Word: off-broadway
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...VIRGIN MOLLY. A soldier of dubious sexual orientation gives birth in this off-Broadway blend of bawdy barracks humor, blasphemy and brilliant surrealism...
...UNSEEN. A trendy artist revisits the woman who first inspired him and tries to steal the sole memento of that time, a portrait of her. Writer Donald Margulies weaves a glittering web of satire about the art scene, the media, the exploitative side of creativity and rueful romance. This off-Broadway succes d'estime has vaulted to a commercial...
Baitz came to notice in Los Angeles in 1987 and off-Broadway the next year with The Film Society, a story of a failed teacher in South Africa, where the writer spent much of his youth. His latest effort, The Substance of Fire, is at Lincoln Center after a sold-out run at the smaller Playwrights Horizons. Structurally, the problems are the opposite of the Korder play's. The first half, about a family dispute over a publishing empire, surges with believable life. The second half, about the clan's Holocaust-scarred patriarch, clanks with calculation...
GRANDCHILD OF KINGS. Hal Prince proved himself a genius of high-gloss staging in such musical extravaganzas as Cabaret and The Phantom of the Opera. Now his awesome talents, and a cast of 27, are employed in an exuberant, emotionally rich yet intimate off-Broadway retelling of Sean O'Casey's Dublin memoirs...
...score of the Gershwins' 1930 Girl Crazy, Broadway was graced by a straightforward revival of 1956's The Most Happy Fella. By the end of April, those shows are to be joined by Man of La Mancha (1965) and Guys and Dolls (1950), and a belated transfer of the off-Broadway hits March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), now paired in a single evening. In addition are three "new" musicals recycling songs by black composers: Five Guys Named Moe, produced by London impresario Cameron Mackintosh but mounted by Americans around the work of Louis Jordan; Jelly's Last...