Sentence examples for is playing off from inspiring English sources

"Hamlet" is playing Off Broadway; that's a doozy.

It is playing off Broadway, not on Broadway.

The show is playing Off Broadway at New World Stages, where it moved in 2009.

Mr. Melhus is playing off the tradition of the televangelist; in fact, the words he uses are lifted from the Trinity Broadcast Network.

With its tag line, Shreve's is playing off the legislative battle that will allow voters to weigh in on same-sex weddings as early as 2006.

Mr. Margulies's prize play, commissioned by the Actors Theater of Louisville, Ky., then performed at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif., is playing off Broadway, yet another confirmation of where New York's significant theater is.

Follow Neal on Twitter. 3 Mics is playing off-Broadway at the Lynn Redgrave Theater, in New York, from February 23 through March 3.

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Private initiative is played off against communal symmetry.

The torture of Christina (Cloris Leachman) is played off screen.

And what she has done, particularly in recent years, is play off of and against that — to hilarious effect.