Word: off-broadway
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...where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that's left for Hedwig is to tell her life story in a confessional cabaret show, which has become off-Broadway's latest cult hit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch...
...Mitchell may have the Titanic of drag musicals. Since opening on Valentine's Day, Hedwig has attracted a mix of uptown theatergoers, kids from the club scene and celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Glenn Close and David Bowie. The show just won an Outer Critics Circle award for best off-Broadway musical, a concept album is in the works, and there's already talk of a movie. Couldn't happen to a nicer girly...
...tried, of course. For a pitch-perfect record of the proceedings, rather than Hare's imaginative reconstruction of their aftershocks, audiences need only go off-Broadway to Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Taken entirely from courtroom transcripts and excerpts of Wilde's and Douglas' writings, the play opened 14 months ago as a sleeper hit and has since become a small New York City institution--The Fantasticks for humanities majors...
...struggling writer in New York City--except that McDonagh is hardly struggling anymore. Just turned 28, he has already caused a sensation in London, where four of his plays have been staged to wide acclaim in the past two years. One of them, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, opened off-Broadway in February (in the original production staged by London's Royal Court and Ireland's Druid Theatre) and drew such ecstatic reviews that its six-week run was sold out within 24 hours; the show will transfer to Broadway later this month. A second McDonagh play, The Cripple...
...that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about man's love of the scam (the card-shark show Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, recently off-Broadway, and this spiffy new film...