Berkshire Theatre Festival
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The Berkshire Theatre Festival is one of the oldest professional performing arts venues in the Berkshires, celebrating its 80th anniversary season in 2008.
, designed by Stanford White and built in 1887. At one point the center of social life in Stockbridge, by 1927 it fallen into disuse. Mabel Choate, the daughter of one of the casino
's founders, purchased the property for $2,000, but wasn't interested in the casino itself. Three prominent Stockbridge residents, sculptor Daniel Chester French
, businessman and artist Walter Leighton Clark
, and Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, formed a committee called the Three Arts Society to save the casino; Choate sold the building to them for $1 on the condition that it be relocated. French, Clark, and Riggs agreed, and had the structure dismantled and moved to its current location.
After an extensive renovation, the newly christened Berkshire Playhouse opened on June 4, 1928, with a production of "The Cradle Song" with Eva Le Gallienne
. Actors who have starred in productions at the Berkshire Playhouse include James Cagney
, Lionel Barrymore
, Lilian Gish, and Katharine Hepburn
, and Buster Keaton
. Notable producing directors have included Billy Miles, Joan White, Robert Paine Grose, George Tabori
, Arthur Penn
, Josephine Abady, Julianne Boyd, Bill Gibson, Richard Dunlap, and Arthur Storch
.
In 1967 the Three Arts Society was resolved and the Berkshire Playhouse was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation as the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In 1993, a formal season of plays was offered in the Unicorn Theatre to meet the growing popularity of the festival. Prior to that, the Unicorn had been in use for years to house various offerings over the course of the season, including a slate of cabaret and workshop productions in 1992. The Unicorn Theatre was completely replaced with a new facility opening prior to the 1996 season.
The Berkshire Playhouse added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is a member of the National Trust.
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1928
The Buffoon – A. Tupper and Howard Lee
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Captain Applejack – Walter Hackett
The Cradle Song – Martinez Sierra
The Enchanted April – Kane Campbell
Meet the Wife – Lynn Starling
Mr. Pim Passes By – A.A. Milne
Outward Bound – Sutton Vane
The Romantic Age – A.A. Milne
The Swan – Ferenc Molnár
1929
Arms and the Man – George Bernard Shaw
Caroline – Somerset Maugham
The Dover Road – A.A. Milne
Oh Boy – P.G. Wodehouse
Rip Van Winkle – Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault
The Royal Family – George F. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
Thunderin the Air – Robbins Miller
The Truth About Blaydes – A.A. Milne
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw
1930
The Admirable Crichton – Sir James M. Barrie
Bird in Hand – John Drinkwater
Doctor’s Dilemma – George Bernard Shaw
The Emperor Jones – Eugene O’Neill
Jack in the Box – Dorothy Fletcher and Alexander Kirkland
The Lake – John Houseman and Joan Wolfe
The Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Mask and the Face – Luigi Chiarelli Adapted by C.B. Fernold
The Romantic Young Lady – Martinez Sierra
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
The Torchbearers – George Kelly
1931
Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire – Sir James M. Barrie
Captain Brassbounder’s Conversation – George Bernard Shaw
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
Hay Fever – Noel Coward
The Idiot – Jose Ruben
Juno and the Paycock – Sean O’Casey
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Monkey – Sam Janney
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
The Second Man – S.N. Behrman
1932
A Bill of Divorcement – Clemence Dane
Broken Dishes – Martin Flava
Finale – S.K. Lauren
Great Catherine – George Bernard Shaw
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Deval and P.G. Wodehouse
Just Out – Edward Bourdet
The Man of Destiny – George Bernard Shaw
The Perfect Alibi – A.A. Milne
The Queen’s Husband – Robert Sherwood
There’s Always Juliet – John Van Druten
1933
Dear Brutus – Sir James M. Barrie
The Devil’s Disciple – George Bernard Shaw
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
The Good Fairy
– Ferenc Molnár
The Late Christopher Bean – Sidney Howard
The Queen Was in the Parlor – Noel Coward
1934
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Biography – S.N. Behrman
Craig’s Wife – George Kelly
Dulcy – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
Fly Away Home – Dorothy Bennett and Irving White
Good-Bye Again – Allan Scott and George Haight
Her Master’s Voice – Clare Kummer
Pursuit Of Happiness – Alan Child and Isabelle London
Romance – Edward Sheldon
Saturday’s Children – Maxwell Anderson
1935
Accent On Youth – Samuel Raphaelson
All This While – Donald Blackwell and Theodore St. John
As Husbands Go – Rachel Crothers
Berkeley Square – John Bolderston
The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
Declasse – Zoe Akins
In Old Kentucky – Charles Dazey
Meet The Prince – A.A. Milne
Trelawney Of The Wells – Arthur Wing Pinero
1936
A Church Mouse – Ladislaus Fodor
Kind Lady – Edward Chodorov
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary – St. John Ervine
Men In White – Sidney Kingsley
The Octoroon – Dion Boucicault
The Shining Hour – Keith Winter
They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard
Topaze – Benn W. Levy
1937
Becky Sharp – Langdon Mitchell
The Bride the Sun Shines On – Will Cotton
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Many Mansions – Eckert Goodman and Jules Eckert Goodman
Mariette – Sacha Guitry, Music by Oscar Strauss, Lyrics by Arthur Guiterman, English Adapt. by William Miles
Patience – Libretto by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Storm Over Patsy – James Bridie Adapted from the work of Bruno Frank
The Texas Nightingale – Zoe Akins
Tonight At 8:30 – Noel Coward
1938
Best Dressed Woman in the World – Jack Munro
Enter Madame – Gelda Varesi and Dolly Byrne
French Without Tears – Terrence Rattigan
Lightnin’ – W. Smith and Frank Bacon
Pride And Prejudice – Helen Jerome Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Road To Rome – Robert Sherwood
Stage Door – Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
Susan And God – Rachel Crothers
We, The Willoughbys – Meyer Kanin and Harry Ingram
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed
1939
Anna Christie – Eugene O’Neill
Bicentennial – Allen Osborne
The Circle – Somerset Maugham
Easy Virtue – Noel Coward
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
Here Today – George Oppenheimer
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
Petticoat Fever – Mark Reed
White Oaks – Mazo de la Roche
1940
Ah, Wilderness – Eugene O’Neill
Autumn Crocus – C.L. Anthony
The Guardsman – Ferenc Molnár
In My Opinion – Samson Raphaelson
Love Rides the Rails – Moreland Carey
The Millionairess – George Bernard Shaw
Mornings at Seven – Paul Osborn
The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray – Arthur Wing Pinero
Skylark – John Emery
Springtime For Henry – Benn Levy
1941
Beggar on Horseback – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Devel and P.G. Wodehouse
Ladies in Retirement – Edward Percy and Reginald Denham
The Male Animal – James Thurber and Elliot Nugent
Miss Nelly Of N’Orleans – Lawrence Egre
Old Acquaintance – John Van Druten
Old English – John Galsworthy
Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Philip Barry
1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
(dark due to war)
1946
Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Blithe Spirit – Noel Coward
Elizabeth the Queen – Maxwell Anderson
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
Kiss and Tell – F. Hugh Herbert
The Late George Apley – John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman
My Sister Eilleen – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorove
Off the Air – Knowles Entrikin and Howard Breslin
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
What Every Woman Knows – Sir James M. Barrie
1947
The Barretts of Wimpole Street – Rudolph Bealer
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
Heaven Help the Angels – Ted Luce
Junior Miss – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Mademoiselle – Jacques Deval, Adapted by Grace George
Papa Is All – Patterson Greene
State of the Union – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Thunder Rock – Robert Ardrey
Years Ago – Ruth Gordon
1948
Art and Mrs. Bottle – Benn Levy
The Bat – Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
Coming Thru the Rye – Warren Munsell
The Happiest Years – Thomas Coley and William Roerick
I Like It Here – A.B. Shiffrin
The Intimate Strangers – Booth Tarkington
John Loves Mary – Norman Krasna
Little Women – Marian DeForest, Adapted From Louisa May Alcott’s novel
