off-Broadway

off-Broadway

English

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    From off- + Broadway.

    Noun

    off-Broadway (plural off-Broadways)

    1. (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 and permits mounting productions at a much lower cost.

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    Adjective

    off-Broadway (not comparable)

    1. Of or pertaining to an off-Broadway theater, or a production mounted in one.
      Little Shop of Horrors is probably the most famous of the off-Broadway productions.
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