What would get you to go see a play?

It would have to not be a musical. I really cannot stomach the cheery songs in musicals.

Cigs, booze and/or threat of bodily harm if I don’t go.

I don’t need a reason. I would enjoy seeing any kind of play.

$ and my mother being free to watch the kids

I find I travel a lot of the time specifically to see plays. I’ve been to Boston and New York City several times, specifically to go see plays/musicals/stomp. My choral group was also in England two years ago, and when we decided to see a Shakespeare play we pointedly went to Stratford-upon-Avon, so I would say it’s all about location.

Free tickets would do the trick for me.

@Buttonstc Just what I was thinking.

A Bravo Juliet number before the play.

Opportunity. I love the theater.

Marina

Yeah, great minds think alike :)

If I have a child in it, or being faced with a particularly gruesome penalty for not going.

Very little actually, good live theatre is not something to be missed.

nudity

When my friends are in it, I pay extremely close attention, and if I am allowed to, I would bring a video camera. Reason? So that I can flash the pictures in front of their faces when they aren’t expecting it.

It would have to be a play I already knew the storyline to, and if I knew the person.

It would need to be an option, for one. It would be more entertaining to go with someone who would enjoy it as well.