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Playwrights Horizons Opens 2017 Online Auction

Tickets and behind-the-scenes visits to ”Dear Evan Hansen”, ”Hamilton”, and more are up for bidding.

Tickets to Hamilton and a chance to meet James Monroe Iglehart are among Playwrights Horizons' 2017 auction items.
Tickets to Hamilton and a chance to meet James Monroe Iglehart are among Playwrights Horizons' 2017 auction items.
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Playwrights Horizons has announced the details for its 2017 online auction, now open here. Bidding for the auction, which features an array of items, getaways, theater tickets, sports items, celebrity meet-and-greets, celebrity experiences, and other unique opportunities, ends on Thursday, June 15.

Some of the top items include tickets to the premiere and after-party of the upcoming seventh season of Game of Thrones in Los Angeles this July; a one-week stay in Vail, Colorado; a visit to the set of the Fox comedy New Girl; two V.I.P. tickets to Late Night With Seth Meyers; one week in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; two tickets to Dear Evan Hansen, meeting Michael Park, and receiving a signed program; an Orange Is the New Black set visit; and two house seats to Hamilton, meeting James Monroe Iglehart, and a stay at Langham Place in New York City.

Playwrights Horizons is an award-winning, not-for-profit theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists and to the production of their new plays and musicals. The theater's 2016-17 season is currently wrapping up with Bella: An American Tall Tale, the co-world premiere of a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Obie Award winner Kirsten Childs, directed by two-time Obie Award winner Robert O’Hara, and commissioned by Playwrights Horizons through the Musicals in Partnership Initiative with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Performances are running now through July 2.