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.
Off-Off-Broadway theaters are defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats. 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 small amateur performances.
Off-Broadway began in 1958 as a reaction to Off-Broadway, and a "complete rejection of commercial theatre".
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Being a producer is like being McGyver; you take a paperclip, some gum and a sock and you create a production.
Theatre Critic
It takes a clever designer to create a set for ten thousand dollars. It takes a brilliant designer to build one for two hundred dollars.
My best moment OOB was the first time I heard an audience laugh at a line of mine.
Performance Art Pioneer
The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway.
Writer & Actress
You need to learn to budget your time the same way you budget your money. Jason Bowcutt ==
Executive Director of the New York IT Awards and Co-Author
From idea to accomplishment the artist must be resolute in their pursuit of something great even when the world conspires towards complacency.
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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.
Off-Off-Broadway theaters are defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats. 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 small amateur performances.
History
Off-Off-Broadway began in 1958 as a reaction to Off-Broadway, and a "complete rejection of commercial theatre". 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 at 31 Cornelia Street, 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. 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.
An Off-Off-Broadway production that features members of Actors Equity is called an Equity Showcase production. 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.
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