1950
The Second Man
by S.N. Behrman
directed by Jean Dalrymple
with Franchot Tone, Cloris Leachman, Walter Brooke, Margaret Lindsay
Angel in the Pawnshop
transfer to Broadway – Booth Theatre
by A.B. Shiffrin
directed by Martin Manulis
with Eddie Dowling, Joan McCracken, Marie Murray Hamilton, Hugh Reilly, Robert Weber, Willie Lewis, John Farrell, Elizabeth Kerr, Robert Whiting
The Devil’s Disciple
by Bernard Shaw
directed by Emmett Rogers
with Maurice Evans, Philip Bourneuf, Frances Reid, John Williams, Maud Scheerer, Olive Dunbar, Michael Higgins, Somer Aldberg, Robert Seaver, Bette de Witte, Sam Wilson, Georgette Spelvin, Walter Appler, Kenneth Treseder, Ted Davis, Don Glenn, Sam Wilson, Doug Bora, Philip Langner, Frank Perry, Chilton Ryan, John Barry Ryan, Harold Stone, Robert Whiting, Neal Wilder, Jr., Dawn Steinkamp, Elsie Kerr, Jeanne Silva, Doris Sturtevant, Don Falasco, Conrad Fowkes, Jr., Jack Meonakas, Al Miller
The Life of the Party
by Lawrence Langner
with Stephen Sondheim, John Emery, Louis Hector, Lea Penman, John Baragrey, Roy Johnson, Charles Mendick, Joseph Sweeney, Peggy Henry, Scott Moore, Dwight Marfield, Hazel Dawn, Jr., Sam Raskyn, Eugene Puyman, Frank J. Perry, Albert Allen, Conard Fowkes, Jr., Kent Montroy, Bettina Cerf, Alvan J. Miller, Robert Whiting, Sam Wilson, Eunice Hood, Carol Panish, Georgette Spelvin, Jeanne Swanton, Sandra Jeanne Swanton
The Winslow Boy
by Terence Rattigan
directed by Herbert Brodkin
with Basil Rathbone, Meg Mundy, Colin Keith-Johnston, David Cole, Mary McNamee, Pamela Simpson, Robert Seaver, Booth Coleman, William Whitman
Within a Glass Bell
by William Marchant
directed by John C. Wilson
with Mildred Dunnock, Don Hanmer, Joseph Wiseman, Josephine Brown, Brandon Peters, Shirley Grayson, Benedict McQuarrie
The Long Days
by Davis Snow
directed by Martin Manulis
with John Baragrey, Florence Reed, Katharine Bard, Roberta Jonay, Hugh Reilly, Joseph Sweeney, Felicia Cobb, Sandra Swanton, Jay Sherwood, Jan Sherwood
Traveller’s Joy
by Arthur Macrae
staged by Arthur Sircom
with Gertrude Lawrence, Dennis King, Anthony Kemble Cooper, Claude Horton, Carmen Mathews, Harry Townes, William Langford, Cynthia Latham, Patricia Remick, Albert Bergh
Miss Mabel
by R.C. Sherriff
staged by Jerome Coray
with Lillian Gish, Harry Bannister, Wallis Clark, Charles Francis, Victor Beecroft, Gwen Anderson, Mark Roberts, Peg Henry, Marie Carroll, Prudence Truesdell, Bethell Long, Sam Wilson
Over Twenty-One
by Ruth Gordon
staged by Tyler Winn
with Eve Arden, Brooks West, Betty Caulfield, Wayne Carson, Donald Foster, Neal Wilder, Jr., Wanda Lyon, Austin Fairman, Marjorie Peterson, Bert Thorne, Bette DeWitt
My Fiddle’s Got Three Strings
by Arnold Schulman
directed by Lee Strasberg
with J. Edward Bromberg, Maureen Stapleton, Betsey Blair, Fritzi Scheff, Steven Hill, Lou Gilbert
Blind Alley
by James Warwick
staged by John Haggott
with Zachary Scott, Robert Allen, Eileen Heckart, Marion Sweet, Peter Brandon, Prudence Truesdell, Ralph Lee Robertson, Jr., Winifred St. Claire, Paul Stevens, Robert Whiting
The Amazing Adele
adapted by Garson Kanin from a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy
directed by Garson Kanin
with Ruth Gordon, Donald McClelland, Linda Watkins, Ron Randell, Naomi Riordan
Head of the Family
by George Norford
directed by David Alexander
with Frederick O’Neal, Etta Moten, Avon Long, Rosetta LeNoire, Harry Belafonte, Frank H. Wilson, John Marriott, Billie Allen, George Fisher, Jacqueline Andre, Anita Turner, Oliver Grandi, Lillian Cowan, P. Jay Sidney, Ken Renard, Louis Sharp
1951
The Animal Kingdom
by Philip Barry
directed by John Stix
with Nina Foch, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Scott McKay, Henry Hart, Louis Lytton, Gaby Rodgers, Anne Boley, Bernard Kates
Candida
by Bernard Shaw
directed Norris Houghton
with Olivia de Havilland, Edgar Kent, Katherine Squire, Kendall Clark, Frank Leslie, Richard Shepard
For Love or Money
by F. Hugh Herbert
directed by John Loder
with John Loder, Betsy von Furstenberg, Marta Linden, William Kester, Edith Gresham, Bert Bertram, Louis Lytton, Helen Donaldson
Love Revisited
