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 “Off”
means “away”.
 Broadway is not a geographic concept
anymore.
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Style
Scale
Broadwa
y
Price
per
ticket
Geo
Theater
Features
Ideology
Award
Above
30
Around
Time
Square
1.
1. Commercial
2. Professional
3. Entertaining
Tends to be
conventional,
unchanged.
It’s a commercial
organization.
Tony Award
Tony Award
and OBIE
Award
2.
3.
Formal Theater
building.
Picture-framed
stage.
More than 499
seats
OffBroadwa
y
Aroun
d
15~35
Around
Time
Square and
GreenWhich
Village.
1.Formal or half-formal
theater building.
2. Various types of
stages.
3. 50-499 seats.
1. Professional
2. Commercial
3. Artistic and
Entertaining.
Reflects the
mainstream
culture, similar to
Broadway show.
Off-Off
Broadwa
y
Below
15
All around
New York
City.
1. Informal theatrical
building.
2. Only space for
performance.
3. Less than 100 seats.
1. Noncommercial.
2. Professional
or amateur.
3. Experimental.
Mainly subcultural, Obie Award
innovative, and
experimental.
 Origins
around 1950.
 Purpose: Attract any types of Audience.
 Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway theater
 Play
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for small audience because
Smaller budget
Artistic attempt
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Retreat from Proscenium houses.
 Play
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for smaller audience because
Innovation

The intimate theater.
 More
out of the way place.
 More loose contracts.
 The rich 1960s made the advantage of Off
Broadway disappear.
 1.
Small Theater
 2. Amateur
 3. achievement
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Performance text
Improvisation
anti-illusionistic
Environmental Theatre.
 Blueprint
of most Double Off Broadway
theater in another countries.
 Taipei’s Off-off Broadway Movement in 1980s.
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Dr. Wu Chin Chi.
Lan-Lin Theater.
 Raised
from a poor Jewish family in NY
Brooklyn.
 Learn
Stanislavsky's way from group theater.
 Start Shakespeare Workshop in 1953.
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Put plays in the public.
Citizens have the right to watch the free play.
 War
of Grass?
 Honored
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Became NY Shakespeare Festival.
Put a play in Delacorte Theater every year.
 Found
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by NY city Gov.
Public Theatre
A Chorus Line.