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Year Play

Playwright

1938 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Hegan Rice
1938 Personal Appearance Lawrence Riley
1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Barre Lyndon
1938 The Lady Has a Heart Ladislaus Bush-Fekete
1938 Tovarich Deval-Sherwood
1939 It's a Wise Child Larry Johnson
1939 Kiss the Boys Goodbye Claire Booth
1939 Petticoat Fever Mark Reed
1939 Rebound Donald Ogden Stewart
1939 Susan and God Rachel Crothers
1939 Thieves Fall Out Alice Mackenzie, John Hayden
1939 Tonight or Never David Belasco
1939 Twin Beds Salisbury Field, Margaret Mayo
1939 You Can't Eat the Goldfish Marcella Burke, Gladys Unger
1942 George Washington Slept Here Kaufman & Hart
1946 Biography S.N. Behrman
1946 Claudia Rose Franken
1946 Private Lives Noel Coward
1946 Rocket to the Moon Clifford Odets
1946 Skylark Samson Raphaelson
1946 Suspect Reginald Denham, Edward Percy
1947 A Bill of Divorcement Clemence Dane
1947 Dark Eyes Elena Miramova, Eugenie Leontovich
1947 Dream Girl Elmer Rice
1947 Ladies in Retirement Reginald Denham, Edward Percy
1947 Laughter from a Cloud Lynn Riggs
1947 Personal Appearance Lawrence Riley
1947 Springtime for Henry Benn W. Levy
1947 The Hasty Heart John Patrick
1947 The Late Christopher Bean Sidney Howard
1947 The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman
1947 The Male Animal James Thurber, Elliot Nugent
1947 Too Many Husbands Somerset Maugham
1947 Vinegar Tree Paul Osborn
1948 Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire James M. Barrie
1948 Amphitryon 38 Jean Giradoux adapted by S.N. Behrman
1948 The Beaux' Strategem George Farquhar
1948 Chicken Every Sunday Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein
1948 Escape Me Never Margaret Kennedy
1948 Gala Closing Bill ***
1948 Hand in Hand Leonard Gershe, Dean Fuller
1948 Meet the Wife Lynn Starling
1948 Papa Is All Patterson Greene
1948 Springtime for Henry Benn W. Levy
1948 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
1948 The Magistrate Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
1948 The Marquise Noel Coward
1948 The Philidelphia Story Philip Barry
1948 Twentieth Century Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
1949 Charm John Kirkpatrick
1949 For Love Or Money F. Hugh Herbert
1949 Good Houskeeping William McCleery
1949 John Loves Mary Norman Krasna
1949 Let Us Be Gay Rachel Crothers
1949 Lovers and Friends Dodie Smith
1949 Night Must Fall Emlyn Williams
1949 Present Laughter Noel Coward
1949 Private Lives Noel Coward
1949 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
1949 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Rudolf Besier
1949 The Corn Is Green Emlyn Williams
1949 The Heiress Ruth and Augustus Goetz
1949 The Man Who Came to Dinner Kaufman & Hart
1949 The Medium, The Telephone Gian Carlo Menotti
1949 The Philidelphia Story Philip Barry
1949 Up to Now Clay Warnic
1950 Angel Street Patrick Hamilton
1950 Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw
1950 Dear Brutus James M. Barrie
1950 Harvey Mary Chase
1950 Knickerbocker Holiday Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill
1950 Light Up the Sky Moss Hart
1950 Miss Mabel R.C. Sherriff
1950 One Woman Show, Song and Piano ***
1950 Over 21 Ruth Gordon
1950 The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw
1950 The Lady From the Sea Henrik Ibsen
1950 The Post Road Wilbur Daniel Steele, Norma Mitchell
1950 The Second Man S.N. Behrman
1950 The Winslow Boy Terence Rattigan
1951 A Souvenir From Italy Louis Ducreaux
1951 Ann Lucasta Philip Yordan
1951 Border Be Damned Paul Vincent Carroll
1951 Candida George Bernard Shaw
1951 Clutterbuck Benn W. Levy
1951 Here Today George Oppenheimer
1951 Home at Seven R.C. Sherriff
1951 Mirror, Mirror George Oppenheimer
1951 Music in the Air Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
1951 Pal Joey Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, John O'Hara
1951 The Curtain Rises B.M. Kaye
1951 The Fourposter Jan de Hartog
1951 The Fourposter Jan de Hartog
1951 The Gioconda Smile Aldous Huxley
1951 The Innocents William Archibold
1951 The Silver Whistle Robert E. McEnroe
1952 An Evening with Beatrice Lillie ***
1952 Biography S.N. Behrman
1952 Come Back, Little Sheba William Inge
1952 Comin' Thro' the Rye Warren P. Munsell, Robert Burns
1952 Dangerous Corner J.B. Priestley
1952 Her Cardboard Lover Jacques Deval
1952 I Found April George Baston
1952 On Your Toes Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
1952 One Touch of Venus Kurt Weill, S.J. Perelman, and Ogden Nash
1952 Remains to be Seen Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
1952 The Happy Time Samuel Taylor
1952 The Man Mel Dinelli
1952 The Premier Ballet ***
1952 The Second Threshold Philip Barry
1953 Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
1953 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
1953 Red Sky at Morning Edward Mabley & Joanna Roos
1953 The Happiest Days of Your Life John Dighton
1953 The Lady's not for Burning Christopher Fry
1953 The School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1954 Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw
1954 Outward Bound Sutton Vane
1954 The Cocktail Party T.S. Eliot
1954 The Country Girl Clifford Odets
1954 The Male Animal James Thurber & Elliot Nugent
1954 Venus Observed Christopher Fry
1955 As You Like It William Shakespeare
1955 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! Edward Chodorov
1955 Ring Round the Moon Jean Anouilh
1955 The Time of Your Life William Saroyan
1955 You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw
1956 Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
1956 Sabrina Fair Samuel Taylor
1956 The Old Boy Maura Laverty
1956 Tiger at the Gates Jean Giraudoux
1956 You Can't Take It With You Kaufman & Hart
1957 Half in Earnest Vivian Ellis
1957 Holiday for Lovers Ronald Alexander
1957 Ondine Jean Giraudoux
1957 The Hidden River Ruth & Augustus Goetz
1957 The Potting Shed Graham Greene
1958 Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw
1958 King of Hearts Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke
1958 The Cave Dwellers William Saroyan
1958 The Enchanted Jean Giraudoux
1958 Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas
1959 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
1959 Rashomon Fay and Michael Kanin
1959 Royal Gambit Herman Gressieker
1959 Say, Darling Abe Burrows, Richard Bissell, Marian Bissell, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Jule Styne
1959 The Power and the Glory Denis Cannan & Pierre Bost
1960 Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
1960 Elektra Jean Giraudoux
1960 Life With Father Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
1960 The Bespoke Overcoat Wolf Mankowitz
1960 The Shadow of a Gunman Sean O'Casey
1960 The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder
1961 A Phoenix Too Frequent Christopher Fry
1961 Candida George Bernard Shaw
1961 Cecile or The School for Fathers Jean Anouilh
1961 The Fantasticks Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
1961 The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman
1961 The Sea Gull Anton Chekhov
1961 The Tavern George M. Cohan
1961 The Teahouse of the August Moon John Patrick
1962 Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw
1962 Little Mary Sunshine Rick Besoyan
1962 Rhinoceros Eugene Ionesco
1962 The Matchmaker Thornton Wilder
1962 Write Me a Murder Frederick Knott
1963 Plays From Bleeker Street Thornton Wilder
1963 Romulus Freidrich Durrenmott
1963 The Caretaker Harold Pinter
1963 The Visit Friedrich Duerrenmott
1963 Time Remembered Jean Anouilh
1964 Leave it to Jane Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse
1964 Linda Stone is Brutal William F. Brown
1964 Mother Courage and her Children Bertolt Brecht
1964 The Bum's Rush Leo Brady
1964 Thieves' Carnival Jean Anouilh
1965 A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
