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Article: ECONOMICS TAKING SOME BIG SHOWS OFF-BROADWAY.(SHOWTIME)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 15, 1995
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Byline: MICHAEL KUCHWARA Associated Press
NEW YORK Over the past year, off-Broadway plays have gone big time with big names.
From Edward Albee to Vanessa Redgrave, from Woody Allen to Linda Lavin, playwrights and performers one would expect on Broadway are finding their way to the smaller theaters located away from the bright lights of Times Square. And now even Neil Simon is joining the flight.
Their journeys coincide with the virtual disappearance of the serious play from Broadway. Right now there is only one, a revival of ``An Inspector Calls,'' J.B. Priestley's drawing-room melodrama, done up with enough special effects to put most big ...