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off-Broadway Definition

☆ off·-Broadway (ôf′brôd′wā′)

adjective

designating, of, or produced in any theater located outside the main theatrical district in New York City and presenting professional productions that are often unconventional, experimental, low-cost, etc.

adverb

in an off-Broadway theater or theaters

noun

off-Broadway theaters and their productions collectively

off-Broadway Synonyms

off-Broadway

modif.

noncommercial, not commercialized, avant-garde, experimental, off-off-Broadway, unconventional, low-cost; see also art 2, artistic 2.

off-Broadway Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • produce: His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.
  • perform: Tigers Wild, 1986, a play performed Off-Broadway at Playhouse 91.

Modifies a noun

  • production: The resulting excitement engendered a New York off-Broadway stage production at Theater de Lys.
  • play: Spears spent the next three years studying at the Professional Performing Arts School, and also appeared in several television commercials and off-Broadway plays.
  • musical: Naturally, his first act is to get cast in an off-Broadway musical directed by a friend of Bertie's.
  • theater: The play had its New York premiere, at an off-Broadway theater, in February this year.
  • hit: A 2001 Edinburgh Festival and Off-Broadway hit, the play's London premieres at the Donmar Warehouse in March 2002.
  • material: An enormous variety of literature is represented, from old standards to movie songs to the latest Broadway and Off-Broadway material.