The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Gwendolyn Gunn
Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Jeff Weiss
Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Ramona Ponce
Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Baayork Lee
Actress, Dancer, Singer, Director, Co-Founder National Asian Artists Project

Donald & Anne Farber
Theatrical Lawyer and Producers

David Ives
Playwright

Tina Shepard
Co-Founder, The Talking Band, Actor, Director

Barry Grove
Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Rosemary Harris
Actress

Shepard Sobel
Founder and Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company

James Latus
Production Stage Manager

Tina Howe
Playwright

Patricia Conolly
Actor, Director

Ralph B. Peña
Founding Member Ma-Yi Theatre Group, Director, Playwright, Actor

Gigi Gibson Bolt
Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts

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

Gwendolyn Gunn Co-Founder Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective

Jeff Weiss Actor, Playwright, Co-Founder, The Good Medicine & Company

Ramona Ponce Costume Designer, Teacher, Author

Baayork Lee Actress, Dancer, Singer, Director, Co-Founder National Asian Artists Project

Donald & Anne Farber Theatrical Lawyer and Producers

David Ives Playwright

Tina Shepard Co-Founder, The Talking Band, Actor, Director

Barry Grove Executive Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club

Rosemary Harris Actress

Shepard Sobel Founder and Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company

James Latus Production Stage Manager

Tina Howe Playwright

Patricia Conolly Actor, Director

Ralph B. Peña Founding Member Ma-Yi Theatre Group, Director, Playwright, Actor

Gigi Gibson Bolt Actor; Director, Theatre Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Director, Theatre and Musical, National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, DC); Interim Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group, NYC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts