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Off-off-Broadway theaters are defined as theaters that have fewer than 100 seats, presenting informal small-scale productions. The shows can range from quite professional and successful productions by established artists like Richard Foreman 's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in the East Village , or The Flea Theater in Tribeca , to extremely small amateur performances all over the City. Off-off-Broadway developed in the early 1960s as a reaction to off-Broadway, which had, in the estimation of many in the New York theater community, grown conventional and safe. Among the first venues for what would soon be called "off-off-Broadway" (a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the '' Village Voice '') were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village , particularly the Caffe Cino, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino , who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content. Also integral to the rise of off-off-Broadway were Ellen Stewart at La MaMa , and Al Carmines at the Judson Poets' Theater , located at Judson Memorial Church . NOTABLE OFF-OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE COMPANIES AND VENUES EXTERNAL LINKS
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