Off-Broadway

Japanese: オフ・ブロードウェー(英語表記)Off‐Broadway
Off-Broadway
A general term for New York theater other than commercial Broadway theaters. They tend to be held in theaters that are much smaller than the large Broadway theaters, with seating capacities of 300 or less, and production costs and admission fees are lower than on Broadway. Off-Broadway theaters are scattered throughout Manhattan, but are particularly prevalent in Greenwich Village. The plays they perform are mainly works by unknown authors, experimental works by famous authors, and classics and foreign masterpieces that are difficult to perform on Broadway, and directors and actors tend to be less well-known than those on Broadway.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ニューヨークの演劇のうち,ブロードウェーの商業演劇以外のものの総称。定員300名以下という,ブロードウェーの大劇場よりはるかに小さい劇場が活動の場であることが多く,製作費や入場料もブロードウェーより低い。オフ・ブロードウェーの劇場はマンハッタン区全域に散在するが,特にグリニチ・ビレッジに多い。上演される作品は無名の作家のもの,有名作家の実験的なもの,ブロードウェーでは上演されにくい古典や外国の名作が中心で,演出者や俳優もブロードウェーの場合に比べれば有名でないことが多い。

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