Ned McCobb’s Daughter – Sidney Howard
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
The Torchbearers – George Kelly
1949
The Corn Is Green – Emlyn Williams
The Heiress – Ruth and Augustus Goetz
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Jennie Kissed Me – Jean Kerr
The Late Christopher Bean – Rene Fauchois, Adapted by Sidney Howard
Let Us Be Gay – Rachel Crothers
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
On Approval – Frederic Lonsdale
Robert’s Wife – St. John Ervine
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
Three Men on a Horse – John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
The Winslow Boy – Terrence Rattigan
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed
1950
Born Yesterday – Garson Kanin
Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
Gay Divorcee – Cole Porter, Book by Dwight Taylor
Goodbye, My Fancy – Fay Kanin
Harvey – Mary Chase
January Thaw – William Roce
Once an Actor – Rosemary Casey
Peg O’ My Heart – J. Hartley Manners
Post Road – Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell
The Sacred Flame – Somerset Maugham
Smilin’ Through – Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin
The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
1951
The Chiltern Hundreds – William Douglas Howe
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
Home At Seven – R.C. Sherrif
I Remember Mama – John Van Druten
Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
Legend of Sarah – James Gow and Armand D’Usseau
Miss Mabel – Dennis Hoey and Clarence Derwent
One’s a Crowd – Eugene Raskin
Second Threshold – Philip Barry
The Silver Whistle – Robert McEnroe
Two Girls Wanted – Gladys Unger
1952
Black Chiffon – Lesley Storm
Death Takes a Holiday – Walter Ferris and Alberto Casella
The Flashing Stream – Charles Morgan
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
The Little Minister – Sir James M. Barrie
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
The Milky Way – Lynn Root and Harry Clark
A Murder in the Family – Victor Wolfson
Nina – Andre Roussin, Adapted by Samuel Taylor
Ramshackle Inn – George Batson
The Show-Off – George Kelly
Theater – Somerset Maugham
1953
Affairs of State – Louis Verneuil
Bell, Book and Candle – John Van Druten
Bunty Pulls the Strings – Graham Moffat
Gigi – Anita Loos
Jane – Somerset Maugham
The Marquise – Noel Coward
Mister Roberts – Thomas Reagan and Joshua Logan
The Moon Is Blue – F. Hugh Herbert
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
The Three-Toed Pony – Sidney Howard
The Velvet Glove – Rosemary Casey
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw
1954
Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas
A Dash of Bitters – Reginald Denham
Ethan Frome – Owen and Donald Davis, Adapted From the novel by Edith Wharton
The Fourposter – Jan de Hartog
The Ghost Train – Arnold Ridley
The Iron Gate – John T. Chapman
Late Love – Rosemary Casey
Madam Will You Walk? – Sidney Howard
My Three Angels – Sam and Bella Spewack
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Three’s A Family – Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Traveller’s Joy – Arthur MacRae
The White Sheep of the Family – L. duGarde Peach and Ian Hay
1955
Caine Mutiny Court Martial – Herman Wouk
Dial M For Murder – Frederick Knott
Edward My Son – Robert Morley and Noel Langley
O Mistress Mine – Terence Rattigan
The Old Maid – Edith Wharton
Reclining Figure – Harry Kurnitz
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker – Liam O'Brien
Sabrina Fair – Samuel Taylor
Shadow and Substance – Paul Vincent Carroll
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
Time Out for Ginger – Ronald Alexander
1956
Anastasia – Marcelle Maurette, Adapted by Guy Bolton
The Good Fairy – Ferenc Molnár
The Happy Time – Samuel Taylor
Heartbreak House – George Bernard Shaw
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
Made In Heaven – Hagar Wilde
A Roomful of Roses – Edith Sommer Soderbag
The Seven Year Itch – George Axelrod
The Solid Gold Cadillac – Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman
The Wayward Saint – Paul Vincent Carroll
1957
Androcles and the Lion – George Bernard Shaw
Bus Stop – William Inge
Charm – John Kirkpatrick
The Great Sebastians – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Janus – Carolyn Green
King of Hearts – Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke
Oh Men! Oh Women! – Edward Chodorov
The Potting Shed – Graham Greene
The Reluctant Debutante – William Douglas Home
Time Limit – Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey
1958
The Cocktail Party – T.S. Eliot
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
The Cradle Song – Martines Sierra
The Matchmaker – Thornton Wilder
The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie
Noah – Andre Obey, Adapted by Arthur Wilmurt
No Time For Sergeants – Ira Levin, Based on the novel by Mac Hyman
The Playboy of the Western World – John Millington Synge
Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan
Visit to a Small Planet – Gore Vidal
1959
The Boy Friend – Sandy Wilson
Compulsion – Meyer Levin
Darkness at Noon – Sidney Kingsley, Based on the novel by Albert Koestler
Diary of Anne Frank – Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
Once More With Feeling – Harry Kurmits
Picnic – William Inge
Time Remembered – Jean Anouilh
1960
Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Dear Charles – Alan Melville
Dear Miss Phoebe – Sir James M. Barrie, Adapted by Christopher Hassell/Music by Harry Parr Davies
The Gazebo – Alec Coppel
The Happiest Days of Your Life – John Dighton
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Misalliance – George Bernard Shaw
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
The Waltz of the Toreadors – Jean Anouilh
Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie
1961
Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesserling
Between Seasons – Malcolm Wells
Breath Of Spring – Peter Coke
Invitation to a March – Arthur Laurents
The Marriage-Go-Round
– Leslie Stevens
Roar Like A Dove – Lesley Stevens
South Pacific – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Suzannah and the Elders – James Bridie
Teahouse of the August Moon – John Patrick
Ten Little Indians – Agatha Christie
1962
Critic’s Choice – Ira Levin
The King and I – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Life with Father – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Miss Lucy – Irene Gawne
Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
Pleasure of his Company – Samuel Taylor
See How They Run – Philip King
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Under the Yum Yum Tree – Lawrence Roman
You Never Know – Cole Porter
1963
The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
The Corn is Green – Kalyn Williams
The Grass is Greener – Hugh & Margaret Williams
Lady Audley’s Secret or Who Pushed George – Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Adapted by Joan White, Music and Lyrics by Anna Russell
Little Mary Sunshine – Rick Besoyan
Pajama Game – Richard Bissell and George Abbott, Music and Lyrics by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
A Shot in the Dark – Marcel Archard
1964
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Come Blow Your Horn – Neil Simon
Guys and Dolls – Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Adapted from the stories of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Journey to Bahia – Dias Gomes, Adapted by Stanley Richards
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, Adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Music by Frederick Loewe
Night Must Fall – Emlyn Williams
The Silver Cord – Sidney Howard
The Time of the Cuckoo – Arthur Laurents
1965
Carnival – Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Cheri and the Last of the Cherry – Paul Giovanni and Viveca Lindfors, Adapted from Colette
Duel of Angels
– Jean Giraudoux
, Translated by Christopher Fry
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Book by
Bert Shevelov and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler, Translated by Eric Bentley
Three-Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitztein
1966
The Cretan Woman – Robinson Jeffers
Fragments – Murray Schisgal
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
1967
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? – Don Peterson
Dracula – Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, Based on the Novel by Bram Stoker
The Exercise – John Lewis Carlino
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
1968
Adaptation – Elaine May
A Cry of Players – William Gibson
The Cuban Thing – Jack Gelber
A Matter of Position – Elaine May
Next – Terrence McNally
1969
Encounters – Wally Harper and Paul Zakrsowski
Hunger and Thirst – Eugène Ionesco
John and Abigail – William Gibson
Timon’s Beach – Gordon Rogoff
1970
The Christmas Dinner – William Devane
The Enemy is Dead – Don Peterson
The Fable of the Sun People – Ernest L. West, Jr.
