Some nights it felt as though the meeting were in fact an Off Off Broadway show, feverish, vital, undisciplined.
We're right now, we're off Broadway doing at the Little Schubert.
Peter Breger, an entertainment attorney and president of the Off Broadway Alliance, points to Russell as one of the bright lights of the New York theater scene.
"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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The stakes are lower for the first New York revival of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America, " which opens Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space on Oct. 28.
Still, this portrait of the artist as a crazy mixed-up kid has scruffy charm and self-lacerating wit, especially in its satire of the theatre, from school workshops to Off Broadway.
But while Mr. Wilson revised the script extensively between 1979 and 2000, when the final version of the play was performed Off Broadway, he never got the second act quite right.
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"I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea to close off Broadway, " says John Liu, a city council member from Queens who ran for comptroller in New York City's September primary.
Worse than the bored Californian couples seeking sexual thrills was the audition to become a singer on a Norwegian cruise liner, which appears in the episode about the lives struggling off Broadway actors.
The American premiere of "Bull: The Bullfight Play, " written by Bartlett as a companion piece to last season's off-Broadway hit "Cock", opened Thursday night in a gripping, brutal presentation by Sheffield Theatres, as part of 2013 Brits Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters.
Drama studies might be rather better studied by going and working as an actor: Mom and Pop subsidising a child for four years doing off off Broadway would certainly be cheaper than college these days and would almost certainly result in a better dramatic education.
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Gulden, 46, is currently managing director of the Deichmann Group and president and CEO of its wholly owned retail chains Rack Room Shoes and Off Broadway Shoes in the U.S. Prior to those positions, Gulden was senior VP of apparel and accessories at Adidas and was part of the management group that took Adidas public in 1995.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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