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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High-profile revivals dominate the theater landscape this season, both on- and off-Broadway.
The move from Broadway to off-Broadway is extremely rare, but it's not unprecedented, and New World Stages is part of the reason why.
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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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The off-Broadway industry essentially defines itself by what it is not.
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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.
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.
The downloader will become the downloaded after Monday when Schumacher joins more than a dozen speakers for the second TEDxBroadway conference at the off-Broadway complex New World Stages.
That's why producers are avoiding the "off-Broadway" label whenever possible.
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