Other People – Thomas Berger
A Passage to E.M. Forster – Arranged By William Roerick and Thomas Coley
Postscript – Merritt Abrash
1971
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Blue? – Leslie Weiner
The Goodbye People – Herb Gardner
The Rainmaker
Promenade, All! – David V. Robinson and Richard Backus
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally
1972
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little – Paul Zindel
Clark and Myrna – Elliott Baker
The Contrast – Royall Tyler, Adapted by Antony Stimas, Music by Don Pippin, Lyrics by Steven Brown
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
1973
Crystal, Crystal Chandeliers – Lawrence Roman
The Gershwin Years
The Gingerbread Lady – Neil Simon
Summer Brave – William Inge
1974
Cages – John Lewis Carline
Colette – Adapted by Elinor Jones from Colette, Music by Harvey Schmidt, Lyrics by Tom Jones
Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder – Mark Medoff
1975
The Butterfingers Angel – William Gibson
Come and Be Killed – Lionel Wilson
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury, Adapted by Peter John Bailey
Godspell – Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, Music by Stephen Schwartz
1976
George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Ho, Ho, Ho – Ruth Gordon
The Lion in Winter – James Goldman
Of Thee I Sing – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
1977
Broadway – Philip Dunning and George Abbott
Come Back, Little Sheba – William Inge
I Married an Angel – Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
The Last Analysis – Saul Bellow
1978
The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
Dodsworth – Sinclair Lewis, Dramatized by Sidney Howard
Disciple of Discontent – John L. Lewis
Let ‘Em Eat Cake – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music by George Gershwin, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Vagabond Stars – Nahma Sandrow and Sllan Albert
1979
The Butter and the Egg Man – George S. Kaufman
Carnival – Book By Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics By Bob Merrill
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
The Rose Tattoo – Tennessee Williams
1980
Anyone Can Whistle – Book by Arthur Laurents, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
The Rainmaker – N. Richard Nash
1981
House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
A Safe Place – Carol K. Mack
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
A View from the Bridge – Arthur Miller
1982
The Animal Kingdom – Philip John Barry
The Palace of Amateurs – John Faro PiRoman
Sunrise at Campobello – Dore Schary
A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner
1983
The Belle of Amherst – William Luce
The Big Knife – Clifford Odets
Fanny – Book by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome
Harvey – Mary Chase
The Vinegar Tree – Paul Osborn
1984
High Spirits – Music, Book and Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, Based on “Blithe Spirit” – by Noel Coward
A Loss of Roses – William Inge
Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale
Sabrina Fair – Samuel A. Taylor
1985
Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang
Caught – Bernard M. Kahn
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Paris Bound – Philip Barry
1986
All the Way Home – Tad Mosel based on “A Death In The Family” by James Agee
A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
A Little Night Music – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Visit To A Small Planet – Gore Vidal
1987
The Boys Next Door – Tom Griffin
I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson
No Time for Comedy – S.N. Behrman
Portrait of Jennie – Adaptation by Enid Futterman and Dennis Rosa,
Music by Howard Marre, Lyrics by Enid Futterman
1988
The Chalk Garden – Enid Bagnold
The Price – Arthur Miller
Stepping Out – Richard Harris
Tusitala – James Prideaux
1989
Betrayal – Harold Pinter
Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Middle Ages – A.R. Gurney
Tete A Tete – Ralph Burdman
1990
Breaking Legs – Tom Dulack
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
She Loves Me – Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
The Road To Mecca – Athol Fugard
1991
California Suite – Neil Simon
Kiss Me Kate – Book and Lyrics by Samuel Spewack, Music by Cole Porter
The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard
Trains – Barbara Lebow
1992
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Richard Maltby, Jr. and Fats Waller
Quartermaine’s Terms – Simon Gray
The Cocktail Hour – A.R. Gurney
Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas
1993
Blithe Spirit – Noel Coward
Breaking the Code – Hugh Whitemore
Camping With Henry and Tom – Mark St. Germain
Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen – Conceived by Julianne Boyd, Music by Harold Arlen
Unicorn Theatre:
Amphitryon – Heinrich von Kleist
Love and Anger – George Walker
Mississippi Nude – John Reeves
1994
Brimstone – Mary Bracken Philips and Patrick Meegan
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
Breaking the Silence – Stephen Poliakoff
Golf With Alan Shepard – Carter Lewis
Unicorn Theatre:
The Baltimore Waltz – Paula Vogel
The Game of Love and Chance – Marivaux
Mad Forest – Caryl Churchill
1995
Main Stage:
Cowgirls – Mary Murfitt and Betsy Howie
The Fox – Alan Miller
Kafka’s Wick – Allan Bennett
13 Rue de l’Amour – Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert
Unicorn Theatre:
Four Dogs and a Bone – John Patrick Shanley
The Illusion – Tony Kushner
Keely and Du – Jane Martin
1996
Main Stage:
Free Fall – Marc Alan Zagoren and Sandy Duncan
Hay Fever – Noel Coward
Jitta’s Atonement – George Bernard Shaw
Visiting Mr. Green – Jeff Baron
Unicorn Theatre:
L-Play – Beth Henley
1997
Main Stage:
Four of a Kind – Anton Chekhov
Good Company – Sheldon Harnick
Over the River and Through the Woods – Joe Di Pietro
Woman in Mind – Alan Ayckbourn
Unicorn Theatre:
Quills – Doug Wright
Wilder, Wilder – Thornton Wilder
1998
Main Stage:
Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf – Michael Hollinger
High Spirits – Music, Lyrics and Book by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray,Based on ‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noel Coward
Transit of Venus – Maureen Hunter
Unicorn Theatre:
Life’s A Dream – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The End of the World – Roman Paska
Secret Lives Of The Sexists – Charles Ludlam
1999
Main Stage:
The Crucifer of Blood – Paul Giovanni
Moby Dick - Rehearsed – Orson Wells
The Batting Cage – Joan Ackermann
Lives of the Saints – David Ives
Unicorn Theatre:
Love’s Fire – Eric Gogosian, William finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein
Shoot the Piano Player – Richard Corley
Conviction – Eve Ensler
Starr’s Last Tape – Richard Lingeman and Victor Navasky
2000
Main Stage:
Camelot – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederic Lowe
Toys in the Attic – Lillian Hellman
The Shadow of Greatness – Gary Socol
Say Yes! – Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen
Unicorn Theatre:
Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison in the Cold War – Katherine Houghton
Coyote on a Fence – Bruce Graham
The Einstein Project – Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein
2001
Main Stage:
H.M.S. Pinafore – by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Awake and Sing! – by Clifford Odets
The Smell of the Kill – by Michele Lowe
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe
Unicorn Theatre:
