Broadway plays
Manhattan stage shows
Broadway plays are theatrical productions staged in the major professional theaters of New York City's Broadway district.
The term carries connotations of high production values, commercial success, and cultural prestige: She dreams of starring in a Broadway play.
Distinguished from off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway by theater size and union contracts.
The phrase often serves as shorthand for mainstream American theater at its most polished and expensive.
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- curtain callPost-show audience acknowledgment
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