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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Featured Choice
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| LEO: |
| Leo
is a mind-bending and witty one-man show of acrobatic physical
theatre that defies the laws of gravity. Thanks to a
ground breaking stage concept and ingenious video projections, Leo
leaves audience members wondering which way is up and which way is
down and leads us on a truly fantastic adventure! |
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM:
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Bebe Neuwirth stars as Titania in the revival of Shakespeare's
classic.
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AFRAID OF THE DARK:
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At once a play and a singular theatrical experience, depicting as it
does the ghoulish and fantastical things that happen when four
people, all acquaintances, are visited by a mysterious, cryptic
stranger.
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AN ILIAD:
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An account of humanity's unshakeable attraction to violence,
destruction, and chaos. Has anything really changed since the Trojan
War?
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ASSISTANCE:
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For these young assistants, life is an endless series of
humiliations at the hands of their hellacious boss, a powerful über-magnate.
In rare moments of calm when the phone calls stop rolling, Nick and
Nora and their traumatized co-workers question whether all their
work will lead to success - or just more work.
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AVENUE Q:
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The Tony-Award winning puppet musical returns to Off-Broadway!
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| CARRIE: |
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new musical imagining of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same
name. |
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CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT:
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Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th
birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription
Zoloft and greasy chimichangas. Sonia's rebellious daughter Jackie
and her best friend Penelope hatch a plan to lure Sonia back home,
while their fathers struggle with a secret association of their own.
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CLOSE UP SPACE:
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Paul Barrow is an obsessive book editor on a major deadline. When
his fiery daughter shows up and lambastes him in Russian, Paul faces
a glaring personal error that can't be corrected with red ink.
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COCK:
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When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets
the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides
there is only one way to straighten this out.
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COURT MARTIAL AT FORT DEVENS:
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A true story of four African-American women in the US Army tried for
mutiny during the last half of WWII. The women joined the army to be
trained as nurses, only to be relegated to cleaning latrines,
mopping floors, and doing laundry. After refusing to perform these
duties, they are court-martialed.
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CQ/CX:
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A new play which raises difficult questions about
the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of
journalistic integrity.
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA:
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This play summons back the memories of the end of
the summer of 1936 on the eve of the celebration of the Harvest God,
Lugh. The five unmarried Mundy sisters live in a modest Irish
cottage in Donegal. On this threshold of golden autumn, the house
revolves 8-year old love-child, Michael, and the brother priest,
Father Jack, who has recently returned from 25 years in a leper
colony in Uganda.
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ETERNAL EQUNIOX:
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Art, sex, conquest and love collide on a fall day in 1923 when the
dashing mountaineer George Mallory, who coined the phrase
"because it's there," pays a surprise visit to Charleston,
the summer home of two of Britain's most important artists.
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FEBRUARY HOUSE:
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Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a
dilapidated Brooklyn boarding house into a bohemian commune for the
leading lights of 1940s New York. The luminaries of 7 Middagh Street
form a tumultuous and remarkable makeshift family, and search for
love, inspiration, and refuge from the looming war in Europe.
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4000 MILES:
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After losing his best friend while they were on a cross-country bike
trip, 21-year-old Leo seeks solace from his 91-year-old grandmother
in her West Village apartment. 4000 Miles examines how these
two outsiders find their way in today's world.
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FREUD'S LAST SESSION:
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On the day England enters World War II, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis
clash on the existence of God, the joy of love, the purpose of sex,
and the meaning of life - just a few weeks before Freud's own death.
Not just a powerful debate, this is a profound and deeply touching
play about two men who boldly addressed the greatest questions
of all time.
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FREQUENTLY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:
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A play written and performed by Daphne
Rubin-Vega. A musical odyssey about the consequences of a mother's
choice and the bond of a family separated not only by the gulf of
the Carribbean but an even wider gulf of unspoken love, loss and
longing.
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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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GALILEO:
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Brecht's play explores the question of a scientist's social and
ethical responsibility, as the brilliant scientist Galielo must
choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the
Inquisition.
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GATZ:
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Fitzgerald's American masterpiece is delivered word for word,
startlingly brought to life by a low-rent office staff in the midst
of their inscrutable business operations.
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GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN:
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It's 1965 and everything is just about to happen. The German/British
collective Gob Squad invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop
himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground
cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began.
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HAPPY HOUR:
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A world premiere by Ethan Coen. An embittered
barfly has a theory - or two- about what the world has become. A
lonely young man and lonely young woman can't see how right they are
for each other. A business traveler's hotel room is so ugly that he
wants to end it all. Your life could be worse- and these three
one-act comedies show you how.
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HARRY & EDDIE: THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL:
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A new play which tells the largely-unknown story of how President
Harry S. Truman's friendship with his former business partner, Eddie
Jacobson, leads to the creation of Israel in 1948.
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HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE:
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A revival of the play by Paula Vogel, which explores the complex
relationship between Li'l Bit and her Uncle Peck, as a series of
driving lessons progresses from innocence to something much darker.
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HURT VILLAGE:
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It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in
Memphis, Tennessee. a government Hope Grant means relocation for
many of the project's residents.
