The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Barry Grove
Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Eduardo Machado
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Jennifer von Mayrhauser
Costume Designer

Merle Debuskey
Press Agent

Terese Hayden
Founder of Equity Library Theatre and Player’s Guide, Teacher at Circle in the Square

Nancy Ford
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

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

Eleanor Reissa
Actor, Singer, Director, Playwright, Choreographer

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

Julius Novick
Author, Critic

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

Tanya Berezin
Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Circle Repertory Company, Actress

Roscoe Orman
Actor, Director, Founding Member New Lafayette Theatre

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Michael McGrinder
Playwright, Publisher

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

Barry Grove Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Eduardo Machado Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Jennifer von Mayrhauser Costume Designer

Merle Debuskey Press Agent

Terese Hayden Founder of Equity Library Theatre and Player’s Guide, Teacher at Circle in the Square

Nancy Ford COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

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

Eleanor Reissa Actor, Singer, Director, Playwright, Choreographer

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

Julius Novick Author, Critic

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

Tanya Berezin Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Circle Repertory Company, Actress

Roscoe Orman Actor, Director, Founding Member New Lafayette Theatre

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

Michael McGrinder Playwright, Publisher