Word: off-broadway
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...wide-eyed belief of Culkin, 10, in the script's improbabilities is what makes them believable to the audience. A Manhattan native, he has been acting since he was four and has been around actors -- his own family -- all his life. His father Christopher has appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. Before there was the astringent Jules Feiffer film about the war between men and women, there was his play -- unproduced in New York until this off-Broadway staging. Instead of Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, brat packers Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer and Justine Bateman are the stars...
...DEGREES OF SEPARATION. John Guare's cocktail of a comedy -- part Manhattan, part Molotov -- skewers countless foibles while musing on the chief irony of urban life: how closely related people are, yet how distant they feel. Stockard Channing stars in this transfer, from off-Broadway to on, as a moneyed matron stirred by vague (and then graphic) discontents...
...looks over in consternation at a new arrival in the crowd and croons to herself, "Just what I wanted at a Little League game -- my ex-husband's ex- lover. Isn't that what every mother dreams of?" In that moment, actually among the funniest and happiest of an off-Broadway musical set in the early months of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettoland expresses its edgy wit, cockeyed charm and matter-of-fact acceptance of a world Norman Rockwell never painted...
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Good ole country folk sing the evening away in this funny, affectionate off-Broadway look at a Saturday night Bible Belt church meeting circa 1938. "Praise...