How to Use off Broadway in a Sentence

off Broadway

noun
  • Her plays have premiered off Broadway and across the country.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But even still, independent films are off-off Broadway now.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
  • So there will be pop-up testing sites at and near theaters on Broadway and off Broadway.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Berry — another freshman — blasted a two-run homer off Broadway in the bottom of the third.
    — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2021
  • And then came the rise of the gayborhood, and Nashville opened its first drag bar, The Saloon off Broadway.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023
  • The driver sped off, leading officers on a short chase that wound up at the end of Arizona Street, a cul-de-sac off Broadway.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • It will be directed here by Knud Adams, who directed the play’s off Broadway production last year.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • The show enjoyed an off Broadway run at Atlantic Theater Company late last year.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The production marks Roundabout’s first new Off Broadway musical in years.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Win Aaron Rodgers has emerged from his darkness retreat to finish his illustrious career off Broadway.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Bug premiered in London in 1996 and Off Broadway in 2004.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Los Angeles Times Meet the ‘off-off Broadway’ candidates campaigning on the fringes of the recall.
    — Justin Ray Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Her father is an independent filmmaker and her grandfather, Cliff Johnson, was a singer in the power pop band Off Broadway.
    — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Some past Wagner festival premieres have ended up in off Broadway productions and at regional theaters nationwide.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Despite appreciation for the dancing, neither show proved a commercial or critical success — and Maurice Hines was forced to do much of his best work off Broadway and on tour.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Even during a time when off Broadway theater is facing a financial crisis, Vineyard Theatre continues to be devoted to legions of artists to get their voices heard.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to his TV career, Overmyer was a prolific Off Broadway and regional theater playwright.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
  • It will be produced in partnership with Charlotte’s Off Broadway at the VAPA Center.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Robyn, meanwhile, is an awkward fit for LuPone, who has continually sworn off Broadway in recent years but seemingly made an exception for Farrow, her longtime pal.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Where to Stay Off Broadway and a short walk to Bearskin Neck, Addison Choate is a small boutique inn that has historic charm with its wide pine floors and Persian rugs.
    — Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • To that end, the program has entered into an agreement, said Meffe, with York Theatre Company, an off Broadway company in Manhattan.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Joanne Taylor Jason Colson owns Autolab Englewood off Broadway.
    — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • In Chinatown, just off Broadway, many stores were vandalized and robbed during the marches, including pharmacies where a large percentage of the community’s elderly residents get medicine.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • This kind of sophomoric glee made the show a cult hit Off Broadway in the early 2000s and has ensured its lasting presence in the repertoire of amateur productions and musical-theater programs around the country.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The company, which is headquartered in Valentine off Broadway Boulevard, has presented an early redevelopment concept that would include new colonnade apartments.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The musical opened Off Broadway in June 2022 and ran for three years, upgrading to a larger theater during the run, before closing in June 2025.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Liberation had its world premiere at Roundabout Theater Company’s Off Broadway venue, the Laura Pels Theater.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The original production of the play opened off Broadway in 1983 starring Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin before moving to Broadway the following year.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In step with his ample entertainment biz accomplishments — directing five movies, as well as acting in more than 70 films, myriad TV shows and a dozen plays on and off Broadway — Tucci is also a skilled home cook and engaging writer.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Duncan Sheik‘s new musical based on the Manga graphic novel, will premiere Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 8 May 2026

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