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View synonyms for off Broadway
off Broadway
or Off Broadway
noun
- professional drama produced in New York City in small theaters often away from the Broadway area and characterized by experimental productions.
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
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.
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- off-Broadway 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.
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This Is Our Youth received two off-Broadway productions in 1996 and 1998, both featuring Mark Ruffalo and Missy Yager.
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Result: searing performance art to rival anything off-off-Broadway.
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Now a new off-Broadway play seeks to humanize Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
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But this off-Broadway show reverberated with insights that felt painfully real.
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