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Off-Off-Broadway refers to theatrical productions including plays, musicals or performance art pieces performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway productions and Off-Broadway productions. A play, or stageplay, is a form of Literature written by a Playwright, almost always consisting of Dialogue between Fictional characters Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. This article is about Performance art For other uses see Performance (disambiguation The City of New York Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City.

Off-Off-Broadway theaters are defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats. [1] The shows range from professional and successful productions by established artists like Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater in the East Village, or The Flea Theater in TriBeCa, to extremely small amateur performances, and take place all over New York City. Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American Playwright and Avant-garde theater pioneer he is the founder of The Ontological-Hysteric Theater (OHT was founded in 1968 by Richard Foreman with the aim of stripping the theater bare of everything but the singular and essential impulse The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Flea Theater, founded in 1996 is a Theater in the Tribeca section of New York City. TriBeCa is a Neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York in the United States.

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History

Off-Off-Broadway began in 1958 as a reaction to Off-Broadway, and a "complete rejection of commercial theatre". [2] Among the first venues for what would soon be called "Off-Off-Broadway" (a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, particularly the Caffe Cino, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content. The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan Joseph Cino ( 1931 - April 4, 1967) was an Italian-American theatrical producer and café-owner Joseph Cino ( 1931 - April 4, 1967) was an Italian-American theatrical producer and café-owner Also integral to the rise of Off-Off-Broadway were Ellen Stewart at La MaMa, and Al Carmines at the Judson Poets' Theater, located at Judson Memorial Church. Ellen Stewart (born November 7 1918 Alexandria Louisiana) is an American Theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa E La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club ( La MaMa ETC) is an American not-for-profit cultural organization located in the East Village section of lower Reverend Al Carmines, (born Alvin Allison Carmines Jr ( 25 July 1936 - 9 August 2005) was a key figure in the expansion of Off-Off-Broadway The Judson Memorial Church is located in Greenwich Village of Manhattan on the south side of Washington Square Park.

The term "Indie Theater" was coined by Kirk Wood Bromley in his acceptance speech at the 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Awards. The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (IT Awards were founded in 2004 There is currently a movement to rebrand Off-Off-Broadway as "Indie Theatre". The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards) are given annually to honor artistic excellence in the Off-Off-Broadway theatre. For many years, Off-Off-Broadway theatres were part of OOBA, the Off-Off-Broadway Alliance, which then became ARTNY, the Alliance of Resident Theatres in New York.

An Off-Off-Broadway production that features members of Actors Equity is called an Equity Showcase production. Template talkInfobox Union for usage --> The Actors' Equity Association (AEA commonly referred to as Actors' Equity The Union maintains very strict rules about working in such productions, including restrictions on price, the length of the run and rehearsal times. Professional actors' participation in showcase productions is not infrequent, and in fact comprises the bulk of stage work for the majority of New York actors. [1]

Notable theatre companies and venues

This is a list of notable Off-Off-Broadway theatre companies and venues.

Notes

  1. ^ Off-Off-Broadway, Way Back When. Dixon Place is an Obie Award winning Off-Off Broadway New York City Theater devoted exclusively to presenting original pieces of theater The Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City was founded in 1977 as a professional (AEA theatre company on the Upper West Side of New York City by W Retrieved on 2007-12-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life
  2. ^ Viagas (2004, 72)

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