Production History

The 1980s

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1980-81

Mainstage

• Strider: The Story of a Horse-based on a story by Leo Tolstoy
• The Grand Hunt by Gyula Hernady
• Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
• Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
• The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
• Tintypes conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin & Gary Pearle

Sundays at Three

New Plays in Process Project

• Back to Back by Al Brown
• Twenty-Three Years Later by Michael Weller
• Wild Air by Tom Huey
• Salvation Now by Snoo Wilson
• American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel

Special Events

• "Terkel on Terkel"
• Raggety Dick and Puss by Tim Kelly

Mainstage Tour

• Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB- Washington State tour)

• Newcomer by Janet Thomas

1981-82

Mainstage

• Another Part of the Forest by Lillian Hellman
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
• Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
• Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
• Savages by Christopher Hampton
• Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

New Plays in Process Project

• The Duel by David Gild
• The Grass Widow by Snoo Wilson
• An Ounce of Prevention by Hal Corley
• What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney, Jr.

Sundays at Three

Special Event

• "An Evening with Barbara Cook"

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Newcomer by Janet Thomas

1982-83

Mainstage

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Front Page by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
• Translations by Brian Friel
• The Vinegar Tree by Paul Osborn

New Plays in Process Project

• Crossfire by Theodore Gross
• The Ballad of Soapy Smith by Michael Weller
• My Uncle Sam by Len Jenkin
• Shivaree by William Mastrosimone

Sundays at Three

Special Event

• "Barbara Cook Onstage"

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Everything Nice

1983-84

Bagley Wright Theatre (opening season)

• The Ballad of Soapy Smith premiere by Michael Weller
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn adapted by James Hammerstein & Christopher Harbon
• Make and Break by Michael Frayn
• The Misanthrope by Molière; translated by Richard Wilbur
• Master Harold ... and the boys by Athol Fugard
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare

PONCHO Forum (opening season)

• Shivaree premiere by William Mastrosimone

New Plays in Process Project

• Coming of Age in Soho by Albert Innaurato
• Splittin' Hairs by Rebecca Wells
• Between East and West by Richard Nelson
• Abingdon Square by Maria Irene Fornes

Sundays at Three

Special Event

• Appearing Nightly - Lily Tomlin's one-person show

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Aesop's Fantastic Fables

1984-85

Bagley Wright Theatre

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Passion Play by Peter Nichols
• I'm Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner
• The Mandrake by Niccolo Machiavelli & The Wedding by Bertolt Brecht (one acts)
• 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman
• Guys and Dolls-book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows, music & lyrics by Frank Loesser

The Other Season

• Discovered by Anthony Giardina
• The Nice and the Nasty by Mark O'Donnell
• Cat's-Paw by William Mastrosimone
• Bearclaw by Timothy Mason (formerly titled My Father in the Tate)

Dollar Theatre

• Big and Little - selections from Botho Strauss
• Greetings from Elsewhere - selected sketch material by Mark O'Donnell
• Standing Up Walking Out by Carl Sander
• Longshots by Rod Long (one-person show)
• Bread, Buns & Butter - performance art by Alan Lande

Special Events

• The Texas Chainsaw Manicurist written and composed by Scott Warrender

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Oldies by Christine Sumption

1985-86
Bagley Wright Theatre

• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
• All My Sons by Arthur Miller
• The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
• The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky
• Fences by August Wilson (Yale Rep production)
• Girl Crazy-book by Guy Bolton & John McGowan, music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin

PONCHO Forum

• Endgame by Samuel Beckett
• Cat's-Paw by William Mastrosimone
• The Other Season
• The Understanding by William Mastrosimone
• A Peep into the Twentieth Century by Christopher Davis
• Remote Conflict by Kathleen Tolan

Dollar Theatre

• "Thanatophobia: Fear of Death" with magician Kirk Charles
• Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
• "Theatresports" competitive improvisational matches
• Ruth by Alazais Azema Theater Company

Special Event

• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Lily Tomlin (one-person show)

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Home Girl by Kevin Tighe

1986-87
Bagley Wright Theatre

• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
• Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (Yale Rep production)
• Noises Off by Michael Frayn
• A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
• Red Square by Theodore Faro Gross

Stage 2

• Landscape of the Body by John Guare
• Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard
• The Understanding premiere by William Mastrosimone

The Other Season

• The Prize by William Biff McGuire
• Play Yourself by Harry Kondoleon

Dollar Theatre

• Sound-Off collaboration with Theatre-In-Sign
• Chameleons by Dale Soules (one-person show)
• Orbit - performance art by Mark Anderson
• The Inexhaustible Hat - poetry of David Wagoner

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Navy Brat by Carl Sander

1987-88
Bagley Wright Theatre

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
• Home by David Storey
• The Garden of Earthly Delights-conceived and directed by Martha Clarke, music by Richard Peaslee (Music-Theatre Group production)
• Tartuffe by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
• Hogan's Goat by William Alfred
• Eastern Standard premiere by Richard Greenberg

Stage 2

• Danger: Memory! two one-acts by Arthur Miller (Clara and I Can't Remember Anything)
• The Beauty Part by S.J. Perelman
• Hunting Cockroaches by Janusz Glowacki

The Other Season

• Largely/New York by Bill Irwin
• August Snow by Reynolds Price
• New Music by Reynolds Price
• The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

Dollar Theatre

• The Cave of the Chimaera: The Theatre of W.B. Yeats devised by Keith Scales
• The 100th Boyfriend based on the book by Bridget Daly and Janet Skeels
• The Further Adventures of Lindsay Long by Susy Schneider

Special Events

• The Regard of Flight by Bill Irwin, M.C. O'Connor and David Skinner
• Chameleons by Dale Soules (Affiliate Artist)

Western States Tour

• Hogan's Goat and Tartuffe

1988-89
Bagley Wright Theatre

• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• Largely/New York premiere by Bill Irwin
• Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
• Truffles in the Soup premiere by Daniel Sullivan and the SRT Resident Acting Company, adapted from Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters

Stage 2

• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally
• That's it, Folks! by Mark O'Donnell
• Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

The Other Season

• Sunshine by William Mastrosimone
• Strangers on Earth by Mark O'Donnell
• O Pioneers!-adapted from Willa Cather's O Pioneers! for stage by Darah Cloud, Music by Kim D.Sherman, Lyrics by Darah Cloud

Western States Tour

• Cat on a Hot Roof

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Foolish Arts by Erik Brogger

1989-90
Bagley Wright Theatre

• The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
• A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, adaptation by Frank Galati
• Feast of Fools-written, conceived and performed by Geoff Hoyle
• The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
• Sunday in the Park With George-music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine

Stage 2

• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• Robbers premiere by Lyle Kessler
• Woody Guthrie's American Song-conceived, adapted and directed by Peter Glazer, musical arrangements by Jeff Waxman

The Other Season

• May Day by Conrad Bromberg
• The End of the Day by Jon Robin Baitz
• Home and Away by Kevin Kling
• Love Diatribe by Harry Kondoleon

Western States Tour

• The Playboy of the Western World

Mobile Outreach Bunch (MOB; Washington State tour)

• Takunda by Charles Smith

Pictured: Jeannie Carson and John Procaccino in Tartuffe