The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

B.H. Barry
Fight Director, Choreographer

Fyvush Finkel
Actor, Comedian

Elizabeth Wilson
Actress

F. Murray Abraham
Actor

André Bishop
Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Terrence McNally
Playwright, Librettist

Tanya Berezin
Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Circle Repertory Company, Actress

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

Dolores Deane Walker
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Robyn Goodman
Actor, Producer, Co-Founder Second Stage, Artistic Consultant, Roundabout Theatre Company, Founding Artistic Producer, Roundabout Underground

Gilbert Parker
Literary Agent

Rene Buch
Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Robert LuPone
Dancer, Actor, Director, Producer, Artistic Director Co-Founder Manhattan Class Company

Jean-Claude van Itallie
Playwright, Actor

Wynn Handman
Founder of The American Place Theatre

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

B.H. Barry Fight Director, Choreographer

Fyvush Finkel Actor, Comedian

Elizabeth Wilson Actress

F. Murray Abraham Actor

André Bishop Producing Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Terrence McNally Playwright, Librettist

Tanya Berezin Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Circle Repertory Company, Actress

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

Dolores Deane Walker Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Robyn Goodman Actor, Producer, Co-Founder Second Stage, Artistic Consultant, Roundabout Theatre Company, Founding Artistic Producer, Roundabout Underground

Gilbert Parker Literary Agent

Rene Buch Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Robert LuPone Dancer, Actor, Director, Producer, Artistic Director Co-Founder Manhattan Class Company

Jean-Claude van Itallie Playwright, Actor

Wynn Handman Founder of The American Place Theatre