As revivals and large-scale production musicals become the de rigueur Broadway ( and even Off-Broadway ) productions, playwrights find it difficult to earn livings in the business, let alone achieve major successes.

Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for Tony Awards, an exception was made in 1956 ( before the rules were changed ), when Lotte Lenya won for " Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical ", for the Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.

Chapman was also a playwright ; his works The Buffalo Skinner and Cry of the Raindrop were both produced Off-Broadway.

In 2003, several of the monologues were staged in New York City at the Off-Broadway Minetta Theatre.

Some of her most famous songs were collected and became the Off-Broadway hit, BOOBS!

David Adjmi ’ s recent Off-Broadway plays, Elective Affinities and Stunning, were hailed by The New Yorker for their “ gorgeous blend of narrative, girl talk, and politics .” The world premiere of Marie Antoinette reunites the playwright with director Rebecca Taichman, who staged Adjmi ’ s play, The Evildoers, at Yale Rep in 2008.

Based in a variety of small New York locations which were frequently closed due to financial problems or conflicts with city authorities, they helped to originate Off-Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway as significant forces in U. S. theater.

Initially, only Off-Broadway productions were eligible ; in 1964, off-off-Broadway productions were made eligible.

She met singer-actor Bruce Scott during the Off-Broadway production of Your Own Thing, and from 1968-72 ( some sources report 1969-71 ), they were married.

A celebrated rock composer, a critics ' darling who had authored several Off-Broadway plays, a Tony-winning director, and a high-wattage Broadway star were the captains of this ship.

Both Scientology and the life of its founder L. Ron Hubbard were addressed in the 2003 Off-Broadway musical, A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.

The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway and were begun during the 1949-1950 theatre season.

The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.

Off-Broadway shows, performers, and creative staff are eligible for awards from the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Obie Award ( presented since 1956 by The Village Voice ), the Lucille Lortel Award ( created in 1985 by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers ), and the Drama League Award.

In January 2007, the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey presented a revival starring Amanda Plummer and Kevin Anderson, directed by Michael Wilson ; and, in May 2008, the Off-Broadway group The Actors Company Theatre ( TACT ) presented a revival of the 1964 revision of the play, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, which received a favorable notice from The New York Times.

A 1956 production was presented Off-Broadway at the Little Carnegie Playhouse at Carnegie Hall.

The Acting Company presented an Off-Broadway production at the American Place Theater from May 9, 1983 to May 29, 1983, directed by John Houseman and featuring a spoken introduction by Houseman, and starring Patti LuPone.

She presented the play in Puerto Rico and on Off-Broadway in New York City.

The award is in honor of the late Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and is presented to an outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway ensemble.

Back on the New York stage, Scourby played Rakitin in Emlyn Williams ' adaptation of Turgenev's A Month in the Country and Peter Cauchon in Siobhan McKenna's interpretation of Saint Joan, both presented at the Off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre in 1956.

However, off-Broadway she wrote and appeared in avant-garde material, such as Jean Genet's The Maids, for which she won the very first Best Actress Obie ( Off-Broadway ) Award in the mid-1950s, which was presented to her by Shelley Winters.

* In 1975, the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers presented her with a plaque citing her distinguished achievement.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

In 1998 Saturday Night received a professional recording, followed by a revised version with two new songs and an Off-Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre in 2000 and a full British premiere with the new songs in 2009 at London's Jermyn Street Theatre.

* Hey, Love ( 1993 Off-Broadway ),( Music mostly by Mary Rodgers )

Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged as an Off-Broadway musical in 1986, directed by Gary Sinise, in a successful run at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater.

Hudson contributed an original electronic score to an Off-Broadway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by Brad Mays in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, which was re-staged with a new cast in Los Angeles in 1990.

* More, a 2004 one-woman Off-Broadway show by Yeardley Smith

* Busker Alley ( Off-Broadway, 2006, one-performance benefit concert ), Sherman Brothers musical based on the 1938 movie St. Martin's Lane, directed by Tony Walton

A theatrical adaptation, with music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt and book by David Greenspan, premiered on May 6, 2009, produced by MCC Theater and True Love Productions Off-Broadway at The Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of " Coraline ", based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance.

Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theatre industry in the United States, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.

His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).

In November 2006, Quiñones led the Off-Broadway cast of Zanahorias ( or Carrots in English ), a Spanish comedy by Spanish playwright Antonio Zancada.

Two productions began in the Matinee series went on to the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy: Tennessee Williams ' I Rise In Flame Cried The Phoenix and Meade Roberts ' Maidens and Mistresses at Home in the Zoo, the latter of which also played Off-Broadway.

The play has experiened several revivals, most notably a 1985 Off-Broadway production starring Geraldine Page as Elizabeth.

She most recently starred as Michelle in an Off-Broadway show, White's Lies, which began previews at New World Stages on April 12, 2010, and officially opened on May 6, 2010.

His most notable Off-Broadway performance, for which he won an Obie Award in 1965 and which he considers his " Othello ", was as Eddie Carbone ( again ) in Miller's A View From the Bridge at the Sheridan Square Playhouse from January 28, 1965 to December 11, 1966.

Colleen Rose Dewhurst ( June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991 ) was a Canadian-American actress known most for theatre roles, and for a while as " the Queen of Off-Broadway.

Arkin is also a theatre actor where he has performed in Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, including most recently, both the South Coast Repertory world premiere and Broadway production of Brooklyn Boy by playwright Donald Margulies.

The show's publisher, Music Theater International, reports that Children of Eden is one of its top 20 most frequently licensed properties, which is very unusual for a show that has never had a Broadway or Off-Broadway run.

He is best known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway, and most notably for his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee ( 2009 – present ).