1965 Poor Richard Jean Kerr
1965 Tartuffe Moliere
1965 The Bald Soprano Eugene Ionesco
1965 The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter
1965 The Rose Tattoo Tennessee Williams
1965 The Zoo Story Edward Albee
1965 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
1966 A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt
1966 Hogan's Goat William Alfred
1966 Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
1966 Stephen D James Joyce
1966 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
1967 A Slight Ache Harold Pinter
1967 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
1967 Richard III William Shakespeare
1967 The Chairs Eugene Ionesco
1967 The Millionairess George Bernard Shaw
1967 The Sand Box Edward Albee
1967 The School for Wives Moliere
1968 A Flea in Her Ear Georges Feydeau
1968 A Taste of Honey Shelagh Delaney
1968 Life With Father Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
1968 Tango Slawomir Mrozek
1968 The Coldest War of All Aristophanes and Divers Hand
1968 The Physicists Friedrich Duerrenmott
1968 The Playboy of the Western World John Millington Synge
1969 Christabel and the Rubicon H.J. Moorman
1969 Joe Egg Peter Nichols
1969 Never Too Late Sumner Arthur Long
1969 The Rehearsal Jean Anouilh
1969 Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf Edward Albee
1970 Blithe Spirit Noel Coward
1970 Enter a Free Man Tom Stoppard
1970 Little Murders Jules Feiffer
1970 Madigan's Lock Hugh Leonard
1970 The Price Arthur Miller
1971 Child's Play Robert Marasco
1971 Hay Fever Noel Coward
1971 The Homecoming Harold Pinter
1971 Two for the Seesaw William Gibson
1971 Whispers on the Wind John B. Kuntz
1972 Home David Storey
1972 Play Strindberg Friedrich Duerrenmott
1972 Tartuffe Moliere
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays Paul Zindel
1972 The Patrick Pearse Motel Hugh Leonard
1973 A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller
1973 Da Hugh Leonard
1973 Private Lives Noel Coward
1973 The Mousetrap Agatha Christie
1973 The Tavern George M. Cohan
1974 Crime & Punishment Dostoevsky, Leo Brady
1974 Happy End Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
1974 Summer Hugh Leonard
1974 The Miser Moliere
1974 Tonight at 8:30 Noel Coward
1975 Irishman Hugh Leonard
1975 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
1975 The Good Doctor Neil Simon
1975 The Show-Off George Kelly
1975 The Unexpected Guest Agatha Christie
1976 All the Nice People Hugh Leonard
1976 Mary, Mary Jean Kerr
1976 Spider's Web Agatha Christie
1976 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
1976 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov
1977 Absurd Person Singular Alan Ayckbourn
1977 Philadelphia, Here I come Brian Friel
1977 That Championship Season Jason Miller
1977 The Tenth Mann Paddy Chayefsky
1977 Towards Zero Agatha Christie
1978 Black Coffee Agatha Christie
1978 Father Time Leo Brady
1978 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
1978 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
1978 Juno and the Paycock Sean O'Casey
1978 The Miracle Worker William Gibson
1979 All the Way Home Tad Mosel
1979 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
1979 Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie
1979 Spokesong Stewart Parker, Jimmy Kennedy
1979 The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood
1979 The Caretaker Harold Pinter
1980 A Murder is Announced Agatha Christie
1980 Bedroom Farce Alan Ayckbourn
1980 Hotel Universe Philip Barry
1980 Joe Egg Peter Nichols
1980 The Price Arthur Miller
1981 A Life Hugh Leonard
1981 Filumena Edwardo de Filippo
1981 God's Favorite Neil Simon
1981 The Fantasticks Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
1981 Verdict Agatha Christie
1982 Candida George Bernard Shaw
1982 Songbook Monty Norman, Julian More
1982 The Hasty Heart John Patrick
1982 The Hollow Agatha Christie
1982 The Shadow of a Gunman Sean O'Casey
1983 Love from a Stranger Agatha Christie
