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noun

professional drama produced in New York City in small theaters often away from the Broadway area and characterized by experimental productions.

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Origin of off Broadway

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55

OTHER WORDS FROM off Broadway

off-Broadway, adjective, adverb

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How to use off Broadway in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.
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Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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The voice drifted up from the corner of Taylor and Broadway, where the two men waited for a car.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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British Dictionary definitions for off Broadway

off-Broadway

adjective

designating the kind of experimental, low-budget, or noncommercial productions associated with theatre outside the Broadway area in New York

(of theatres) not located on Broadway

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Cultural definitions for off Broadway

off-Broadway

A descriptive term for part of the theatrical community of New York City that presents small-scale, often experimental dramas. The costs of off-Broadway productions are generally much lower than those of Broadway (see also Broadway) plays.