WE ARE DELIGHTED TO BRING
YOU THE LATEST UPDATE OF THE EXCITING SHOWS HAPPENING OFF-BROADWAY.
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You will
find that these are just as wonderful as those
playing on Broadway. If your group or organization is planning
a fundraiser, this is a great idea at a lower cost. The following
are choices that are currently playing or soon to begin performances.
The price range will be between $35.00 and $65.00. We will arrange
discounts and the best seats available for your requested dates.
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Here are some suggestions:
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| A BOY AND HIS SOUL: |
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new play that explores the life-experiences of a young
African-American man in 70s & 80s Philadelphia, propelled by
the beat of classic soul, smooth R & B, and disco. |
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| A MINISTER'S WIFE: |
| A
new musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Candida. The
Reverend James Morrell and his wife, Candida, are happily married
- or at least they think so - until a romantic young poet enters
their life, turning their world upside-down. |
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| ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BIG,
GAY DANCE PARTY: |
| A
fourth-grade Christmas pageant sets off a firestorm of controversy
when it calls into question Honest Abe's sexuality. Each of the
three acts lets the audience see the story from a different
character's viewpoint - and at each performance the audience
decides in which order the acts are performed. |
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ABSOLUTION:
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With brutally clinical accounts of the victims, Absolution shows
us the innermost thoughts of a vicious serial killer. Is he an
avenging angel on a divine mission or a mass murderer?
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ANGELS IN AMERICA:
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A revival of Tony Kushner's play which is set in late 1985 and 1986,
as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and
Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House.
The lives of disparate characters intersect, intertwine, collide and
are blown apart during a time of heartbreak, reaction and
transformation.
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AN ERROR OF THE MOON:
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A fictional portrait of the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth.
Edwin tells his tale of a man consumed by sexual jealousy, of bitter
sibling rivalry, and of the mad obsession that sparked the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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AVENUE Q:
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The Tony-Award winning puppet musical returns to Off-Broadway!
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BACHELORETTE:
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On the eve of her wedding, Becky has arranged the perfect
bachelorette celebration. But after two party crashers, one
manipulative maid of honor, and a bathtub of booze, things don't go
according to plan.
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BLACK TIE:
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A new play by A.R. Gurney. Cultures clash when a surprise guest to a
wedding reception is announced, threatening to throw convention out
the window.
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BOTTOM OF THE WORLD:
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Heartbroken over the sudden death of her sister,
Kate, Abby delves into the world of Kate's final novel to deal with
her grief and somehow move on. As the lines blur between the
fictional world and her own reality, Abby attempts to make sense of
life and death in this funny and poignant play.
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| BY THE WAY, MEET VERA
STARK: |
| A
seventy-year journey into the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong
African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled
relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately
grasping to hold on to her career. |
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| CARL'S SISTER: |
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medical crisis brings Marie, a classic New York liberal and
investigative journalist for Vanity Fair, and Carl, a
conservative apple grower living in Washington state, together
after many years apart. |
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| CARSON McCULLERS TALKS
ABOUT LOVE: |
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iconic McCullers reminisces about love, art and life. In trying to
explain, she strives to conquer the demons that intrude on the
course of love, that for her and her characters, never runs
smoothly. |
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CYMBELINE:
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This Shakespeare drama tells of a beautiful princess separated from
her beloved, the cruel step-mother who tries to kill her, a
credulous husband duped by an adversary, an exiled nobleman who
kidnaps a king's sons, and a Roman invasion of Britain.
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| DOUBLE FALSEHOOD: |
| Shakespeare's
long lost play, recently discovered after 400 years, presented in
a minimalist setting. |
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| FALLING FOR EVE: |
| Creation
is going perfectly. Eve, curious about what lies beyond the Garden
of Eden, and obsessed with the notion that something is forbidden,
bites the infamous apple. Then Adam doesn't. How exactly they'll
get together to create the human race is anybody's guess. |
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FOUR PICKUPS:
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Four short plays centered around pickup trucks,
by Ethan Coen.
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FREUD'S LAST SESSION:
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A
brilliant “what-if” play, which shows us the imagined meeting
between the atheist psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the Christian
author C.S. Lewis.
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FRIENDS:
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A new play that has been described as an
endearing look at the unique experience of the elderly in our
society.
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FUERZA BRUTA:
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Performers and audience are immersed in an environment that floods
the senses, evoking pure visceral emotion in a place where
individual imagination soars.
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| GRUESOME PLAYGROUND
INJURIES: |
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the course of thirty years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug
intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood
friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep
drawing them together. |
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| HALLWAY TRILOGY: |
| A
trilogy of plays by Adam Rapp, beginning with The Hallway, which
takes place on November 28th, 1953, the day following the death of
Eugene O'Neill. A young actress has been struggling with
depression and has constructed a myth that O'Neill has staged his
own death to escape the trappings of fame. Parafin is set
on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout and
concerns a married couple, the wife expecting, the husband
addicted to heroin, and his brother's unrequited love for his
wife. Wolf in the Window is set in 2053 in disease-free New
York. The hallway has been transformed into a museum where young
people in need of cash are injected with old-fashioned diseases
for the amusement of the public. On this night, the air-tight
glass wall fractures. |
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IN TRANSIT:
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Inspired by the rhythms of life on the subway, this new musical
follows an aspiring actress, a fledgling financier, a street-savvy
beatboxer, a cab driver, and others as they find their way in New
York City.
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IT MUST BE HIM:
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Louie Wexler, a whiz-kid comedy writer from the heyday of variety
television, is now down on his luck. Desperate to rekindle his
fading career, save his posh Beverly Hills home and find the man of
his dreams, Louie searches high and low for one last shot at his own
real-life happy ending.
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| KIN: |
| Anna,
a Texan Ivy League Poetry Scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal
trainer, forge an unlikely new family. |
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| LIBERTY: A MONUMENTAL NEW
MUSICAL: |
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beautiful French immigrant arrives in New York Harbor- there's
something different about her, something larger than life. Liberty
tells the story of one statuesque immigrant's struggle,
strife and success in the ever-evolving country she's come to
symbolize. |
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LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE:
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This collection of vignettes and monologues is based on the
best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, as well as the recollections
of the friends of Nora & Delia Ephron. The productions will
feature three different, 5-member casts who will perform the piece
in four-week cycles. Confirmed cast members include Samantha Bee,
Kristin Chenowith, Tyne Daly, Katie Finneran, Rosie O'DOnnell, Mary
Louise Wilson and Rita Wilson.
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ME, MYSELF AND I:
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In this New York premiere of an Edward Albee play, sibling rivalry
is taken to new heights. When identical twins are both named Otto,
how's a mother supposed to keep them straight?
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| MIDDLETOWN: |
| As a
friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new
arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown
intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes
them from the local library, to outer space, and points between. |
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NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND:
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An adaptation of the novella by Fyodor Dosoevsky.
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ORLANDO:
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A new play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the work of Virginia Woolf.
Spanning three centuries, the play chronicles the boisterous
adventures of Orlando, a young nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's court
who awakes in the middle of his life to discover that he is now a
she, and immortal to boot.
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PETER AND THE STAR CATCHERS:
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A company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters, all on a
journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The
Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?
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SCHOOL FOR LIES:
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A modern riff on Molière's immortal comic classic, The
Misanthrope.
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SECRETS OF THE TRADE:
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Adam Lipman, an ambitious kid from Long Island, dreams of a career
on Broadway and hopes that his idol, theater legend Martin Kerner,
can give it to him.
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| SIDE EFFECTS: |
| Hugh
and Lindy's marriage seems picture-perfect, a beacon in their microcosmic
Midwestern world of dinner parties and fundraisers. Behind closed
doors they're falling apart. |
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| SOMEWHERE IN TIME: |
| A
new musical based on the film of the same name. |
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SPIRIT CONTROL:
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Adam Wyatt has the perfect family and a perfect record as an
air traffic controller. But when a pilot of a small plane suffers a
heart attack, Adam must talk a terrified passenger through an
emergency landing.
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| STOMP: |
| Garbage
can lids and brooms and sticks make up just a few of the "instruments"
used for this percussive symphony. Stomp has been packing
in audiences at the Orpheum Theatre since 1994, and is still
running strong. |
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| THE BREAK OF NOON: |
| Amidst
the chaos and horror of of the worst office shooting in American
history, John Smith sees the face of God. His modern-day
revelation creates a maelstrom of disbelief among everyone he
knows. A newcomer to faith, John urgently searches for a modern
response to an age-old question. |
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| THE COLLECTION and A KIND
OF ALASKA: TWO PLAYS BY HAROLD PINTER |
| In The
Collection, a 4am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a
series of conversations about potential infidelities among two
couples. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman who has
been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and must
reorient herself to a greatly changed world. |
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THE COWARD:
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A cowardly young gentleman initiates a pistol duel, then finds that
he can't go through with it. He hires a common criminal to fight in
his place, only to have the scoundrel make a bloody mess of things.
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THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL:
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A new play that takes you behind the scenes and into the world of
adult filmmaking. Follow the bizarre journey from the creation of
the Deep Throat movie, through the raids, arrests and banning
of the film, to the political fallout of the ensuing courtroom
drama.
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THE DIVINE SISTER:
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An outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving
nuns.
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| THE FANTASTICKS: |
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lighthearted romantic comedy about what happens when two young
neighbors fall in love at the hands of their funny, meddlesome
fathers. The longest-running musical in the world! |
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THE ILLUSION:
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A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away
years before, travels to a mysterious cave. There he engages the
services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the adventurous
life the son has been living.
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THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH
A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES:
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In the summer of 2007, Gus Marcantonio, a retired
longshoreman, summons his children to the family's Brooklyn
brownstone for a series of shocking announcements.
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| THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE: |
| George
is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying
languages of far-flung cultures. Closer to home, though, language
is failing him. |
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THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA:
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An original musical comedy about a dysfunctional family struggling
to survive in a world where smoking has recently been outlawed.
