The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

Celebrating the visionaries who created New York's vibrant Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theater.

Dolores Deane Walker
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Stuart Ross
Director, Playwright, Lyricist

Ping Chong
Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Ralph Lee
Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

George Ferencz
Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

André Bishop
Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Paul Foster
President of La MaMa E.T.C., Playwright

Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Producer

Robert Moss
Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Lois Smith
Actress

James Rocco
Director, Choreographer, Writer, Actor, Singer, Founder Thirty Saints Music Licensing and Thirty Saints Productions

Linda and David Laundra
Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

June Gable
Actress

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Joe John Battista
Director, Artistic Director, Photographer, Musician, Founder, Screaming Mimes Theater Company

MUSINGS

Posted Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Off-Broadway Oral History Project
by: Casey Childs

I have always had a curiosity with the people who create theatre out of pure passion and, like many artists, I have always been frustrated by the sad, ephemeral nature of producing plays.

FROM THE STAGE

Posted Thursday, August 15, 2019

KINESTHETICS BY Laurence Luckinbill

FROM THE HOUSE

Posted Thursday, March 2, 2017

Casting about Off-Broadway
by: Rosemarie Tichler

As a casting director for over 25 years, from 1967 to 1991, my night job was being an audience member.

The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

Dolores Deane Walker Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Stuart Ross Director, Playwright, Lyricist

Ping Chong Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Ralph Lee Actor, Designer, Puppeteer

George Ferencz Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

André Bishop Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Paul Foster President of La MaMa E.T.C., Playwright

Elizabeth Ireland McCann Producer

Robert Moss Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Lois Smith Actress

James Rocco Director, Choreographer, Writer, Actor, Singer, Founder Thirty Saints Music Licensing and Thirty Saints Productions

Linda and David Laundra Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

June Gable Actress

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Joe John Battista Director, Artistic Director, Photographer, Musician, Founder, Screaming Mimes Theater Company