Event FAQ

To purchase tickets in advance, go to our Box Office page.

If you plan to purchase tickets at the door, we only directly accept cash. You may pay cash or, after you arrive at the venue, you may purchase a ticket online on your smartphone and show the e-ticket to our box office volunteer.

The Well Coffee House has been a great partner for us. In their own words: “We are a non-profit coffee house located in the heart of the River Park Neighborhood. We care a lot about coffee, our community and culture.”

Patrons can get coffee and some snacks in the coffee house before the show and during our two 10-minute intermissions. The venue does not allow alcohol.

Two all-gender restrooms are available in the coffee house.

For the Friday performances, the coffee house itself will be open to the public. For the Saturday and Sunday performances, the coffee house is closed to the public, open for patrons to The Spanish Tragedy.

The performance space is lit with exposed bulbs, so if you are sensitive to that type of lighting, we encourage you to bring a visor or baseball cap to help you enjoy the show.

Temperatures inside the performance space may vary throughout the show, so please dress accordingly.

Seniors (age 60 and older) and students (age 17 and younger, OR anyone with a valid student ID) may select the appropriate $15 ticket online or inform a box office volunteer that they are a senior/student to receive the $15 ticket price. You may be asked to show ID to validate that you qualify as a senior or student.

Those who will arrive to the show by carpool with 3+ patrons or without a car may qualify for the $15 Community Travel Discounted Ticket. See “What is the Community Travel Discount?” for details.

Those who purchased their tickets before October 17th were also eligible for a $15 early-bird ticket.

Discounts do not stack. There is a standard $20 ticket price, and there is a discounted $15 ticket price (which you may qualify for multiple ways).

The Community Travel Discounted Ticket is a $15 ticket to the performance. To qualify for this ticket, you can either:

• Carpool with a total of three or more paying patrons to The Spanish Tragedy traveling in the same vehicle together (you and two others, or more).

• Arrive at The Spanish Tragedy without using a car or larger vehicle. Qualifying methods of arriving at the show include walking, taking the bus, or riding a bicycle, scooter, etc.

If you purchase a $15 Community Travel Discounted Ticket online and your plans change, leading you not to travel in a way that qualifies for the discount, we ask that you add a donation to bring the total price of your ticket(s) to the standard ticket price of $20 each.

If you buy your ticket at the door (cash only), simply inform our box office volunteer that you arrived in a way that qualifies for the Community Travel Discounted Ticket, and you can receive the $15 price.

A “carpool” of three or more paying patrons can include family members who live together, friends who live separately, etc. It can include those who purchase their tickets together and those who purchase them separately, and it can include those who qualify for a different $15 ticket type anyway (student ticket, etc.). It allows each person who travels to the show together in that vehicle to choose a $15 ticket when they purchase it.

However you arrive, travel carefully and take responsibility for safety. All forms of transportation involve risk, and it’s important to us that you arrive in a way that reduces risk for yourself and others.

Street parking is available along Mishawaka Avenue and many of the nearby streets. Please make note of any signs about street parking.

You may also park, just northwest of The Well, in the parking lot for Allie’s Cafe, which has given permission for patrons of The Spanish Tragedy to park there during performance times.

Beyond that, visitors to The Well sometimes choose to park in the parking lot for Up Up & Away Balloon Barn across the street. Likewise, visitors to The Well sometimes choose to park in the parking lot for the St. Joseph County Democrats if there is no sign near the door noting that an event is taking place there.

Please be cautious parking, and be cautious crossing the street if needed.

The bus schedule is generally not conducive to travel to/from the venue for The Spanish Tragedy. Bus service does not run at useful times for our Saturday or Sunday performances.

For our Friday performances, Transpo bus route #30 runs at times that patrons may find useful to arrive at the show. But Transpo bus service ends for the night earlier than the play is scheduled to finish, so any patrons arriving via a Transpo bus would need to find alternate transportation after the show.

For details, see the Transpo website. AMP Theatre Company has no affiliation with Transpo and is not responsible for any issues with Transpo buses.

Bicycles and smaller, safe transportation devices may be brought inside the venue if they are dry and clean. Space for such devices is limited during the Friday performances, when The Well is open to the public.

Neither AMP Theatre Company nor the venue is responsible for theft of any transportation devices, vehicles, or other items.

MACOG’s Crossway Trails website has a useful map of local bike paths. It is a few years out of date, and is notably missing the completed Coal Line Trail and Link Trail, which provide greater connectivity. Many other online maps also don’t reflect these recent bike trail additions in our community.

We can't say that a particular route is safe or not, as all forms of travel include risk. Only you can choose your form of transportation and your route. That said, we strongly recommend rear and front lights on your bike if you do decide to bike, as well as wearing helmets and bright and reflective clothing, and traveling at speeds that allow you to maneuver and stop as needed.

Here's a personal opinion on bike routes from AMP Theatre Company co-artistic director Mark Pajor:

"I ride my ebike on the river trails and other multi-use paths as much as possible to get around town, as I enjoy the ride more and feel more confident when I'm separated from cars. To get to The Well, I travel primarily along the river trails. From the multi-use path alongside Pleasant Street, I take 25th Street north a few blocks until I reach Mishawaka Avenue, and at that point I'm at The Well! There are also painted bike lanes on Mishawaka Avenue, but I prefer the no-cars paths wherever possible."

Friday, November 7, will be a pay-what-you-will performance for walk-ins: Patrons who purchase their tickets in advance for that night are guaranteed seats, and then walk-in patrons can choose to pay any amount they wish for admittance to that performance, as open seats remain.

Any payment amount, including none, is acceptable for pay-what-you-will entry on November 7, but the performance may have only a small number of seats available for walk-ins depending on how many seats are pre-purchased online. The remaining seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Spanish Tragedy contains depictions of graphic violence, murder, hanging, stabbing, gun usage, suicide, self-inflicted dismemberment, and capital punishment.

Everyone has a different threshold for violence in fiction. You can expect a similar level of violence that you might see in a production of Hamlet.