Crash Course Theater and Drama

The Birth of Off Broadway (1x47)

Uitzenddatum: Feb 08, 2019

By the middle of the 20th century, the epicenter of American theater, the Broadway theater district in New York, was getting to be a pretty staid and commercial place. There was a lot of money to be made from prestige plays and dancing revues, and the was no room in the relatively few theaters for edgy, non-commercial work. Enter Off Broadway.