This is Our Youth – by Kenneth Lonergan
A Dream Play – by August Strindberg
Pound of Flesh – by Michael Bolus
2001 BTF PLAYS!
Alice in Wonderland – by Lewis Carroll, Adapted by Gray Simons
Just So Stories – Written by Rudyard Kipling, Adapted by Gray Simons
2002
Main Stage:
Zorba – Book by Joseph Stein; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Quartet – by Ronald Harwood
A Saint She Ain’t – Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Denis King
The Foreigner – by Larry Shue
Unicorn Theatre:
Dimetos – by Athol Fugard
Miss Julie – by August Strindberg
Holding History: Insurrection – by Robert O’Hara
Brownstone – by Josh Rubins, Peter Larson, Andrew Cadiff
2002 BTF PLAYS!
Monkey – Adapted from the Chinese Folktale by Gray Simons
The Magic Flute – Adapted from Mozart by Gray Simons
2003
Main Stage:
Enter Laughing – by Joseph Stein, Adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner
The Stillborn Lover – by Timothy Findley
Talley’s Folly – by Lanford Wilson
Peter Pan – by J.M.Barrie, A new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn
Unicorn Theatre:
American Primitive – William Gibson
Nijinsky’s Last Dance – by Norman Allen
The Who’s Tommy – Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Assassins – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman
2004
Main Stage:
Blues for an Alabama Sky – by Pearl Cleage
Heartbreak House – by George Bernard Shaw
The Miracle Worker – by William Gibson
The Misanthrope – by Molière, Translated by Richard Wilbur
Unicorn Theatre:
Floyd Collins - Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, Book by Tina Landau
Herman Hesses’s Siddhartha, A Jungian Fantasy – Adapted from the Novel by Eric Hill
Eugene’s Home – by Kathy Levin Shapiro
It Goes Without Saying – Written by Bill Bowers
2005
Main Stage:
Side by Side by Sondheim - Stephen Sondheim
Equus - Peter Shaffer
American Buffalo - David Mamet
Souvenir - Stephen Temperley
Unicorn Theatre:
I Do! I Do! - Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt
The Father - August Strindberg, Translated, adapted by Anders Cato
Rat in the Skull - Ron Hutchinson
My Buddy Bill - Rick Cleveland
Nursery Rhyme Cafe - E. Gray Simons II
2006
Main Stage:
Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
Coastal Disturbances – Tina Howe
The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams
The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein
Unicorn Theatre:
The Illusion – Pierre Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally
The Pilgrim Papers – Stephen Temperley
Via Dolorosa – David Hare
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
2006 BTF PLAYS!
Mystery Sideshow 3…Way Out West – E. Gray Simons III
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz – book and music by L. Frank
2007
Main Stage:
Love! Valour! Compassion! - Terrence McNally
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Dale Wasserman
Morning’s At Seven - Paul Osborn
Mrs. Warren’s Profession - George Bernard Shaw
Unicorn Theatre:
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
My Pal George - Rick Cleveland (Workshop Production)
Two-Headed - Julie Jensen
Educating Rita - Willy Russell
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
Theatre for Young Audiences
Cinderella - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Alice In Wonderland - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Aesop’s Network: Broadcasting Theatrical Fables - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
2008
Main Stage:
Candida - George Bernard Shaw
The Book Club Play - Karen Zacarias
A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
Noel Coward in Two Keys - Sir Noel Coward
Unicorn Theatre:
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
Pageant Play - Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Eleanor: Her Secret Journey - Rhoda Lerman
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
Theatre for Young Audiences:
Hercules - E. Gray Simons III
Around the World in 80 Days - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Oliver! - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
2009
Main Stage:
Broadway by the Year - Scott Siegel
The Einstein Project - Paul D'Andrea and Jon Klein
The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Neil Simon
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anders Cato and James Leverett
Unicorn Theatre:
Faith Healer - Brian Friel
Candide - Music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Hugh Wheeler
Sick - Zayd Dohrn
Red Remembers - Andrew Gerhart
Theatre for Young Audiences:
The Wind in the Willows - adapted by E. Gray Simons
Peter Pan: The Musical - based on the play by J. M. Barrie
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
2010
Main Stage:
The Last Five Years - Composed and Written by Jason Robert Brown
The Guardsman - Ferenc Molnar, translated by Grace I. Colbron & Hans Bartsch
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee
Unicorn Theatre:
K2 - Patrick Meyers
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Babes in Arms - Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Book by George Oppenheimer
No Wake - William Donnelly
Theatre for Young Audiences:
The Mummy's Tale and other stories from the Great Beyond - E. Gray Simons
Annie - Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
BTF PLAYS!— a school residency program for 4-6 graders—is part of the curriculum in nine Berkshire county schools. It was designed to give voice to young student's stories through playwriting. Staffed by professional artists-in-residence, the program is priced low enough for public schools to afford and teaches young people how to communicate their thoughts and feelings through playwriting, storytelling, and performance. Each summer, the theatre’s Summer Performance Training Program, which offers scholarships to students who need financial help, works with up to 15 performing arts students between 18-25. The program produces two plays that are seen by more than 10,000 young people throughout July and August. The BTF’s Touring Component, part of the school residency program, also performs for many additional schools and museums throughout western Massachusetts each year.
Ethel Barrymore
Thornton Wilder
Calista Flockhart
Christopher Walken
in The Rain Maker
Al Pacino
in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie - 1967
Dustin Hoffman
in Fragments - 1966
Gene Hackman
in Fragments - 1966
Karen Allen
Linda Hamilton
Jeffrey Donovan - Toys in the Attic 2000
Randy Harrison
- Equus, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Waiting for Godot, Ghosts, The Endgame, and The Who's Tommy
History
The main building of the Berkshire Theatre Festival was originally the Stockbridge CasinoStockbridge Casino
The Stockbridge Casino is a historic building now at East Main Street at Yale Hill Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Designed by Stanford White, the casino was built in 1887 and for many years was a popular attraction. After falling into decline, the building was saved by businessman and artist...
, designed by Stanford White and built in 1887. At one point the center of social life in Stockbridge, by 1927 it fallen into disuse. Mabel Choate, the daughter of one of the casino
Casino
In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...
's founders, purchased the property for $2,000, but wasn't interested in the casino itself. Three prominent Stockbridge residents, sculptor Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Life and career:...
, businessman and artist Walter Leighton Clark
Walter Leighton Clark
Walter Leighton Clark was an American businessman, inventor, and artist based in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and New York City. Among other achievements, in 1923 he founded with John Singer Sargent the Grand Central Art Galleries, located within New York City's Grand Central Terminal, to offer...
, and Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, formed a committee called the Three Arts Society to save the casino; Choate sold the building to them for $1 on the condition that it be relocated. French, Clark, and Riggs agreed, and had the structure dismantled and moved to its current location.
After an extensive renovation, the newly christened Berkshire Playhouse opened on June 4, 1928, with a production of "The Cradle Song" with Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne
Eva Le Gallienne was a well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century.-Early life and early career:...
. Actors who have starred in productions at the Berkshire Playhouse include James Cagney
James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...
