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Past Production Archive

1976/1977 Season

Godspell

By Stephen Schwartz, Directed by June Allen

The Crucible

By Arthur Miller, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

1977/1978 Season

The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch

By James L. Rosenberg, Directed by Douglas Cumming

1978/1979 Season

The Caretaker

By Harold Pinter, Directed by June Allen

The Owl and The Pussycat

By Bill Manhoff, Directed by Edward Trotta

Tartuffe

By Moliere, Directed by June Allen

The Man of LaMancha

By Dale Wasserman, Directed by Jerry B. Davis

Indians

By Arthur Kopit, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Mime Concerto

By Jerry Whiddon, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

1979/1980 Season

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde, Directed by June Allen

Angel Street

By Patrick Hamilton, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare, Directed by June Allen

Goodly Creatures

By William Gibson, Directed by John Edwards

The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

1980/1981 Season

Veronica’s Room

By Ira Levin, Directed by John Neville-Andrews

Slow Dance on The Killing Ground

By William Hanley, Directed by Joseph Walker

The ThreePenny Opera

By Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

The Flying Karamazov Brothers

By The Flying Karamazov Brothers

The Lady’s Not For Burning

By Christopher Fry, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

1981/1982 Season

Deathtrap

By Ira Levin, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

The Butterfingers Angel

By William Gibson, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov, Directed by David Cromwell

The Man of Destiny

By George Bernard Shaw, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Augustus Does His Bit

By George Bernard Shaw, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Scapino

By Frank Dunlop, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

1982/1983 Season

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

By Tennessee Williams, Directed by David Cromwell

How The Other Half Loves

By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

The Sign of Four

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Directed by Douglas Cumming

A Life in The Theatre

By David Mamet, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

In Circles

By Gertrude Stein, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

1983/1984 Season

The Petrified Forest

By Robert Emmet Sherwood, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Loot

By Joe Orton, Directed by Kenneth Fox

When The Wind Blows

By Raymond Briggs, Directed by Gillian Drake

Antigone

By Sophocles, Directed by Mark Jaster

The Madwoman of Chaillot

By Jean Giraudoux, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Jay O’Callahan (storyteller)

By Jay O’Callahan , Directed by Richard McElvain

1984/1985 Season

Custer

By Robert Ingham, Directed by David Cromwell

The Good Doctor

By Neil Simon, Directed by Douglas Cumming

Waiting for Godot

By Samuel Beckett, Directed by Douglas Cumming

Rashomon

By Fay & Michael Kanin, Directed by Richard Young

The 1940′s Radio Hour

By Walton Jones, Directed by Jim Humphrey

1985/1986 Season

The Man Who Killed Buddha

By Martin Epstein, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Sally and Martha

By Sybille Perason, Directed by Gillian Drake

What The Butler Saw

By Joe Orton, Directed by Max Meyer

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

By William Shakespeare, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Fool For Love

By Sam Shepard, Directed by Susann Brinkley

1986/1987 Season

The Water Engine

By David Mamet, Directed by Gillian Drake

American Dreams

By Studs Terkel, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

The Nest

By Franz Xavier Kroetz, Directed by Roger Downey

Little Victories

By Lavonne Mueller, Directed by Susann Brinkley

Filthy Rich

By George F. Walker, Directed by James C. Nicola

1987/1988 Season

Rum & Coke

By Keith Reddin, Directed by Susann Brinkley

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon, Directed by Max Meyer

The Fairy Garden

By Harry Kondoleon, Directed by Max Meyer

A Hatful of Rain

By Michael V. Gazzo, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

On the Verge or The Geography of Learning

By Eric Overmyer, Directed by Gillian Drake

Zastrozzi

By George F. Walker, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

1988/1989 Season

Baby With The Bathwater

By Christopher Durang, Directed by Kim Rubenstein

The Boys Next Door

By Tom Griffin, Directed by James Petosa

More Fun Than Bowling

By Steven Dietz, Directed by Brian Nelson

Heathen Valley

By Romulus Linney, Directed by Edward Morgan

American Buffalo

By David Mamet, Directed by Robert DeFrank

1990/1991 Season

Rebel Armies Deep Into Chad

By Mark Lee, Directed by Mary Hall Surface

The Diary of Anne Frank

By Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett, Directed by James Petosa

Odd Jobs

By Frank Moher, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

Love and Anger

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

The Illusion

By Pierre Corneille, Directed by Edward Morgan

1991/1992 Season

Tintypes

By Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle, Directed by Mary Hall Surface

Willie & Esther

By James Graham Bronson, Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson

Apocalyptic Butterflies

By Wendy MacLeod, Directed by Gillian Drake

Elektra

By Sophocles, Directed by Tom Prewitt

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

By Peter Nichols, Directed by Laurence Maslon

1992/1993 Season

Pentecost

By Stewart Parker, Directed by Kevin Kinley

Sand Mountain

By Romulus Linney, Directed by Edward Morgan

Antigone

By Jean Anouilh, Directed by Laurence Maslon

Criminals in Love

By George F. Walker, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

1993/1994 Season

Two Rooms

By Lee Blessing, Directed by Sue Ott Rowlands

Season’s Greetings

By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by Daniel De Raey

The Swan

By Elizabeth Egloff, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Wedding Band

By Alice Childress, Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson

The Misanthrope

By Moliere, Directed by Daniel Fish

1994/1995 Season

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By Edward Albee, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

All in the Timing

By David Ives, Directed by Nick Olcott

Dog Logic

By Tom Strelich, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Escape From Happiness

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

1995/1996 Season

Nora

By Ingmar Bergman, Directed by Tom Prewitt

Absurd Person Singular

By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by Nick Olcott

Asian Jockey in Our Midst

By Carter W. Lewis, Directed by Scot Reese

An Almost Holy Picture

By Heather McDonald, Directed by Jeffrey B. Davis

The Sisterhood

By Moliere, Directed by Daniel Fish

1996/1997 Season

Better Living

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

One Shoe Off

By Tina Howe, Directed by Nick Olcott

The Rehearsal

By Jean Anouilh, Directed by Tom Prewitt

Travels With My Aunt

By Graham Greene, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

1997/1998 Season

The Belle of Amherst

By William Luce, Directed by Donald Hicken

Uncle Vanya

By Anton Chekhov, Directed by Nick Olcott

Jack & Jill

By Jane Martin, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Pantomine

By Derek Walcott, Directed by Scot Reese

Godspell

By Stephen Schwartz, Directed by Kathy Feininger

1998/1999 Season

Criminal Genius

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

The Lion in Winter

By James Goldman, Directed by Donald Hicken

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

The Turn of The Screw

By Jeffrey Hatcher, Directed by Kathy Feininger

Payatz

By Tom Dougherty, Directed by Tony Tsendeas

Nixon’s Nixon

By Russell Lees, Directed by William Foeller

Mere Mortals

By David Ives, Directed by Nick Olcott

1999/2000 Season

The Chemistry of Change

By Marlene Meyer, Directed by Sue Ott Rowlands

Communicating Doors

By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by Nick Olcott

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

Three Days of Rain

By Richard Greenberg, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams, Directed by Donald Hicken

Man on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown

By Guillermo Reyes, Directed by Jose Carrasquillo

The Fantasticks

By Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, Directed by Kathy Feininger

2000/2001 Season

Snakebit

By David Marshall Grant, Directed by Daniel De Raey

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

By Charles M. Schultz, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

Woman In Mind

By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by Nick Olcott

Crumbs From The Table of Joy

By Lynn Nottage, Directed by Scot Reese

Mystery School

By Paul Selig, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

The Smell of the Kill

By Michele Lowe, Directed by Heather McDonald

2001/2002 Season

Problem Child

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

Home

By Samm-Art Williams, Directed by Thomas W. Jones, II

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

The Weir

By Conor McPherson, Directed by Nick Olcott

Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp

By Ernie Joselovitz, Directed by Lou Jacob

Our Town

By Thornton Wilder, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

2002/2003 Season

Love and Anger

By George F. Walker, Directed by Daniel De Raey

The Cherry Orchard

By Anton Chekhov, Directed by Nick Olcott

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

The Pavilion

By Craig Wright, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Speaking in Tongues

By Andrew Bovell, Directed by Lou Jacob

Pippin

By Stephen Schwartz & Roger O. Hirson, Directed by Thomas W. Jones, II

2003/2004 Season

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey, Directed by Daniel De Raey

It Takes Two

With Michael Sharp & Sherri L. Edelen , One night only cabaret performance

Heartbreak House

By George Bernard Shaw, Directed by Nick Olcott

A Broadway Christmas Carol

By Kathy Feininger, Directed by Kathy Feininger

Wintertime

By Charles L. Mee, Directed by Lou Jacob

Fences

By August Wilson, Directed by Thomas W. Jones, II

Rock On

One night only cabaret performance

The World Goes Round

By John Kander & Fred Ebb, Directed by Jerry Whiddon & Patdro Harris

2004/2005 Season

Living Out

By Lisa Loomer, Directed by Wensdy C. Goldberg

The Diary of Anne Frank

By Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett, Directed by Rebecca Kesselman

Life x 3

By Yasmina Reza, Directed by Lou Jacob

Once On This Island

By Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, Directed by Scot Reese

2005/2006 Season

Camille

Adapted by Neil Bartlett, Directed by Blake Robison

A Year With Frog and Toad

By Robert Reale & Willie Reale, Directed by Nick Olcott

Midwives

By Dana Yeaton, Directed by Mark Ramont

A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage: A Mark Twain Musical Melodrama

By Aaron Posner & James Sugg, Directed by Aaron Posner

2006/2007 Season

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Adapted by Simon Bent, Directed by Blake Robison

The Little Prince

By Rick Cummins & John Scoullar, Directed by Eric Ting

Orson’s Shadow

By Austin Pendleton, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

Crime and Punishment

Adapted by Marilyn Campbell & Curt Columbis, Directed by Blake Robison

Summer of ’42

By Hunter Foster & David Kirshenbaum, Directed by Paul Barnes

2007/2008 Season

A Lesson Before Dying

By Romulus Linney, Directed by Timothy Douglas

Treasure Island

By Ken Ludwig, Directed by Blake Robsion

The Book Club Play

By Karen Zacarias, Directed by Nick Olcott

Lord of the Flies

Adapted by Nigel Williams, Directed by Blake Robsion

Nixon’s Nixon

By Russell Lees, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

2008/2009 Season

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By Karen Zacarias, Directed by Blake Robison

Alice

By Mary Hall Surface, Directed by Mary Hall Surface

Eurydice

By Sarah Ruhl, Directed by Derek Goldman

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

By Dale Wasserman, Directed by Jerry Whiddon

A Sleeping Country

By Melanie Marnich, Directed by Gregg Henry

2009/2010 Season

The Picture of Dorian Gray

World premiere commissioned by Round House
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
From the novel by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Blake Robison
September 9 – October 4, 2009

26 Miles

Area premiere
By Quiara Alegria Hudes
Directed by KJ Sanchez
October 28 – November 22, 2009

Look Out Below!

Clown Theatre with Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell
December 4 – 6, 11 – 13, 18 – 20, 2009

Permanent Collection

Final week! Must close February 21
By Thomas Gibbons
Directed by Timothy Douglas
January 27 – February 21, 2010
HELEN HAYES AWARDS RECOMMENDED©

My Name is Asher Lev

Area premiere
By Aaron Posner
Adapted from the Chaim Potok novel
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore
March 17 – April 11, 2010

Co-production with Delaware Theatre Company
HELEN HAYES AWARDS RECOMMENDED©

Around the World in 80 Days

Area premiere
By Mark Brown
From the novel by Jules Verne
Directed by Nick Olcott
May 5 – 30, 2010

2010/2011 Season

Ripley-retouched-2
The Talented Mr. Ripley

U.S. regional premiere • Literary thriller

A play by Phyllis Nagy
Adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith
Directed by Blake Robison
September 8 – 26, 2010
Performance added: Sept. 26 at 8pm

Photo courtesy of UNIVERSES
Ameriville

Area premiere • Contemporary tour-de-force

By UNIVERSES
Developed with and Directed by Chay Yew
Written, created, and performed by UNIVERSES ‑ Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz, Gamal Chasten, William Ruiz (A.K.A. “Ninja”)
October 20 ‑ November 7, 2010

A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time

Area premiere • Sci-fi classic

By John Glore
From the novel by Madeleine L’Engle
Directed by Casey Sams
Extended through January 2, 2011

BILLY
Charming Billy

World premiere adaptation

Adapted & directed by Blake Robison
From the novel by Alice McDermott
Held over thru February 27, 2011

Photo of Lizan Mitchell by Roger Mastroianni
The Trip to Bountiful

New production • The journey of a lifetime

By Horton Foote
Directed by Timothy Douglas
Held over thru April 10, 2011

Tech rehearsal for Amadeus
Amadeus

New production • Music, madness, and Mozart

By Peter Shaffer
Directed by Mark Ramont
Held over thru June 12

2011/2012 Season

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury, based on his novel
Directed by Sharon Ott
September 7 – October 9, 2011

ReEntry

By Emily Ackerman & KJ Sanchez
Directed by KJ Sanchez
October 18 – 30, 2011

Pride and Prejudice

By Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Blake Robison
November 23 – December 31, 2011

Next Fall

Area Premiere
By Geoffrey Nauffts
Directed by Mark Ramont
February 1 – 26, 2012

Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus

World Premiere
By Jason Gray Platt
Directed by Blake Robison
April 11 – May 6, 2012

Double Indemnity

East Coast Premiere
By James M. Cain
Adapted for the stage by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
May 30 – June 24, 2012

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