The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Jeff Weiss
Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Joanne Camp (Sobel)
Company Member, The Pearl Theatre Company

John Glover
Actor

André Bishop
Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

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

Marilyn Roberts
Actress, Director, Playwright

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

Charles Weldon
Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Maude Mitchell (and Lee Breuer)
Actor, Dramaturge, Adapter, Teacher, Mabou Mines Senior Associate Artist

John Guare
Playwright

Woodie King Jr.
Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Norman Thomas Marshall
Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Julius Novick
Author, Critic

Robert Moss
Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Ralph B. Peña
Founding Member Ma-Yi Theatre Group, Director, 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

Jeff Weiss Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Joanne Camp (Sobel) Company Member, The Pearl Theatre Company

John Glover Actor

André Bishop Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

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

Marilyn Roberts Actress, Director, Playwright

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

Charles Weldon Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Maude Mitchell (and Lee Breuer) Actor, Dramaturge, Adapter, Teacher, Mabou Mines Senior Associate Artist

John Guare Playwright

Woodie King Jr. Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Norman Thomas Marshall Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Julius Novick Author, Critic

Robert Moss Founder and Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Ralph B. Peña Founding Member Ma-Yi Theatre Group, Director, Playwright, Actor