Broadway theater

New York venue

Broadway theater refers to professional theatrical productions staged in the large theaters of New York City's Broadway district, centered around Times Square.

The term implies the highest tier of American commercial theater—big-budget musicals and plays with professional casts, as distinct from off-Broadway or regional productions.

She dreams of performing in Broadway theater someday.

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commercial prestige and scale

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Local nonprofessional stage productions

amateur theater · regional theater · dinner theater · school productions · fringe theater

geographic/institutional location

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Experimental small-venue theater movement

regional theater · West End theater · London theater · touring productions

theatrical tradition and aesthetic

Broadway theaterexperimental theater

Unconventional staged performance art

avant-garde theater · fringe theater · performance art · guerrilla theater · immersive theater

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