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off Broadway

or Off Broadway

noun

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


off-Broadway

adjective

  1. designating the kind of experimental, low-budget, or noncommercial productions associated with theatre outside the Broadway area in New York
  2. (of theatres) not located on Broadway
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


off-Broadway

  1. 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.


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Other Words From

  • off-Broadway adjective adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of off Broadway1

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
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Example Sentences

She began performing in off-Broadway musicals and attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts.

This Is Our Youth received two off-Broadway productions in 1996 and 1998, both featuring Mark Ruffalo and Missy Yager.

Result: searing performance art to rival anything off-off-Broadway.

Now a new off-Broadway play seeks to humanize Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

But this off-Broadway show reverberated with insights that felt painfully real.

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