The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Buzz Cohen
Stage Manager

Ping Chong
Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Fyvush Finkel
Actor, Comedian

Rita Gardner
Actress

Gerard Alessandrini
Director, Writer, Composer, Satirist, Producer, Forbidden Broadway

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

George Bartenieff
Co-Founder of Theater for the New City, Actor

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Jean-Claude van Itallie
Playwright, Actor

David Greenspan
Actor, Playwright, Director

Michael McGrinder
Playwright, Publisher

Douglas Turner Ward
Founder and Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company, Playwright, Director, Actor

Mary Louise Wilson
Actor, Playwright, Writer

Jane Greenwood
Costume Designer

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

Buzz Cohen Stage Manager

Ping Chong Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Fyvush Finkel Actor, Comedian

Rita Gardner Actress

Gerard Alessandrini Director, Writer, Composer, Satirist, Producer, Forbidden Broadway

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

George Bartenieff Co-Founder of Theater for the New City, Actor

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Jean-Claude van Itallie Playwright, Actor

David Greenspan Actor, Playwright, Director

Michael McGrinder Playwright, Publisher

Douglas Turner Ward Founder and Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company, Playwright, Director, Actor

Mary Louise Wilson Actor, Playwright, Writer

Jane Greenwood Costume Designer