Word: off-broadway
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...them used to open on the road, now they open Off-Broadway.... Their whole idea is to have them on the road after Broadway. Or while Broadway is in existence, because that is a tremendous appeal to people. That means it made it. We sold 200,000 tickets [in Boston]. So it's been rather successful. And if things continue the way they are, we'll probably stay a little bit longer before we go to St. Paul...
Psychopathia Sexualis, the latest off-Broadway effort from John Patrick Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...
...second outlet: the Great Decisions TV program, with Dean Krogh as host, on PBS. Scholars and policymakers would debate the foreign policy issues of the day, so Albright got a chance to practice her one-liners in an off-Broadway setting. Though its audience was small, it did attract Washington's policy wonks, and Albright began to be noticed...
...trend in off-Broadway plays of 1991 is recapitulated in movies of late '96, as Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire races Marvin's Room to the plexes. Both are realistic dramas spiked with wit about families gathering around an old man as he slips toward death. Indeed, The Substance of Fire could be Marvin's Room from Marvin's point of view...