The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

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

John Lee Beatty
Set Designer

Steve Kaplan
Producer, Director, Comedy Writer, Teacher, Actor, Co-Founder Manhattan Punch Line Theatre

Terrence McNally
Playwright, Librettist

Albert Poland
General Manager, Producer, Actor, Author - STAGES: A Theater Memoir

Larry Pine
Actor

Ming Cho Lee
Scenic Designer

Julius Novick
Author, Critic

Eduardo Machado
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Barbara Dana
Actress, Playwright

Charlotte Moore
Co-Founder, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Artistic Director, Director, Producer, Actor, Playwright

Lorcan Otway
Theater Owner, Producer, Theatre 80 St. Marks

Fred Papert
Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Producer

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

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

John Lee Beatty Set Designer

Steve Kaplan Producer, Director, Comedy Writer, Teacher, Actor, Co-Founder Manhattan Punch Line Theatre

Terrence McNally Playwright, Librettist

Albert Poland General Manager, Producer, Actor, Author - STAGES: A Theater Memoir

Larry Pine Actor

Ming Cho Lee Scenic Designer

Julius Novick Author, Critic

Eduardo Machado Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Barbara Dana Actress, Playwright

Charlotte Moore Co-Founder, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Artistic Director, Director, Producer, Actor, Playwright

Lorcan Otway Theater Owner, Producer, Theatre 80 St. Marks

Fred Papert Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

Elizabeth Ireland McCann Producer

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