His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

An Off-Broadway theatre is a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499.

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.

Previously, regardless of the size of the venue, a theatre was not considered Off-Broadway if it was within the " Broadway Box " ( the traditional Broadway Theatre District, extending from 40th to 54th Street, and from west of Sixth Avenue to east of Eighth Avenue, and including Times Square and 42nd Street ).

On September 27, 1991, an Off-Broadway production opened at in New York at the Variety Arts Theatre, a former nickelodeon movie theatre.

Page's performance ( as the minister's daughter consumed with infinite longing ) in the 1952 production, directed by José Quintero, gave the play a new life, and, according to common wisdom, it was that production ( for its daring, for its fervor, for its being " downtown " rather than in the artistically " safe " realm of Broadway ) which gave birth to the Off-Broadway movement in New York theatre.

Platt's early career involved Off-Broadway and regional theatre, and he appeared onstage with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and other companies across many genres.

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.

* The Green Room is an Off-Broadway theatre in New York.

The Off-Off-Broadway movement began in 1958 as a reaction to Off-Broadway, and a " complete rejection of commercial theatre ".

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

Other awards for Off-Broadway theatre are the Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the Drama League Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Her other theatre credits include the Off-Broadway production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois with Hal Holbrook in 1963, Many Loves, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and Nite Club Confidential.

Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play produced in a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or LORT theatre.

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.

He often worked in Off-Broadway, theatre workshops, and taught dance.

New York Theatre Workshop ( NYTW ) is an Off-Broadway theatre noted for its productions of new works.

His theatre credits include David Marshall Grant's Snakebit ( Off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse ), South Coast Repertory ( Noises Off, Taking Steps, The Real Thing ), The Antaeus Company ( Peace In Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8: 30, Sinan Unel's Pera Palas ), Black Dahlia Theatre ( Jonathan Tolins ' Secrets of the Trade, Richard Kramer's Theater District, both directed by Matt Shakman ), The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble ( Bach at Leipzig, Small Tragedy ), L. A. Theatre Works ( The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ), and Pasadena Playhouse ( If Memory Serves ).

The first New York production opened Off-Broadway in a theatre in the round production at the Circle in the Square theatre on 3 March 1960.

Noonan started working in theatre ( appearing in the original Off-Broadway production Sam Shepard's play Buried Child ), but in the 1980s he began working in film.

Clark's stage work includes roles in the Broadway musicals Sunday in the Park with George ( 1985 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1992-93 ), A Grand Night for Singing ( 1993-94 ), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1995-96, as Smitty ), Titanic ( 1997-99, creating the role of Alice Beane ), Cabaret ( 1999-2000, as Fraulein Kost ) and Urinetown ( 2003, as Penelope Pennywise ), as well as numerous roles Off-Broadway, in national tours and in regional theatre.

* Orpheum Theatre ( Manhattan ), an Off-Broadway theatre located in New York City's East Village

Gary Richard Burghoff ( born May 24, 1943 ) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene " Radar " O ' Reilly in the M * A * S * H movie and TV series.

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

The following year she completed her acting education at the American Conservatory Theatre and Juilliard, and began to appear in plays, first Off-Broadway and later in famous theaters.

She began her career in 1941 in summer stock, aged 18, and made her New York debut in American Gothic, an Off-Broadway play.

In addition to the Pulitzer, " Dinner with Friends " received an American Theatre Critics ’ Association New Play Citation, The Dramatists ’ Guild / Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and was selected a Burns Mantle Best Play of 1999-2000 ).

The Alan Ayckbourn play Woman in Mind received its American premiere Off-Broadway in February 1988 at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

An Off-Broadway revival directed by Lonny Price and choreographed by Michael Arnold opened on February 10, 1990 at the American Jewish Theatre, where it ran for 435 performances.

Amy Davis Irving ( born September 10, 1953 ) is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

She was featured in the new Off-Broadway show from the Araca Group, " Odyssey, the epic musical " at the American Theatre of Actors, October, 2011.

He helped found the American Stage Company, a group that launched several successful Off-Broadway shows, while living in Tenafly, New Jersey in 1986.

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.

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.

Johnny Guitar was adapted into a stage musical, which debuted Off-Broadway in 2004, with a book by American television producer Nicholas van Hoogstraten, lyrics by Joel Higgins, and music by Martin Silvestri and Joel Higgins.

* The Great American Trailer Park Musical: Off-Broadway Cast Recording released January 2006

Awards include an Emmy nomination, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, the AT & T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, the AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation, two TCG Extended Collaboration Grants, Aristophanes Award for Best Off-Broadway Comedy, First Place in the Southwest Festival of New Plays, Heideman Finalist for Actors Theatre Louisville, Best of the CATCO Shorts Festival, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellowship, and four Ohio Arts Individual Excellence Awards.

In Bernhard's 2006 Off-Broadway show Everything Bad & Beautiful, she concludes by showing the final footage from this film: an African American woman writing " Fuck Sandra Bernhard " on a tablecloth in lipstick.

She first gained wide recognition in 1978 for two theatrical productions, Uncommon Women and Others, the breakthrough play by Wendy Wasserstein in which she appeared in a 1977 workshop at the Eugene O ' Neill Theater Center and then Off-Broadway, and the musical A History of the American Film for which she won a Drama Desk Award.

In 1977 Gurney made her American stage debut Off-Broadway as Mrs. Clandon in George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City.

Off-Broadway, he has had several plays produced, including Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club, Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages, Tuesdays with Morrie ( with Mitch Albom ) at Minetta Lane Theatre, Murder by Poe and The Turn of the Screw with The Acting Company, Neddy at The American Place Theatre and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline.

Since his Broadway debut in " Yentl " Shea has continued to work in Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre productions, starring in Arthur Kopit's End of the World with Linda Hunt, directed by Hal Prince, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive with Molly Ringwold, Anne Meara's Down the Garden Paths with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night ( Joseph Jefferson Award nom., Best Actor ), the original production of A. R. Gurney's The Dining Room, Peter Parnell's The Sorrows of Stephen, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Poliakoff's American Days, for which he received a " Best Actor " nomination from the Drama Desk Awards, Romeo and Juliet, Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom with Sigourney Weaver, Nancy Hasty's The Director, directed by Evan Bergman, and Israel Horowitz's The Secret of Madame Bonnard's Bath in 2007.

She made her Broadway debut in 1974 in All Over Town, and later appeared Off-Broadway in Uncommon Women and Others, which was later filmed for American public television.