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Off Broadway plays or
musicals are performed in
New York City in smaller theatres than
Broadway, but larger than
Off-Off-Broadway, productions.
Off Broadway theatres (venues) are those with 100 to 499 seats. The classification of theatres is governed by language in
Actors' Equity contracts: a theater need not have a Broadway address, so long as it's "in the
borough of
Manhattan in any theater outside the area bounded by Fifth Avenue and Ninth Avenue from 34th Street to 56th Street, and by Fifth Avenue and the Hudson River from 56th Street to 72nd Street." In 2008, two Off-Broadway shows,
In the Heights and
Passing Strange, have already transferred to
Broadway and a third, [
title of show] will transfer in July of 2008.
Off-Broadway shows, performers and creative staff may be nominated for and win the
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the
Outer Circle Critics Award, the
Drama Desk Award, the
Obie Award (presented since 1956 by
The Village Voice), and the
Lucille Lortel Award (created in 1985 by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers). Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for the
Tony Awards, an exception was made in 1956, before the rules were changed, when
Lotte Lenya won for
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the Off-Broadway production of
The Threepenny Opera.
In
London the closest equivalent to the term "Off Broadway" is known as
fringe theatre, but it doesn't correspond to Off Broadway exactly because the structure of theatre in the two cities differs in many ways. In particular, there are no hard and fast divisions based on the number of seats in venues.
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