The show debuted in Chicago in 2001 and then arrived off-Broadway the next year.
"After 25 years of working off-Broadway, I can fix a toilet, " she says with a laugh.
As for European playwrights, off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company did right by Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo, " in which F.
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Their drums and songs are part of an unusual off-Broadway show currently being staged in New York City.
She contacted the beverage company Snapple and landed the first corporate-sponsored deal for an off-Broadway theater in history.
The play debuted off-Broadway in February 2010, before making its UK premiere at London's Royal Court later that year.
"Cathy and off-Broadway kind of have the same attitude: a combination of grit and energy and flexibility, " he says.
These days, it's much tougher for shows to run off-Broadway for several years.
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The Brooklyn-born Irish-American comedian kicks off his new one-man off-Broadway show by wondering why that document is so darn fascinating.
Last year, the highly popular "Wicked" was bested by "Avenue Q, " a plucky little puppet show that moved from off-Broadway.
Was Russell going to keep the doors open to her off-Broadway theater complex in the face of this massive storm?
The play, which played off-Broadway last year and recently made the jump to the Golden Theatre, centers on three middle-aged siblings.
And this year, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, " another transfer from off-Broadway, has been packing them in on Broadway.
"We knew that off-Broadway, if you could sell, on average, 300 seats a night, you could make money, " said Ms. Price.
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But squatters, take note: There's square footage going a-begging granted, you won't have much of a view in numerous theater orchestra pits on and Off-Broadway.
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Craig Lucas' gentle new comedy, "The Lying Lesson, " opened Wednesday night in an intriguing world premiere, presented off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company.
Twenty years ago, the show was popular enough to run over 600 performances off-Broadway and became a favorite for amateur and college theaters.
Now it's one of five plays from the series that have made the trip to New York, appearing off-Broadway beginning Tuesday on Theatre Row.
Now Classic Stage Company has given us a Doyle-directed off-Broadway version of "Passion, " the last and best of Mr. Sondheim's three collaborations with James Lapine.
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She wants to build more such theater complexes, convinced there's a need for off-Broadway stages in the Broadway area offering an alternative to high Broadway prices.
It happens that I was on the road throughout last year's off-Broadway run of "Clybourne Park, " and ever since then I've been wondering what I missed.
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In just one audition, she won a career-making role: the title character of David Ives's provocative play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company, off-Broadway.
His play "Reasons to Be Happy" a companion piece to his earlier "Reasons to Be Pretty" is heading off-Broadway this summer under his direction.
Both the Broadway and the off-Broadway production try to substantiate an unpromising bit of literary fluff, highlighting the poem's stale stereotypes and its lack of plotting.
Mickey Sumner makes an effective off-Broadway debut in her deft portrayal of Minnie Bodine, the local Jill-of-all-trades who seems eagerly interested in helping Ruth get settled in.
Cast members of the off-Broadway musical "Stomp" combine percussion with dancing, so the show needs people with both talents to show up at its auditions in New York.
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