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Year by Year List of Summer Circle Plays

1961 - 2005


Year Play Playwright . Year Play Playwright
1961 Tartuffe Moliere .
1981
Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw
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Rain Based on a W. Somerset Maugham short story .
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Madwoman of Chaillot Jean Giraudoux
.
Blithe Spirit Noel Coward .
.
Ticket-of-Leave Man Tom Taylor
.
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
1962
Five Finger Exercise Peter Shaffer .
.
Bus Stop William Inge
.
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
.
The Queen and The Rebels Ugo Betti .
.
Hotel Paradiso Georges Feydeau and
Maurice Desvallieres
1963
Happy Times       The Rivers of Eldritch Lanford Wilson
  Shadow of a Gun Man
.
    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
1964
A Thurber Carnival James Thurber .
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Charley's Aunt Brandon Thomas
.
Summer and Smoke Tennessee Williams .
1985
The Odd Couple Neil Simon
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare .
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The Dining Room A. R. Gurney
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The Boy Friend Sandy Wilson .
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Baby with the Bathwater Christopher Durang
1965
Rainmaker N. Richard Nash .
.
Aaron Slick from Pumpkin Crick .
.
Playboy of the Western World John W. Synge .
1986
The Rainmaker N. Richard Nash
.
Hero & A Cup of Green Tea
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.
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The Servant of Two Masters Moliere
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Imaginary Invalid
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Arthur Kopit
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Carnival
..
.
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Bell, Book, and Candle Jon Van Druten
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 .
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Our Town Thornton Wilder
.
TheBoys from Syracuse
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.
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Dark of the Moon Howard Richardson
  The Collection Harold Pinter  
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A Slight Case of Murder Howard Lindsay
  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 .
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The Contrast Royall Tyler
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A Slight Ache Harold Pinter .
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Heaven Can Wait R. Ackland
..
Androcles and the Lion George Bernard Shaw .
1989
I Remember Mama John Van Druten
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The Physicists Friederich Durrenmatts .
.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Abee
.
Once Upon a Mattress

Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer

.
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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 .
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Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw .
1991
Mister Roberts Thomas Heggen and
Joshua Logan
1969
Can-Can
.
.
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The Petrified Forest Robert Sherwood
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The Desk Se William Marchant .
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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 .
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.
Dance Drama
.
.
1993
George Washington Slept Here Moss Hart and
George Kaufman
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
.
.
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The Hasty Heart John Patrick
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Houses by the Green David Gregan .
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Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
. Lyle Robert Somerfield  
.
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Botticelli .

Terrence McNally.

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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 .
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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
.
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
.
Rites Maureen Duffy .
1998
Brighton Beach Memoirs Neil Simon
.
The Columbus Thing Original .
.
Fortinbras Lee Blessing
1975
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.
Go Back for Murder Agatha Christie
.
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
.
The Passion of Antigona Perez

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.
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
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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 the 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 .
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Laundry and Bourbon James McClure
.
Beaux' Stratagem George Farquhar .
.
Blind Date Horton Foote
.
, .
2003
Chaucer in Rome John Guare
1978
Bert Brecht's Ontology
.
.
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What the Butler Saw .Joe Orton
.
Circus
.
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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 & Death of Tom Thumb Henry Fielding .
.
All My Sons Arthur Miller
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Thurber Carnival James Thurber .
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Life with Father Russel Crouse and
Howard Lindsay
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