World Premiere
by Robert Anderson
directed by John Haggott
with Richard Kendrick, Helen Claire, Douglas Watson, Berry Kroeger, Josephine Brown, Sally Hester, Alexander Clark, William Crane
The Philanderer
by Bernard Shaw
directed by Romney Brent
with Tom Helmore, Claudia Morgan, Vanessa Brown, Rex O’Malley, Reynolds Evans, Jill Kraft, William Jackson, William Carrothers
The Holly and the Ivy
by Wynyard Browne
directed by R. T. Ingham
with Leo G. Carroll, Anne Burr, Ann Shepherd, Jack Manning, Guy Spaull, Esther Mitchell, Anita Bolster, Ned Wertimer
The Little Screwball
Premiere
by Walt Anderson
directed by Walter Abel
with Walter Abel, Edward Gargan, Joe de Santis, Anna Appel, Rock Rogers, Alfred DeLeo, Jack Warden, Bette Grayson, Muriel Berkson, Salvatore Mineo, Jr., Santy Frank Josol, Jr., Sarina Mineo, Gene Steiner, Elizabeth Moore, Muriel Landers, David Clarke, Anatole Winogradoff, Elaine Blatt, Ronald Wright, Athena Lorde, Robert Jewett, harry Kadison, Leonard Barry
Island Fling
World Premiere
by Noel Coward
directed by John C. Wilson
with Claudette Colbert, Leon Janney, Edith Meiser, Reginald Mason, Gordon Mills, Chester Stratton, Berry Kroeger, Don Glenn, Judy Fineman, Peter Boyne, Cherry Hardy, A.J. Herbert, Esther Mitchell, Roy Johnson, Leon Janney
Glad Tidings
by Edward Mabley
directed by Melvyn Douglas
with Melvyn Douglas, Signe Hasso, Virginia Dwyer, Patricia Benoit, Anita Bolster, Henry Garrand, Ann Sturgis, Jack Warden
Alice in Wonderland
music by John Charles Sacco
book and additional lyrics by Frances Pole
directed by George N. Gordon
with Florence Forsberg, William Krach, Roy Raymond, John Henson, Bruce Adams, Anita Bolster, Herbert Strauss, John Dooley, William Ryan, Sanford Tillis, Althea Murphy, John Kling, Trudy Prager, Lyn Stallworth, Robert Light, Russell Oberlin, Katharin Harvey, Johnathan Abel, Marjorie Martin
The Foreign Language
American Premiere
S.N. Behrman’s dramatization of a W. Somerset Maugham story
directed by Charles Bowden
with Edna Best, John Hoyt, Brenda Forbes, Howard St. John, James Lipton, Lucille Pierlot, Michael Wager, Bert Bertram, Martha Tauchert
A Case of Scotch
adapted by Philip Lewis from a play by Aimee Stewart
directed by Jerry Epstein
with Margaret Phillips, John Forsythe, Anita Bolster, Katharine Sergava, Gordon Mills, Cathleen Cordell, Ivan Simpson, Margaret O’Neill, Charles Carshon, Karl Redcoff, John Fiedler, Herbert Strauss, Marrie Attianese, Elen Bailyn, Elaine Limpert, Paul Mochnick, Marian Ross, Geoffrey Ryan, Ronald Wright
Kin Hubbard
by Lawrence Riley
directed by John C. Wilson
with Tom Ewell, Josephine Hull, June Lockhart, John Alexander, Edwin Jerome, Queenie Smith, Fred Irving Lewis, Katharine Raht, William LeMassena, Loraine Grover, Neal Wilder
1952
Pygmalion
by Bernard Shaw
directed by John C. Wilson
with Tom Helmore, Dolores Gray, Bramwell Fletcher, William Jackson, Anita Bolster, Viola Roache, Esther Mitchell, Patricia Jenkins, J.P. Wilson, Donald Symington, Queenie Smith, Joyce Haber, Diane Cardelli, Don Spakman, Bernard Mann, Alice Byrne, Nadine Byrne, Helen Stillman, Ben Abadie, Alan Stillman
Lady in the Dark
A John Merrick Production
by Moss Hart
music by Kurt Weill
lyrics by Ira Gershwin
directed and choreographed by Elizabeth Gilbert
with Kitty Carlisle, Jackson Young, Lee Bergere, Russel Gold, Leta Bonynge, Addison Powell, Alma Drake, Jeannine Cowles, Joan Keenan, Julie Christy, Charles Rydell, Robert Morris, Joanne Nagel, Bea Murray, Sandra Swanton, Ed Block, Norris Brannstrom, Virginia George, Wallace Wagner
Idiot’s Delight
by Robert E. Sherwood
directed by Mary Hunter
with Scott McKay, Luba Malina, Martin Kosleck, Harry Worth, Walter F. Appler, Gordon Mills, Heywood Hale Broun, Budd Gregg, Leopold Badia, Ben Abadie, Barnet Biro, Sarah Marshall, Lillian Udvardy, Jean Allison, Dulcy Jordan, Marian Schnabel, Don E. Glenn, Zev Putterman, Don Spackman, David Frank
Three to One
musical revue by Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis
staged by Gus Schirmer, Jr
choreography and musical numbers staged by Frank Westbrook
with Kaye Ballard, Alice Pearce, Hugh Thomas, Beverlee Bozeman, Marti Stevens, Edmund Balin, Claude Heater, Ann Olchoff, Marc West
