She contacted the beverage company Snapple and landed the first corporate-sponsored deal for an off-Broadway theater in history.
Was Russell going to keep the doors open to her off-Broadway theater complex in the face of this massive storm?
The administrative building could double as a gallery of South African art, and the auditorium feels like a Broadway theater.
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That, and the perpetually competitive climate for Broadway theater space, led to the decision to move "Peter" to New World Stages.
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The actor-turned playwright sat through the preview alone in a corner of an off-Broadway theater and now seems to be in some gastrointestinal pain, which he admits isn't far off.
The off-Broadway company Working Theater is presenting an immersive experience that's as timely as it is powerful: Its play about immigrants sneaking across the border is being staged inside a 48-foot-long cargo container.
Craig Lucas' gentle new comedy, "The Lying Lesson, " opened Wednesday night in an intriguing world premiere, presented off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company.
Changing that is now in the hands of Mr. Presser, who is also the founder of Inside Broadway, which brings theater programs to city schools.
Produced on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater, "The Nance" is a two-layered play in which authentic-sounding burlesque routines concocted by Mr. Beane and Glen Kelly, who wrote the original music, alternate with backstage scenes that show us in agonizing detail what Chauncey's emotionally starved private life is like.
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And, with technology as the game changer as to how we can create and deliver our stories over a multitude of platforms not dependent, anymore, on big money, we can help a wide, diverse array of students develop into the kind of artists and scholars who can make a difference whether through mainstream or indie films, television, animation, digital media, DYI platforms, interactive games, experimental theater or Broadway.
Regional theater owners and presenters of Broadway shows on the road will be watching the fate of "The Book of Mormon" tour closely.
So the show previewed on Broadway, in the full glare of the theater world.
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He still struggles to understand why the Broadway world often thumbs its nose when a theater song has commercial success.
Some Broadway musicals conclude with a de facto all-theater dance party that forces the audience into a standing ovation (which they'd give anyway because that's just apparently standard now).
"Orphans, " Lyle Kessler's 1983 play about a shady businessman who takes two down-at-heel brothers under his wing, has finally made it to Broadway after being mounted by just about every regional theater in America.
An edgy, sometimes harrowing new adaptation by Mike Poulton, presented by the always-adventurous Red Bull Theater, opened Thursday night off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, where the 19th-century marital battles are as resonant onstage as ever.
"When you're in theater, when you have to be on Broadway for a performance, you can't be stuck in traffic, " said Ms. Molaskey.
And before it even opened, it was surrounded by Broadway buzz, with word that producers were seeking a theater on the Great White Way, perhaps for the spring.
"Wit" returns to a different theater landscape than it left in 2000 when the original New York run ended (after a run at a nonprofit theater, it played at a commercial off-Broadway venue).
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The word is that the Public Theater's "Into the Woods" is going to Broadway.
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High-profile revivals dominate the theater landscape this season, both on- and off-Broadway.
See the gorgeously restored inside (along with that of the Los Angeles Theater, also featured in the film) as part of Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour.
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Not long ago, they'd been in New York, where they'd gone to Broadway to see Jesus Christ Superstar, only to be shocked by a theater-goer sitting in front of them, texting through the entire production.
After appearing in several other Broadway productions, Mr. Morgan moved to Los Angeles and worked in a theater company founded by David O.
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Jed Bernstein, the President of the League of American Theater and Producers, feels that the prognosis looks good for the Broadway's current woes.
She wants to build more such theater complexes, convinced there's a need for off-Broadway stages in the Broadway area offering an alternative to high Broadway prices.
Ms. Edson, now a middle-school teacher in Atlanta, said she never was gunning specifically for her play to make it to Broadway, and she fondly recalled an early staging in a tiny New York theater.
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Almost every feature in the bathroom is a nod to the couple's theater background from the plastering, which was created by Broadway scenic artists, to the color of the ceiling, an indigo blue that Mr. Gallo associates with his time working with the Blue Man Group.
And as theater goes, it has all the snafus of Spider-Man on Broadway, with none of the entertainment value.
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Reporter Jeff Lunden hit the streets of the Theater District to ask some people whose livelihoods depend on the health of Broadway for their Tony Award picks.
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