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Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. 黃昱嘉 9843029. “OFF”. “Off” means “away”. Broadway is not a geographic concept anymore. Style Scale. Useful Chart. Off Broadway. Origins around 1950. Purpose: Attract any types of Audience. Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway theater. Shubert Theater. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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OFF-BROADWAY AND OFF-OFF-
BROADWAY黃昱嘉 9843029
“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.