off Broadway
or Off Broadway
professional drama produced in New York City in small theaters often away from the Broadway area and characterized by experimental productions.
Origin of off Broadway
1Other words from off Broadway
- off-Broadway, adjective, adverb
Words Nearby off Broadway
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How to use off Broadway in a sentence
She began performing in off-Broadway musicals and attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts.
Azealia Banks Opens Up About Her Journey from Stripping to Rap Stardom | Marlow Stern | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis Is Our Youth received two off-Broadway productions in 1996 and 1998, both featuring Mark Ruffalo and Missy Yager.
Michael Cera Brings ‘This Is Our Youth’ to Broadway After 18 Years | Tom Teodorczuk | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTResult: 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.
10 Best Plays of the Year: Richard III, No Man’s Land, and More | Janice Kaplan | December 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for off-Broadway
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
- Compare off-off-Broadway
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Cultural definitions for 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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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