Word: off-broadway
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...multitude of characters, some just one, and several basically play themselves. Some, like Spalding Gray, who in January finished a return engagement on Broadway and is coming back in June, devote themselves principally to the solo form. Others, like John Leguizamo, who was named last season's best performer off-Broadway for his Hispanic family portrait Spic-O-Rama and who appeared in the films Carlito's Way and Super Mario Bros., seem less exclusively committed to the stage...
Smith burst into the national consciousness with Fires in the Mirror, which played off-Broadway and around the U.S., became a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for PBS. That piece took on a confined conflict between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn. Her new Twilight tackles the complex sociology of the Los Angeles riots. After a spellbinding debut there, it has been revised and restaged for an off-Broadway run starting next week, with a transfer to Broadway planned for April...
...lose interest in a man they once hailed as great. Fugard's most recent pieces, My Children! My Africa! and Playland, dealt with South Africa's smoldering race hatred via small-scale, personal tragedies. Each had success elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world but closed quickly off-Broadway. Even at home in South Africa, where the shows were lauded, people wonder what a white liberal dissenter has to say to a society embarking on black-majority rule...
...places like Houston and Cincinnati, where his name still conjured respect rather than condescension toward the no longer voguish -- but Edward Albee has labored without the New York limelight for nearly two decades. If there is justice, that will end this week, when his stunning Three Tall Women opens off-Broadway. Out of the simplest and most familiar material -- a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess -- Albee fashions a spellbinder. Just when he exhausts the potential of naturalistic melodrama, a brilliant gimmick, part...
...happened last week, midway through the performance of Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, a dextrous, funny and entirely elegant revue of card conjuring at an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan. The missing card, boldly marked and closely watched, appeared -- after several comic digressions -- in a totally unexpected place that only a master manipulator can navigate (and that would be wrong to divulge here...