stage triumph with a romantic comedy about a second marriage, and challenge the play throws down still strikes a resonant chord.

Divorced New York socialite Lucy Warriner plans to tie the knot again: this time to Oklahoma oil man Dan Leeson. He is not of her circle, but he can certainly afford to keep her in it. Yet, before he—and moreover, his bluenosed aunt—will accept her, Lucy must quash a persistent rumor: that her cheating drove her first husband to divorce her. So she enlists her estranged ex-husband, Norman, to vouch for her. Of course........

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM

Off-Off Broadway Play - Drama

Age Guidance: 16

Show Notes: 1 Intermission

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Not wheelchair accessible; up one flight of 18 stairs.

Seating

51-seat 3/4 thrust black box

Elevator\Escalator

There is no elevator in this historic school building; one must ascend one flight of 18 steps.

Parking

Weeknights and weekend days, parking may be found on the street. On weekend evenings, the streets get crowded. Lot / Houston and Essex - Public parking in a guarded lot is available on Avenue A

Entrance

Located on the second floor of the Connelly Center.

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