# ACT Theatre

ACT Contemporary Theatre (originally A Contemporary Theatre) is a regional, non-profit theatre organization in Seattle, in the US state of Washington. Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997) founded ACT in 1965 and served as its first Artistic director; at the time ACT was founded he was also head of the Drama Department at the University of Washington. Falls was identified with the theatrical avant garde of the time, and founded ACT because he saw the Seattle Repertory Theatre as too specifically devoted to classics.

## Facility

ACT is located in Kreielsheimer Place, at 700 Union Street in Downtown Seattle. The building, which also includes the 44 unit, moderate-income Eagles Apartments, is the historic Eagles Auditorium Building. Previously part of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (to which it is connected via internal tunnel), the building was remodeled into theater spaces and apartments and renamed in honor of a major gift from the Kreielsheimer Foundation. There are two mainstage theater spaces, each with a capacity of about 390 seats. The Gregory A. Falls Theatre, located below street level, has a rectangular thrust stage. Above ground, the former Eagles Auditorium hall (now known as the Allen Theatre) is an arena or "in-the-round" venue.
Complying with landmark ordinances, the Allen Theatre retains the Eagles Auditorium's gilded balcony, ornate ceiling, and crystal chandeliers, though some of this is obscured by the HVAC and lighting systems. The decision to convert this famous lecture hall and performance venue from a proscenium stage to theater-in-the-round was, according to Misha Berson, "the most controversial aspect of the renovation". The proscenium stage from which Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke, and on which the Grateful Dead performed, "is now just a painted relic in the background."
The facility also includes the 4,539-square-foot (421.7 m$^2$) Bullitt Cabaret and several other smaller spaces.

## History

ACT was founded by Gregory A. Falls in 1965, providing Seattle with "a serious alternative to summer stock theater." They staged their first performance July 9, 1965. ACT was originally in a 454-seat thrust-stage theater in Queen Anne Hall, now home to On the Boards. Falls remained as artistic director until 1988, when he was succeeded by Jeff Steitzer, then in 1995 by Peggy Shannon.
After a lengthy and difficult search for a larger space, ACT moved into its new Kreielsheimer Place facility in 1996, and presented its first play there on September 1 of that year. However, Shannon's productions at the new facility were not well received by the critics or the public. Shannon resigned in 1997, leaving ACT in debt for the first time in its history, and with subscriptions having fallen from 11,400 in 1996 to 9,000 in 1997. Her successor, Gordon Edelstein, revived the company's critical and popular reputation, bringing such noted performers as actresses Julie Harris and Jane Alexander and singer songwriter Randy Newman, as well as experimental director Joanne Akalaitis and composer Philip Glass. Several ACT premieres went on to successful runs in New York. However, costs rose accordingly, and ACT's debts mounted. In October 2002, ACT made an offer to Robert Egan, producing director at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, to become their new artistic director, but by the time the 2003 season was approaching, ACT had a US$1.7 million debt and was in no position to honor their offer. They were in serious danger of folding. Subscriptions dropped to 7,500.
Donations (including $500,000 Boeing chairman Phil Condit), some scaling back, and a successful 2003 season under artistic director Kurt Beattie saved the day, sparing ACT the fate visited upon Seattle's comparably prominent Empty Space Theatre in the same period. By the 2006 season, ACT was back to venturesome programming, including Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Pillowman and local writer Elizabeth Heffron's Mitzi's Abortion.
John Langs became the artistic director, replacing Kurt Beattie, December 2015. In 2018, Yussef El Guindi became a Core Company playwright member.

## Stature

Over more than four decades, ACT has established itself as one of Seattle's leading theaters. Along with the Cornish Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre ("The Rep"), it is one of the city's three largest playhouses. ACT's Mainstage has presented many world, American, and West Coast premieres. Numerous productions have gone on to New York City.
ACT is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). It is also a member of Theatre Puget Sound and is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group. ACT is also a member of the Downtown Seattle Association, Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau and Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. ACT is also a frequent affiliate of the 5th Avenue Theatre, often co-producing at least one production per season.

