The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Arthur French
Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Vinie Burrows
Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Tom Jones
Playwright, Lyricist

Crystal Field
Actor, Director, Choreographer, Producer Co-Founder Theater for the New City

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

Jo Sullivan Loesser
Singer, Actress

Linda and David Laundra
Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

Ilion Troya
Actor, Designer, Writer, Translator, Member of The Living Theatre

Arthur Kopit
Playwright

Woodie King Jr.
Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Barbara Kahn
Playwright, Lyricist, Actor, Director, Historian, Activist

A.R. Gurney
Playwright

Dolores Deane Walker
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Lynne Meadow
Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Lori Tan Chinn
Actress

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

Arthur French Negro Ensemble Company, Actor, Director

Vinie Burrows Actor, Playwright, Producer, Activist

Tom Jones Playwright, Lyricist

Crystal Field Actor, Director, Choreographer, Producer Co-Founder Theater for the New City

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

Jo Sullivan Loesser Singer, Actress

Linda and David Laundra Co-Founders, The Writers Theatre

Ilion Troya Actor, Designer, Writer, Translator, Member of The Living Theatre

Arthur Kopit Playwright

Woodie King Jr. Founder of the New Federal Theatre

Barbara Kahn Playwright, Lyricist, Actor, Director, Historian, Activist

A.R. Gurney Playwright

Dolores Deane Walker Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Lori Tan Chinn Actress