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chronology

Choose the Years:

1928 - 1939

1940 - 1949

1950 - 1959

1960 - 1969

1970 - 1979

1980 - 1989

1990 - 1999

2000 - present

1960-1969

1960

Angel Street, Patrick Hamilton
Dear Charles, Alan Melville
Dear Miss Phoebe, Sir James M. Barrie, adapted by Christopher Hassell/Music by Harry Parr Davies
The Gazebo, Alec Coppel
The Happiest Days of Your Life, John Dighton
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw
Two for the Seesaw, William Gibson
The Waltz of the Toreadors, Jean Anouilh
Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie

1961

Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesserling
Between Seasons, Malcolm Wells
Breath Of Spring, Peter Coke
Invitation to a March, Arthur Laurents
The Marriage-Go-Round, Leslie Stevens
Roar Like A Dove, Lesley Stevens
South Pacific, Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Suzannah and the Elders, James Bridie
Teahouse of the August Moon, John Patrick
Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie

1962

Critic’s Choice, Ira Levin
The King and I, Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Life with Father, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Miss Lucy, Irene Gawne
Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie
Pleasure of his Company, Samuel Taylor
See How They Run, Philip King
Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Under the Yum Yum Tree, Lawrence Roman
You Never Know, Cole Porter

1963

The Cat and the Canary, John Willard
The Corn is Green, Emlyn Williams
The Grass is Greener, Hugh & Margaret Williams
Lady Audley’s Secret or Who Pushed George, Mary Elizabeth Braddons; adapted by Joan White, Music and Lyrics by Anna Russell
Little Mary Sunshine, Rick Besoyan
Pajama Game, Richard Bissell and George Abbott, Music and Lyrics by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
A Shot in the Dark, Marcel Archard

1964

As You Like It, William Shakespeare
Come Blow Your Horn, Neil Simon
Guys and Dolls, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, adapted from the stories of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Journey to Bahia, Dias Gomes, adapted by Stanley Richards
My Fair Lady, Book and Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Music by Frederick Loewe
Night Must Fall, Emlyn Williams
The Silver Cord, Sidney Howard
The Time of the Cuckoo, Arthur Laurents

1965

Carnival, Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Cheri and the Last of the Cherry, Paul Giovanni and Viveca Lindfors,
adapted from Colette
Duel of Angels, Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Book by
Bert Shevelov and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
La Ronde, Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Eric Bentley
Three-Penny Opera, Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitztein

1966

The Cretan Woman, Robinson Jeffers
Fragments, Murray Schisgal
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Skin of our Teeth, Thornton Wilder
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

1967

Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Don Peterson
Dracula, Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, based on the Novel by Bram Stoker
The Exercise, John Lewis Carlino (world premiere)
The Magistrate, Arthur Wing Pinero
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams

1968

Adaptation, Elaine May
A Cry of Players, William Gibson
The Cuban Thing, Jack Gelber
A Matter of Position, Elaine May
Next, Terrence McNally (world premiere)

1969

Encounters, Wally Harper and Paul Zakrsowski
Hunger and Thirst, Eugene Ionesco (world premiere)
John and Abigail, William Gibson (world premiere)
Timon’s Beach, Gordon Rogoff