From Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley, at the South Oxford Space.
Photo: Christopher McElroen
When you jump into Off–Off Broadway, you find yourself diving through strata of density and investment. The category contains everything from the microbudget reading in a living room to shows staged by long-lived production companies that can pump money and time into the process. All four Off–Off shows I saw this week looked incredible, all handsomely set, many into unconventional spaces. They weren’t each wonderful all the way through, but they were all varieties of effortful beauty, made on different widths of shoestring.
One of the heaviest hitters in this league, The Bushwick Starr, is temporarily nowhere while its new…
