Lincoln Center opens third theater
New space dedicated to emerging creatives
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First offering of the new initiative, called LCT3, is "Clay," the 2006 solo hip-hop musical that originated in Chicago and has also played in Los Angeles. Production gets a five-week stint at the Duke Theater in midtown Gotham starting in October.
Tickets to all LCT3 shows will be $20 for what Lincoln Center describes as full but modest productions.
A new legit venue, seating 99, is planned for Lincoln Center's Upper West Side campus, in or near the Library for the Performing Arts. For the first three seasons, though, LCT3 work will be presented off-site.
Paige Evans, formerly an associate a.d. at Manhattan Theater Club, is the new director of LCT3, working with LCT a.d. Andre Bishop. LCT already has a Broadway space, currently hosting the previewing revival of "South Pacific," and an Off Broadway theater, where Paul Rudnick's "The New Century" begins previews later this month.
Written and performed by Matt Sax and helmed by Eric Rosen, "Clay" follows a boy from the suburbs who becomes a hip-hop star while trying escape his past.
A second LCT3 production, yet to be selected, is planned for early 2009.
