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Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway

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.

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Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway

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  1. Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway 黃昱嘉 9843029

  2. “OFF” • “Off” means “away”. • Broadway is not a geographic concept anymore. • Style • Scale

  3. Useful Chart

  4. Off Broadway • Origins around 1950. • Purpose: Attract any types of Audience. • Broadway theater vs. Off Broadway theater

  5. Shubert Theater

  6. Shubert Theater

  7. Lamb’s Theater

  8. Lamb’s Theater

  9. Off Broadway • Play for small audience because • Smaller budget • Artistic attempt • Retreat from Proscenium houses.

  10. Off Broadway

  11. Off Broadway

  12. Off Broadway • Play for smaller audience because • Innovation • The intimate theater.

  13. Double Off Broadway

  14. Double Off Broadway • More out of the way place. • More loose contracts. • The rich 1960s made the advantage of Off Broadway disappear.

  15. Double Off Broadway • 1. Small Theater • 2. Amateur • 3. achievement • Performance text • Improvisation • anti-illusionistic • Environmental Theatre.

  16. La Mama

  17. Founder ElLen Stewart

  18. 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.

  19. Story of Joseph Papp.

  20. Joe Papp • Raised from a poor Jewish family in NY Brooklyn.

  21. 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.

  22. Joe Papp • War of Grass?

  23. Joe Papp • Honored by NY city Gov. • Became NY Shakespeare Festival. • Put a play in Delacorte Theater every year. • Found Public Theatre • A Chorus Line.

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