1983 Misalliance George Bernard Shaw
1983 The Dresser Ronald Harwood
1983 The Time of Your Life William Saroyan
1984 Crimes of the Heart Beth Henley
1984 Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up John R. Powers, James Quinn, Alaric Jans
1984 Enter a Free Man Tom Stoppard
1984 The Gin Game D.L. Coburn
1985 Baby Sybille Pearson, David Shire, Richard Maltby,Jr
1985 Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up John R. Powers, James Quinn, Alaric Jans
1985 Painting Churches Tina Howe
1985 The Foreigner Larry Shue
1985 The Foreigner Larry Shue
1985 The Miss Firecracker Contest Beth Henley
1986 A Little Night Music Hugh Wheeler, Stephen Sondheim
1986 A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt
1986 Betrayal Harold Pinter
1986 Death Trap Ira Levin
1986 Educating Rita Willy Russell
1986 Little Shop of Horrors Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
1987 A Taste of Honey Shelagh Delaney
1987 Acting Shakespeare William Shakespeare
1987 Born Yesterday Garson Kanin
1987 Noises Off Michael Frayn
1987 Noises Off Michael Frayn
1987 The Boys from Syracuse Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and George Abbott
1987 The Crucifer of Blood Paul Giovanni
1988 Brighton Beach Memoirs Neil Simon
1988 Mass Appeal Bill C. Davis
1988 Pack of Lies Hugh Whitemore
1988 Side By Side By Sondheim Stephen Sondheim
1988 The Butterfingers Angel… William Gibson
1988 The House of Blue Leaves John Guare
1989 A Shayna Maidel Barbara Lebow
1989 Fallen Angels Noel Coward
1989 Lucky Stiff Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty
1989 The Nerd Larry Shue
1989 The Return of Herbert Bracewell Andrew Johns
1990 Dennis the Menace Hank Ketcham, Ernest Chambers
1990 Rough Crossing Tom Stoppard
1990 The Secret Rapture David Hare
1990 The Woman in Black Stephen Mallatratt, Susan Hill
1990 You Can't Take It With You Kaufman & Hart
1991 I'm Not Rappaport Herb Gardner
1991 Marry Me a Little Craig Lucas, Norman Rene, and Stephen Sondheim
1991 See How They Run Philip King
1991 The Elephant Man Bernard Pomerance
1991 The Petition Brian Clark
1992 I Hate Hamlet Paul Rudnick
1992 Illegal Motion Bernie DeLeo
1992 Prelude to a Kiss Craig Lucas
1992 The Miracle Worker William Gibson
1992 Wuthering Heights Edward Trach
1993 For Reasons That Remain Unclear Mart Crowley
1993 Holiday Memories Truman Capote
1993 Lend Me A Tenor Ken Ludwig
1993 Lyndon James Prideaux
1993 Shadowlands William Nicholson
1993 Show Me Where the Good Times Are Leonora Thuna
1993 The Tavern George M. Cohan
1993 Voice of the Prairie John Olive
1994 A Small Family Business Alan Ayckbourn
1994 Cinderella Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
1994 Hot 'n' Cole Cole Porter
1994 Sight Unseen Donald Margulies
1994 The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams
1994 The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May Burton Cohen
1994 The Trip to Bountiful Horton Foote
1995 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
1995 Dracula Bram Stoker
1995 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Jacques Brel, Eric Blau, and Mort Shuman
1995 M Butterfly David Henry Hwang
1995 The Best of Friends Hugh Whitemore
1995 The Little Prince John Scoullar
1995 When We Are Married J.B. Priestley
1996 After Play Anne Meara
1996 Broken Glass Arthur Miller
1996 Design for Living Noel Coward
1996 Mrs. Warren's Profession George Bernard Shaw
1996 The Fifth Season Kathleen Cahill, Deborah Wicks Lapuma
1996 To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee
1996-7 Cinderella Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
1997-8 Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
1998-9 Holiday Memories Truman Capote, Russell Vandenbroucke
1997 Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw
1997 Becket Jean Anouilh
1997 Look! We Have Come Through J. Petosa & C.G.Lehan (D.H. Lawrence)
1997 Noises Off Michael Frayn
1997 Romeo & Juliet William Shakespeare
1997 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
