Mrs. Reavey's work is written for the stage -- it is mentioned for an off-Broadway production in the fall -- and, in addition, employs an avant-garde structure that particularly needs to be seen if comprehension is to be encouraged.

The New York off-Broadway production started previews on October 2, 2006.

She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to " learn your lines or get out of my play ".

An off-Broadway production ran at the Promenade Theatre from October 25, 1984 for 109 performances, transferring from an earlier production at the York Theatre Company.

After multiple auditions, Willis made his theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Heaven and Earth.

Willis also played a lead role in the off-Broadway production Bullpen for four years which was written and directed by Dennis Watlington that was also presented at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.

Jonathan Frid played Becket off-Broadway in a production by Robert Teuscher for two weeks during March 1971 at Central Theatre, Park Ave., NYC, NY.

An off-Broadway production in 2006 by the Roundabout Theatre Company starred Blythe Danner, Gale Harold and Carla Gugino.

Zorba, directed by Prince, also ran less than a year, though it was more successful in its 1983 revival ; and 70, Girls, 70, which was originally intended as an off-Broadway production, closed after 35 performances.

It was then re-scored for an off-Broadway production which became a long-running success.

In April 2010, Dullea performed the role of Tom Garrison in the off-Broadway production of the Robert Anderson play, I Never Sang For My Father co-starring Oscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason ( as Margaret Garrison ) and film and stage actor Matt Servitto ( as Gene Garrison ).

Among numerous examples of these creations were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody ( the first off-Broadway play to win the Pulitzer Prize ), and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, A Chorus Line.

Her work includes The Donkey Show, which ran off-Broadway for six years ; productions at the Chicago Opera Theatre ; and the Public Theater's 2008 production of Hair, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Wing-Davey is directing the upcoming off-Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater.

During this period he played Laertes in a popular off-Broadway production of Hamlet and made his Broadway debut in Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy in 1982.

* 2003: " Nothing I Can Do " ( from the off-Broadway production Prozak and the Platypus )

He received rave reviews for the off-Broadway production of Breaking Legs.

When the trio came to an end, Johnson made a radical departure from everything he had done previously by taking on a major supporting role in the off-Broadway production of " Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

She also directed the off-Broadway production of Adaptation / Next.

Although major revivals of the musical have been rare in recent decades, as the musical's treatment of bigotry against blacks in the American South has become dated, in 2004 the Irish Repertory Theatre staged a well-received off-Broadway production starring Melissa Errico, Johnathan Freeman, and Malcolm Gets.

Alongside Lois Robbins, Caulfield-playing the character of Julian Winston-finished up an off-Broadway production of the comedy Cactus Flower ( 2011 ).

Additional off-Broadway credits include: The Heidi Chronicles, The Road to Mecca, The Vagina Monologues in both London and New York, The Glass Menagerie with her mother, Celadine, a world premiere at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ and the 2006 one-woman play A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, by Marta Góes, which was a Primary Stages production at the 59E59 Theaters.

The production ran over a year off-Broadway and was transferred to Broadway for a short run in 1963.

Downey began building upon theater roles, including the short-lived off-Broadway musical " American Passion " at the Joyce Theater in 1983, produced by Norman Lear.

On December 16, 2010, Keach began performances as patriarch Lyman Wyeth in the off-Broadway premiere of Jon Robin Baitz ' acclaimed new play Other Desert Cities.

In 1974, he was discovered by a director and began working in off-Broadway shows.

After graduating, he began working in musical theater, appearing in The Wiz ( 1977 ), before getting his break with the 1982 off-Broadway production Little Shop of Horrors.

After leaving Cornell, Phillips began his show business career performing in Broadway and off-Broadway plays – at many different theatres, including the Direct Theatre where he won the Best of the Actors ’ Festival in 1977, the Wonderhorse Theatre in the premier of Christopher Durang ’ s The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, with Ellen Greene, and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of Eccentricities of a Nightingale ( Tennessee Williams helped shape the production, and ended up writing a new monologue for Phillips, which Williams personally dictated to Phillips on tech day when it was realized the leading lady, Jill Eikenberry, needed more time for a dress change ).

Raised in Elmira, New York, Canemaker began an acting career which included off-Broadway and advertising work in New York City from 1961 to 1965.

