Word: off-broadway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...odds against financial success on Broadway may still be long, but that hasn't stopped producers from elbowing one another for space on a street where the NO VACANCY sign has been up all season. The off-Broadway musical Grey Gardens--based on the 1975 film documentary about two nutty relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and featuring a Tony-worthy performance by Christine Ebersole--might have been the best Broadway musical of the season. Except that it can't move to Broadway, because all the theaters are filled...
...truly an American voice.” Durang’s most popular plays include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You” and “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” both winners of the prestigious Obie awards, the Off-Broadway Theater Awards bestowed by The Village Voice. The Harvard theater community has maintained a close relationship with Durang, performing his plays and sketches several times over the past decades. Benjamin J. Toff ’05, who directed a lesser-known Durang play, “The Vietnamization...
...Monologues” was first performed off-Broadway in 1996 and chronicles the thematically similar, but distinct, stories of the more than 200 women who Ensler interviewed. Since its inception, the play has become a cultural phenomenon, tied to raising awareness of violence against women. Proceeds from this production went to V-Day 2006 Spotlight Global Campaign on Comfort Women, the Network/La Red, the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violent for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and El Amel Centers in Sudan...
...creatively explore and challenge the presuppositions all of us hold about the value of female bodies.” Ensler interviewed more than 200 women to create the script of “Monologues,” which which won an Obie Award when it was first performed Off-Broadway in 1996. Since then, the play has been translated into 29 languages, adapted for television by HBO, and, in 2001, performed in Madison Square Garden by such luminaries as Whoopi Goldberg and Melissa Etheridge. Though “Monologues” will likely be a much smaller affair, with only...
...Jarrett, daughter Lori Jarrett (the company's CEO) and son-in-law Ram Sethuraman (director of the company's board) got VirtuosoWorks off the ground could make its own opera--not off-Broadway but offshore. It's a tale about the possibilities and perils of outsourcing. It begins in the 1980s, when Jarrett, a music professor, created MusicPrinter Plus, a program to compose music onscreen and play it back on a synthesizer. He updated his program to eliminate the need for a synthesizer, allowing users to write music, then play and conduct it, all on a laptop. Jarrett's daughter...