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M. Butterfly Adds Preview Performance With $25 Student Tickets

One hundred discounted tickets will be available at the box office the day of the performance.

Clive Owen and Jin Ha in a promotional image for the new Broadway revival of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang.
Clive Owen and Jin Ha in a promotional image for the new Broadway revival of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang.
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The upcoming revival of David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning play M. Butterfly has added a special preview performance on Saturday, October 14, at 2pm. For this special performance only, M. Butterfly has set aside 100 prime front orchestra seats to be available to students for $25. These student tickets are available in person only at the Cort Theatre Box Office on the day of the performance (one ticket per valid student ID). The box office will open at 10am on October 7.

Clive Owen leads the cast as Rene Gallimard alongside a company featuring Jin Ha, Murray Bartlett, Michael Countryman, Enid Graham, Clea Alsip, Celeste Den, Jess Fry, Jason Ignacio, Kristen Faith Oei, Scott Weber, Emmanuel Brown, Thomas Michael Hammond, Jake Manabat, Erica Sweany, John Leonard Thompson, and Erica Wong. Tony winner Julie Taymor directs.

The story of M. Butterfly charts the scandalous romance between a married French diplomat and a mysterious Chinese opera singer — a love story of international espionage and personal betrayal. Their 20-year relationship pushed and blurred the boundaries between male and female, east and west — while redefining the nature of love and the devastating cost of deceit.

For the revival, Hwang will introduce new material inspired by the real-life love affair between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu that has come to light since the play's 1988 premiere.

Previews are set to begin October 7 in advance of an October 26 opening.

For tickets and more information, click here.

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