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

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

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

Richard Foreman
Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Agosto Machado
Actor, Activist, Witness

Christopher Martin
Founding Artistic Director, CSC (Classic Stage Company)

Hattie Winston
Actress, Director

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Lawrence Kornfeld
Director, Educator, General Manager/Assistant Director The Living Theatre, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Judson Poets’ Theater, Co-Founder/Artistic Director Theater for the New City, Director of the Theatre Program New York State Council of the Arts

Patricia Conolly
Actor, Director

Daryl Roth
Producer

Anne Hamburger
Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Dr. Glory Van Scott
Actress, Singer, Dancer, Director, Producer, Composer, Playwright, Author, Activist

Don Scardino
Actor, Director, Producer

Clinton Turner Davis
Director, Dramaturg, Educator, Production Supervisor, Consultant, Playwright, Writer

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

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

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

Richard Foreman Founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Playwright, Director

Agosto Machado Actor, Activist, Witness

Christopher Martin Founding Artistic Director, CSC (Classic Stage Company)

Hattie Winston Actress, Director

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Lawrence Kornfeld Director, Educator, General Manager/Assistant Director The Living Theatre, Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Judson Poets’ Theater, Co-Founder/Artistic Director Theater for the New City, Director of the Theatre Program New York State Council of the Arts

Patricia Conolly Actor, Director

Daryl Roth Producer

Anne Hamburger Founder, Artistic Director, En Garde Arts

Dr. Glory Van Scott Actress, Singer, Dancer, Director, Producer, Composer, Playwright, Author, Activist

Don Scardino Actor, Director, Producer

Clinton Turner Davis Director, Dramaturg, Educator, Production Supervisor, Consultant, Playwright, Writer