The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Ramona Ponce
Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Larry Loonin
Director, Playwright, Actor

Agosto Machado
Actor, Activist, Witness

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

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

Micki Grant
Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Elise Stone and Craig Smith
Actors, Directors, Producers, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Founders, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

James Morgan
Producing Artistic Director of York Theatre, Scenic Designer

Nancy Gabor
Actor, Director, Acting Teacher, co-founder Het Collectief, Amsterdam

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

Rene Buch
Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Steve Olsen
Founder of the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe, Restaurateur

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

Walter and Georgia Hadler
Actor, Playwright, Director

John Guare
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

Ramona Ponce Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Larry Loonin Director, Playwright, Actor

Agosto Machado Actor, Activist, Witness

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

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

Micki Grant Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Elise Stone and Craig Smith Actors, Directors, Producers, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Founders, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

James Morgan Producing Artistic Director of York Theatre, Scenic Designer

Nancy Gabor Actor, Director, Acting Teacher, co-founder Het Collectief, Amsterdam

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

Rene Buch Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Steve Olsen Founder of the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe, Restaurateur

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

Walter and Georgia Hadler Actor, Playwright, Director

John Guare Playwright