## Mainstage production history

| 2025 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive | Selina Fillinger | |
| Mrs. Loman is Leaving | Katie Forgette | |
| The Last Five Years | Jason Robert Brown | Co-Production with The 5th Avenue Theatre |
| Golden | Andrew Lee Creech | |
| An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen | |
| 2024 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Cambodian Rock Band | Lauren Yee, Dengue Fever | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
| A Case for the Existence of God | Samuel D. Hunter | |
| STEW | Zora Howard | |
| The Lehman Trilogy | Stefano Massini | Adaptation by Ben Power |
| 2023 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Choir Boy | Tarrell Alvin McCraney | Co-production with Denver Center for the Performing Arts and 5th Avenue Theatre |
| History of Theatre: About, By, For, and Near | Reginald André Jackson | World Premiere |
| Every Brilliant Thing | Duncan Macmillian, Jonny Donahoe | |
| Wolf Play | Hansol Jung | |
| 2022 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Hotter Than Egypt | Yussef El Guindi | World Premiere |
| The Thin Place | Lucas Hnath | |
| Sweat | Lynn Nottage | |
| 2020 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Sweat | Lynn Nottage | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| The Effect | Lucy Prebble | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Choir Boy | Tarrell Alvin McCraney | Co-production with Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| The Laugh Track | Wendy MacLeod | World Premiere. Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Witch | Jen Silverman | Production cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2019 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Romeo + Juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| Urinetown | Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre |
| Pass Over | Antoinette Nwandu | |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | |
| People of the Book | Yussef El Guindi | World Premiere |
| Dracula | Steven Dietz adapted from Bram Stoker | New Adaptation |
| 2018 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Ride the Cyclone | Brooke Maxwell, Jacob Richmond | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre |
| The Wolves | Sarah DeLappe | |
| Until the Flood | Dael Orlandersmith | |
| Lauren Weedman Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Lauren Weedman | World Premiere |
| Skylight | David Hare | |
| Oslo | J. T. Rogers | |
| 2017 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Tribes (play) | Nina Raine | |
| Murder for Two | Kellen Blair, Joe Kinosian | Co-production with 5th Avenue Theatre |
| The Legend of Georgia McBride | Matthew Lopez | |
| Alex & Aris | Moby Pomerance | |
| King of the Yees | Lauren Yee | |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | |
| 2016 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Assassins | Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman | |
| Stupid Fucking Bird | Aaron Posner | |
| The Mystery of Love and Sex | Bathsheba Doran | |
| Daisy | Sean Devine | |
| The Royale | Marco Ramirez | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Christopher Hampton | |
| 2015 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman | |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | |
| Threesome | Yussef El Guindi | |
| Hold These Truths | Jeanna Sakata | |
| Bloomsday | Steven Dietz | |
| Mr. Burns, a post-electric play | Anne Washburn, Michael Friedman (score) | |
| 2014 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman, Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith, Alan Menken | |
| Bethany | Laura Marks | |
| The Price | Arthur Miller | |
| An Evening of One Acts | Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Sam Shepard | |
| The Invisible Hand | Ayad Akhtar | |
| Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Christopher Durang | |
| 2013 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Assisted Living | Katie Forgette | |
| Grey Gardens | Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, Doug Wright | |
| Other Desert Cities | Jon Robin Baitz | |
| Rapture, Blister, Burn | Gina Gionfriddo | |
| Middletown | Will Eno | |
| Sugar Daddies | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Season 2012 | Playwright | Notes |
| First Date | Michael Weiner, Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary | |
| The Pitmen Painters | Lee Hall | |
| One Slight Hitch | Lewis Black | |
| The Pinter Festival | Harold Pinter | |
| Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam | Robert Egan, Trieu Tran | |
