The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Moni Yakim and Mina Yakin
Mimes, Actors, Directors, Playwrights

Ming Cho Lee
Scenic Designer

Donn Russell
Foundation Director, Author

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

Michael Feingold
Playwright, Translator, Theatre Critic at The Village Voice, Chairman of the Obie Awards (Judges Panel)

Wynn Handman
Founder of The American Place Theatre

James Latus
Production Stage Manager

Ron Faber
Actor

Barbara Dana
Actress, Playwright

Fred Papert
Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

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

George Ferencz
Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

Graciela Daniele
Dancer, Director, Choreographer

Gloria Miguel
Actor, Playwright, Director, Choreographer Co-Founder Spiderwoman Theater

Paul Foster
President of La MaMa E.T.C., Playwright

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

Moni Yakim and Mina Yakin Mimes, Actors, Directors, Playwrights

Ming Cho Lee Scenic Designer

Donn Russell Foundation Director, Author

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

Michael Feingold Playwright, Translator, Theatre Critic at The Village Voice, Chairman of the Obie Awards (Judges Panel)

Wynn Handman Founder of The American Place Theatre

James Latus Production Stage Manager

Ron Faber Actor

Barbara Dana Actress, Playwright

Fred Papert Advertising Executive, Preservationist, Founder of the 42nd Street Development Corporation

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

George Ferencz Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

Graciela Daniele Dancer, Director, Choreographer

Gloria Miguel Actor, Playwright, Director, Choreographer Co-Founder Spiderwoman Theater

Paul Foster President of La MaMa E.T.C., Playwright