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THE LITTLE FOXES:
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A study of greed, dishonesty, and the one generation's unstoppable
drive to ruthlessly exploit the resources of a previous generation.
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THE MEMORANDUM:
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When the managing director of an enormous corporation discovers that
all office communications are suddenly being written in a newly
invented and impossibly complicated language, his attempts to get
one memo translated lead him through an increasingly ridiculous maze
of red tape.
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| THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T
STOP HERE: |
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this Tennessee Williams play, Flora is a wealthy American widow who
has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a
handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to
keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play
blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death. |
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THE NEW YORK IDEA:
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Cynthia Karslake is a freewheeling young divorcee
in 1906 New York society. She has decided to settle down again into
a much more stable, reliable relationship with the prominent Judge
Philip Phillimore. Little does she know, however, that neither of
their impetuous and blowsy ex-spouses, nor her beloved race horse,
are yet down for the count.
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| THE OTHER PLACE: |
| Juliana
Smithton's research into the molecular basis for Alzheimer's drugs
has propelled her into elite scientific circles. When her private
life takes a frightening turn, Juliana finds herself drowning in a
sea of distorted memory, still struggling to reach out for help. |
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| THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF
THE WORLD: |
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working class dad has a vision of rock 'n' roll destiny for his
three talentless daughters, convinced they're his family's one-way
ticket out of hardship and obscurity. The girls have ideas of
their own- and as their father's ambition turns to obsession, the
price of familial obligation becomes all too clear. |
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THE 39 STEPS:
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The hilarious Alfred Hitchcock musical moves to New World Stages after
a successful run on Broadway!
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THE WHIPPING MAN:
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April, 1865: The Civil War has ended. Caleb DeLeon, a Jewish
Confederate soldier, returns wounded from the battlefield to find
his family home in ruins, abandoned by everyone except Simon and
John - two former slaves, who were raised as Jews in the DeLeon
home. As the three men reunite to celebrate Passover, and recall the
Exodus from Egypt in light of their own new liberties, they uncover
a tangle of secrets...ties that bind them together and that,
ultimately, might cost each man his freedom.
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THERE ARE NO MORE BIG SECRETS:
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American expat Gabe hasn't seen Charles and Maxine in years. When he
returns to the United States with his Russian journalist wife Nina
and their daughter, he seeks refuge for his family in the home of
his old friends.
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THREE MEN ON A HORSE:
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Hen-pecked greeting-card writer, Erwin Trowbridge, has an uncanny
ability for predicting the winners of horse races. For Erwin it's
just a hobby, but when his extraordinary talent is discovered by a
down-and-out pack of gamblers, Erwin suddenly finds himself very far
from his safe suburban home in Ozone Heights.
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THREE PIANOS:
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This play is set in a rustic cabin on a blustery winter night where
three friends- each manning a piano- lead the audience through their
respective passions for Winterreise, Schubert's famous song
cycle of winter heartbreak.
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THREE SISTERS:
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Anton Chekhov's classic play.
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THROUGH THE NIGHT:
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Daniel Beaty portrays an entire community of people who experience
an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives
forever.
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TIGERS BE STILL:
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Art therapist Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back
at home. Things begin to brighten up when she gets hired as a
substitute art teacher.
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| TRUST: |
| Harry
is rich. Harry is married. But when Harry doesn't trust that any
of it is enough, he looks to find something real in the most
unlikely of places. |
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underneathmybed:
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A play that tells the story of Argentinean parents raising their two
daughters in New England and the relationship one daughter has with
a small girl believed to be living underneath her bed.
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UNNATURAL ACTS:
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Behind the doors of Room 28 of Harvard University's Perkins Hall,
eleven young men discover themselves, their sexuality, and an
implacable intolerance that will forever alter their lives.
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| WHEN I COME TO DIE: |
| Damon
Robinson, a Texas death-row inmate, struggles to understand why
his life has been spared after his scheduled execution goes
awry. |
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| WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN: |
| A
story of star-crossed lovers, set in a small town in the middle of
Ireland. |
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WINGS:
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A journey through the eye of Emily Stilson, a
1920s wingwalker who discovers that her life's journey is a series
of courageous adventures, proving that even when her mental self
fails her, her daredevil spirit proves unflappable.
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| ZERO HOUR: |
| Zero
Mostel is unleashed when a naive reporter attempts to interview
the famously volatile theatre legend, provoking an explosion of
memory, humor, outrage and hilarious backstage lore. |
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Lots of fun shows coming to Off-Broadway this
season and next. Order now for the best seats possible.
ALWAYS MANY, MANY MORE CHOICES!!!
Call or e-mail us for latest updates!
LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU!!!
Please, when contacting us, have several date
choices in mind so that we may provide you with the best discounts
and seats available.
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Carol Ostrow Productions and
Group Sales
1776 Broadway, Suite 1400
New York, New York 10019
Phone: (212) 265-8500 Fax: (212) 262-1672
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