At the same time, the Yankees have revived, shucking off a few older players and bringing up younger talent.
Off-Center," under the artistic direction of the composer Jeanine Tesori, will revive Off Broadway shows.
A pseudo-symbolist drama about a dying woman and her spiritual savior (currently being revived Off Broadway with Olympia Dukakis), it folded quickly after sour reviews.
Stephen King's tormented teenager proved a restless soul, though, and returned in a 2002 television movie and a short-lived 1988 Broadway musical that was revived off Broadway again in 2012.
Off-Center" aims to show, with a scholar's precision and an impresario's verve, reviving Off Broadway gems — some better remembered than others — for short runs at City Center.
It opened in London in 1991, was revived Off Broadway at the Public Theater in 1998 and opened at the Ambassador Theater on West 49th Street on April 9 to run through July 23.
Handke, it must be said, was surely on to something, regardless of the rather dismissive response from New York of a better-known play of his, Offending the Audience, that has just been revived Off Broadway.
That musical was renamed with the original Reiner title and revived Off Broadway by the York Theater Company last season, earning strong reviews and warm endorsements from the likes of Jerry Seinfeld.
They are Tony Kushner's "Caroline, or Change," which is to move to Broadway in March; Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon," which has been revived Off Broadway; and Dan Hurlin's "Hiroshima Maiden," which just ended a run at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
In one of the higher-profile incidents, the death of 12 people by collapsing logs in 1999 brought to an end the tradition of Texas A&M's bonfire on the eve of the annual football game against the University of Texas (the bonfire has since been revived off campus).
