The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Shami Chaikin
Actress

John Jesurun
Multi-Media Artist, Director, Playwright

Arthur Kopit
Playwright

Jackie Jeffries
Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

André Bishop
Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Daryl Roth
Producer

Don Scardino
Actor, Director, Producer

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Annie Golden
Actress, Singer, Teacher

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

Dolores Deane Walker
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Woodie King Jr.
Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Rosemary Harris
Actress

Tom Jones
Playwright, Lyricist

Jean-Claude van Itallie
Playwright, Actor

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

Shami Chaikin Actress

John Jesurun Multi-Media Artist, Director, Playwright

Arthur Kopit Playwright

Jackie Jeffries Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

André Bishop Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Daryl Roth Producer

Don Scardino Actor, Director, Producer

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Annie Golden Actress, Singer, Teacher

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

Dolores Deane Walker Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Woodie King Jr. Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Rosemary Harris Actress

Tom Jones Playwright, Lyricist

Jean-Claude van Itallie Playwright, Actor