Word: off-broadway
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...hall for women, a place where they can let their hair down while it is being put up. It was clever of him to stock Steel Magnolias with Southern belles, wicked of eye and tongue, though ultimately forgiving of heart. It was shrewd of him to work his successful off-Broadway drama around personal milestones (marriage, birth, death) that everyone shares. His characters may be exotics, but their situations are achingly familiar...
BESIDE HERSELF. If you were an off-Broadway producer who had hired movie star William Hurt, would you cast him as a crude, subliterate UPS deliveryman who has little to do, and less to say, in a fantasy piece centered on a pathetic and prematurely old widow? If so, you would disappoint audiences as keenly as New York City's Circle Repertory is doing...
...picture of homosexuals in the age of liberation. The campy one, very '50s, is witty but a self-denigrating cartoon; his friend, very '80s, acts relaxed even when disclosing that his relationship is turning into an "open" one. The twist in Terrence McNally's midnight-dark comedy, which opened off-Broadway last week, is that the seemingly enviable, self- possessed character lacks the emotional resources to deal with the breakup of a relationship...
LOVE LETTERS. Kate Nelligan and Treat Williams are this week's stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's disarming tale of a half-century relationship lived out largely via pen and paper...
...this weekend as part of the American Repertory Theater's fall theater festival. Currently in residence at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training. Bogosian is working to develop his new play. Suburbia, a satiric look at American mentalities. More Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll will be incorporated into a off-Broadway show later this fall...