FREE THEATER ALERT: New City Stage Co.'s Miss Witherspoon

Photo | Jeffrey Stockbridge Hey poor people! New City Stage Co.'s got a cannot-be-beat offer on their current show, Miss Witherspoon: FREE TICKETS to tonight's performance! Wowza! All you gotta do is buy your tix online here and use the code CHICKENSUIT. The Philly theater company's offering deep discounts the rest of the weekend, too: Friday and Saturday's 8 p.m. show, and Sunday's 3 p.m. matinee, are just $5 if you enter the code BARDO. Here's what CP theater critic Mark Cofta had to say about Miss Witherspoon in this week's Agenda section, should you need more incentive: Misanthropic suicide Miss Witherspoon, with an aura "like a tweedy brown coat," refuses to reincarnate: "It's scary down there," she complains about Earth, "and painful." In New City Stage Company's Philadelphia premiÃ¨re of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon, it's also funny. Miss W. (Julie Czarnecki) hides in atheists' heaven, but her spiritual guide (Indika Senanayake) insists she learn from life. The vulnerability Czarnecki adds to Miss W.'s crankiness (several reincarnations end with gruesomely hilarious suicides) gives director Ryder Thornton's production an edge that balances a sometimes awkward mix of comic absurdity and religious (and un-religious) pontification. Consider Miss Witherspoon an antidote to holiday treacle: It's the anti- It's a Wonderful Life. Click on over now for some free theater!

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FREE THEATER ALERT: New City Stage Co.'s Miss Witherspoon

POSTED: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 9:21 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass

Photo | Jeffrey Stockbridge

Hey poor people! New City Stage Co.'s got a cannot-be-beat offer on their current show, Miss Witherspoon: FREE TICKETS to tonight's performance! Wowza! All you gotta do is buy your tix online here and use the code CHICKENSUIT. The Philly theater company's offering deep discounts the rest of the weekend, too: Friday and Saturday's 8 p.m. show, and Sunday's 3 p.m. matinee, are just $5 if you enter the code BARDO. Here's what CP theater critic Mark Cofta had to say about Miss Witherspoon in this week's Agenda section, should you need more incentive:

Misanthropic suicide Miss Witherspoon, with an aura "like a tweedy brown coat," refuses to reincarnate: "It's scary down there," she complains about Earth, "and painful." In New City Stage Company's Philadelphia premiÃ¨re of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon, it's also funny. Miss W. (Julie Czarnecki) hides in atheists' heaven, but her spiritual guide (Indika Senanayake) insists she learn from life. The vulnerability Czarnecki adds to Miss W.'s crankiness (several reincarnations end with gruesomely hilarious suicides) gives director Ryder Thornton's production an edge that balances a sometimes awkward mix of comic absurdity and religious (and un-religious) pontification. Consider Miss Witherspoon an antidote to holiday treacle: It's the anti- It's a Wonderful Life.

Click on over now for some free theater!

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