1998 A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
1998 Amadeus Peter Shaffer
1998 Camille Alexandre Dumas, fils
1998 Good C.P. Taylor
1998 Mad Forest Caryl Churchill
1998 Present Laughter Noel Coward
1998 Racing Demon David Hare
1999 A Question of Mercy David Rabe
1999 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
1999 Equus Peter Shaffer
1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
1999 Light Up the Sky Moss Hart
1999 Peter Pan J.M. Barrie
1999 The Road to Mecca Athol Fugard
2000 Hay Fever Noel Coward
2000 Man of La Mancha Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion, and Mitch Leigh
2000 Sueno Jose Rivera, based on a play by Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca
2000 Tartuffe Moliere
2000 The Madwoman of Chaillot Jean Giradoux
2000 Therese Raquin Emile Zola, ad. Neal Bell
2000 West Side Story Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Leonard Bernstein
2001 Art Yasmina Reza
2001 Bye Bye Birdie Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart
2001 Holiday Philip Barry
2001 She Loves Me Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joe Masteroff
2001 The Homecoming Harold Pinter
2001 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard
2001 The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan
2002 Candida George Bernard Shaw
2002 Coffee With Richelieu Norman Allen
2002 Collected Stories Donald Margulies
2002 Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry
2002 Grease Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
2002 The Laramie Project Moises Kaufman/Tectonic Theater Project
2002 The Secret Garden Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon
2003 Dames at Sea George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, and Jim Wise
2003 The Miser Moliere
2003 Private Lives Noel Coward
2003 Monster Neal Bell
2003 Anna Karenina Helen Edmundson
2003 Charley's Aunt Brandon Thomas
2003 The Gift of the Magi by Mark St.Germain
2004 Having Our Say Emily Mann
2004 Oh, Coward! Roderick Cook and Noel Coward
2004 Necessary Targets Eve Ensler
2004 Copenhagen Michael Frayn
2004 Venus Suzan-Lori Parks
2004 Blithe Spirit Noel Coward
2004 Carousel Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
2005 Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw
2005 Omnium Gatherum Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros
2005 Lend Me A Tenor Ken Ludwig
2005 La Tragedie de Carmen Peter Brook, Marius Constant, and Georges Bizet
2005 The Miracle Worker William Gibson
2005 Morning's at Seven Paul Osborn
2005 Oliver! Lionel Bart
2006 The Heiress Augustus and Ruth Goetz
2006 Anything Goes Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse, and John Weidman
2006 The Elephant Man Bernard Pomerance
2006 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
2006 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Jacques Brel, Eric Blau, and Mort Shuman
2006 An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
2006 The Foreigner Larry Shue
2006 Cinderella Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
2007 The Constant Wife W. Somerset Maugham
2007 Eubie! Music by Eubie Blake, conceived by Julianne Boyd
2007 I Am My Own Wife Doug Wright
2007 13 Rue De L'Amour Georges Feydeau, adapted and translated by Mawby Green and Ed Feilbart
2007 Brooklyn Boy Donald Margulies
2007 Democracy Michael Frayn
2007 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
2007 Fiddler on the Roof Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
2008 Doubt: A Parable John Patrick Shanley
2008 Bad Dates Theresa Rebeck
2008 1776 Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards
2008 The Mousetrap Agatha Christie
2008 Stuff Happens David Hare
2008 Rabbit Hole David Lindsay-Abaire
2008 The Underpants adapted by Steve Martin; from a play by Carl Sternheim
2008 Peter Pan Mark Charlap, Carolyn Leigh, and J.M. Barrie
2009 Is He Dead? Mark Twain; adapted by David Ives
2009 King of the Jews By Leslie Epstein; a World Premiere