The Brooklyn-born Irish-American comedian kicks off his new one-man off-Broadway show by wondering why that document is so darn fascinating.
"When people come to NWS, they don't know if what they're seeing is Broadway or off-Broadway unless some sort of ticketing agency tells them that it's off-Broadway, " he said.
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High-profile revivals dominate the theater landscape this season, both on- and off-Broadway.
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 contacted the beverage company Snapple and landed the first corporate-sponsored deal for an off-Broadway theater in history.
People are awful, of course -- somebody once observed that every civilization faces a barbarian invasion every generation in the form of its children -- and the Broadway and off-Broadway crowd is full of miscreants.
An edgy, sometimes harrowing new adaptation by Mike Poulton, presented by the always-adventurous Red Bull Theater, opened Thursday night off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the 19th-century marital battles are as resonant onstage as ever.
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.
Both Ms. Price and Robyn Goodman, a lead producer on "Avenue Q" which has been making money off-Broadway since closing on Broadway in 2009 have cultivated a working relationship with New World Stages.
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Before that, "Rent" moved to New World Stages in the summer of 2011 but that was three years after it closed on Broadway, so it functioned more like a commercial off-Broadway revival than a Broadway continuation in a smaller theater.
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As it happened, development rights for a large parcel between Dyer Avenue and Tenth Avenue on 42nd Street hinged on including a performing-arts element to make up for two Off-Broadway houses that had been razed to allow for a subway extension.
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The actor-turned playwright sat through the preview alone in a corner of an off-Broadway theater and now seems to be in some gastrointestinal pain, which he admits isn't far off.
Otherwise you have to go back to the '80s, when "Billy Bishop Goes to War" (1980) and "'night, Mother" (1984) transferred to commercial off-Broadway theaters on the heels of their Broadway runs.
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The New York-based drama group, Ma-Yi Theater Ensemble, now in its 10th season, did the latest staging, following its 1996 off-Broadway triumph, Flipzoids, about the identity crisis of modern-day Filipino Americans ("Flips" in street slang).
And this year, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, " another transfer from off-Broadway, has been packing them in on Broadway.
Broadway veterans have high hopes for "Peter and the Starcatcher, " a Peter Pan prequel that sold out off-Broadway last year and is set to open on Broadway this spring.
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Joseph's other credits include the fine off-Broadway "Gruesome Playground Injuries, " which tells a love story through lovers' scars, and Broadway's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, " a Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama about the Iraq war starring Robin Williams.
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.
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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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.
"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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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.
WSJ: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' Finds New Life Off-Broadway
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