The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Jack Garfein
Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

Rene Buch
Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation
Composer, Sound Designer

Patricia Birch
Director, Choreographer

George Morfogen
Actor

Tina Howe
Playwright

William Ivey Long
Costume Designer

Sheldon Harnick
Lyricist

Ted Snowdon
Producer, Philanthropist, Activist

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Mark Russell
Director, Producer, Artistic Director, Producing Artistic Director, PS 122, Under The Radar/The Public

Anne Hamburger
Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Don Scardino
Actor, Director, Producer

Christopher Martin
Founding Artistic Director, CSC (Classic Stage Company)

Dolores Deane Walker
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

Jack Garfein Director, Actor, Teacher, Producer, Author,Co- Founder and Artistic Director of the Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Harold Clurman Theater

Rene Buch Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation Composer, Sound Designer

Patricia Birch Director, Choreographer

George Morfogen Actor

Tina Howe Playwright

William Ivey Long Costume Designer

Sheldon Harnick Lyricist

Ted Snowdon Producer, Philanthropist, Activist

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Mark Russell Director, Producer, Artistic Director, Producing Artistic Director, PS 122, Under The Radar/The Public

Anne Hamburger Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Don Scardino Actor, Director, Producer

Christopher Martin Founding Artistic Director, CSC (Classic Stage Company)

Dolores Deane Walker Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective