The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Patricia Conolly
Actor, Director

Larry Pine
Actor

Douglas Aibel
Director, Artistic Director, Producer, Casting Director, Vineyard Theatre

Robert Heide and John Gilman
Playwright, Actors, Authors

Richard Schechner
Founder of The Performance Group, Author, Director, Playwright, Professor

David Rothenberg
Founder of The Fortune Society, Press Agent

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Crystal Field
Actor, Director, Choreographer, Producer Co-Founder Theater for the New City

Jane Greenwood
Costume Designer

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

Gigi Gibson Bolt
Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts

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

Richard Foreman
Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Vinie Burrows
Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Robert LuPone
Dancer, Actor, Director, Producer, Artistic Director Co-Founder Manhattan Class Company

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

Patricia Conolly Actor, Director

Larry Pine Actor

Douglas Aibel Director, Artistic Director, Producer, Casting Director, Vineyard Theatre

Robert Heide and John Gilman Playwright, Actors, Authors

Richard Schechner Founder of The Performance Group, Author, Director, Playwright, Professor

David Rothenberg Founder of The Fortune Society, Press Agent

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Crystal Field Actor, Director, Choreographer, Producer Co-Founder Theater for the New City

Jane Greenwood Costume Designer

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

Gigi Gibson Bolt Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts

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

Richard Foreman Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Vinie Burrows Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Robert LuPone Dancer, Actor, Director, Producer, Artistic Director Co-Founder Manhattan Class Company