, Lilian Gish, and Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
, and Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
. Notable producing directors have included Billy Miles, Joan White, Robert Paine Grose, George Tabori
George Tabori
George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.-Life and career:Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. His son Peter Tabori and again his son...
, Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.-Early years:...
, Josephine Abady, Julianne Boyd, Bill Gibson, Richard Dunlap, and Arthur Storch
Arthur Storch
Arthur Storch is an American actor and Broadway director. He founded Syracuse Stage in 1974. Productions he has directed include:*Tribute, on Broadway*The Comedy of Errors, at Syracuse Stage...
.
In 1967 the Three Arts Society was resolved and the Berkshire Playhouse was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation as the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In 1993, a formal season of plays was offered in the Unicorn Theatre to meet the growing popularity of the festival. Prior to that, the Unicorn had been in use for years to house various offerings over the course of the season, including a slate of cabaret and workshop productions in 1992. The Unicorn Theatre was completely replaced with a new facility opening prior to the 1996 season.
The Berkshire Playhouse added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is a member of the National Trust.
Past seasons
Over the past 80 years, the Berkshire Theatre Festival has produced 550 fully staged productions, an eclectic mix of revivals, classics and premieres, embracing fully its role as a true theatrical “Festival.” More than 2,100 actors have worked at the BTF in more than 6,000 performances, including notable actors that have won Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys. Many playwrights at BTF have won Pulitzer and Nobel PrizeNobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
s.
1928
The Buffoon – A. Tupper and Howard Lee
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
Captain Applejack – Walter Hackett
The Cradle Song – Martinez Sierra
The Enchanted April – Kane Campbell
Meet the Wife – Lynn Starling
Mr. Pim Passes By – A.A. Milne
Outward Bound – Sutton Vane
The Romantic Age – A.A. Milne
The Swan – Ferenc Molnár
1929
Arms and the Man – George Bernard Shaw
Caroline – Somerset Maugham
The Dover Road – A.A. Milne
Oh Boy – P.G. Wodehouse
Rip Van Winkle – Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault
The Royal Family – George F. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
Thunderin the Air – Robbins Miller
The Truth About Blaydes – A.A. Milne
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw
1930
The Admirable Crichton – Sir James M. Barrie
Bird in Hand – John Drinkwater
Doctor’s Dilemma – George Bernard Shaw
The Emperor Jones – Eugene O’Neill
Jack in the Box – Dorothy Fletcher and Alexander Kirkland
The Lake – John Houseman and Joan Wolfe
The Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Mask and the Face – Luigi Chiarelli Adapted by C.B. Fernold
The Romantic Young Lady – Martinez Sierra
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
The Torchbearers – George Kelly
1931
Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire – Sir James M. Barrie
Captain Brassbounder’s Conversation – George Bernard Shaw
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
Hay Fever – Noel Coward
The Idiot – Jose Ruben
Juno and the Paycock – Sean O’Casey
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Monkey – Sam Janney
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
The Second Man – S.N. Behrman
1932
A Bill of Divorcement – Clemence Dane
Broken Dishes – Martin Flava
Finale – S.K. Lauren
Great Catherine – George Bernard Shaw
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Deval and P.G. Wodehouse
Just Out – Edward Bourdet
The Man of Destiny – George Bernard Shaw
The Perfect Alibi – A.A. Milne
The Queen’s Husband – Robert Sherwood
There’s Always Juliet – John Van Druten
1933
Dear Brutus – Sir James M. Barrie
The Devil’s Disciple – George Bernard Shaw
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
The Good Fairy
The Good Fairy (play)
The Good Fairy is the English translation by Jane Hinton of the 1930 play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár. The Hungarian original premiered in Budapest, Hungary in October 1931, and the English translation was presented on Broadway with Helen Hayes playing "Lu" for 151 performances in...
– Ferenc Molnár
The Late Christopher Bean – Sidney Howard
The Queen Was in the Parlor – Noel Coward
1934
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Biography – S.N. Behrman
Craig’s Wife – George Kelly
Dulcy – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
Fly Away Home – Dorothy Bennett and Irving White
Good-Bye Again – Allan Scott and George Haight
Her Master’s Voice – Clare Kummer
Pursuit Of Happiness – Alan Child and Isabelle London
Romance – Edward Sheldon
Saturday’s Children – Maxwell Anderson
1935
Accent On Youth – Samuel Raphaelson
All This While – Donald Blackwell and Theodore St. John
As Husbands Go – Rachel Crothers
Berkeley Square – John Bolderston
The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
Declasse – Zoe Akins
In Old Kentucky – Charles Dazey
Meet The Prince – A.A. Milne
Trelawney Of The Wells – Arthur Wing Pinero
1936
A Church Mouse – Ladislaus Fodor
Kind Lady – Edward Chodorov
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary – St. John Ervine
Men In White – Sidney Kingsley
The Octoroon – Dion Boucicault
The Shining Hour – Keith Winter
They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard
Topaze – Benn W. Levy
1937
Becky Sharp – Langdon Mitchell
The Bride the Sun Shines On – Will Cotton
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Many Mansions – Eckert Goodman and Jules Eckert Goodman
Mariette – Sacha Guitry, Music by Oscar Strauss, Lyrics by Arthur Guiterman, English Adapt. by William Miles
Patience – Libretto by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Storm Over Patsy – James Bridie Adapted from the work of Bruno Frank
The Texas Nightingale – Zoe Akins
Tonight At 8:30 – Noel Coward
1938
Best Dressed Woman in the World – Jack Munro
Enter Madame – Gelda Varesi and Dolly Byrne
French Without Tears – Terrence Rattigan
Lightnin’ – W. Smith and Frank Bacon
Pride And Prejudice – Helen Jerome Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Road To Rome – Robert Sherwood
Stage Door – Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
Susan And God – Rachel Crothers
We, The Willoughbys – Meyer Kanin and Harry Ingram
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed
1939
Anna Christie – Eugene O’Neill
Bicentennial – Allen Osborne
The Circle – Somerset Maugham
Easy Virtue – Noel Coward
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
Here Today – George Oppenheimer
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
Petticoat Fever – Mark Reed
White Oaks – Mazo de la Roche
1940
Ah, Wilderness – Eugene O’Neill
Autumn Crocus – C.L. Anthony
The Guardsman – Ferenc Molnár
In My Opinion – Samson Raphaelson
Love Rides the Rails – Moreland Carey
The Millionairess – George Bernard Shaw
Mornings at Seven – Paul Osborn
The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray – Arthur Wing Pinero
Skylark – John Emery
Springtime For Henry – Benn Levy
1941
Beggar on Horseback – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Devel and P.G. Wodehouse
Ladies in Retirement – Edward Percy and Reginald Denham
The Male Animal – James Thurber and Elliot Nugent
Miss Nelly Of N’Orleans – Lawrence Egre
Old Acquaintance – John Van Druten
Old English – John Galsworthy
Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Philip Barry
1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
(dark due to war)
1946
Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Blithe Spirit – Noel Coward
Elizabeth the Queen – Maxwell Anderson
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
Kiss and Tell – F. Hugh Herbert
The Late George Apley – John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman
My Sister Eilleen – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorove
Off the Air – Knowles Entrikin and Howard Breslin
Howard Breslin
Howard Breslin was an American novelist and radio script writer. He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for The Tamarack Tree and Bad Day at Black Rock...
