The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Steve Kaplan
Producer, Director, Comedy Writer, Teacher, Actor, Co-Founder Manhattan Punch Line Theatre

Bob McGrath
Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Oz Scott
Director

George Morfogen
Actor

Marianne de Pury
Director, Composer, Translator, Founder, Sante Fe Ensemble

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

John Guare
Playwright

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

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

Julius Novick
Author, Critic

Tina Shepard
Co-Founder, The Talking Band, Actor, Director

Eric Krebs
Founder and Operator of the John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks Theaters and the George Street Playhouse, Producer

Mari-Claire Charba
Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation
Composer, Sound Designer

John Glover
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

Steve Kaplan Producer, Director, Comedy Writer, Teacher, Actor, Co-Founder Manhattan Punch Line Theatre

Bob McGrath Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Oz Scott Director

George Morfogen Actor

Marianne de Pury Director, Composer, Translator, Founder, Sante Fe Ensemble

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

John Guare Playwright

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

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

Julius Novick Author, Critic

Tina Shepard Co-Founder, The Talking Band, Actor, Director

Eric Krebs Founder and Operator of the John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks Theaters and the George Street Playhouse, Producer

Mari-Claire Charba Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation Composer, Sound Designer

John Glover Actor