Review | Now off-Broadway: Whoopi renewed, a drama on Israel and a ‘Heated Rivalry’ spoof

NEW YORK — Four decades ago, Whoopi Goldberg announced herself as a transcendent entertainer, embarked on her circuitous EGOT path and crossed off the G on that awards quest. The Grammy-winning work: a recording of her virtuosic Broadway debut, in which the budding comic foregrounded the marginalized with a slew of character-hopping monologues.