Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? tickets

Get tickets to Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been on New York Theatre Guide to see what the Wall Street Journal called an evening of "marvelous theatre and telling history." A timely revival about censorship, expression, and making art, Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been plays for 15 weeks only at New York City Center – Stage 1 and features a rotating cast of stars.

Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County, formerly Artistic Director of Steppenwolf) directs a company that changes week to week to bring life to the the House Un-American Activities Committee trials in the 1940s. The cast includes big names like Brooks Ashmanskas, Jason Babinsky, Steven Boyer, Adam Kantor, Frederick Weller, and Michael McKean, plus guest stars Santino Fontana, Billy Eugene Jones, T.R. Knight, David Krumholtz, Harry Lennix, Andrew McCarthy, Sally Murphy, Bob Odenkirk, Steven Pasquale, Molly Ringwald, Thomas Sadoski, and Jay O. Sanders.

Those stars perform transcripts from the greats who came before them: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been off Broadway features artists like Arthur Miller, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Elia Kazan, Lillian Hellman, Abe Burrows, and Lionel Stander as they navigated the legal system to defend their integrity, protect their livelihoods, or betray their peers and friends.

Through his play, writer Eric Bentley — an inductee into the American Theatre Hall of Fame — highlights the timelessness of artists struggling to share themselves and their craft with audiences when censorship and authority take hold. As such, the play continues to resonate with a new generation even though the historical docudrama traces events from almost a century ago.

The struggle for freedom and artistic expression are tightly probed in this cutting drama. Tickets to Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been in New York City are available now.