Ethel Barrymore Theatre
243 W 47th St
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Exit the King
- When
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Mar 26, 2009 – June 14, 2009
Tuesdays (7pm)
Wednesdays (2 & 8pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (2 & 8pm)
Sundays (3pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$66.50 - 116.50
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400-year-old King Berenger (Geoffrey Rush) doesn't know he has only 90 minutes left to live at the beginning of Ionesco's rarely performed absurdist masterpiece. His two wives, Queen Marguerite (Susan Sarandon) and Marie (Lauren Ambrose), debate how to break the news, along with his sadistic Doctor (William Sadler) and doting maid, played with vaudevillian flair by Andrea Martin. Geoffrey Rush's translation — crafted with director Neil Armfield — is simultaneously accessible and crackling with macabre exuberance, and Rush delivers one of the most nuanced and fully realized performances to be seen on Broadway in many, many years.
