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Princeton Summer Theater was founded in 1968 by a group of Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

undergraduates under the name 'Summer Intime' as a high grade summer stock theater company.

In the 1930s, members of student-run Theater Intime http://www.theatreintime.org/, initiated summer theater at Princeton. From the late 1920s until the 50s students called the summer company the University Players. The University Players operated from Hamilton Murray Theater for years. In 1968, the group became semi-independent from the University under the name "Summer Intime",and in the late 70s it was renamed Princeton Summer Theater.
Every summer a new company of Princeton students forms to present a season of four main stage shows and two children's shows.
Dedicated to training future leaders of the theater world, Princeton Summer Theater offers students and young professionals experience working in every area of theatre production, from performance, to design, to marketing, to theater management. In recent years the company has also included members from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Rutgers University and Rider University. Notable alumni include John Lithgow

John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...

, Bebe Neuwirth, William Hootkins

William Hootkins

William Michael Hootkins was an American character actor, most famous for supporting roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars, Batman and Raiders of the Lost Ark.-Early life:...

, Geoff Rich, Mark Nelson, Winnie Holzman

Winnie Holzman

Winnie Holzman is an American dramatist, screenwriter and poet. She created the ABC television series My So-Called Life, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination for writing in 1995...

, Bretaigne Windust

Bretaigne Windust

Bretaigne Windust was a French-born theatre, film, and television director.-Early life:He was born Ernest Bretaigne Windust in Paris, France, the son of English violin virtuoso Ernest Joseph Windust and singer Elizabeth Amory Day from New York City...

and Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

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Hamilton Murray Theater was dubbed a "jewel box of a theater" http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/06/18/time_off/theater_reviews/doc4857d297cd540705084533.txt by Stuart Duncan of the Princeton Packet.

Current Season

The 2011 Season is the 43rd season of Princeton Summer Theater in its current form. It is the 39th season and the 11th consecutive season after extensive renovations of the theater for the new millennium. This summer it runs from June 22 to August 14, 2011. The 2011 Season consists of

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

, by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim

Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park

This article is about the Broadway production. For the film adaptation see Barefoot in the Park .Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The original Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, opened October 23, 1963, with the four lead roles taken by actors Elizabeth Ashley ,...

, by Neil Simon

Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.The farcical comedy focuses on Prudence and Bruce, two Manhattanites who are seeking stable romantic relationships with the help of their psychiatrists, each of whom suggests the patient place a personal ad. Bruce is a highly emotional bisexual who...

, by Christopher Durang

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premièred at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month....

, by Henrik Ibsen

The season also includes a children's play, "The Three Little Pigs" and children's workshops.

Past seasons

2010

The Heidi Chronicles

The Heidi Chronicles

The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Production history:A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan....

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story.Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive...

Misalliance

Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw.Misalliance takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England. It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in...

Fifth of July

Fifth of July is a 1978 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment with America in the wake of the Vietnam War...

2009

Urinetown

Urinetown

Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...

No Time for Comedy

No Time for Comedy is a 1940 comedy-drama film based on the play of the same name by S. N. Behrman, starring James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles.-Plot summary:...

The Underpants

The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hose by playwright Carl Sternheim. The adaptation was written by Steve Martin...

2008

Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

Bus Stop

Bus Stop (play)

Bus Stop is a 1955 play by William Inge. The 1956 film is only loosely based upon it.-Characters:Bus Stop is a drama, with romantic and some comedic elements. It is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 20 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take...

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit (play)

Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...

2007

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle is a romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine based on the hit Broadway play by John Van Druten. It starred James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing . The film, adapted by Daniel Taradash, was Stewart's last film as a romantic lead...

Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. The second chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy, it follows Brighton Beach Memoirs and precedes Broadway Bound....

10 Little Indians

Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

2006

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott.-Synopsis:Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam innocently transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has since been murdered...

Black Comedy

Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965.The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage...

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman...

Betrayal

Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations...

2005

The Voice of the Turtle

The Voice of the Turtle (play)

The Voice of the Turtle is a comedic Broadway play by John William Van Druten dealing with the challenges of the single life in New York City during World War II...

Godspell

Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings. The movie was released by the Warner Bros...

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. It features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile in Montmartre, Paris...

2004

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed during the show by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than certain characters...

Scenes From American Life

Private Lives

Private Lives

Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for...

