Production History

The 1960s

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Founding Season 1963-64
Mainstage

• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• The Firebugs by Max Frisch
• The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Shadow of Heroes by Robert Ardrey

Subscriber Specials

• Margaret Webster
• His Infinite Variety

Bonus Programs (free to subscribers)

• "The Battle of the Sexes From Shakespeare to Shaw"
• A Sleep of Prisoners by Christopher Fry
• The Lily and the Rose (Medieval writings)

1964-65
Mainstage

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
• Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Subscriber Specials

• Spoon River Anthology (National Company)
• I Knock at the Door by Sean O'Casey

Bonus Programs (free to subscribers)

• Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw
• Who Was Joan? (readings about Joan of Arc)
• One times One (An Illusion of a Play) - poetry by e.e. cummings

Special Events

• Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey (seen on national TV)
• Twelfth Night (tour of Northwest cities)
• Ah, Wilderness! (tour of Northwest cities)

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-the-Park"

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

1965-66
Mainstage

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
• Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
• Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

Subscriber Special

• The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Bonus Program (free to subscribers)

• Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas
• Northwest Poets

Special Event

• The Tinder Box by Nicholas Stuart Gray

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-the-Park"

• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

1966-67
Mainstage

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Hostage by Brendan Behan
• Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
• Tartuffe by Molière
• The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
• The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Bonus Program (free to subscribers)

• Moby Dick Rehearsed adapted by Orson Welles
• Three by Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
• One Times One (An Illusion of a Play) - poetry by e.e. cummings

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-the-Park"

• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

1967-68
Mainstage

• Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh
• You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
• The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• The Father by August Strindberg
• The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht

Off Center Theatre

• The Death of Bessie Smith & The American Dream -
  one-acts by Edward Albee
• U.S.A. by John Dos Passos & Paul Shyre (musical revue)
• Little Murders by Jules Feiffer
• Christopher by Clarence Morley (premiere)
• Infancy & Childhood by Thornton Wilder
• Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
• Brecht on Brecht - revue compiled by George Tabori

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-the-Park"

• The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

1968-69
Mainstage

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Sergeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes
• A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Off Center Theatre

• Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
• Three Cheers for What's-its-Name by Jon Swan (premiere)
• Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
• Big Nose Mary is Dead by Barry Pritchard
• And the Quickies-eleven one-act plays
• The Blacks by Jean Genet

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-the-Park"

• A Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni

Bergen International Festival

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
• Short Sacred Rite of Search and Destruction/A Little Set-to by Jon Swan (premiere)

1969-70
Mainstage

• Volpone by Ben Jonson
• The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
• Once in a Lifetime by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
• In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Heinar Kiphardt
• The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
• The Country Wife by William Wycherley

Off Center Theatre

• Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
• Summertree by Ron Cowan
• Initiation by Nathan Teitel (premiere)

Summer Tour "Theatre-in-Park"

• Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw

Pictured: The cast of King Lear