The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Susan Yankowitz
Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

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

Dorothy Olim
Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.

Gretchen Cryer
ACTRESS, WRITER, COMPOSER, LYRICIST

Donn Russell
Foundation Director, Author

Vinie Burrows
Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Steve Zuckerman (with Darlene Kaplan)
Steve Zuckerman - Director, Darlene Kaplan - Producer, Talent Manager

Ping Chong
Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Lola Pashalinski
Performance Artist, Actor

Donald & Anne Farber
Theatrical Lawyer and Producers

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

Barry Grove
Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Barbara Garson
Playwright, Author, Activist

Joan MacIntosh
Co-Founder of The Performance Group, Actress, Director

Joseph Hardy
Director

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

Susan Yankowitz Playwright, Librettist, Novelist

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

Dorothy Olim Producer, General Manager, Operating Officer of ATPAM, K/O Management, Inc., K/O Advertising, Inc.

Gretchen Cryer ACTRESS, WRITER, COMPOSER, LYRICIST

Donn Russell Foundation Director, Author

Vinie Burrows Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Steve Zuckerman (with Darlene Kaplan) Steve Zuckerman - Director, Darlene Kaplan - Producer, Talent Manager

Ping Chong Theatre Artist, Choreographer, Video Installation Artist

Lola Pashalinski Performance Artist, Actor

Donald & Anne Farber Theatrical Lawyer and Producers

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

Barry Grove Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Barbara Garson Playwright, Author, Activist

Joan MacIntosh Co-Founder of The Performance Group, Actress, Director

Joseph Hardy Director