Is every play performed in New York considered a Broadway play?
No, not at all. In fact, there are only 39 official Broadway houses and there are hundreds and hundreds of productions that occur in New York. So aside from, officially the Broadway houses, there’s the off-Broadway houses. As I said before, size of theater is usually what is used to determine the category that you’re considered. So a Broadway house has 499 seats and above, an off-Broadway house is between 199 seats and 499, and an Off-Off-Broadway house is anything below 99, and these houses are scattered throughout the city; not just the city, in Queens, in Brooklyn there’s also a huge cultural richness in New York and the vary from in different levels from the very professional productions to showcases of actors that have just gotten out of school looking for an agent and it runs the gamut from very traditional fair to really edgy, artistic experimental theater, so there’s something for everyone here in New York.
