{"id":7719,"date":"2018-09-28T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/28\/lobby-hero\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:58","slug":"lobby-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lobby-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Theatre presents &#8220;Lobby Hero&#8221; by Lonergan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Theatre will present Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s \u201cLobby Hero\u201d Oct. 10-13 and Oct. 18-20 at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinee showings Oct. 14 and Oct. 21 \u00a0at 3 p.m. All performances take place in The Playhouse on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Furman Professor of Theatre Jay Oney, the play is open to the public. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLobby Hero\u201d was Tony-nominated in 2018 for Best Revival of a Play. Time Out calls it \u201cA masterpiece. The best drama, the best comedy, and the best romance of the year, all rolled into one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Says The New York Times, \u201cIn the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, Americans may be newly receptive to Lobby Hero. But don&#8217;t imagine that this work is an agenda-driven debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cast members include Furman junior Matt Middleton (Ashburn, Virginia) as Jeff; freshman Dennis Cheeks (Columbia, South Carolina) as William; sophomore Elizabeth Collins (Buffalo, New York) as Dawn; and freshman Erik Bodien (Edgewater, Florida) as Bill.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information and reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 864-294-2125. Tickets are on sale now and may be ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/app.arts-people.com\/index.php?ticketing=futa\">online<\/a>. Small online ordering charges apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Theatre will present Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s \u201cLobby Hero\u201d Oct. 10-13 and Oct. 18-20 at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinee showings Oct. 14 and Oct. 21 \u00a0at 3 p.m. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}