The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Barbara Garson
Playwright, Author, Activist

Norman Thomas Marshall
Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Walter and Georgia Hadler
Actor, Playwright, Director

Dana Ivey
Actress

Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean)
Actress, Director, Producer

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

George Ferencz
Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

Mari-Claire Charba
Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

Charles Busch
Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Author

Don Scardino
Actor, Director, Producer

Moshe Yassur and Beate Hein Bennett
Moshe Yassur - Director, Actor, Teacher Beate Hein Bennett - Director, Dramaturg, Translator, Teacher

Marilyn Chris
Actress

Richard Frankel
Producer

Lori Tan Chinn
Actress

James Rocco
Director, Choreographer, Writer, Actor, Singer, Founder Thirty Saints Music Licensing and Thirty Saints Productions

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

Barbara Garson Playwright, Author, Activist

Norman Thomas Marshall Founder of the No Smoking Playhouse, Actor, Playwright

Walter and Georgia Hadler Actor, Playwright, Director

Dana Ivey Actress

Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean) Actress, Director, Producer

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

George Ferencz Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

Mari-Claire Charba Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

Charles Busch Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Author

Don Scardino Actor, Director, Producer

Moshe Yassur and Beate Hein Bennett Moshe Yassur - Director, Actor, Teacher Beate Hein Bennett - Director, Dramaturg, Translator, Teacher

Marilyn Chris Actress

Richard Frankel Producer

Lori Tan Chinn Actress

James Rocco Director, Choreographer, Writer, Actor, Singer, Founder Thirty Saints Music Licensing and Thirty Saints Productions