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Year by Year List of Summer Circle Plays 1961 - 2009 |
Year |
Play |
Playwright |
Year |
Play |
Playwright |
|
1961 |
Tartuffe |
Moliere |
1981 |
Androcles
and the Lion |
George
Bernard Shaw |
|
Rain |
Based
on a W. Somerset Maugham short story |
Madwoman
of Chaillot |
Jean
Giraudoux |
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Blithe
Spirit |
Noel
Coward |
Ticket-of-Leave
Man |
Tom
Taylor |
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The
Lark |
Jean
Anouilh |
Skin
of Our Teeth |
Thornton
Wilder |
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The
Skin of Our Teeth |
Thornton
Wilder |
1982 |
The
Mandrake |
Niccolo
Machiavelli |
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The
Flowering Peach |
Clifford
Odets |
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1962 |
Five
Finger Exercise |
Peter
Shaffer |
Bus
Stop |
William
Inge |
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Front
Page |
Ben
Hecht and Charles MacArthur |
Arsenic
and Old Lace |
Joseph
Kesselring |
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Our
Town |
Thornton
Wilder |
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You
Never Can Tell |
George
Bernard Shaw |
1983 |
Spoon
River Anthology |
Edgar
Lee Masters |
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The
Queen and The Rebels |
Ugo
Betti |
Hotel
Paradiso |
Georges
Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres |
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1963 |
Happy
Times |
Samual Taylor |
The
Rivers of Eldritch |
Lanford
Wilson |
||
Shadow
of a Gun Man |
Sean O'Casey |
Harvey |
Mary
Coyle Chase |
|||
Ring
Around the Moon |
Charles
Isherwood |
1984
|
Strang: King of All Nations |
John
Baldwin |
||
Let's
Get a Divorce |
Victorien
Sardou |
The
Queen and the Rebels |
Ugo
Betti |
|||
Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof |
Tennessee
Williams |
What
the Butler Saw |
Joe
Orton |
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The
Bad Seed |
Maxwell
Anderson |
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1964 |
A
Thurber Carnival |
James
Thurber |
Charley's
Aunt |
Brandon
Thomas |
||
. |
Summer
and Smoke |
Tennessee
Williams |
1985 |
The
Odd Couple |
Neil
Simon |
|
Much
Ado About Nothing |
William
Shakespeare |
The
Dining Room |
A.
R. Gurney |
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The
Boy Friend |
Sandy
Wilson |
Baby
with the Bathwater |
Christopher
Durang |
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1965 |
Rainmaker |
N.
Richard Nash |
Aaron
Slick from Pumpkin Crick |
Beale Cormack |
||
Playboy
of the Western World |
John
W. Synge |
1986 |
The
Rainmaker |
N.
Richard Nash |
||
Hero
& A Cup of Green Tea |
Perry Moore |
The
Servant of Two Masters |
Moliere |
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Imaginary
Invalid |
Moliere |
Oh Dad, Poor Dad |
Arthur
Kopit |
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Carnival |
Bob Merrill | Bell,
Book, and Candle |
Jon
Van Druten |
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1966 |
Rashomon |
Fay
and Michael Kanin |
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. |
Charley's
Aunt |
Brandon
Thomas |
1987 |
The
Glass Menagerie |
Tennesee
Williams |
|
. |
The
Days Between |
Robert
Anderson |
Our
Town |
Thornton
Wilder |
||
The Boys
from Syracuse |
Rogers and Hart |
Dark
of the Moon |
Howard
Richardson |
|||
The
Collection |
Harold
Pinter |
A
Slight Case of Murder |
Howard
Lindsay |
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Creditors |
August
Strindberg |
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The
Lover |
Harold
Pinter |
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1967 |
My
Three Angels |
Albert
Hussen |
1988 |
A
View from the Bridge |
Arthur
Miller |
|
Of
Mice and Men |
John
Steinbeck |
The
Contrast |
Royall
Tyler |
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| A Slight Ache | Harold Pinter | Heaven Can Wait | R. Ackland | |||
| Androcles and the Lion | George Bernard Shaw | 1989 |
I Remember Mama | John Van Druten | ||
| The Physicists | Friederich Durrenmatt | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Edward Abee | |||
| Once Upon a Mattress | Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer |
The Girl of the Golden West | David Belasco | |||
1968 |
Treasure
Island |
Jules E. Goodman | 1990 |
It's Me! It's Me! It's Francis Scott Key! | John
Baldwin and William Penn |
|
| Beauty and the Beast | Nora May Avoy | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benet | |||
| Ice Wolf | J. Kraus | Sweet Bird of Youth | Tennessee Williams | |||
| J. B. | Archibald Macleisch | High Tor | Maxwell Anderson | |||
| Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt | |||||
| Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | 1991 |
Mister Roberts | Thomas
Heggen and Joshua Logan |
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1969 |
Can-Can | Porter and Burrows | The Petrified Forest | Robert Sherwood | ||
| The Desk Se | William Marchant | Rip Van Winkle | Washington
Irving adapted by Joseph Jefferson |
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| Plain and Fancy | Albert Hague | 1992 |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | ||
| Sleeping Beauty | Eugene Scribe | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Lewis Stevenson | |||
1970 |
She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | Beggar on Horseback | Marc
Connelly and George Kaufman |
||
| Welcome to the Monkey House | An original adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's book | |||||
| Dance Drama | 1993 |
George Washington Slept Here | Moss
Hart and George Kaufman |
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1971 |
Crawling Arnold | Jules Feiffer | Desire Under the Elms | Eugene O'Neill | ||
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Golden Boy | Clifford Odets | |||
| Luv | Murray Schisgal | 1994 |
Born Yesterday | Garson Kanin | ||
1972 |
Play Strindberg | Freidrich Durrematt |
The Hasty Heart | John Patrick | ||
| Houses by the Green | David Gregan | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | |||
| Lyle | Robert Somerfield | |||||
| Botticelli | Terrence McNally |
1995
|
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You | Christopher Durang | ||
1973 |
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water is Running | Robert Anderson | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller | ||
| The Jumbled Heads | Indians | Arthur Kopit | ||||
Macbeth |
William
Shakespeare |
1996 |
She
Would and She Would Not |
Colley
Cibber |
||
1974 |
American
Dream |
Edward
Albee |
All
in the Timing |
David
Ives |
||
Sandbox |
Edward
Albee |
The
Rainmaker |
N.
Richard Nash |
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Epiphany |
Lewis
John Carlino |
1997 |
How
the Other Half Loves |
Alan
Ayckbourn |
||
Picnic
on the Battlefield |
Fernand
Arabal |
The
Venetian Twins |
Carlo
Goldoni |
|||
Midsummer
Night's Dream |
William
Shakespeare |
Lips
Together, Teeth Apart |
Terrence
McNally |
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. |
Rites |
Maureen
Duffy |
1998 |
Brighton
Beach Memoirs |
Neil
Simon |
|
. |
The
Columbus Thing |
Original |
Fortinbras |
Lee
Blessing |
||
1975 |
Go
Back for Murder |
Agatha
Christie |
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Taming
of the Shrew |
William
Shakespeare |
1999 |
Fallen
Angels |
Noel
Coward |
||
| A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller | Good Night, Desdemona, Good Morning, Juliet | Ann Marie MacDonald | |||
| The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | You Can't Take It With You | Moss
Hart and George Kaufman |
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| The Passion of Antigona Perez | Luis Rafael Sanchez |
2000 |
By Association | Eileen O'Leary | ||
1976 |
Servant of Two Masters | Carlo Goldoni | The Footsteps of Doves | Robert Anderson | ||
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | I'm Herbert | Robert Anderson | |||
. |
John Brown's Body | John McGrath | Winterset | Maxwell Anderson | ||
. |
The Boys from St. Louis | Gretel Geist's adaptation of Shakespeare's COMEDY OF ERRORS | Barefoot in the Park | Neil Simon | ||
1977 |
Barber of Seville | Pierre de Baumarchaise | 2001 |
Picasso At the Lapin Agile | Steve Martin | |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | London Cuckolds | Edward Ravenscroft | |||
| Barber of Seville | Pierre de Beaumarchaise | Educating Rita | Willy Russell | |||
| Triangular Cell | 2002 |
A Month in the Country | Brien Friel (Ivan Turgenev) | |||
| Great American Desert | J. Oppenheimer | Beaux' Stratagem | George Farquhar | |||
| The Commissioner | G. Courteline | Laundry and Bourbon | James McClure | |||
| Beaux' Stratagem | George Farquhar | Blind Date | Horton Foote | |||
2003 |
Chaucer in Rome | John Guare | ||||
1978 |
Bert Brecht's Ontology | . |
What the Butler Saw | .Joe Orton | ||
| Circus | The Role of Della | John J. Wooten | ||||
| London Assurance | Dion Boucicault | Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden | Thornton Wilder | |||
1979 |
Ah, Wilderness! | Eugene O'Neill | . |
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread | David Ives | |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | William Shakespeare | 2004. |
The Firebugs. | .Max Frisch | ||
| Crime on Goat Island | Ugo Betti | .Classics in Shorts | Adapted by Frank Rutledge | |||
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls | Brewin, Cherniak, MacDonald, Palmer and Ross | |||
1980 |
Juno and the Paycock |
Sean O'Casey |
2005 |
The Uneasy Chair |
Evan Smith |
|
The Rehearsal |
George Villiers | Is He Dead? |
Mark Twain | |||
Life and Death of Tom Thumb |
Henry Fielding
|
All My Sons |
Arthur Miller |
|||
Thurber Carnival |
James Thurber |
2006 |
The Sleeper |
Katherine Butterfield |
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Life with Father |
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
Bus Stop |
William Inge |
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A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine... |
Dick Vosburgh and Frank Lazarus |
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2007 |
The Nerd | Larry Shue | ||||
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! |
Dario Fo |
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Hans Christian Anderson Quartet |
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2008 |
The Girls in 509 | Howard Teichman | ||||
| Number the Stars | Dorothy W. Larche | |||||
| Red Herring | Michael Hollinger | |||||
| 2009 | Plaza Suite | Neil Simon | ||||
| Scenes from all the Timing | Kristina Miller | |||||
|
Leading Ladies | Ken Ludwig |
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