Word: off-broadway
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...Off-Broadway does things by halves most of the time, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and fascinating. A playwright may get his hands on a fresh or exciting theme, but through clumsy craftsmanship, inept direction or an amateurish cast, the stage effect will be fumbled. Conversely, acting skills and staging techniques of a high order will sometimes be lavished on trivia, or the feeblest works of fine playwrights, or plays on tired subjects...
This season, off-Broadway has been particularly plagued by one-halfmanship, and its strongest impact has been the feeling that an off-Broadway evening is far from wasted yet less than richly satisfying...
Although the London theater and off-Broadway productions are both sources of creativity, Seltzer is adamant about drama's potential at Harvard. "Original drama and preservation of the classical tradition is at least as much the responsibility of the academic community as the professional," he said last week in his Loeb office, surrounded by glossy prints of main stage productions...
...soul." Kafka was similarly obsessed, but he found the distance between God and Man unbridgeable, while Betti bridged it by daring to revert to orthodox Christian doctrine. Not a play to stir the passions or warm the heart but to disturb the mind and chill the soul, this exceptional off-Broadway production is an intellectual and spiritual jewel in the theater's cardboard crown...
...Charles production is a polished one. The actors, most of whom performed in the play off-Broadway last year, are excellent. The theater itself seems ideal for The Hostage; the stage, surrounded on three sides by the audience, facilitates the endless entrances and exits, and the characters' numerous remarks to the house seem less contrived with the audience so close. In any case, the Charles is always a nice place to see a play, and The Hostage is a good play...