The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Eduardo Machado
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Jackie Jeffries
Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

Brian Murray
Actor, Director

Nancy Ford
COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Anne Hamburger
Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Richard Seff
Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Novelist, Casting Agent

Jean-Claude van Itallie
Playwright, Actor

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

Tom Jones
Playwright, Lyricist

Fyvush Finkel
Actor, Comedian

Gail Merrifield Papp
Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Daryl Roth
Producer

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

Arthur Kopit
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

Eduardo Machado Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Jackie Jeffries Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

Brian Murray Actor, Director

Nancy Ford COMPOSER, ARRANGER, WRITER

Anne Hamburger Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Richard Seff Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Novelist, Casting Agent

Jean-Claude van Itallie Playwright, Actor

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

Tom Jones Playwright, Lyricist

Fyvush Finkel Actor, Comedian

Gail Merrifield Papp Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Daryl Roth Producer

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

Arthur Kopit Playwright