off-Broadway

The current production’s starry, appealing cast, who also performed in a 2022 Off Broadway run at New York Theater Workshop, helped make the show a must-see even before audiences discovered that they liked the story and the songs and found the show both affecting and artful.

He has also periodically worked Off Broadway, including as the first star of a 2019 “Little Shop of Horrors” revival that is still running, with a variety of well-known performers in leading roles, at the Westside Theater.

In honoring Broadway’s best, the Tonys championed playwrights and directors who came of age Off Broadway.

He writes reviews of Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regional and sometimes international productions.

That production was a success, and Maria directed subsequent productions in the West End, in Japan and in Boston before putting together the production starring Radcliffe, Groff and Lindsay Mendez, first Off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop in 2022, and then on Broadway starting last October.