The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Maria DiDia
General Manager, Producer

Christopher Durang
Playwright, Actor

Robert Heide and John Gilman
Playwright, Actors, Authors

Gilbert Parker
Literary Agent

Lynne Meadow
Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Wynn Handman
Founder of The American Place Theatre

Estelle Parsons
Actress, Director

John Glover
Actor

Lawrence Kornfeld
Director, Educator, General Manager/Assistant Director The Living Theatre, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Judson Poets’ Theater, Co-Founder/Artistic Director Theater for the New City, Director of the Theatre Program New York State Council of the Arts

John Lee Beatty
Set Designer

Peter Maloney
Actor, Director, Playwright

Patricia Birch
Director, Choreographer

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Bob McGrath
Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Barbara Dana
Actress, Playwright

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

Maria DiDia General Manager, Producer

Christopher Durang Playwright, Actor

Robert Heide and John Gilman Playwright, Actors, Authors

Gilbert Parker Literary Agent

Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Wynn Handman Founder of The American Place Theatre

Estelle Parsons Actress, Director

John Glover Actor

Lawrence Kornfeld Director, Educator, General Manager/Assistant Director The Living Theatre, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Judson Poets’ Theater, Co-Founder/Artistic Director Theater for the New City, Director of the Theatre Program New York State Council of the Arts

John Lee Beatty Set Designer

Peter Maloney Actor, Director, Playwright

Patricia Birch Director, Choreographer

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Bob McGrath Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Barbara Dana Actress, Playwright