Heartbreak House
by George Bernard Shaw
directed by Basil Langton
with Beatrice Straight, Philip Bourneuf, Frances Reid, Peter Cookson, Mary Lou Taylor, Dorrit Kelton, Earl Montgomery, Larry Gates, Robert Fletcher, Paul Ballantyne
Ballet Program
with Mia Slavenska, Frederic Franklin, Alexandra Danilova, Lois Shirley Weaver, Sally Seven, Naomi Boneck, Ronald Colton, Marvin Krauter, Peter Bonura, Nicholas Orloff
The Hasty Heart
by John Patrick
directed by John Patrick
with John Forsythe, John Dall, Mary Fickett, John Campbell, Dennis King Jr., Sheldon Wile, Mel Jurdem, William Hairston, William Jackson
Right You Are
by Luigi Pirandello
translated & directed by Eric Bentley
with Alfred Drake, Mildred Dunnock, Paula Laurence, Martin Koseck, Bert Freed, Florence Sundstrom, Catharine Doucet, Queenie Smith, Ann Chatin, Leopold Badia, Dwight Marfield, Stephen Garand, Don E. Glenn, Karl Redcoff, Nona Medici
Jezebel’s Husband
by Robert Nathan
directed by Sherman Marks
with Claude Rains, Claudia Morgan, Judith Parrish, Robert Emhardt, Ruth McDevitt, Carmen Mathews, Ossie Davis, Vinie Burrows, Ben Gazzara, Don E. Glenn, Harry Worth
Seagull’s Over Sorrento
American Premier
transfer John Goldwin Theatre
by Hugh Hastings
staged by Armina Marshall and Charles Bowden
with J. Pat O’Malley, John Randolph, Leslie Neilsen, Guy Spaull, Walter Brooke, Bruce Hall, Rod Steiger, Mortimer Rydell, Bill Daniels
Dangerous Corner
by J.B. Priestley
directed by Luther Kennett
with Faye Emerson, Ruth Matteson, Luther Kennett, Margaret Barker, Nancie Lajoie, Richard Poston, Donald Harron
Tin Wedding
World Premiere
by Hager Wilde & Judson O’Donnell
directed by John C. Wilson
with Macdonald Carey, Maureen Stapleton, Jane Hoffman, Florence Sundstrom, Ruth Gates, Ralph Lee Robertson, Jr., Earl Jay Gilbert, Lily Lodge
A Program of One-Act Musicals
presented by The American Lyric Theatre
produced by Robert Lenn and William Whiting
California
music by Gordon Jenkins and Tom Adair
staged by Buff Shurr
with David Vogel, Del Brownlee, Lee Sweetland, Dossie Hollingsworth
The Old Maid and the Thief
by Gian-Carlo Menotti
staged by Scottie Marshall
with Harriet Franklin, Del Brownlee, Nita Reiter, Robert Lenn
Hey, You!
music by Norman Meranus
lyrics by June Caroll
choreographed by Judy Callaway
with Robert Lenn, Del Brownlee, David Vogel
Down in the Valley
music by Kurt Weill
Libretto
by Arnold Sungaard
directed by Tony Randall
choreographed by Buff Shurr
with Lee Sweetland, David Vogel, Eva Marie Saint, Andrew Marshall, Arch Johnson, Robert Lenn, Nita Reiter, Dossie Hollingsworth, Harriet Franklin
An Evening with Beatrice Lillie
produced and directed by Edward Duryea Dowling
with Beatrice Lillie, Reginald Gardiner, Xenia Bank, Florence Bray
1953
A “New” School for Scandal
an adaptation of the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Richard Baldridge and Albert Marre
directed by Albert Marre
with June Havoc, Hurd Hatfield, Bertha Belmore, Melville Cooper, Fred Sadoff, Cavada Humphrey, Barbara Joyce, Earl Montgomery, Thayer David, William Jackson, Neil Fitzgerald, Frederick Rolf, Richard Venture
Second Fiddle
Tryout
by Mary Drayton
adapted from Ardyth Kennelly’s novel The Peaceable Kingdom
directed by Elmer Rice
with Betty Field, Herbert Rudley, Paula Laurence, Dorothy Donahue, Amy Douglass, Paula Hahn, Judy Rice, Ginger MacManus, William A. Lee, Paul Ballantyne, Peter Turgeon, Marcie Hubert, Helen Cordes
One Thing After Another
sketches and lyrics by Elizabeth Berryhill
music by Gordon Connell
directed by Elizabeth Berryhill
musical numbers staged by Jeannde Taylor Herst
featuring the “Original California Strawhatters”: Louis Bennett, Elizabeth Berry hill, Carol Brumm, Betty Cole, Jane Connell, Gordon Connell, Robert Cowell, Mary Madigan, William Rush, John Tomaschke, Peter Turgeon
Sailor’s Delight
based on Peter Blackmore’s play Miranda
adapted for USA by Lawrence Langner
directed by Harry Ellerbe
with Eva Gabor, Tom Helmore, Natalie Schafer, Katherine Meskill, Chester Stratton, Philippa Bevans, Shirley Standlee, John Vivyan
What About Maisie?
by Ruth and Francis Bellamy
based on Henry James’ novel What Maisie Knew
directed by John C. Wilson
with Claudia Morgan, Beatrice Pearson, Isobel Elson, Scott Forbes, Robert Duke, Marguerite Namara, Roni Dengel, Marjorie Eaton, Evan Thomas, Beulah Garrick, Robert Duke, Christopher Plummer
The Play’s the Thing
by Ferenc Molnar
adapted by P.G. Wodehouse
directed by Ezra Stone
with Ezio Pinza, Frances Compton, Philip Loeb, Alexander Clark, Vilma Kurer, Michael Wager, Ty Perry
Once Married, Twice Shy
Premiere
by Lawrence Langner
directed by Charles Bowden
with Elaine Stritch, Scott McKay, Clarence Derwent, Otto Hulett, Elizabeth Eustis, Catherine Doucet, Alice Buchanan, John Shay, Butterfly McQueen, Stephen Cheng, Martin Greene
Three Men on a Horse
by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
directed by John Cecil Holm
with Wally Cox, Walter Matthau, Teddy Hart, Peter Turgeon, Jill Kraft, Richard Grayson, Nicholas Zanides, Andrew Sabilia, Fred Gwynne, Kate Harkin, Milton J. Williams, Ann Whiteside, Sheldon Wile, Helen Cordes, Edwin Jerome
The Road to Rome
by Robert E. Sherwood
directed by Charles Bowden
with Arlene Francis, John Baragrey, Ann Shoemaker, Ralph Sumpter, Tige Andrews, Michael Tolan, Evan Thomas, Henry Silver, Philip Abbott, Patricia Carr, Jacques Andre, Helen Cordes, Sheldon Wile, Edgar Kent, E.E. Clive, Jr., Robert Wunsch, Neil Laurence, Ray Daley, Jerry Kohn, Richard Grayson, Stanley Walden
The Starcross Story
transfer to Broadway’s Royale Theatre
by Diana Morgan
directed by Luther Kennett
with Eva LeGallienne, Faye Emerson, Glenn Anders, Ona Munson, Scott Forbes, Anita Bolster, Philippa Bevans, Elizabeth Dillon, Leslie Penhallow, Cherry Hardy
Day of Grace
by Alexander Fedoroff
directed by Norris Houghton
with MacDonald Carey, Ben Gazzara, John Alexander, Katherine Squire, Charles McDaniel, Edgar Grower, Robert Stevenson, John Glennon, James Holland, Albert Salmi, John Connell, Jacques Andre, Ray Daley, Loraine Grover
Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
by Warren P. Munsell, Jr.
revised by Stephen DeBaun
songs by Robert Burns
directed by Ezra Stone
with David Brooks, Anna Lee, Luella Gear, Irwin Corey, Kaye Connor, Marjorie Redmond, Robert Wallace, Sheldon Wile, Barry Macollum, Lady Deborah, David Leland, Robert Harris, Ray Daley, Ned Wertimer, Stanley Walden, Jock McGraw, bernard Lenrow, Lucille Patton, Gerald Lee, Nicholas Zanides, Barry Macollum, John Stephen, Helen Cordes, Anne Pearson, Page Johnson, Roy Graves, William Lennard, Garry Walberg, Aza Bard, Kate Friedlich, Marcia Hubert, Roberta Levey, Virginia Robinson, Carol Rossen
The Trip to Bountiful
by Horton Foote
directed by Vincent Donehue
with Lillian Gish, Eva Marie Saint, John Beal, and Jo Van Fleet, Frank Overton, Will Hare, John C. Becher, Wyrley Birch, Jean Stapleton, Neil Laurence, Sarah Cahill, Patricia McDonald, Jacques Andre, Sheldon Wile, Robert Wunsch, Nick Zanides
1954
The Lady Chooses
by William McCleery
directed by Luther Kennett
with Walter Abel, Faye Emerson, Hugh Reilly, Jean Stapleton, Lilly Lodge, Arny Freeman, Beulah Garrick, Ellen Demming, Jeff Harris, Dennis Mahoney, Pat Mahoney, Ina Bradley, Claire Emory
The Apollo of Bellac
by Jean Giraudoux
adapted by Maurice Valency
directed by Joseph Anthony
with Zachary Scott, Ruth Ford, Gaby Rodgers, Logan Ramsey, Norman MacKaye, Lou Gilbert, Jon Richards, Steve Pearlman, Richard Hamilton, Alexander Clark, Paula Laurence
The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
by Bernard Shaw
directed by Joseph Anthony
with Gaby Rodgers, Jean Stapleton, Logan Ramsey, Norman MacKaye, Alexander Clark, Paula Laurence, Lou Gilbert, John Richards, Lily Lodge, Ellen Demming, Richard Hamilton, Zachary Scott, Ruth Ford, Ben Abadie, Bob Helming, Steve Pearlman, Robert Solo, Alan Stillman, Eleanor Edie, Bernice Friedson, Nancy hart, Dora Linenthal
Happy Birthday
by Anita Loos
directed by Daniel Levin
with Imogene Coca, William Prince, Daniel Reed, Jack Diamond, Norman MacKaye, Lucille Benson, Fay Sappington, Josephine Heathman, Hart Sprager, Bernice McLaughlin, Patricia Carlisle, Eleanor Edie, Eileen Letchworth, David Whorf, Jon Richards, Steve Pearlman, Mary Mace, Patrick Welch, Vivian Joyce, Len Berge, Charles Carshon
Court Olympus
by Richard Reardon
directed by John C. Wilson
with Rita Gam, Lee Grant, Josephine Brown, Nicholas Joy, Steven Hill, Tom Tyron
Candle-Light
by P.G. Wodehouse
directed by Charles Bowden
with Eva Gabor, Richard Kiley, Paula Laurence, John Baragrey, Monica Boyar, Gordon Nelson, Richard Whorf, Bernice McLaughlin
Reunion ’54
tryout
by Justin Sturm
directed by Lee Bowman
with Lee Bowman, Haila Stoddard, Tom Helmore, George Mathews, Carl White, Parker McCormick, James Hagerman, Drummond Erskine, William Hail, Wayne McIntyre, Ted Clark, Ana Clark, Frank Tramutola, Daniel Selznick, Bob Solo, Hart Sprager
Libel
by Edward Wooll
directed by Lexford Richards
with Peter Cookson, June Duprez, Frederic Tozere, John Emery, Kenny Delmar, Don McHenry, Francis Bethencourt, Tammy Lee Grimes, Frank Tramutola, Robert Solo, Kenneth Mays
The Little Hut
by Nancy Mitford
from the French of Andre Roussin
directed by Windsor Lewis
with Barbara Bel Geddes, Hiram Sherman, Howard Morton, John Granger, Kenneth Mays
Darling, Darling
by Anita Loos
from a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy
directed by John C. Wilson
with Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Deer, Florence Sunstrom, Jill Kraft, Tom Tryon, James Nolan
My Aunt Daisy
by Albert Halper and Joseph Schrank
directed by Robert Ellenstein
with Jo Van Fleet, Leslie Nielsen, Rusty Lane, Winifred Cushing, Arthur Storch, Bern Hoffman, Betty Lou Keim, Larry Newton, John Connell
Home is the Hero
A Theatre Guild – Worthington Minor Production
transfer to Broadway’s Booth Theatre
by Walter Macken
directed by Worthington Miner
with Peggy Ann Garner, Glenda Farrell, J. Pat O’Malley, Art Smith, Francis Fuller, Ann Thomas, Walter Macken, Christopher Plummer, Richard Lupino, Loretta Leversee
Magic and Music
Cheryl Crawford’s Musical Production of Trouble in Tahiti
music by Leonard Bernstein
directed by David Brooks
with Alice Ghostley, Richard Eastham, Constance Brigham, Clive Dill, David Williams
The Thirteen Clocks
by James Thurber
stage adaptation by Fred Sadoff and Mark Bucci
lyrics by James Thurber and Mark Bucci
directed by Fred Sadoff
with Constance Brigham, Fred Sadoff, Martin Balsam, Alice Ghostley, Gene Saks, Janice Mars, Clive Dill, David Williams, Eleanor Edie, Patricia Panero, Ruth Shapiro
1955
Brief Moment
by S.N. Behrman
directed by Peter Turgeon
with Betty Furness, Murray Matheson, Mark Roberts, Marc Lawrence, Robert Gallagher, Jan DeRuth, Hope Newell, Angus Cairns
Mother Was a Bachelor
by Irving W. Phillips
based on a story by Myna Lockwood
directed by Frank Carrington and Agnes Morgan
with Billie Burke, Tommy Halloran, Virginia Gerry, Suzanne Jackson, Barry Della Fiora, George McIver, Robert Baines, Terry DuHaime, Susan Seaforth, Donald McClelland, Edwin Cooper, Angus Cairns
Detective Story
by Signey Kingsley
directed by Windor Lewis
with John Forsythe, Maria Riva, Kathy Nolan, Frank Campanella, Henry Silva, Henry Garrard, Jack Klugman, Anthony Haarstick, Frank J. Perry, Mary Diveny, Edward Chiaro, Justin McDonough, Hampton Crain, Garry Wallberg, Tom Carlin, Joseph Campanella, Richard Mc Murray, Carrol Murray, Vince Gardenia, Howard Morton, Marie DeLoreto, Alfred Hopson, Herb Voss, Sally Jessy, Pauline Distillator, Robert Grover, James Hughes, Marvin Reiss, Will Davis, Thomas Lawrence, Jill Miller
Star Light, Star Bright
by S.K. Lauren and Gladys Lehman
directed by John C. Wilson
with Terry Moore, Frank Albertson, Effie Afton, Cherry Hardy, Berry Kroeger, Jean Carson, John Vivyan, Howard Morton, Eileen Merry, Ralph Stantley, Eulabelle Moore, Mary Diveny
Wedding Breakfast
by Theodore Reeves
directed by Frank Corsaro, with Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, Virginia Vincent, Martin Balsam
Blue Denim
by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble
directed by Arthur Penn
with Katherine Squire, Burt Brinckerhoff, Brandon Peters, Patricia Bosworth, Mark Rydell, Betty Lou Robinson
Heaven Can Wait
by Harry Segall
director Windsor Lewis
with Richard Kiley, Mercer McLeod, Howard Morton, Brook byron, Stephen Gray, Jack Klugman, John Horrigan, Carroll Murray, Patricia Distilator, Edward Chiaro, Margery McGuckin, Barry Della Fiora, Margaret Simmons, Thomas Lawrence, Robert Carraway, Arthur Duel, Tony Haarstick, Alexandra Bosca, Herbert Voss, Hampton Crain, Jill Miller, Pamela Simpson, Shirley Rickards, James Hughes, Frank Campanella, Leslie Barrett, Stanley Vaughan, Robinson Grover, Justin McDonough
The Rainmaker
by N. Richard Nash
directed by Jeffrey Hayden
with Eva Marie Saint, Sidney Armus, Will Geer, Mark Richman, Arthur Storch, Jack Mullaney, Truman Smith
Gigi
from the novel by Colette
adapted by Anita Loos
directed by Lawrence Langner, Armina Marshall, and John C. Wilson
with Estelle Winwood, Cathy O’Donnell, Josephine Brown, Bethell Long, Marion Morris, Ludmilla Toretzka, Angus Cairns
Hide and Seek
by Aurand Harris
directed by Windsor Lewis
with Jessie Royce Landis, Mark Roberts, Kathy Nolan, Tom Carlin, Deneen Gabler, Munro Gabler, Harry Stanton
The Empress
by Elaine Carrington
directed by William Bulter
with Geraldine Page, Paul Stevens, Michael Galloway, Leslie Barrett, Sally Jessy, Rod McLennan, Joseph Campanella, Judith Ives Lowry, Raymond St. Jacques, Leslie Barrett, Beulah Garrick, Patricia Distillator, Earl Jones, Louise Stowe, Buck Kartalian, Joseph Campanella, Bill Cunningham, Marie Di Loreto, Robinson Grover, Justin McDonough, Eddward Chiaro, Arthur Duel, Anthony Haarstick
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
by Edward Chodorov
directed by Franchot Tone
with Franchot Tone, Betsy von Furstenberg, Patrick O’Neal, Lorette Leversee, Dana Elcar, Henry Sharp, June Hunt, Angus Cairns, Marshall Yokelson
The Great Waltz
book by Moss Hart
music by Yohann Strauss
lyrics by Desmond Carter with Mia Slavenska
Scandal at Montfort
by Hugh Mills
directed by Windsor Lewis
with Arlene Francis
A Palm Tree In A Rose Garden
by Meade Roberts
directed by Jose Quintero
with Alice Ghostely, Barbara Baxley, Betty Lou Holland, Herbert Evers, Belle Flower, Ron Harper, George Voskovec
1956
The Chalk Garden
by Enid Bagnold
directed by Charles Bowden
with Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Neil Fitzgerald, Frances Ingalls, Charron Follett, O.Z.Whitehead, Amy Douglass, Elizabeth Kerr, Katherine Lurker
Ballet Theatre
musical direction by Joseph Levine
with Nora Kaye, John Kriza, Lupe Serrano, Scott Douglas, Ruth Ann Koesun, Catherine Horn, Christine Mayer, Enrique Martinez, June Stern, Ivan Allen, Leo Duggan, Audre Deckmann
Posket’s Family Skeleton
by Arthur Wing Pinero
adapted by Peter Turgeon
directed by Peter Turgeon
with Bramwell Fletcher, Betty Sinclair, Ralph Sumpter, Frances Tannehill, Spencer Teakle, Alexander Clark, Charles Eggleston, Ellen Christopher, Charles Penman, Lily Lodge, Gorden Russell, Amy Douglass, Richard Lederer, Sanford Beckhart, Hal Gerson, Lynn Willis
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Peter Kass
with Maureen Stapleton, Jules Munshin, John Cassavetes
Plus: A Marriage Proposal
by Anton Chekov
directed by Peter Kass
with Ed Heffernan, Jules Munshin, Maureen Stapleton
Welcome Darlings
A revue
music direction by Peter Howard and Ted Graham
with Tallulah Bankhead, James Kirkwood, Sheila Smith, Don Crichton, Turnell Dietsch, Bob Bakanic, The Martins, Timothy Gray, Don McKay, Gwen Harmon
The Gimmick
by Joseph Julian
directed by David Pressman
with Larry Blyden, Patricia Smith, Tammy Grimes, Gene Saks, Haywood Hale Broun, Amy Douglass, Robert Carricart, Ralph Bell, Hal Gerson, William Zuckert, Dina Max, Sheila Scranton, Raymond Burgin, Clark Warren
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
by Moliere
new adaptation by James Lipton
directed by James Lipton
with Jules Munshin, Betsy Palmer, Lawrence Fletcher, Marilyn Clark, Hal Holbrook, James Ambandos, Joe Campanella, Kenneth Mays, Hal Gerson, and Gemze de Lappe, Peter deManio, Dina Max, Larry Davis, Leora Lunders, David Speck
Beasop’s Fables
A revue produced and directed by John Philip
with Beatrice Lillie, Fred Keating, John Philip, Shannon Dean, Eadie and Rack at the pianos, Bruce Laffey
Anastasia
by Marcelle Maurette
English adaptation by Guy Bolton
directed by Boris Tumarin
with Dolores Del Rio, Lili Darvas, Stephen Elliott, Boris Tumarin, Allan Shayne, Frank Marth, Clarice Blackburn, George Eberling, Paul Stevens, Ellen Cohn, Clark Warren, Hal Gerson, Sylvia Davis
Knickerbocker Holiday
by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill
directed by Frank Perry
with: Will Geer, Susan Cabot, Biff McGuire, Clarence Hoffman, Rudolph Weiss, Marion Tanner, Dan Lincoln, Bob Burland, Hal Gerson, David Leland, Bill Bramley, Bryon Mitchell, Jock Casasus, Joan-Ellen Caine, Jacqlina Maria, Lynn Willia, Clark Warren, Peter deManio, Larry Davis
Anniversary Waltz
by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields
directed by Dan Levin
with Imogene Coca, Jules Munshin, Amy Douglass, Marilyn Clark, Peter Turgeon, Paul Lipson, Mary Lee Dearring, Rosetta Le Noire, Robert Galli, Hal Gerson, Raymond Burgin, Ralph Hoffman Jr.
The Rhom Affair
by Larry Ward and Gordon Russell
directed by John Marley
with Robert Pastene, Martin Brooks, Rudy Bond, Jack Weston, Thomas Carlin, Lois Nettleton, George Mitchell, David White, Ralph Longley, Raymond Burgin, Clark Warren, Charles Penman, Sheppard Kerman, Larry Davis, Lynn Willis, Peter DeManio, David Johnston, Kenneth Mays
1957
Witness for the Prosecution
by Agatha Christie
directed by Michael McAloney
with Faye Emerson, Ronald Long, Will Hare, Neil Fitzgerald, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Michael Clark Laurence, Lily Lodge, Bryan Herbert, Peter Pagan, John Aronson, Allen Hayman, Curt Gibson, Michael Clarke Laurence, Dick Cutbill, Charles Kaljian, Spark Donoghue, Peter Adamo, Robert Hewes, Robert Moran, Dana Gatlin, Carroll O’Conner, Richard Lederer, Nancy Nugent
The Desk Set
by William Marchand
directed Harry Ellerbe
with Nancy Walker, Evelyn Russell, Wayne Carson, Wesley Lau, Joyce Davis, Martha Randall, Charles Gilbert, Mary Love, Dick Cutbill, Teddy Landess, Dana Gatlin, Ruth Estler, jane Farney, Barbara Berner, Saba McWilliams, Judy Lynne, Henry Jaglom, Charles Kalgian, Peter Adamo, Willie Elmlark, Emily Ruhber, Stanley Kroiz, Robert Hewes
The Reluctant Debutante
by William Douglas Home
directed by Walt Witcover
with Arthur Treacher, Sandy Dennis, Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Purdum, Harriet MacGibbon, Sandy Dennis, Peter Craig, Helen-Jean Arthur, Ruth Estler
Mrs. Patterson
by Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson
directed by Mortimer Halpern
songs and incidental music by James Shelton
with Eartha Kitt, Nadia Westman, Terry Carter, Eric Burroughs, Ruth Attaway,Vinie Borrows, Estelle Hemsley, Rhoda Boggs, Emory Richardson, Barbara Traubee, Ailene Thomas, Diane Ladd
With Respect to Joey
World Premiere
by Ernest Pendrell
directed by Darren McGavin
with Martin Balsam, Bertha Gersten, Jacob Ben-Ami, Frank Silvera, Zohra Alton, Milton Selzer, Robert Heller, Greda Holloway, Sam Javis, Richard Ward, Peter Benzoni, Sheila Copelan, Dana Gatlin, Ruth Estler, Christina Crawford, Bea Minkus, Marie Sterback, Charles Kaljian, Peter Adamo, Bob Moran
The Man in the Dog Suit
by William H. Wright and Albert Beich
from a novel by Edwin Corle
directed by Melvyn Douglas
with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Isobel Elsom, Tom Carlin, Mary Cooper, Betty Garde, John Griggs, Arthur Hughes, John McGovern, Elliott Reid
Janus
by Carolyn Green
directed by Donald Cook
with Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, George Voskover, John C. Becher, Amy Douglass
Fever for Life
by Orin Borsten
directed by Henry T. Weinstein
with Fay Bainter, Rip Torn, Barbara Baxley, Ruby Goodwin, Jane Rose, John Randolph, Barbara Barrie, Jonelle Allen, Ann Wedgeworth, Fay Bainter, Helen Martin, Noah Keen
Showtime
A musical revue directed and composed by Ben Oakland
with George Jessel, Tony Carroll, Susanne and the Escorts, Susanne Cansino, Dusty McCaffery, Michael Madill, Clara Imas
Back to Methuselah
by George Bernard Shaw
adapted by Arnold Moss
directed by Philip Burton
with Celeste Holm, James Daley, Arnold Moss, Valerie Bettis, Michael Tolan, Felix Deebank, John Granger, Dorothy Whitney
The Minotaur
by Robert Thom
directed by Sidney Lumet
with Gloria Vanderbilt, Janice Rule, Philip Bourneuf, Betty Furness, Stefan Girasch, Gene Lyons, George Peppard, Madeline Sherwood, Spivy, Ruth White, Judy Lynne, Kenneth Mays
The Saturday Night Kid
by Jack Dunphy
directed by George Keathley
with Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, and Joseph Wiseman
1958
Picnic
by William Inge
directed by Scott Jackson
with Hugh O’Brian, Leora Dana, Susan Oliver, Yale Wexler, Virginia Payne, John C. Becher, Sylvia Stone, Lucille Benson, Anne Hennesy, Daryl Grimes, Joseph Dedda
Fallen Angels
by Noel Coward
directed by Bill Penn
with Hermione Gingold, Carol Bruce, Louise Hoff, Gordon Mills, G. Wood, Richard Blackmarr
Tonight at 8:30
by Noel Coward
directed by Christopher Hewitt
with Faye Emerson, Murray Matheson, Peter Pagan, Rita Vale, Jean Cameron, Charles Campbell, Judy Tucker, Edard Hastings, Keith Herrington
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
