Word: off-broadway
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...This off-Broadway theater company, which specializes in second productions of plays that were underappreciated in their first run, has found a second use for an old bank, and many notions of theater design have been turned smartly on their head in the refurbishment. Gone is darkness: the theater has huge dramatic windows; curtains close over them to signal the beginning of a performance. One of the gigantic walk-in safes is now the box office; the other holds safe-deposit boxes (for storing personal items) that will be up for sale. Umbrellas left here should be the safest...
...play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write another play and remains dedicated to her current work. She did celebrate: just champagne and pizza, though. After all, she said, "it [was] a school night...
...off-Broadway hit, Blue Man Group is playing in Boston. It's great time for a group, a date, or just some alone time. One hint: Don't wear anything too nice, you never when you may become a member of the blue man group. The Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton...
...come. A year and a half after her world-traumatizing death, Princess Diana is back as the heroine of a stage musical--and no one cares! To be sure, the unheralded off-Broadway show Queen of Hearts is too scrappy and simplistic to be very satisfying, even to connoisseurs of kitsch. Its Diana is an unnuanced saint whose key moment of insight comes when Princess Grace advises her, "Trust in yourself. Be who you are." Yet the musical boasts an appealing Diana in Paula Leggett Chase, who has the hairstyle and the gangly grace and (in songs like The Walls...
...worker. Smart and smart-alecky, none of them know how to shift the course of their sorry lives. A young stranger shows up at the Los Angeles bungalow they're temporarily sharing. Secrets are revealed, life choices are examined, change is attempted. With passion and humor, Grant's sinewy off-Broadway drama digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems are all too universal. An appealing cast performs with perfect pitch...