The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

David Rothenberg
Founder of The Fortune Society, Press Agent

Anita Hollander
Actor, Singer, Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Teacher, Choreographer, Dancer, Activist

Paul Libin
Producer, Managing Director

George Morfogen
Actor

Terry Schreiber
Director, Teacher, Founder of the T. Schreiber Studio

Maria DiDia
General Manager, Producer

Edgar Oliver
Performer, Playwright, Poet

Gail Merrifield Papp
Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Robert Heide and John Gilman
Playwright, Actors, Authors

Tony Walton
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Director, Producer

Eduardo Machado
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Eric Krebs
Founder and Operator of the John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks Theaters and the George Street Playhouse, Producer

Rene Buch
Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Lynne Meadow
Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Barbara Garson
Playwright, Author, Activist

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

David Rothenberg Founder of The Fortune Society, Press Agent

Anita Hollander Actor, Singer, Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Teacher, Choreographer, Dancer, Activist

Paul Libin Producer, Managing Director

George Morfogen Actor

Terry Schreiber Director, Teacher, Founder of the T. Schreiber Studio

Maria DiDia General Manager, Producer

Edgar Oliver Performer, Playwright, Poet

Gail Merrifield Papp Director of Plays and Musicals Development at the New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater

Robert Heide and John Gilman Playwright, Actors, Authors

Tony Walton Production Designer, Costume Designer, Director, Producer

Eduardo Machado Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director INTAR

Eric Krebs Founder and Operator of the John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks Theaters and the George Street Playhouse, Producer

Rene Buch Co-Founder Repertorio Espanol, Director, Playwright

Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club

Barbara Garson Playwright, Author, Activist