2012/2013 SEASON

IVANOV
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Carol Rocarmora
Directed by Austin Pendleton
featuring Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson, Juliet Rylance

PASSION
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by John Doyle
featuring Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn, Ryan Silverman

Books on Stage: DOSTOEVSKY
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, directed by Anna Brenner
- THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, adapted by Jacques Copeau and Jean Croue; directed by Jimmy Maize
- SUBJECT TO FITS (a response to Dostoevsky’s The Idiot), by Robert Montgomery, directed by Anna Brenner

The Young Company: MACBETH
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tony Speciale

2011/2012 SEASON

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by John Christopher Jones
Directed by Andrei Belgrader
with John Turturro and Dianne Wiest

GALILEO
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Charles Laughton
Directed by Brian Kulick
with F. Murray Abraham

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tony Speciale
with Bebe Neuwirth

The Young Company: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jimmy Maize

Open Rehearsal Series: Monday Night ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
By William Shakespeare
Three nights of Open Rehearsals featuring: Stephanie Roth Haberle, Laila Robbins and Kim Cattrall
Directed by Brian Kulick and Craig Baldwin

2010/2011 SEASON

ORLANDO
From the novel by Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Rebecca Taichman

THREE SISTERS
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Austin Pendleton
with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht, Josh Hamilton, Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard

DOUBLE FALSEHOOD
By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
Adapted for the 18th Century Stage by Lewis Theobald
Directed by Brian Kulick

THE SCHOOL FOR LIES
By David Ives
From Molière’s THE MISANTHROPE
Directed by Walter Bobbie
with Hamish Linklater and Mamie Gummer

UNNATURAL ACTS: Harvard’s Secret Court of 1920
Created by Members of the Plastic Theatre
Conceived and Directed by Tony Speciale

Books on Stage
- JAQUES AND HIS MASTER, Adapted from Diderot, By Milan Kundera
- HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES, By Salman Rushdie

First Look Festival: MOLIÈRE
- THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES
- TARTUFFE

The Young Company: AS YOU LIKE IT
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by James Rutherford

2009/2010 SEASON

THE AGE OF IRON
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick

VENUS IN FUR
By David Ives
Directed by Walter Bobbie
Featuring Nina Arianda and Wes Bentley

THE FOREST
By Alexader Ostrovsky
Translated by Kathleen Tolan
Directed by Brian Kulick
Featuring Dianne Wiest

First Look Festival: PIRANDELLO
One night only staged readings of the works of Luigi Pirandello
- SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, directed by Tony Speciale
- RIGHT YOU ARE, IF YOU THINK SO, directed by Craig Baldwin
- HENRY IV, directed by Brian Kulick, featuring John Turturro

The Young Company: TWELFTH NIGHT
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tony Speciale

Monday Night MUCH ADO
Four nights of Open Rehearsals presented in association with the Shakespeare Society
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick
Featuring: Mandy Patinkin, Laila Robbins and Kate Mulgrew

Books On Stage: WAR AND PEACE and ANNA KARENINA
Featuring Michael Stuhlbarg and Marin Ireland

2008/2009 SEASON

THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick
Featuring Mandy Patinkin

UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Carol Rocamora
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Denis O’Hare and Peter Sarsgaard

AN ORESTEIA
From the works of Aeschylos, Sophocles, Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
- Agamemnon & Electra, directed by Brian Kulick & Gisela Cardenas
- Orestes, directed by Paul Lazar and Associate Directed and Choreographed by Annie-B Parson

First Look Festival: BRECHT
One night only staged readings of the works of Bertolt Brecht
- THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, directed by Javierantonio González
- IN THE JUNGLE OF CITIES, directed by Rachel Chavkin
- THE GOOD PERSON OF SEZUAN, adapted by Tony Kushner, directed by Tony Speciale, featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal
- LIFE OF GALILEO, directed by Brian Kulick, featuring Richard Easton

The Young Company: ROMEO AND JULIET
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tony Speciale

Monday Night OTHELLO
In association with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
By William Shakespeare
Four nights of Open Rehearsals
Featuring: Michael Cumpsty, John Douglas Thompson, directed by Michael Sexton; Michael Potts, Alan Cumming, Mark H. Dold, directed by Brian Kulick; John Turturro, Alan Cumming, Marin Ireland, KK Moggie, directed by Brian Kulick; Andre Braugher, Frances McDormand, Marin Ireland, Directed by Barry Edelstein

THE PROUST PROJECT
A new adaptation series featuring a set of staged readings based on Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past
- SWANN IN LOVE, by Pamela Hansford Johnson, featuring Michael Stuhlbarg
- ALBERTINE REGAINED, by Pamela Hansford Johnson, featuring Michael Stuhlbarg
- WASTE OF TIME, by Robert David McDonald

2007/2008 SEASON

RICHARD III
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick and Michael Cumpsty

NEW JERUSALEM
By David Ives
Directed by Walter Bobbie
Featuring Richard Easton, Fyvush Finkel and Jeremy Strong

THE SEAGULL
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Viacheslav Dolgachev
Featuring Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming

OLD COMEDY AFTER ARISTOPHANES’ FROGS
A co-production with Target Margin Theater
By David Greenspan
Directed by David Herskovits

First Look Festival: THE ORESTEIA
Translated by Anne Carson, One night only staged readings from the Greek trilogy
- AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus, directed by Michael Cumpsty
- ELECTRA by Sophocles, directed by Brian Kulick
- ORESTES by Euripides, directed by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson

The Young Company: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tony Speciale

Monday Night MACBETH
In association with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
By William Shakespeare
Five nights of Open Rehearsals, featuring: Steven Skybell, directed by Brian Kulick; Elizabeth Marvel and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, directed by Barry Edelstein; Frances McDormand and David Strathairn, directed by Michael Sexton; Anne Bogart with the SITI Company

2006/2007 SEASON

RICHARD II
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick

Open Rehearsal Series: EDWARD II
By Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Brian Kulick

A SPANISH PLAY
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by David Ives
Directed by John Turturro
Featuring Zoe Caldwell, Katherine Borowitz, Linda Emond, Denis O’Hare & Larry Pine

PROMETHEUS BOUND
A co-production with Aquila Theatre Company
By Aeschylus
Directed by James Kerr
Featuring David Oyelowo

THE ILIAD, Parts I, II and III
A special staged reading
A co-production with Aquila Theatre Company
By Homer
Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Created by Peter Meineck and Robert Richmond

First Look Festival: CHEKHOV
One night only staged readings of Anton Chekhov’s classic plays
- THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by Diane Paulus
- THE SEAGULL, directed by Austin Pendelton
- UNCEL VANYA, directed by Erica Schmidt
- THREE SISTERS, directed by Gregory Mosher

The Young Company: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
In association with Columbia Stages
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jeff Janisheski

Monday Night TEMPEST
In association with the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
By William Shakespeare
Five nights of Open Rehearsals
Featuring: Michael Cumpsty, directed by Brian Kulick; SITI Company, directed by Anne Bogart, Carson Elrod, directed by Michael Sexton; Blair Brown, directed by Jeff Janisheski; Michael Cumpsty and David Costabile in a full reading of the play, directed by Brian Kulick.

2005/2006 SEASON

HAMLET
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian Kulick

FRAGMENT
Drawn from the lost plays of Sophocles & Euripides
Text assembled by Kelly Copper
Directed by Pavol Liska

FAUST, Parts 1 & 2
A co-production with Target Margin Theater
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by Douglas Langsworthy
Directed by David Herskovits

First Look Festival
One night only staged readings of rarely seen classics
- THE SPANISH TRAGEDY, by Thomas Kyd, directed by Michael Sexton
- ANTONIO’S REVENGE, by John Marston, directed by Daisy Walker
- THE ROMAN ACTOR, by Phillip Messinger, directed by John Dias

Monday Night LEAR
By William Shakepeare
Four nights of Open Rehearsals
Featuring: F. Murray Abraham, directed by Brian Kulick; Ron Leibman, directed by Brian Kulick; Richard Easton, directed by Michael Sexton; Kristin Linklater, directed by Diane Paulus

The Young Company: MOLIÈRE CYCLE
Presented by Columbia Stages in association with CSC
- SCAPIN, By Molière, Directed by Niky Wolcz
- THE MISANTHROPE, By Molière, Directed by Michael Sexton
- TARTUFFE, By Molière, Directed by Brian Kulick

Classic Kids: TELL ME MORE!
Starring Pennylyn White
- WIZARDS, WITCHES AND SPELLS
- MAGIC, MYSTERY AND MAYHEM
- SECRETS AND SORCERY

2004/2005 SEASON

DEATH AND THE PLOUGHMAN
By Johannes von Saaz
Directed by Anne Bogart

The First Look Festival
One night only staged readings of rarely seen classics
- MARY STUART, by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Erica Schmidt
- URFAUST, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, directed by Michael Sexton
- NATHAN THE WISE, by Gotthold Ephriam Lessing, directed by Brian Kulick

THREE SISTERS
By Antov Chekhov
Directed by Pavol Liska

HAPPY DAYS
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Jeff Cohen

THE FALSE SERVANT
By Pierre de Marivaux
Directed by Brian Kulick

Monday Night HAMLET
By William Shakepeare
Four nights of open rehearsals

2003/2004 SEASON

ANTIGONE
By Mac Wellman
Directed by Paul Lazar

THE MYSTERIES
Directed by Brian Kulick

First Look Festival
One night only staged readings of rarely seen classics
- THE JEW OF MALTA, by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Brian Kulick
- ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM, by Anonymous, directed by Erica Schmidt
- VOPLONE, by Ben Jonson, directed by Michael Sexton
- RICHARD III, by William Shakespeare, directed by Barry Edelstein

2002/2003 SEASON

GHOSTS
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Daniel Fish

THE WINTER’S TALE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Barry Edelstein

SAVANNAH BAY
By Marguerite Duras

2001/2002 SEASON

MONSTER
By Neal Bell
From Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein

THE UNDERPANTS
By Carl Sternheim, in a new version by Steve Martin

ROOM
Based upon the writings of Virginia Woolf

2000/2001 SEASON

TEXTS FOR NOTHING
By Samuel Beckett

RACE
By Ferdinand Bruckner

I WILL BEAR WITNESS: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer

IN THE PENAL COLONY
Based on a story by Franz Kafka

1999/2000 SEASON

LOOK BACK IN ANGER
By John Osborne

HURRICAN
“Classic Stages / New Visions”
By Erin Cressida Wilson

THE ALCHEMIST
By Ben Jonson

NAKED
By Luigi Pirandello
Translated by Nicholas Wright

1998/1999 SEASON

WAITING FOR GODOT
By Samuel Beckett

THE MISANTHROPE
By Molière
Translated by Martin Crimp

A SIMPLE HEART
By Annie B Parson and Paul Lazar

1997/1998 SEASON

THERESE RAQUIN
By Emile Zola
Translated by Neal Bell

CHRISTMAS AT THE IVANOVS
By Alexander Vvedensky
Translated by Julia Listengarten and Karin Coonrod

PHAEDRA IN DELIRIUM
By Susan Yankowtiz

1996/1997 SEASON

ANOTHER PART OF THE HOUSE
By Migdalia Cruz

THE ENTERTAINER
By John Osborne

1995/1996 SEASON

ENDGAME
By Samuel Beckett

ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
By Joe Orton

DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR
By Odon von Horvath
Translated by Ralph Manheim and Sean Allan

1994/1995 SEASON

THE SCARLET LETTER
By Phyllis Nagy

IPHIGENIA AND OTHER DAUGHERS
By Ellen McLaughlin

AMPHITRYON
By Eric Overmyer

1993/1994 SEASON

THE MAIDS
By Jean Genet

THE ILLUSION
By Pierre Corneille
Adapted by Tony Kushner

THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
By Marivaux
Translated by James Magruder

1992/1993 SEASON

GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA (GOOD MORNING JULIET)
By Ann-Marie MacDonald

SCAPIN
By Molière
Translated/Adapted by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader

KRAPP’S LAST TAPE
By Samuel Beckett

1991/1992 SEASON

BON APPETIT
By Ruth Draper and Julia Child

CABARET VERBOTEN
By William Bendow, Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck, Fritz Grunbaum, Friederich Hollaender, Walter Mehring, Edmund Meisel, Rudolf Nelson, Marcellus Schiffer, Mischa Spollansky, Konrad Tom, Kurt Tucholsky, Karl Valentin
Adapted by Kathleen L. Komar, Laurence Senelick, John Willet, Jeremy Lawrence

CREDITORS
By August Strindberg
Translated by Paul Walsh

1990/1991 SEASON

HAPPY DAYS
By Samuel Beckett

THE LEARNED LADIES
By Molière
Translated/Adapted by Freyda Thomas

THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Ralph Manheim

1989/1990 SEASON

MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE and THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
By Harold Pinter

HEART OF A DOG
By Mikhail Bulgakov
Translated/Adapted by Deloss Brown

THE TOWER OF EVIL
By Alexandre Dumas
Translated/Adapted by Michael Feingold

1988/1989 SEASON

RAMEAU’S NEPHEW
Based on the work by Denis Diderot
Translated and adapted by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader

PHAEDRA BRITANNICA
By Tony Harrison

DON JUAN OF SEVILLE
By Tirso de Molina

1987/1988 SEASON

ELEKTRA
By Ezra Pound

UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
By Harold Pinter

1986/1987 SEASON

THE MAIDS
By Jean Genet

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
By Thornton Wilder

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
By William Shakespeare

1985/1986 SEASON

BRAND
By Henrik Ibsen

FRANKENSTEIN
By Mary Shelley

MEDIEVAL MYSTERY PLAYS
By the Wakefield Cycle

THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare

THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
By Len Jeknins
From the short story by Franz Kafka