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
What Every Woman Knows – Sir James M. Barrie
1947
The Barretts of Wimpole Street – Rudolph Bealer
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
Heaven Help the Angels – Ted Luce
Junior Miss – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Mademoiselle – Jacques Deval, Adapted by Grace George
Papa Is All – Patterson Greene
State of the Union – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Thunder Rock – Robert Ardrey
Years Ago – Ruth Gordon
1948
Art and Mrs. Bottle – Benn Levy
The Bat – Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
Coming Thru the Rye – Warren Munsell
The Happiest Years – Thomas Coley and William Roerick
I Like It Here – A.B. Shiffrin
The Intimate Strangers – Booth Tarkington
John Loves Mary – Norman Krasna
Little Women – Marian DeForest, Adapted From Louisa May Alcott’s novel
Ned McCobb’s Daughter – Sidney Howard
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
The Torchbearers – George Kelly
1949
The Corn Is Green – Emlyn Williams
The Heiress – Ruth and Augustus Goetz
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Jennie Kissed Me – Jean Kerr
The Late Christopher Bean – Rene Fauchois, Adapted by Sidney Howard
Let Us Be Gay – Rachel Crothers
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
On Approval – Frederic Lonsdale
Robert’s Wife – St. John Ervine
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
Three Men on a Horse – John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
The Winslow Boy – Terrence Rattigan
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed
1950
Born Yesterday – Garson Kanin
Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
Gay Divorcee – Cole Porter, Book by Dwight Taylor
Goodbye, My Fancy – Fay Kanin
Harvey – Mary Chase
January Thaw – William Roce
Once an Actor – Rosemary Casey
Peg O’ My Heart – J. Hartley Manners
Post Road – Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell
The Sacred Flame – Somerset Maugham
Smilin’ Through – Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin
The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
1951
The Chiltern Hundreds – William Douglas Howe
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
Home At Seven – R.C. Sherrif
I Remember Mama – John Van Druten
Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
Legend of Sarah – James Gow and Armand D’Usseau
Miss Mabel – Dennis Hoey and Clarence Derwent
One’s a Crowd – Eugene Raskin
Second Threshold – Philip Barry
The Silver Whistle – Robert McEnroe
Two Girls Wanted – Gladys Unger
1952
Black Chiffon – Lesley Storm
Death Takes a Holiday – Walter Ferris and Alberto Casella
The Flashing Stream – Charles Morgan
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
The Little Minister – Sir James M. Barrie
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
The Milky Way – Lynn Root and Harry Clark
A Murder in the Family – Victor Wolfson
Victor Wolfson
Victor Wolfson was a dramatist, director, writer, producer and actor. Wolfson began his professional career organizing acting clubs for striking coal miners in West Virginia. He soon found his passion for writing and he wrote numerous plays for Broadway, dramas for television and many novels...
Nina – Andre Roussin, Adapted by Samuel Taylor
Ramshackle Inn – George Batson
The Show-Off – George Kelly
Theater – Somerset Maugham
1953
Affairs of State – Louis Verneuil
Bell, Book and Candle – John Van Druten
Bunty Pulls the Strings – Graham Moffat
Gigi – Anita Loos
Jane – Somerset Maugham
The Marquise – Noel Coward
Mister Roberts – Thomas Reagan and Joshua Logan
The Moon Is Blue – F. Hugh Herbert
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
The Three-Toed Pony – Sidney Howard
The Velvet Glove – Rosemary Casey
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw
1954
Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas
A Dash of Bitters – Reginald Denham
Ethan Frome – Owen and Donald Davis, Adapted From the novel by Edith Wharton
The Fourposter – Jan de Hartog
The Ghost Train – Arnold Ridley
The Iron Gate – John T. Chapman
Late Love – Rosemary Casey
Madam Will You Walk? – Sidney Howard
My Three Angels – Sam and Bella Spewack
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Three’s A Family – Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Traveller’s Joy – Arthur MacRae
The White Sheep of the Family – L. duGarde Peach and Ian Hay
1955
Caine Mutiny Court Martial – Herman Wouk
Dial M For Murder – Frederick Knott
Edward My Son – Robert Morley and Noel Langley
O Mistress Mine – Terence Rattigan
The Old Maid – Edith Wharton
Reclining Figure – Harry Kurnitz
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker – Liam O'Brien
Liam O'Brien (screenwriter)
Liam O'Brien was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for writing the movie Here Comes the Groom.-Life and career:...
Sabrina Fair – Samuel Taylor
Shadow and Substance – Paul Vincent Carroll
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
Time Out for Ginger – Ronald Alexander
1956
Anastasia – Marcelle Maurette, Adapted by Guy Bolton
The Good Fairy – Ferenc Molnár
The Happy Time – Samuel Taylor
Heartbreak House – George Bernard Shaw
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
Made In Heaven – Hagar Wilde
A Roomful of Roses – Edith Sommer Soderbag
The Seven Year Itch – George Axelrod
The Solid Gold Cadillac – Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman
The Wayward Saint – Paul Vincent Carroll
1957
Androcles and the Lion – George Bernard Shaw
Bus Stop – William Inge
Charm – John Kirkpatrick
The Great Sebastians – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Janus – Carolyn Green
King of Hearts – Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke
Oh Men! Oh Women! – Edward Chodorov
The Potting Shed – Graham Greene
The Reluctant Debutante – William Douglas Home
Time Limit – Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey
1958
The Cocktail Party – T.S. Eliot
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
The Cradle Song – Martines Sierra
The Matchmaker – Thornton Wilder
The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie
Noah – Andre Obey, Adapted by Arthur Wilmurt
No Time For Sergeants – Ira Levin, Based on the novel by Mac Hyman
The Playboy of the Western World – John Millington Synge
Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan
Visit to a Small Planet – Gore Vidal
1959
The Boy Friend – Sandy Wilson
Compulsion – Meyer Levin
Darkness at Noon – Sidney Kingsley, Based on the novel by Albert Koestler
Diary of Anne Frank – Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
Once More With Feeling – Harry Kurmits
Picnic – William Inge
Time Remembered – Jean Anouilh
1960
Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Dear Charles – Alan Melville
Dear Miss Phoebe – Sir James M. Barrie, Adapted by Christopher Hassell/Music by Harry Parr Davies
The Gazebo – Alec Coppel
The Happiest Days of Your Life – John Dighton
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Misalliance – George Bernard Shaw
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
The Waltz of the Toreadors – Jean Anouilh
Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie
1961
Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesserling
Between Seasons – Malcolm Wells
Breath Of Spring – Peter Coke
Invitation to a March – Arthur Laurents
The Marriage-Go-Round
The Marriage-Go-Round
The Marriage-Go-Round is a 1958 play written by Leslie Stevens and a 1961 film adaptation also written and produced by Stevens. It was inspired by a suggestion that dancer Isadora Duncan supposedly made to playwright George Bernard Shaw: the two of them should have a child because "with your mind...
