Production History

The 1970s

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1970-71
Mainstage

• Indians by Arthur Kopit
• A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
• The Miser by Molière
• Hay Fever by Noel Coward
• The Price by Arthur Miller
• Happy Ending & Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward

Special Presentations

• Dear Love - Jerome Kilty, Myrna Loy
• Emlyn Williams in Charles Dickens
• Richard II by William Shakespeare

1971-72
Mainstage

• Ring 'Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh
• The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
• Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau
• Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw
• And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel
• Adaptation & Next by Elaine May & Terrence McNally

Special Presentation

• I Am A Woman by Viveca Lindfors

Special Event - Washington State Tour

• Adaptation & Next

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• Thurbermania - best of James Thurber

1972-73
Mainstage

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
• Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas
• Child's Play by Robert Marasco
• All Over by Edward Albee
• The Tavern by George M. Cohan

Special Presentation

• Promenade, All - Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy

Special Event - Washington State tour

• The Tavern by George M. Cohan

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain

1973-74
Mainstage

• Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Jacques Brel
• That Championship Season by Jason Miller
• Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott & John Cecil Holm
• A Family and a Fortune by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
• The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• Love, Life and Other Laughing Matters

1974-75
Mainstage

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• A Grave Undertaking by Lloyd Gold (premiere)
• Life with Father adapted by Howard Lindsay & Russell Crouse
• Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

The 2nd Stage

• Biography by Max Frisch
• After Magritte & The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
• The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal
• A Look at the Fifties by Al Carmines

The 2nd Stage "Extra"

• Halloween & Lunchtime one-acts by Leonard Melfi

Special Event - Washington State tour

• The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• Crazyquilt (a collection of American humor)

1975-76
Mainstage

• Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
• Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
• Seven Keys to Baldpate by George M. Cohan
• The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia by Preston Jones
• The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giradoux
• Private Lives by Noel Coward

The 2nd Stage

• Benito Cereno by Robert Lowell
• Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton
• "Made for TV" - an ensemble work created by the 2nd Stage Company
• Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick
• The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje

Special Presentation

• The Many Faces of Love - Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy

Special Event - Western States Tour

• Seven Keys to Baldpate by George M. Cohan

1976-77
Mainstage

• Music Is-based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Book & direction by George Abbott, Score by Richard Adler & Lyrics by Will Holt (premiere)
• Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
• The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• The Show-Off by George Kelly
• Equus by Peter Shaffer

The 2nd Stage

• Bingo by Edward Bond
• Once upon a Time by Alexey Arbuzov
• Suzanna Andler by Marguerite Duras (premiere)
• Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard
• Vanities by Jack Heifner

Special Presentation

• By-Line, Ernie Pyle one-man show by William Windom

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• Just Between Us one-woman show by Peggy Cowles

Special Event - Western States Tour

• The Show-Off by George Kelly

Special Tours

• The Rhythm Show
  (13 days in Alaska, sponsored by NEA; Washington State junior high schools, sponsored by CEP; plus Montana, Idaho & Oregon)

1977-78
Mainstage

• The Royal Family by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman
• The Dream Watcher by Barbara Wersba (premiere)
• The National Health by Peter Nichols
• Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• 13 Rue de l'Amour by Georges Feydeau

The 2nd Stage

• Eminent Domain by Percy Granger

Special Presentations

• "Albee on Albee" - Edward Albee reading selected excerpts from his works
• "The Playwright vs. The Theatre" - lecture by Edward Albee

Special Event - Western States Tour

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Summer Tour "Rep 'n' Rap"

• Discovering Tutankhamun by the Seattle Rep Company (premiere)

1978-79
Mainstage

• A Penny for a Song by John Whiting
• The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
• Side by Side by Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• Catsplay by Istvan Orkeny
• Fallen Angels by Noel Coward

Special Events - Western States Tour

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington & Idaho tour)

• The Energy Show - created and performed by the MOB company

1979-80
Mainstage

• Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
• A History of the American Film by Christopher Durang
• An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Spokesong by Stewart Parker
• Pal Joey-book by John O'Hara, with music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

Special Events

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare; tour of Washington & Idaho
• Top of the Charts - created and performed by the MOB company; toured throughout Washington

Sundays at Three

Plays-in-Progress

• The American Clock by Arthur Miller
• The Lion and the Portuguese by Susan Rivers
• Dud Shuffle by Alf Silver

Pictured: John Aylward in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid