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Indepth Arts News:
"oobr to become the first weekly publication to chronicle Off-Off-Broadway!"
1999-07-28 until 1999-07-28
Off-Off Broadway
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
After five long years of putting out a monthly publication, oobr (the
off-off-broadway review), the only magazine dedicated to exclusively
reviewing the Off-Off-Broadway theatre scene, will begin appearing weekly
starting in early September.
While oobr has provided an invaluable service in chronicling Off-Off-Broadway
productions that would otherwise be overlooked, since the magazine was a
monthly publication, by the time an issue would hit the streets more than 90
percent of the shows reviewed had already closed. Going weekly, something
that was planned almost from the day oobr was born, will help address that
problem.
_I always intended to take the magazine weekly,_ oobr founder and publisher
John Chatterton noted. _Off-Off-Broadway, by its very nature, is very fluid,
with many shows running barely more than two weeks. But if we can get this
magazine to producers and agents every Friday morning, they will see what_s
currently running and have the chance to see these shows. And as a result,
some of these productions might find a future._
Oobr began to address the problem of timeliness nearly two years ago with the
creation of the oobr web site, at www.oobr.com. In addition to
posting reviews of current shows, the site also lists a comprehensive weekly
updated listing of over 100 shows currently running Off-Off-Broadway.
Besides publishing the magazine and maintaining the oobr website, Chatterton
also sponsors the OOBR Awards, an annual celebration honoring the best and
brightest of Off-Off-Broadway. (The 1999 OOBR Awards were held July 12th,
1999 at the Union Square Theatre.)
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