– Leslie Stevens
Roar Like A Dove – Lesley Stevens
South Pacific – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Suzannah and the Elders – James Bridie
Teahouse of the August Moon – John Patrick
Ten Little Indians – Agatha Christie
1962
Critic’s Choice – Ira Levin
The King and I – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Life with Father – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Miss Lucy – Irene Gawne
Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
Pleasure of his Company – Samuel Taylor
See How They Run – Philip King
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Under the Yum Yum Tree – Lawrence Roman
You Never Know – Cole Porter
1963
The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
The Corn is Green – Kalyn Williams
The Grass is Greener – Hugh & Margaret Williams
Lady Audley’s Secret or Who Pushed George – Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Adapted by Joan White, Music and Lyrics by Anna Russell
Little Mary Sunshine – Rick Besoyan
Pajama Game – Richard Bissell and George Abbott, Music and Lyrics by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
A Shot in the Dark – Marcel Archard
1964
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Come Blow Your Horn – Neil Simon
Guys and Dolls – Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Adapted from the stories of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Journey to Bahia – Dias Gomes, Adapted by Stanley Richards
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, Adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Music by Frederick Loewe
Night Must Fall – Emlyn Williams
The Silver Cord – Sidney Howard
The Time of the Cuckoo – Arthur Laurents
1965
Carnival – Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Cheri and the Last of the Cherry – Paul Giovanni and Viveca Lindfors, Adapted from Colette
Duel of Angels
Duel of Angels
Duel of Angels is a 1963 English adaptation by Christopher Fry of the play Pour Lucrèce written in 1944 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. The play is based on the story of Lucretia, the virtuous Roman housewife who was raped and, finding no support from her husband and his friends, is driven...
– Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
, Translated by Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Book by
Bert Shevelov and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler, Translated by Eric Bentley
Three-Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitztein
1966
The Cretan Woman – Robinson Jeffers
Fragments – Murray Schisgal
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
1967
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? – Don Peterson
Dracula – Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, Based on the Novel by Bram Stoker
The Exercise – John Lewis Carlino
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
1968
Adaptation – Elaine May
A Cry of Players – William Gibson
The Cuban Thing – Jack Gelber
A Matter of Position – Elaine May
Next – Terrence McNally
1969
Encounters – Wally Harper and Paul Zakrsowski
Hunger and Thirst – Eugène Ionesco
John and Abigail – William Gibson
Timon’s Beach – Gordon Rogoff
1970
The Christmas Dinner – William Devane
The Enemy is Dead – Don Peterson
The Fable of the Sun People – Ernest L. West, Jr.
Other People – Thomas Berger
A Passage to E.M. Forster – Arranged By William Roerick and Thomas Coley
Postscript – Merritt Abrash
1971
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Blue? – Leslie Weiner
The Goodbye People – Herb Gardner
The Rainmaker
Promenade, All! – David V. Robinson and Richard Backus
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally
1972
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little – Paul Zindel
Clark and Myrna – Elliott Baker
The Contrast – Royall Tyler, Adapted by Antony Stimas, Music by Don Pippin, Lyrics by Steven Brown
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
1973
Crystal, Crystal Chandeliers – Lawrence Roman
The Gershwin Years
The Gingerbread Lady – Neil Simon
Summer Brave – William Inge
1974
Cages – John Lewis Carline
Colette – Adapted by Elinor Jones from Colette, Music by Harvey Schmidt, Lyrics by Tom Jones
Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder – Mark Medoff
1975
The Butterfingers Angel – William Gibson
Come and Be Killed – Lionel Wilson
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury, Adapted by Peter John Bailey
Godspell – Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, Music by Stephen Schwartz
1976
George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Ho, Ho, Ho – Ruth Gordon
The Lion in Winter – James Goldman
Of Thee I Sing – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
1977
Broadway – Philip Dunning and George Abbott
Come Back, Little Sheba – William Inge
I Married an Angel – Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
The Last Analysis – Saul Bellow
1978
The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
Dodsworth – Sinclair Lewis, Dramatized by Sidney Howard
Disciple of Discontent – John L. Lewis
Let ‘Em Eat Cake – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music by George Gershwin, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Vagabond Stars – Nahma Sandrow and Sllan Albert
1979
The Butter and the Egg Man – George S. Kaufman
Carnival – Book By Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics By Bob Merrill
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
The Rose Tattoo – Tennessee Williams
1980
Anyone Can Whistle – Book by Arthur Laurents, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
The Rainmaker – N. Richard Nash
1981
House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
A Safe Place – Carol K. Mack
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
A View from the Bridge – Arthur Miller
1982
The Animal Kingdom – Philip John Barry
The Palace of Amateurs – John Faro PiRoman
Sunrise at Campobello – Dore Schary
A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner
1983
The Belle of Amherst – William Luce
The Big Knife – Clifford Odets
Fanny – Book by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome
Harvey – Mary Chase
The Vinegar Tree – Paul Osborn
1984
High Spirits – Music, Book and Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, Based on “Blithe Spirit” – by Noel Coward
A Loss of Roses – William Inge
Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale
Sabrina Fair – Samuel A. Taylor
1985
Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang
Caught – Bernard M. Kahn
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Paris Bound – Philip Barry
1986
All the Way Home – Tad Mosel based on “A Death In The Family” by James Agee
A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
A Little Night Music – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Visit To A Small Planet – Gore Vidal
1987
The Boys Next Door – Tom Griffin
I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson
No Time for Comedy – S.N. Behrman
Portrait of Jennie – Adaptation by Enid Futterman and Dennis Rosa,
Music by Howard Marre, Lyrics by Enid Futterman
1988
The Chalk Garden – Enid Bagnold
The Price – Arthur Miller
Stepping Out – Richard Harris
Tusitala – James Prideaux
1989
Betrayal – Harold Pinter
Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Middle Ages – A.R. Gurney
Tete A Tete – Ralph Burdman
1990
Breaking Legs – Tom Dulack
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
She Loves Me – Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
The Road To Mecca – Athol Fugard
1991
California Suite – Neil Simon
Kiss Me Kate – Book and Lyrics by Samuel Spewack, Music by Cole Porter
The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard
Trains – Barbara Lebow
1992
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Richard Maltby, Jr. and Fats Waller
Quartermaine’s Terms – Simon Gray
The Cocktail Hour – A.R. Gurney
Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas
1993
Blithe Spirit – Noel Coward
Breaking the Code – Hugh Whitemore
Camping With Henry and Tom – Mark St. Germain
Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen – Conceived by Julianne Boyd, Music by Harold Arlen
Unicorn Theatre:
Amphitryon – Heinrich von Kleist
Love and Anger – George Walker
Mississippi Nude – John Reeves
1994
Brimstone – Mary Bracken Philips and Patrick Meegan
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
Breaking the Silence – Stephen Poliakoff
Golf With Alan Shepard – Carter Lewis
Unicorn Theatre:
The Baltimore Waltz – Paula Vogel
The Game of Love and Chance – Marivaux
Mad Forest – Caryl Churchill
1995
Main Stage:
Cowgirls – Mary Murfitt and Betsy Howie
The Fox – Alan Miller
Kafka’s Wick – Allan Bennett
13 Rue de l’Amour – Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert
Unicorn Theatre:
Four Dogs and a Bone – John Patrick Shanley
The Illusion – Tony Kushner
Keely and Du – Jane Martin
1996
Main Stage:
Free Fall – Marc Alan Zagoren and Sandy Duncan
Hay Fever – Noel Coward
Jitta’s Atonement – George Bernard Shaw
Visiting Mr. Green – Jeff Baron
Unicorn Theatre:
L-Play – Beth Henley
1997
Main Stage:
Four of a Kind – Anton Chekhov
Good Company – Sheldon Harnick
Over the River and Through the Woods – Joe Di Pietro
Woman in Mind – Alan Ayckbourn
Unicorn Theatre:
Quills – Doug Wright
Wilder, Wilder – Thornton Wilder
1998
Main Stage:
Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf – Michael Hollinger
High Spirits – Music, Lyrics and Book by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray,Based on ‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noel Coward
Transit of Venus – Maureen Hunter
Unicorn Theatre:
Life’s A Dream – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The End of the World – Roman Paska
Secret Lives Of The Sexists – Charles Ludlam
1999
Main Stage:
The Crucifer of Blood – Paul Giovanni
Moby Dick - Rehearsed – Orson Wells
The Batting Cage – Joan Ackermann
Lives of the Saints – David Ives
Unicorn Theatre:
Love’s Fire – Eric Gogosian, William finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein
Shoot the Piano Player – Richard Corley
Conviction – Eve Ensler
Starr’s Last Tape – Richard Lingeman and Victor Navasky
2000
Main Stage:
Camelot – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederic Lowe
Toys in the Attic – Lillian Hellman
The Shadow of Greatness – Gary Socol
Say Yes! – Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen
Unicorn Theatre:
Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison in the Cold War – Katherine Houghton
Coyote on a Fence – Bruce Graham
The Einstein Project – Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein
2001
Main Stage:
H.M.S. Pinafore – by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Awake and Sing! – by Clifford Odets
The Smell of the Kill – by Michele Lowe
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe
Unicorn Theatre:
This is Our Youth – by Kenneth Lonergan
A Dream Play – by August Strindberg
Pound of Flesh – by Michael Bolus
2001 BTF PLAYS!
Alice in Wonderland – by Lewis Carroll, Adapted by Gray Simons
Just So Stories – Written by Rudyard Kipling, Adapted by Gray Simons
2002
Main Stage:
Zorba – Book by Joseph Stein; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Quartet – by Ronald Harwood
A Saint She Ain’t – Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Denis King
The Foreigner – by Larry Shue
Unicorn Theatre:
Dimetos – by Athol Fugard
Miss Julie – by August Strindberg
Holding History: Insurrection – by Robert O’Hara
Brownstone – by Josh Rubins, Peter Larson, Andrew Cadiff
2002 BTF PLAYS!
Monkey – Adapted from the Chinese Folktale by Gray Simons
The Magic Flute – Adapted from Mozart by Gray Simons
2003
Main Stage:
Enter Laughing – by Joseph Stein, Adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner
The Stillborn Lover – by Timothy Findley
Talley’s Folly – by Lanford Wilson
Peter Pan – by J.M.Barrie, A new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn
Unicorn Theatre:
American Primitive – William Gibson
Nijinsky’s Last Dance – by Norman Allen
The Who’s Tommy – Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Assassins – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman
2004
Main Stage:
Blues for an Alabama Sky – by Pearl Cleage
Heartbreak House – by George Bernard Shaw
The Miracle Worker – by William Gibson
The Misanthrope – by Molière, Translated by Richard Wilbur
Unicorn Theatre:
Floyd Collins - Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, Book by Tina Landau
Herman Hesses’s Siddhartha, A Jungian Fantasy – Adapted from the Novel by Eric Hill
Eugene’s Home – by Kathy Levin Shapiro
It Goes Without Saying – Written by Bill Bowers
2005
Main Stage:
Side by Side by Sondheim - Stephen Sondheim
Equus - Peter Shaffer
American Buffalo - David Mamet
Souvenir - Stephen Temperley
Unicorn Theatre:
I Do! I Do! - Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt
The Father - August Strindberg, Translated, adapted by Anders Cato
Rat in the Skull - Ron Hutchinson
My Buddy Bill - Rick Cleveland
Nursery Rhyme Cafe - E. Gray Simons II
2006
Main Stage:
Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
Coastal Disturbances – Tina Howe
The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams
The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein
Unicorn Theatre:
The Illusion – Pierre Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally
The Pilgrim Papers – Stephen Temperley
Via Dolorosa – David Hare
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
2006 BTF PLAYS!
Mystery Sideshow 3…Way Out West – E. Gray Simons III
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz – book and music by L. Frank
2007
Main Stage:
Love! Valour! Compassion! - Terrence McNally
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Dale Wasserman
Morning’s At Seven - Paul Osborn
Mrs. Warren’s Profession - George Bernard Shaw
Unicorn Theatre:
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
My Pal George - Rick Cleveland (Workshop Production)
Two-Headed - Julie Jensen
Educating Rita - Willy Russell
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
Theatre for Young Audiences
Cinderella - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Alice In Wonderland - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Aesop’s Network: Broadcasting Theatrical Fables - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
2008
Main Stage:
Candida - George Bernard Shaw
The Book Club Play - Karen Zacarias
A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
Noel Coward in Two Keys - Sir Noel Coward
Unicorn Theatre:
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
Pageant Play - Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Eleanor: Her Secret Journey - Rhoda Lerman
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
Theatre for Young Audiences:
Hercules - E. Gray Simons III
Around the World in 80 Days - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Oliver! - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
2009
Main Stage:
Broadway by the Year - Scott Siegel
The Einstein Project - Paul D'Andrea and Jon Klein
The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Neil Simon
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anders Cato and James Leverett
Unicorn Theatre:
Faith Healer - Brian Friel
Candide - Music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Hugh Wheeler
Sick - Zayd Dohrn
Red Remembers - Andrew Gerhart
Theatre for Young Audiences:
The Wind in the Willows - adapted by E. Gray Simons
Peter Pan: The Musical - based on the play by J. M. Barrie
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
2010
Main Stage:
The Last Five Years - Composed and Written by Jason Robert Brown
The Guardsman - Ferenc Molnar, translated by Grace I. Colbron & Hans Bartsch
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee
Unicorn Theatre:
K2 - Patrick Meyers
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Babes in Arms - Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Book by George Oppenheimer
No Wake - William Donnelly
Theatre for Young Audiences:
The Mummy's Tale and other stories from the Great Beyond - E. Gray Simons
Annie - Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill
Education
BTF education programming, which started in 1929 with one of the first summer apprentice training programs in the United States, is part of the lives of thousands of students annually, and though it has experienced many incarnations, it has never faltered in its commitment to educating the emerging artists of each decade.BTF PLAYS!— a school residency program for 4-6 graders—is part of the curriculum in nine Berkshire county schools. It was designed to give voice to young student's stories through playwriting. Staffed by professional artists-in-residence, the program is priced low enough for public schools to afford and teaches young people how to communicate their thoughts and feelings through playwriting, storytelling, and performance. Each summer, the theatre’s Summer Performance Training Program, which offers scholarships to students who need financial help, works with up to 15 performing arts students between 18-25. The program produces two plays that are seen by more than 10,000 young people throughout July and August. The BTF’s Touring Component, part of the school residency program, also performs for many additional schools and museums throughout western Massachusetts each year.
Notable Artists
Buster KeatonBuster Keaton
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Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore
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Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...
Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart
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Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken
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in The Rain Maker
Al Pacino
Al Pacino
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in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie - 1967
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
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in Fragments - 1966
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
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in Fragments - 1966
Karen Allen
Karen Allen
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Linda Hamilton
Linda Hamilton
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Jeffrey Donovan - Toys in the Attic 2000
Randy Harrison
Randy Harrison
Randolph Clarke Harrison is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Justin Taylor on the Showtime drama Queer as Folk.-Early life and college:...
- Equus, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Waiting for Godot, Ghosts, The Endgame, and The Who's Tommy