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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theatrical productions in New York City that are performed in the smallest or least established venues, often featuring avant-garde or experimental works.
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- noun often capitalized A New York City area
off-Broadway -style show, but not operating under the aegis of the theatrical unions. These are generally very low budget, with limited casts and even more limited production values, performed in unconventional, ad hoc spaces. - adjective Of or pertaining to an off-off-Broadway production.
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Examples
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"It's another signal that the approaches we worked on off-off-Broadway, at P.S. 122, lofts and late-night bars, have made it into the bloodstream of the American theater."
Broadway's 'Trickle-Up' Economics at Work Lizzie Simon 2011
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I saw a stage version of CANNIBAL off-off-Broadway a bunch of years back.
SOUTH PARK Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Ready To Go Off Broadway – Collider.com 2010
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My relationship with Al goes back a long way, to 1969, when I found the ragged, untamed young actor in an off-off-Broadway performance in a Village loft.
Jay Weston: Santa Monica's Broad Stage Offers The Merchant of Venice With an Academy Award-Winning Actor. (No, It's Not Pacino) Jay Weston 2011
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But just when you want to stuff this chimp back in his cage, he comes up with some unforgettable new adventure, like his off-off-Broadway production of "_blankThe Tempest" that's absolutely transporting.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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In recent seasons I've seen two of Mr. O'Neill's other late plays, "Long Day's Journey into Night" and "A Touch of the Poet," performed in elaborately designed Broadway productions and in small-scale stagings, the first at Wisconsin's American Players Theatre and the second in a next-to-no-budget off-off-Broadway version that starred Daniel J. Travanti.
O'Neill Staged on an Intimate Scale Terry Teachout 2011
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My relationship with Al goes back a long way, to 1969, when I found the ragged, untamed young actor in an off-off-Broadway performance in a Village loft.
Jay Weston: Santa Monica's Broad Stage Offers The Merchant of Venice With an Academy Award-Winning Actor. (No, It's Not Pacino) Jay Weston 2011
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Her first work of nonfiction, Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel, was published by Heinemann in 1997, and her monologue, "At RaeDean's Funeral," has been included in an off-off-Broadway production, Elvis Dreams, as well as several other evenings of Elvis-mania.
Interview: Melissa Scott odysseyworkshop 2009
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When reciting them live, Steinman delivers fun in an off-off-Broadway manner, matching the overall tone of this filmed concert from the original tour (from a German TV program Rockpalast).
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Morogiello's "Gianni Schicchi," originally commissioned by an off-off-Broadway theater, was done here as part of Rep Stage's 1993-94 inaugural season but has not been revived locally since.
Backstage: Anthony Cochrane hears more than one calling in Folger's 'Henry VIII' Jane Horwitz 2010
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But just when you want to stuff this chimp back in his cage, he comes up with some unforgettable new adventure, like his off-off-Broadway production of "_blankThe Tempest" that's absolutely transporting.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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