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chronology

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

2000- Present

2000 Main Stage

Camelot, Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Lowe
Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman
The Shadow of Greatness, Gary Socol (world premiere)
Say Yes!, Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen (world premiere)

2000 Unicorn

Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison in the Cold War, Katherine Houghton (world premiere)
Coyote on a Fence, Bruce Graham
The Einstein Project, Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein

2001 Main Stage

H.M.S. Pinafore, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets
The Smell of the Kill, Michele Lowe
My Fair Lady, Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe

2001 Unicorn Theatre

This is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan
A Dream Play, August Strindberg, adaptation by Eric Hill
Pound of Flesh, Michael Bolus (world premiere)

2001 BTF PLAYS!

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, adapted by E. Gray Simons III (world premiere adaptation)
Just So Stories, written by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by E. Gray Simons III (world premiere adaptation)

2002 Main Stage

Zorba, Book by Joseph Stein; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Quartet, Ronald Harwood
A Saint She Ain’t, Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Denis King
The Foreigner, Larry Shue

2002 Unicorn Theatre

Dimetos, Athol Fugard
Miss Julie, August Strindberg (world premiere translation by Craig Lucas)
Holding History: Insurrection, Robert O’Hara
Brownstone, Josh Rubins, Peter Larson, Andrew Cadiff

2002 BTF PLAYS!

Monkey, adapted from the Chinese Folktale by Eric Hill and E. Gray Simons III (world premiere)
The Magic Flute, adapted from Mozart by E. Gray Simons III (world premiere)

2003 Main Stage

Enter Laughing, Joseph Stein, Adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner
The Stillborn Lover, Timothy Findley
Talley’s Folly, Lanford Wilson
Peter Pan, J.M.Barrie, new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn

2003 Unicorn Theatre

American Primitive, William Gibson
Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Norman Allen
The Who’s Tommy, Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Assassins, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman

2004 Main Stage

Blues for an Alabama Sky, Pearl Cleage
Heartbreak House, George Bernard Shaw
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
The Misanthrope, Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur

2004 Unicorn Theatre

Floyd Collins, Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, Book by Tina Landau
Herman Hesses’s Siddhartha, A Jungian Fantasy, adapted from the novel by Eric Hill (world premiere)
Eugene’s Home, Kathy Levin Shapiro (world premiere)
It Goes Without Saying, written by Bill Bowers

2005 Main Stage Season

Side by Side by Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim
Equus, Peter Shaffer
American Buffalo, David Mamet
Souvenir, Stephen Temperley

2005 Unicorn Theatre

I Do! I Do!, Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt
The Father, August Strinberg, translated, adapted by Anders Cato (world premiere)
Rat in the Skull, Ron Hutchinson
My Buddy Bill, Rick Cleveland (world premiere)
Nursery Rhyme Cafe, E. Gray Simons III (world premiere)

2006 Main Stage

Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
Coastal Disturbances, Tina Howe
The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams
The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein

2006 Unicorn Theatre

The Illusion, Pierre Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Terrence McNally
The Pilgrim Papers, Stephen Temperley (world premiere)
Via Dolorosa, David Hare
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

2006 BTF PLAYS!

Mystery Sideshow 3…Way Out West, E. Gray Simons III (world premiere)
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz, book and music by L. Frank Baum

2007 Main Stage

Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Book by Ken Kesey, adapted by Dale Wasserman
Morning's at Seven, Paul Osborn
Mrs. Warren's Profession, Bernard Shaw

2007 Unicorn Theatre

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
My Pal George, Rick Cleveland (world premiere)
Two-Headed, Julie Jensen
Educating Rita, Willy Russell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

2007 BTF PLAYS!

Cinderella, E. Gray Simons III (world premiere adaptation)
Aesop's Network: Broadcasting Theatrical Fables, E. Gray Simons III (world premiere adaptation)
Alice in Wonderland, Book by Lewis Carroll, adaptation by Eva LeGalliene and Florida Friebus