THE DIVINE ORLANDO
By William Luce

1984/1985 SEASON

ORESTEIA II, Elektra/Orestes

THE ORESTEIA, Agamemnon

FRANKENSTEIN
By Mary Shelley

GEORGES DANDIN
By Molière

THE UNDERPANTS
By Carl Sternheim

1983/1984 SEASON

BIG AND LITTLE
By Botho Strauss

FAUST I and II
By Goethe

THE HAMLET DECONSTRUCTION

DANCE OF DEATH
By August Strindberg

1982/1983 SEASON

FAUST, Part 1
By Goethe

FAUST, Part 2
By Goethe

GHOST SONATA
By August Strindberg

WILD OATS
By John O’Keefe

BALLOON
By Karen Sunde

DANTON’S DEATH
By Georg Buchner

1981/1982 SEASON

PEER GYNT
By Henrik Ibsen

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
By Anton Chekhov

KING LEAR
By William Shakespeare

GHOST SONATA
By August Strindberg

1980/1981 SEASON

OEDIPUS REX
By Sophocles

OEDIPUS IN COLONUS
By Sophocles

ANTIGONE
By Sophocles

GILLES DE RAIS
By Roger Planchon

WOYZECK
By Georg Buchner

LEONCE AND LENA
By Georg Buchner

1979/1980 SEASON

THE CUCHULAIN PLAYS
By W.B. Yeats

THE CAVERN
By Jean Anouilh

DOCTOR FAUSTUS
By Christopher Marlowe

DON JUAN
By Molière

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
By William Shakespeare

LEONCE AND LENA
By Georg Buchner

1978/1979 SEASON

RICHARD II
By William Shakespeare

HENRY IV, Part One
By William Shakespeare

HENRY IV, Part Two
By William Shakespeare

WILD OATS
By John O’Keefe

THE MARQUIS OF KEITH
By Frank Wedekind

1977/1978 SEASON

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
By William Shakespeare

SERGEANT MUSGRAVE’S DANCE
By John Arden

ROSMERSHOLM
By Henrik Ibsen

MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT
By Jean Giraudoux

RUNNING OF THE DEER
By Karen Sunde

THE MAIDS
By Jean Genet

1976/1977 SEASON

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
By George Bernard Shaw

TARTUFFE
By Molière

THE HOMECOMING
By Harold Pinter

BINGO
By Edward Bond

THE BALCONY
By Jean Genet

1975/1976 SEASON

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare

A COUNTRY SCANDAL
By Anton Chekhov

ANTIGONE
By Jean Anouilh

HEDDA GABLER
By Henrik Ibsen

TARTUFFE
By Molière

SCHOOL FOR BUFFOONS & ESCURIAL
By Michel de Ghelderode

LA CELESTINA
By Fernando de Rojas

THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

THE HOMECOMING
By Harold Pinter

1974/1975 SEASON

HEDDA GABLER
By Henrik Ibsen

THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare

THE MAIDS
By Jean Genet

EDWARD II
By Christopher Marlowe

THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING
By Christopher Fry

THE SERVANT
By William Somerset Maugham

ANTIGONE
By Jean Anouilh

WOYZECK
By Georg Buchner

1973/1974 SEASON

MOBY DICK
By Herman Melville

TWELFTH NIGHT
By William Shakespeare

MISS JULIE
By August Strindberg

THE HOMECOMING
By Harold Pinter

THE MISANTHROPE
By Molière

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
By Tom Stoppard

THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY
By Cyril Tourneur

THE DWARF & THE DUMBWAITER
By Harold Pinter

UNDER MILKWOOD
By Dylan Thomas

HEDDA GABLER
By Henrik Ibsen

THE CARETAKER
By Harold Pinter

1972/1973 SEASON

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
By Tom Stoppard

THE HOMECOMING
By Harold Pinter

THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare

MACBETH
By William Shakespeare

THE DEVILS
By John Robert Whiting

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare

LOOT
By Joe Orton

ROSHOMON
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa

1971/1972 SEASON

MARAT/SADE
By Peter Weiss

JULIUS CAESER
By William Shakespeare

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
By Nikolai Gogal

TITUS ANDRONICUS
By William Shakespeare

1970/1971 SEASON

HAMLET
By William Shakespeare

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
By Tom Stoppard

MOBY DICK
By Herman Melville

TWELFTH NIGHT
By William Shakespeare

MAN AND SUPERMAN
By George Bernard Shaw

PERICLES
By William Shakespeare

UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov

1969/1970 SEASON

THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY
By Cyril Tourneur

POOR BITOS
By Jean Anouilh

UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov

MAN AND SUPERMAN
By Georg Bernard Shaw

GOAT ISLAND
By Ugo Betti

MOBY DICK
By Herman Melville

1968/1969 SEASON

POOR BITOS
By Jean Anouilh

UNCLE VANYA
By Anton Chekhov

THE CAVERN
By Jean Anouilh

TARTUFFE
By Molière

1967/1968 SEASON

HAMLET
By William Shakespeare

MAN AND SUPERMAN
By George Bernard Shaw

THE CAVERN
By Jean Anouilh

TARTUFFE
By Molière