Word: off-broadway
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...Martin McDonagh was once a hot playwright too, a few years back, when "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," the first of his Leenane trilogy, introduced this talented London-based playwright to America. Next came "The Lonesome West," but now that "A Skull in Connemara" has arrived (at off-Broadway's Gramercy Theater), the critics seem to have lost interest. True, McDonagh's mordant vision of rural Irish life is pretty familiar by now, and "Connemara" does not have the structural neatness or the tragic force of "Beauty Queen." But it has something that Lonergan's plays don't have...
...start of Act II, Murray chides the audience for coming in late and replays the last five minutes of Act I. (It's no better the second time.) He even mimics a female theatergoer complaining that the line for the ladies' room is too long. Odd, since at the off-Broadway theater where "The Play About the Baby" is running, the ladies' room was surprisingly uncrowded; it was the men's room line that snaked through the lobby. Albee even got that wrong...
...shootings. Brafman has a strong voice and speaks in a loud, aggressive manner - the same tone of voice you might use to, say, denounce a terrorist attack on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. When Brafman began his queries, the courtroom took on a kind of off-Broadway feeling, as if one was watching a performance instead of a legal proceeding. He tore into Fenderson's account of Puffy allegedly slipping in a gun in his waistband on the night of the shooting. "Wasn't [Combs] wearing a fur coat?" Brafman barked. Later Brafman added "You ever...
...independent film festival. But Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the biopic of a whacked-out East German emigre with Courtney Love's disposition and Farrah Fawcett's hairdo, seduced the selection committee. "It's burning with originality and energy," says programmer Shari Frilot. Hedwig always did. When it opened off-Broadway three years ago, critics raved about Stephen Trask's songs, and although the show's writer and star, John Cameron Mitchell, appeared nightly in drag (usually the fastest road to camp marginalization), his hilarious, moving mock concert became a mainstream theatrical phenomenon. "In the whole long, sorry history...
...FULLY COMMITTED A frazzled afternoon with the reservations clerk for a hot-hot-hot Manhattan restaurant. Becky Mode's one-actor play (a hit off-Broadway and now in L.A.) is a tart and hilarious send-up of the social feeding frenzy...