The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Micki Grant
Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Wynn Handman
Founder of The American Place Theatre

Richard Frankel
Producer

Walter and Georgia Hadler
Actor, Playwright, Director

Elinor Renfield
Director, Educator

Everett Quinton
Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Paul Zimet
Founder of The Talking Band, Actor, Director, Playwright

Arthur Kopit
Playwright

Charles Busch
Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Author

Joanne Camp (Sobel)
Company Member, The Pearl Theatre Company

William Ivey Long
Costume Designer

Gwendolyn Gunn
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation
Composer, Sound Designer

Bob McGrath
Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

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

Micki Grant Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Wynn Handman Founder of The American Place Theatre

Richard Frankel Producer

Walter and Georgia Hadler Actor, Playwright, Director

Elinor Renfield Director, Educator

Everett Quinton Actor, Producer, Director, Ridiculous Theatrical Company

Paul Zimet Founder of The Talking Band, Actor, Director, Playwright

Arthur Kopit Playwright

Charles Busch Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Author

Joanne Camp (Sobel) Company Member, The Pearl Theatre Company

William Ivey Long Costume Designer

Gwendolyn Gunn Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

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

Guy Sherman A.k.a. Aural Fixation Composer, Sound Designer

Bob McGrath Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater