The primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral history Project

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

Patricia Birch
Director, Choreographer

Micki Grant
Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Jackie Jeffries
Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

Shepard Sobel
Founder and Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company

Ron Faber
Actor

Joseph Hardy
Director

A.R. Gurney
Playwright

Terrence McNally
Playwright, Librettist

Brian Murray
Actor, Director

Shami Chaikin
Actress

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

Cathy Roskam
Actress, Producer, Director and Founder of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company (JJTC), Bishop

Roscoe Orman
Actor, Director, Founding Member New Lafayette Theatre

George Ferencz
Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

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

Patricia Birch Director, Choreographer

Micki Grant Composer, Lyricist, Book-Writer, Actress

Jackie Jeffries Producer, Associate Productor, Production Manager, Production Stage Manager: Negro Ensemble Company, National Black Theatre, AUDELCO Awards

Shepard Sobel Founder and Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company

Ron Faber Actor

Joseph Hardy Director

A.R. Gurney Playwright

Terrence McNally Playwright, Librettist

Brian Murray Actor, Director

Shami Chaikin Actress

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

Cathy Roskam Actress, Producer, Director and Founder of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company (JJTC), Bishop

Roscoe Orman Actor, Director, Founding Member New Lafayette Theatre

George Ferencz Co-Founder, Co-Producer Impossible Ragtime Theater, Founder Hispanic-American Music Theatre Lab, Resident Director La MaMa Experimental Theater Club

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