Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway

OFF-BROADWAY AND OFF-OFF-

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“OFF” “Off” means “away”. Broadway is not a geographic concept

anymore.StyleScale

USEFUL CHARTPrice per ticket

Geo Theater Features Ideology Award

Broadway

Above 30

Around Time Square

1. Formal Theater building.

2. Picture-framed stage.

3. More than 499 seats

1. Commercial2. Professional3. Entertaining

Tends to be conventional, unchanged.It’s a commercial organization.

Tony Award

Off-Broadway

Around 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. Professional2. Commercial3. Artistic and

Entertaining.

Reflects the mainstream culture, similar to Broadway show.

Tony Award and OBIE Award

Off-Off Broadway

Below 15

All around New York City.

1. Informal theatrical building.

2. Only space for performance.

3. Less than 100 seats.

1. Non-commercial.

2. Professional or amateur.

3. Experimental.

Mainly subcultural, innovative, and experimental.

Obie Award

OFF BROADWAY Origins around 1950. Purpose: Attract any types of Audience. Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway

theater

SHUBERT THEATER

SHUBERT THEATER

LAMB’S THEATER

LAMB’S THEATER

OFF BROADWAY Play for small audience because

Smaller budgetArtistic attempt

Retreat from Proscenium houses.

OFF BROADWAY

OFF BROADWAY

OFF BROADWAY Play for smaller audience because

Innovation The intimate theater.

DOUBLE OFF BROADWAY

DOUBLE OFF BROADWAY More out of the way place. More loose contracts. The rich 1960s made the advantage of

Off Broadway disappear.

DOUBLE OFF BROADWAY 1. Small Theater 2. Amateur 3. achievement

Performance text Improvisationanti-illusionisticEnvironmental Theatre.

LA MAMA

FOUNDER ELLEN STEWART

LA MAMA ETC Blueprint of most Double Off Broadway

theater in another countries. Taipei’s Off-off Broadway Movement in

1980s.Dr. Wu Chin Chi.Lan-Lin Theater.

STORY OF JOSEPH PAPP.

JOE PAPP Raised from a poor Jewish family in NY

Brooklyn.

JOE PAPP Learn Stanislavsky's way from group

theater. Start Shakespeare Workshop in 1953.

Put plays in the public. Citizens have the right to watch the free

play.

JOE PAPP War of Grass?

JOE PAPP Honored by NY city Gov.

Became NY Shakespeare Festival.Put a play in Delacorte Theater every year.

Found Public TheatreA Chorus Line.