by Liam O’Brien
directed by Frederick de Wilde
with Burgess Meredith, John McGiver, Iris Whitney, Wayne Wilson, Vera Lockwood, Arthur Lockwood, Jada Rowland, Terrence McGiver, Johnny Conrath, Brigit McGiver, Juleen Compton, Tom Wheatley, Barrie Delafiora, John Vickers
He Who Gets Slapped
by Leonid Andreyev
translated by Gregory Zilboorg
directed by Robert Emhardt
with Alfred Drake, Boris Tumarin, Susan Kohner, Fredric Tozere, Marilyn Clark, Ben Yaffee, Karl Redcroff, Nicholas Pryor, Wolfgang Roth, Nelle Fisher, Paula Dooley
Time for Elizabeth
by Norman Krasna and Groucho Marx
directed by Robert Dwan
with Groucho Marx, Harry Bannister, Kathryn Eames, Phoebe Bannister, Ed Wagner, Spencer Davis, Ruth Manning, Roland Wood, Elizabeth Tilton, Wyatt Cooper, J. Frank Lucas, Jim Kelly, Aileen Poe, Eden Hartford
Dulcy
by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
directed by Robert S. Finkel
with Dody Goodman, Gene Lyons, Lawrence Fletcher, Perry Fiske, Gloria Barret, Howard Mann, Justice Watson, Brooks Rogers, Betty Rollin, Leo Bloom, Sanford McCauley
Triple Play
Three short plays and a monologue
directed by Hume Cronyn
Bedtime Story
by Sean O’Casey
with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Biff McGuire
The Island of Cipango
by Benn Levy
with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Biff McGuire, Bryan Herbert, Frances Sternhagen;
The Harmful Effects of Tobacco
by Anton Chekov, with Hume Cronyn
A Pound on Demand
by Sean O’Casey
with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Biff McGuire, Francis Sternhagen, Bryan Herbert
A Visit to a Small Planet
by Gore Vidal
directed by Pat Chandler
with Bert Lahr, Kenny Delmar, Stanley Tackney, Kathern Shaw, Stratton Walling, Josephine Nichols, Jeff Davis, Grenadier Saadi, Curt Gibson, Bill Moise, Leonard Dalsemer Jr.
An Inspector Calls
by J.B. Priestley
directed by Howard Stone
with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Melville Cooper, Mary Scott, Howard Morton, James Valentine, Renee Gadd, Joyce Miko
Third Best Sport
by Eleanor and Leo Bayer
directed by Michael Howard
with Celeste Holm, Jane Hoffman, Andrew Duggan, Russell Gaige, Joseph Boland, Sally Gracie, James Karen, Tony Kraber, Irene Cowan, Stan Place, Milo Boulton
Sweet and Sour
by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke
directed by Don Richardson
with Melvyn Douglas, Connie Sawyer, Ina Balin, Gerald Hiken, Martha Greenhouse, Leslie Woods, Theo Goetz, Alice Yourman, Daniel Reed, Alfred Leberfeld, John Zee
Holiday for Lovers
by Ronald Alexander
with Don Ameche, Irene Manning, Joan Chambers, Jack Hartley, Emily Horsley, Alan Furlan, Joan Shea, Charles Robinson, Jr., Abbie Scott
1959
Once More with Feeling
by Harry Kurnitz
with Arlene Francis
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw
directed by Romney Brent
with Tony Randall, Joan Copeland, Edith Meiser, Alex Clarke, Sylvia Dante, Martin Brooks, Johnny Albin, Telly Savalas
A Piece of Blue Sky
by Frank Corsaro
with Shelley Winters, Albert Morgenstern, Gerald O’Loughlin, Rebecca Darke, Mary Laslo, Sudie Bond, Richard Carafa, Marion Sweet
Caesar and Cleopatra
by George Bernard Shaw
directed by John Stix
with Franchot Tone, Susan Strasberg
Red Letter Day
by Andrew Rosenthal
with Gloria Swanson, Buddy Rogers, Lois Wilson
Nina
by Andre Roussin
adapted by Samuel Taylor
with Shirley Booth, Douglas Watson, Leo Lucker, Ted Wilkins
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
with Jo Van Fleet, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson
What a Day
sketches by Max Wilk and Manya Starr
directed by John Fearnley
lyrics by Paul Rosner
music by Claibe Richardson
with Celeste Holm, Ronny Graham, Warde Donovan, James Karen
Bells Are Ringing
book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
music by Jules Styne
with Imogene Coca, King Donovan
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green
with Betty Comdem and Adolph Green
Marcus in the High Grass
by William Gunn
with David Wayne and Ben Piazza
Epitaph for George Dillion
by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton
with Ben Gazzara
Hilary
by Gerald Savory
with Joan Fontaine