Win Tickets to the Performing Arts Center

admin Posted OnFebruary 4, 2016

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Are you a townie, culture vulture, foodie or locavore?

Then the What To Do eLetter is perfect for you. Sign up to enter our drawing for a pair of tickets to four nights of the National Theatre Live – the finest theatre from London captured live on stage and broadcast in high definition at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.

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Best of all … If you sign up (like now) you can win a pair of tickets to four nights of the National Theatre Live to see the Royal National Theatre’s production of Jane Eyre from 2014, London’s current production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring Tony-winner Janet McTeer (A Doll’s House on Broadway), Shakespeare’s crossdressing comedy, As You Like It that is currently playing in London and an International Encore Screening of The Audience starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth. Find out more.

National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte’s heroine was the ultimate survivor: overcoming poverty, injustice, and betrayal before her own bold fight for freedom. The Evening Standard of London cheered director Sally Cookson’s reimagining of this classic, calling it “Fresh, exciting and inventive” when she staged it with The Royal National Theatre at The Bristol Old Vic in December of 2014. See it in hi-defintion at PAC on Sun, 2/14: 2pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

National Theatre Live- Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Josie Rourke’s new production marks the 30^th anniversary of Christopher Hampton’s adaption of a scandalous 18^th century novel of sex and intrigue in pre-revolutionary France. This production from the Donmar Warehouse was recorded in January, 2016 and stars Janet McTeer, the Tony Award winner for Broadway’s A Doll’s House in 1997. Sat, 3/12: 2pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

National Theatre Live – As You Like It: One of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays returned recently to the National Theatre for the first time in three decades in directory Polly Findlay’s critically-acclaimed production of this glorious comedy of love, change, Elizabethan cross-dressing and cat fishing. (Some things never change.) This production will be filmed in February, 2016. Sun, 4/24: 2pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

National Theatre Live – The Audience: All hail the Queen! If you missed Dame Helen Mirren’s Tony Award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth on Broadway – a standing room only follow-up to her movie role – don’t miss this “International Encore Screening” of Peter Morgan’s play, directed by Stephen Daldry. Originally recorded in 2013 at London’s West End. Sat, 6/18: 2pm. (PepsiCo Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

41 Nights at The Center: The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College serves up a splendid mash-up of 41 music, theatre, dance, comedy, cinema and family events from September to May. It’s a feast of eclecticism offering something for every stripe of culture-vulture (do vultures even have stripes? Whatever …) from the Martha Graham Dance Company to the Monterey Jazz Festival, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood’s Two man Group and Clifford the Big Red Dog. We have their complete Winter and Spring 16 season all lined up for you here.