Some nights it felt as though the meeting were in fact an Off Off Broadway show, feverish, vital, undisciplined.
"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 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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The Brooklyn-born Irish-American comedian kicks off his new one-man off-Broadway show by wondering why that document is so darn fascinating.
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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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.
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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We're right now, we're off Broadway doing at the Little Schubert.
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