Proof

Proof (play)

Proof is a play by David Auburn originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on 23 May 2000. It then went to Broadway on 24 October 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, and was directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, with Mary-Louise Parker as Catherine, Larry Bryggman as Robert, Ben Shenkman as Hal, and...

2003

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The Star-Spangled Girl

The Star-Spangled Girl

The Star-Spangled Girl is a comedy written by Neil Simon. The play, set in the San Francisco in the 1960s, concerns three characters: Andy, Norman and Sophie. The original Broadway cast featured Anthony Perkins as Andy, Richard Benjamin as Norman and Connie Stevens as Sophie...

2002

Direct from Moscow

Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater is a play by Christopher Durang about a boy named Daisy, his influences, and his eventual outcome.-Act I:Two parents who are completely unprepared for parenthood bring home their newborn baby. The two cannot seem to name the baby. John thinks the baby is a boy, but Helen...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It was produced by Lore Noto. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into...

How I Learned to Drive

How I Learned To Drive

How I Learned to Drive is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997 off-broadway at the Vineyard Theatre...

2001

Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre...

During 1999 and 2001 extensive renovations carried out to the theater leaving it 'dark.'

1998

Harvey

Harvey (play)

Harvey is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Chase. Produced by Brock Pemberton and directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15, 1949. The original production...

She Loves Me

She Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock.The musical is the fifth adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop around the Corner and the...

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...

The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American-Greek drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull....

1997

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...

Camelot

Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world...

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...

Our Town

Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...

1996

The Fantastiks

The Crucible

The Crucible

The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig. The play was produced on both the West End and Broadway . Although it received seven Tony Award nominations, it won only one, for Best Actor. A Broadway revival opened in 2010. Lend Me a Tenor has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in...

1995

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

The Real Inspector Hound

The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit...

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....

Wait Until Dark

1994

Speed the Plow

Private Lives

Private Lives

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...

It's Only a Play

1993

Sleuth

Sleuth (play)

Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The play is set in the Wiltshire, England manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. His home reflects Wyke's obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing...

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

The Good Doctor

1992

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder

Barefoot in the Park

Run for Your Wife

1991

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The Mousetrap opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. It has the longest initial run of any play in history, with over 24,500 performances so far. It is the longest running show of the modern...

Same Time Next Year

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....

Drinking in America

1990

The Nerd

The Nerd

The Nerd is a two-act comedy written by American actor/playwright Larry Shue.-Plot:Set in Terre Haute, Indiana in late 1979, The Nerd presents the story of Willum Cubbert, an unassuming young architect, friends Tansy and Axel and unexpected houseguest Rick, who had saved Willum's life in Vietnam...

Three Postcards

Twelfth Night

The Theater was dark in 1989 and 1988

1987

Noises Off

Noises Off

Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...

Don Juan by George Bernard Shaw

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:"Arma virumque cano" ....

by George Bernard Shaw

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1986 A company from outside PST occupied The Hamilton Murray Theater

1985

Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy

The Skin of Our Teeth

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942...

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan

John Ford Noonan

John Ford Noonan is a prolific American actor, and writer for theater, film and television. Born in New York City in 1943, he wrote his first play, Lazarus was a Lady in 1970 followed by Concerning the Effects of Trimethylchoride in 1971 and other plays such as The Club Champion’s Widow in 1978,...

Starting Here, Starting Now

Starting Here, Starting Now is a musical revue with lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire. With a cast of three and three musicians, the revue explores a variety of romantic relationships....

1984

Sly Fox

Sly Fox

Sly Fox is a comedic play by Larry Gelbart, based on Ben Jonson's Volpone , updating the setting from Renaissance Venice to 19th century San Francisco, and changing the tone from satire to farce....

by Gelbart

Angels Fall

Angels Fall

Angels Fall is a play written by Lanford Wilson. It debuted at New York's Circle Repertory Company in 1982.-Characters:*Niles Harris: a cynical, middle-aged university professor*Vita Harris: his much younger wife...

by Wilson

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Say Goodnight Gracie is a one-man play by Rupert Holmes.Adapted from the reminiscences of George Burns, the multimedia presentation traces the comedian-raconteur's life from his childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to his early career in vaudeville to his momentous meeting and subsequent...

by Pape

Side by Side

Side By Side By Sondheim

Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue featuring the songs of Broadway and film composer Stephen Sondheim. Its title is derived from the song "Side by Side by Side" from Company.-History:...

, by Stephen Sondheim

In 1982 and 1982 the summer company was known as 'Newstage at Intime'

1983

Bus Stop

Bus Stop (play)

Talking With...

Talking With... is an American play by Jane Martin, published by Samuel French Incorporated. The play is composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life...

by Martin

March of the Falsettos

March of the Falsettos

March of the Falsettos is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by William Finn.A sequel to In Trousers, the one-acter continues the story of Marvin and his journey in search of self-understanding, inner peace, and a life with a "happily ever after" ending...

by Finn

Betrayal

Betrayal

by Pinter

1982

Scapino

Scapino

Scapino, Scappino, or Scapin, is a zanni character from the commedia dell'arte. His name is related to the English word "escape" in reference to his tendency to flee from fights, even those he himself begins. He has been dated to the last years of the 16th century, and his creation is sometimes...

by Dale and Dunlop

The Belle of Amherst

The Belle of Amherst

The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce.Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830-1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life - family, close...

by Luce

Happy End

Happy End (musical)

Happy End is a surrealistic three-act musical comedy by Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht which first opened in Berlin at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on September 2, 1929. It closed after seven performances...

by Brecht and Weill

The Freedom of the City

The Freedom of the City

The Freedom of the City is a play by Irish playwright Brian Friel first produced in 1973. It is set in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1970, in the aftermath of a Roman Catholic Civil Rights meeting, and follows three protesters who mistakenly find themselves in the mayor's parlour in the Guildhall...

by Friel

In 1981 the theater was dark. 1980 saw the first use of the name 'Princeton Summer Theater' for the summer season

1980

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...

by George Bernard Shaw

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was the British duo's third operatic collaboration. The plot of The Sorcerer is based on a Christmas story, An Elixir of Love, that Gilbert wrote for The Graphic magazine in 1876...

by Gilbert and Sullivan

The Mound Builders by Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...

Night Watch by Fletcher

Summer Intime

1979

The Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon

Towards Zero by Christie

The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

After the Fall by Miller

1978

Tartuffe by Molière

Holiday by Barry

Match Play by McCleery

The Mousetrap by Christie

1977

Cox and Box by Burnard and Sullivan

Candida by George Bernard Shaw

The Creation of the World and Other Business by Miller

110 in the Shade by Jones and Schmidt

Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, Friebus and LeGallienne

1976

Fallen Angels by Noel Coward

The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

Two for the Seesaw by Gibson

Picnic by William Inge

1975

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling so Sad, by Kopit

Charley's Aunt by Thomas

Voice of the Turtle by John Van Druten

Unhealthy to Be Unpleasant by Kirkwood

1974

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Luv by Schisgal

Baby Want a Kiss by Costigan

Lion in Winter by Goldman

1973

The Philanthropist by Hampton

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

The Beaux Stratagem by Farquar

The Tango by Mrozek

George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Koch

1972

Billy Liar by Waterhouse and Hall

Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut

A Flea in her Ear by Feydeau

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

1971

The Rainmaker by Nash

Twelfth Night

Joe Egg by Peter Nichols

Uncle Vanya by Chekhov

1970

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams

The Playboy of the Western World by Synge

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw

1969

Little Foxes by Hellman

A Shot in the Dark by Archard

Anne of a Thousand days by Anderdson

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

1968

Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Amphitryon 38

Amphitryon 38

Amphitryon 38 is a play written in 1929 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told on-stage previously.-Original productions:...

by Giraudoux

The Trial by Gide and Barrault

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

University Players

1958

A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on September 29, 1955 as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The play was unsuccessful and Miller subsequently revised the play to contain two acts; this...

by Arthur Miller

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842...

by Thornton Wilder

Legends of Lovers by Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's...

The Burnt Flower Bed by Ugo Betti

An Evening of Tennessee Williams: Autio-Da-Fe, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, The Unsatisfactory Supper

Misalliance

Misalliance

by George Bernard Shaw

Purple Dust by Sean O'Casey

Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.- Early life:...

Two Gentlemen of Verona

1957

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...

by Tennessee Williams

Skin of Out Teeth by 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,...

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

The Enchanted

The Enchanted (play)

The Enchanted is a 1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play Intermezzo written in 1933 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.-Original productions:...

by Jean Giraudoux

The Love of Don Perimplin for Belisa in the Garden by Garcia Lorca

The Wedding by J.M. Synge

Shadow of Gunman by Sean O'Casey

Love's Labour Lost

Lord Byron's Love Letter by Tennessee Williams

1956

Saint Joan

Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts...

by George Bernard Shaw

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....

by Brandon Thomas

Blood Wedding by Garcia Lorca

The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

The Father by August Strindberg

Ring Around the Moon

Ring Round the Moon

Ring Round the Moon is a 1950 adaptation by the English dramatist Christopher Fry of Jean Anouilh's Invitation to the Castle . Peter Brook commissioned Fry to adapt the play and the first production of Ring Round the Moon was given at the Globe Theatre...

by Jean Anouilh

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Thornton Wilder

Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey

As You Like It

1954

Camino Real

Camino Real (play)

Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play, Williams directs the reader to use the Anglicized pronunciation "Cá-mino Réal." The play takes its title from its setting, alluded to El Camino Real, a dead-end place in a Spanish-speaking town...

by Tennessee Williams

Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello

Penny for a Song by John Whiting, AMERICAN PREMIER

Theatre of the Soul by Nicolai Evreinof

Queens of France by Thornton Wilder

Village Wooing by George Bernard Shaw

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Show Loves Me Not by Howard Lindsay

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll adapted by Mario Siletti

Twelfth Night

1953

Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Boys", "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred for Life"...

by Tennessee Williams

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

by George Bernard Shaw

The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau

Hello Out There by William Saroyan

The Apollo of Bellac by 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...

Red Peppers by Noel Coward

Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

An Italian Straw Hat by Eugene Latiche

The Tempest

1950

Coriolanus

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

by J.B. Priestley

Too Many Thumbs by Robert hivnor

The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

1949

The Vegetable by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost...

Cathleen Ni Houlihan by W.B. Yeats

Purgatory by W.B. Yeats

The End of the Beginning by W.B. Yeats

The Streets of New York by Dion Bcucicault

1948

No Exit

No Exit

No Exit is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The original French title is Huis Clos, the French equivalent of the legal term in camera, referring to a private discussion behind closed doors; English translations have also been performed under the titles In Camera, No Way Out...

by Jean Paul Satre

how He Lied to Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw

The Beautiful People by William Saroyan

William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...

Yes Is for a Very Young Man by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

In July 1933 a fire devastated the theater, starting in the basement and burning up the entire stage. It was renovated over the summer'

1931

Paris Found by Philip Barry

Interference by Ronald Pertwee and Harold Dearden

Mr. Pim Passes by A.A. Milne

Coquette by Ann Bridgers and George Abbott

Her Cardboard Lover by Jacques Deval

The Trial of Mary Dugan by Bayard Veiller

The Guardsman by Ferenc Molar

Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey

The Silent House by John Brandon and George Pickett

The Italian Straw Hat by Iabiche

1930

Murray Hill by Leslie Hoawrd

The Wooden Kimono by Bretaigne

The Watched Pot by Saki and Charles Maude

Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley

The Makropculos Secret by Karel Capek

The Firebrand by Edwin Justus Mayer

Hell Bent for Heaven by Hatcher Hughes

The Marguise by Noel Coward

Noël Coward

A Kiss for Cinderella by J.M. Barrie

1929

The Devil in the Cheese by Tom Cushing

The Donovan Affair by Cwendavis, directed by Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

Outward Bound by Sutton Vane

Sutton Vane

Sutton Vane was a British playwright best known work for Outward Bound , which was filmed twice and was still being performed eight decades after its premiere.- Career as actor :...

The Last Warning, directed by Bretaigne Windust

Bretaigne Windust

'28

Merton of the Movies by Harry Wilson

Crime by Kent Smith

The Bad Man by Porter Browne

The Czarina by Melchior Lengyel and Ludwig Biro

The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean, directed by Charles Leatherbee

1928

The Dover Road by A.A. Milne

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon (play)

Beyond the Horizon is a 1920 play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It was O'Neill's first full-length work, and the winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama....

by Eugene O'Neill

The Tourchbearers by George Kelly

The Jest by Sam Benelli

In the Next Room

The New Way by Annie Mathan Meyer

Is Zat So

The Thirteenth Chair

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