Sign In Calendar

Production History

The 1960s

Note: If you are searching for a particular show or playwright, please use the search feature at right, otherwise you may browse decade-by-decade on the links above.

1963-64| 1964-65 | 1965-66 | 1966-67 | 1967-68
1968-69 | 1969-70

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