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chronology

Choose the Years: 1928 - 1939 1940 - 1949 1950 - 1959 1960 - 1969 1970 - 1979 1980 - 1989 1990 - 1999 2000 - present

1950-1959

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 Molnar
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