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

Ted Story
Co-Founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater (IRT), Artistic Director, Actor, Director, Author

Ramona Ponce
Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Mari-Claire Charba
Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

The Harris Family
Actors, Playwrights, Producers, Musicians, Designers, Stagehands

Lori Tan Chinn
Actress

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

Stuart Ross
Director, Playwright, Lyricist

Sharon Washington
Actor, Playwright

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

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

Tony Walton
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Director, Producer

Magie Dominic
Writer, Actor, Archivist

Mary Louise Wilson
Actor, Playwright, Writer

Marshall W. Mason
Founder and Artistic Director of Circle Repertory Company

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

Ted Story Co-Founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater (IRT), Artistic Director, Actor, Director, Author

Ramona Ponce Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Mari-Claire Charba Actress, Performance Artist, Painter

The Harris Family Actors, Playwrights, Producers, Musicians, Designers, Stagehands

Lori Tan Chinn Actress

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

Stuart Ross Director, Playwright, Lyricist

Sharon Washington Actor, Playwright

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

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

Tony Walton Production Designer, Costume Designer, Director, Producer

Magie Dominic Writer, Actor, Archivist

Mary Louise Wilson Actor, Playwright, Writer

Marshall W. Mason Founder and Artistic Director of Circle Repertory Company