They'll Watch the Kids While You Watch the Show

Playwrights Horizons has launched PLAYTIME!, a brand new program offering affordable, professional childcare while you see a show. Playwrights Horizons has teamed up with Sitters Studio, a bonded and insured company made up of sitters who are working artists, which will provide and operate the program at Playwrights Horizons on 42nd Street.

PLAYTIME! will debut during the run of the theater company’s next production, KIN, the world premiere of a new play by Bathsheba Doran, which begins performances on Friday, Feb. 25.

With PLAYTIME!, while patrons enjoy a Playwrights Horizons performance, their children will be upstairs in a rehearsal space having his or her own fun, artistic experience – learning a dance or song, making a craft project or participating in a myriad of other artistic activities provided by Sitters Studio. The program is available for children ages 4-12 (potty-training required). All Studio Sitters undergo background checks and are CPR certified.

PLAYTIME! is free to Playwrights Horizons subscribers and available to non-subscribers for a flat fee of only $15 per child. PLAYTIME! care will be offered during the following three performances of KIN: Feb. 27; March 20 and April 2, all at 2:30 pm. PLAYTIME! is the first program of its kind among New York City theaters.

For more information, visit the PLAYTIME! web page at www.playwrightshorizons.org/playtime.asp, or call Casey York at 212-564-1235, ext. 3152. For additional information about Sitters Studio, please visit www.sittersstudio.com.