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Definition of Off-broadway
1. Noun. Low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan.
Definition of Off-broadway
1. Noun. (often capitalized) In the New York City area, a small theater with fewer than 300 seats, or a production in such a theater, usually away from the "Broadway" theater district, which operates under special rules from the theatrical unions, which permits mounting productions at a much lower cost. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an off-Broadway theater, or a production mounted in one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Off-broadway
Literary usage of Off-broadway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"OFF BROADWAY The Savoy Opera Guild under the direction of Lewis Denison, leased
the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and gave three performances a ..."
2. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Glacial Smoothies, it 983-3223, on 3rd, just off Broadway, has wraps and pitas.
Best choice for healthy food in town. Prices start around $5. ..."
3. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"Glacial Smoothies, on 3rd, just off Broadway, has wraps and pitas. ... It's off
Broadway, so it's pretty quiet. $* *** Smaller but quite nice is the Skagway ..."
4. In the Matter of the Application of the Broadway Surface Railroad Company by New York (State). Supreme Court, New York (State), Courts: Supreme Court (1885)
"A. I think when the stages 3643 are taken off Broadway, very soon there will be
g'enty of room for the trucks to get along. Q. ow many stages do you think ..."
5. The American Stage of To-day by Walter Prichard Eaton (1908)
"So the play delivered its message at the Savoy Theater, in Thirty-fourth Street,
just off Broadway. It is not flippantly to be dismissed; it is not lightly ..."
6. Atlantic Canada by Benoit Prieur (2002)
"This is the kind of place you will want to come back to time and time again.
Off Broadway Cafe $$ 125 Sydney St. •0566-4620 Perhaps surprisingly for a city ..."
7. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"... mr Off Broadway Café 125 Sydney St. Perhaps surprisingly for a city of this
size, Charlotte- town's collection of restaurants includes a few gems, ..."
8. Connectives of English Speech by James Champlin Fernald (1904)
"... own beat his opinions were of no value. EMERSON English Traits ch. 1, p. 27.
9. Extending away from; leading out of; as, Wall Street leads off Broadway. ..."
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