Edmonds began his career off-Broadway in the 1950s, appearing in mostly light comedy and classical works.

She began her professional career in New York off-Broadway as a founding member of and resident actor with the Tony Award-winning Negro Ensemble Company.

In 2012, the ever-eclectic McDonald began working with long-time neighbor Lynnea Benson and her husband Ted Zurkowski, directors of New York City's Frog and Peach Theatre Company which specializes in off-Broadway productions and readings of Shakespearean plays.

With experience under his belt on the off-Broadway circuit, Franklin began his on-screen career with a film called Five on the Black Hand Side in 1973.

Draper began her acting career appearing in countless off-Broadway productions, including a role in Split in 1980.

He began his acting career in 1980 in an off-Broadway production of Album, and made his feature film debut in director Paul Mazursky's 1982 film Tempest.

Baker began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing in several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love opposite Ed Harris.

* After a successful off-Broadway run, Crimes of the Heart began a run at the John Golden Theatre.

The show opened off-Broadway at the Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on February 16, 1991 after 73 performances.

He won three Obie Awards for his performances in the off-Broadway plays Village Wooing ( 1955 ), which was his debut, Do Not Pass Go ( 1965 ) and The Ice Age ( 1976 ).

The off-Broadway production opened on May 22, 1978 at the Players Theatre, where it ran for 72 performances.

The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years and 17, 162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical.

The work the duo is known for is the musical The Fantasticks which ran off-Broadway from 1960-2002 for a total of 17, 162 performances.

An off-Broadway production directed by Jerry Zaks opened on January 1, 1981 at the Phoenix Theatre in New york, where it ran for 30 performances.

The Equity Library Theater, New York City, presented an off-Broadway revival in 1982, directed by Joseph Patton and featuring comedic performances by Lillian Graff, Philip Wm.

The resulting documentary, Hell House, has inspired numerous live plays and hell-house performances, including one based on Pastor Roberts ' production, which played for a month during the 2006 Halloween season in an off-Broadway production in Brooklyn, New York by Les Freres Corbusier.

The musical opened off-Broadway at the Players Theatre on October 26, 1964, and ran for 96 performances.

In 1952 he relocated to New York City, where he appeared first off-Broadway in one-act operas and ballets with the North American Lyric Theater, with the Shakespearewrights, at the Equity Library Theater, and later on Broadway with performances in Tonight in Samarkand ( also in Washington D. C ,) The Lovers opposite Joanne Woodward, and A Clearing in the Woods with Robert Culp and Kim Stanley.

Originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004, the production transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in March 2005 and closed on July 2, 2006 after 525 performances and 25 previews.

The original production opened on May 11, 1959 at the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre ( now transformed into a multi-plex cinema, located on the Lower East Side ), transferred later in the year to Broadway at the Alvin Theatre ( now known as the Neil Simon Theatre ) and then to several other Broadway theaters, finally playing at the St. James Theatre, for a total run of 244 performances.

Conway's off-Broadway credits include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Elephant Man, Other People's Money, and When You Comin ' Back, Red Ryder ?, for which he received the 1974 Drama Desk Award for one of the greatest performances ever seen Off Broadway.

* An off-Broadway musical Grey Gardens — A New Musical debuted in March 2006, starring Christine Ebersole, and played on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre November 2, 2006 – July 28, 2007 for 300 + performances.

It premiered off-Broadway on September 5, 2002, at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, and made its Broadway debut on February 27, 2003, at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran 355 performances.

Its off-Broadway premiere took place at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, in a staging by Joe Mantello that ran for 72 performances.

Frankel's direction of the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks was regarded as a crucial production in promoting African-American theater during the civil-rights movement which opened in 1961 and ran for more than 1, 400 performances at the St. Mark's Theatre.

The play premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 18, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 99 performances.

An off-Broadway production directed by Albert Takazauckas opened on a double bill with the playwright's The Duck Variations on June 16 1976 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and ran for 273 performances.

The off-Broadway production, directed by Robert Moore, opened on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four, where it ran for more than 1, 000 performances, an extremely healthy run for both an off-Broadway production, and one not geared to a mainstream audience.