| Ramayana | Yussef El Guindi, Stephanie Timm | |
| 2011 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Vanities: A New Musical | Jack Heifner | |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Neil Simon | |
| Pilgrims in the New World | Yussef El Guindi | |
| In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) | Sarah Ruhl | |
| Mary Stewart | Peter Oswald | |
| Double Indemnity | David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright, James M. Cain | |
| 2010 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Trip to Bountiful | Horton Foote | |
| The Female of the Species | Joanna Murray-Smith | |
| Yankee Tavern | Steven Dietz | |
| The Lady With All the Answers | David Rambo | |
| The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh | |
| 2009 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson (Adapted by) Jeffrey Hatcher | |
| Below the Belt | Richard Dresser | |
| the break/s | Marc Bamuthi Joseph | |
| Das Barbecü | Jim Luigs and Scott Warrender | |
| Runt of the Litter | Bo Eason | |
| Rock n' Roll | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2008 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Ilkhom Theatre Festival | Ilkhom Theatre Company | A Seattle First |
| Fathers and Sons | Michael Bradford | World Premiere |
| A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration | David Ira Goldstein | |
| Intimate Exchanges | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Eurydice | Sarah Ruhl | |
| Becky's New Car | Steven Dietz | World Premiere |
| 2007 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Clean House | Sarah Ruhl | |
| Souvenir | Stephen Temperley | |
| Stuff Happens | David Hare | |
| First Class | David Wagoner | World Premiere |
| The Mojo and the Sayso | Aishah Rahman | |
| The Women | Clare Boothe Luce | |
| 2006 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh | West Coast Premier |
| Miss Witherspoon | Christopher Durang | West Coast Premier |
| Wine in the Wilderness | Alice Childress | |
| Mitzi's Abortion | Elizabeth Heffron | World Premiere |
| A Number | Caryl Churchill | |
| The Underpants | Steve Martin | |
| 2005 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Bach at Leipzig | Itamar Moses | West Coast Premiere |
| The Ugly American | Mike Daisey | World Premiere |
| Born Yesterday | Garson Kanin | |
| The Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams | |
| Vincent in Brixton | Nicholas Wright | |
| Flight | Charlayne Woodard | |
| 2004 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Alki | Eric Overmyer | World Premiere |
| Enchanted April | Matthew Barber | |
| Jumpers | Tom Stoppard | |
| Good Boys | Jane Martin | West Coast Premiere |
| Fiction | Steven Dietz | West Coast Premiere |
| 2003 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Absurd Person Singular | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Edward Albee | West Coast Premiere |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill | |
| Omnium Gatherum | Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros | West Coast Premiere |
| The Syringa Tree | Pamela Gien | Production went on to New York |
| 2002 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O'Neill | |
| Dirty Blonde | Claudia Shear | |
| Yellowman | Deal Orlandersmith | |
| Wintertime | Charles L. Mee | |
| Fuddy Meers | David Lindsay-Abaire | |
| The Education of Randy Newman | Randy Newman, Michael Roth, Jerry Patch | World Premiere |
| 2001 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Big Love | Charles L. Mee | West Coast Premiere |
| Dinner with Friends | Donald Margulies | |
| Polish Joke | David Ives | World Premiere |
| Waiting to Be Invited | S.M. Shephard-Massat | |
| A Little Night Music | Stephen Sondheim | |
| Grand Magic | Eduardo De Filippo | |
| 2000 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| God of Vengeance | Donald Margulies, Sholem Asch | World Premiere |
| Talley's Folly | Lanford Wilson | |
| 2.5 Minute Ride | Lisa Kron | |
| A Skull in Connemara | Martin McDonagh | Production went on to New York |
| In the Penal Colony | Philip Glass | World Premiere; production went on to New York |
| The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | |
| 1999 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | |
| Goblin Market | Polly Pen & Peggy Harmon | |
| Stonewall Jackson's House | Jonathan Reynolds | |
| Temporary Help | David Wiltse | World Premiere; production went on to New York |
| Side Man | Warren Leight | West Coast Premiere |
| Communicating Doors | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| 1998 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Thunder Knocking on the Door | