THEATER AND DANCE IN NEW YORK CITY

THEATER AND DANCE IN NEW YORK CITY

New York is famous for its extravagant musicals, its movies and its ferocious critics. It's one of the world's greatest theater and dance centers, featuring every kind of production imaginable. Whether your preference is for the glitz and glamour of a Broadway blockbuster or something truly experimental, you will find it here.

Broadway has long been synonymous with new York's Theater district, but the majority of Broadway theaters are actually scattered between 41st and 53rd streets and from Sixth to Ninth Avenues, with a few around the much improved Times Square. Many Broadway theaters went through a slump in the 1980s but are now enjoying a revival, using big names to draw in the crowds and benefiting from the Times Square renewal.

Here you will find the power productions and the big highly publicized dramas, musicals and revivals starring hollywood luminaries. There are about 20 Off Broadway stages and 300 Off- Off- Broadway stages whose works will sometimes transfer to broadway. Off- Broadway theaters have from 100 to 499 seats, and Off- Off- Broadway showplaces have fewer than 100.