$3,500 to see McKellen's Lear, and rear
Ed Pilkington in New York, The Guardian, Monday October 15, 2007
Tickets going for a princely sum ... Ian McKellen in King Lear. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Americans are used to pawning the silverware for a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl or the upcoming World Series, but $3,500 (£1,720) for a performance of Shakespeare?
That is the price set on eBay for a couple of tickets for King Lear, which opens at UCLA's Royce Hall theatre in Los Angeles on Friday. And that is not just eBay hype: tickets start at $465 and rise to $2,000 on the website Stubhub, while Gotickets are offering them at up to $1,860.
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