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IONESCAPADE:
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A revival of the musical vaudeville based on the works of Eugene
Ionesco. Plays, playlets, and poetry by this master of the Absurd
transport us into a zany musical vaudeville, where humor is the
antidote to the world's realities.
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LOOK BACK IN ANGER:
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A revival of the John Osborne drama about four people struggling to
live together and love each other in 1950s England.
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LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE:
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The play tells the story of Malcolm, a slave auctioneer in 1825 that
falls from his mule into a Mississippi swamp. Unable to walk,
without food or water, strength fading, his apparent salvation
arrives when Tom, a runaway slave appears.
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LOVE GOES TO PRESS:
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A sharp-tongued comedy about female war correspondents that debuted
on Broadway in 1947.
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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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| MASSACRE: |
| In a
small New Hampshire town, seven friends conspire to murder their
mysterious neighbor Joe. On the night of the killing, as they
confront the many meanings of their crime and finally relax
again...there's a knock on their door. |
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| MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: |
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Broadway hit moves to New World Stages! |
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MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!:
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Written by Athol Fugard shortly before the end of apartheid, this
play presents an honest and unflinching portrait of a country on the
brink of revolution, and is a testament to the power of youth, hope,
and ideas.
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MY SINATRA:
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Cary Hoffman turns his celebrated PBS special into a biographical,
often hilarious, and poignant one-man musical play about his love
and idolization for his hero Frank Sinatra and the perils of wanting
to become somebody else.
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NEWSICAL:
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This new version of NEWSical will take on all of the most
talked-about events of the day, including the Tea Party, immigration
in Arizona, Don't Ask/Don't Tell, the Crazy Jet Blue Flight
Attendant, Lindsay Lohan, Oprah's Final Season and more!
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NOW. HERE. THIS. :
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An original "theatri-concert" that investigates and
celebrates living in the present, featuring autobiographical
stories, songs, and a multi-piece band.
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OUTSIDE PEOPLE:
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In modern-day Beijing, a young American man falls
in love with a Chinese girl and is subsequently confronted with the
struggle to understand where she's coming from.
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OY VEY! THE PLAY:
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A funny play about family, money, and all sorts of New York
Jewishness, while also being a love letter to the greatest city in
the world. When Sylvia Friedlander, down-in-the-dumps wealthy widow,
is wowed by a British theater director, she decides to donate her
family fortune to build a new theatre. Filled with worry, her
daughters call in the Good Rabbi Fogel to talk some sense into her.
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RATED P FOR PARENTHOOD:
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An original musical comedy that chronicles every stage of modern-day
parenting, from conception to college, with giant doses of heart and
humor.
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RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN:
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After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths.
Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a
home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in
opposite ways, each woman covets the other's life, commencing a
dangerous game of musical chairs - the prize being Gwen's
husband.
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RENT:
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This smash-hit show has landed Off-Broadway!
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RUSSIAN TRANSPORT:
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A suspenseful family drama set in the Russian Jewish community of
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
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RX:
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Meena Pierotti's job is making her unhappy. Luckily, there's a pill
for that. Well, not yet. But Meena has joined the clinical trial for
a new drug targeting workplace depression. The trial gets messy,
however, when she falls in love with her doctor, who himself is
trying to enroll into a drug trial targeting heartbreak.
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SLEEPING DEMON:
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The final installment of John Patrick Shanley's "Church and
State" trilogy, which began with Doubt and continued
with Defiance. The story concerns a Bronx Borough President
who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a
local minister. The question they confront is one that faces us all.
What is the relationship between spiritual experience and social
action?
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| SOMEWHERE IN TIME: |
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new musical based on the film of the same name. |
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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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SUICIDE, INCORPORATED:
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This play takes us to an unorthodox writing service that specializes
in crafting the perfect suicide note, where a subversive new
employee is suspected of the unthinkable. Could he actually be
helping his client find happiness?
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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 LADY FROM DUBUQUE:
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A play by Edward Albee. When an unexpected guest arrives at a
late-night party, the question "Who are you?" gains a
whole new and desperate meaning.
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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 TOTAL BENT:
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The new musical is about a black gospel prodigy from down South and
a white music producer from South London who meet in a recording
studio just south of the Twilight Zone, as they both desperately
seek their own versions of transcendence, salvation, and a hit
record. Divine inspiration, fantastical visions, and one legendary
music-producer father frame this electrifying new musical about the complicated
space between the sacred and the profane.
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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN:
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A Soviet prison, 1952. Stalin's secret police have rounded up 26
writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment
looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits,
unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates
wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture
and identity, and what it means to write in troubled times.
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3C:
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The war in Vietnam is over and Brad, an
ex-serviceman, lands in L.A. to start a new life. When he winds up
trashed in Connie and Linda's kitchen after a wild night of
partying, the three strike a deal for an arrangement that has
hilarious and devastating consequences for everyone.
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TITLE AND DEED:
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A nameless traveler from a far off place searches for connection and
solace in an unknown country in this funny and sand meditation on
morality, loneliness, innocence, home, family, love, funerals, words
and the world.
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| YOSEMITE: |
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siblings are sent out into the snow-silent woods in the Sierra
Nevada foothills to dig a hole that will be deep enough to bury a
family secret. As they dig, they search for a way to escape or be
rescued from their lives as the snow continues to fall and the
world sinks in around them. |
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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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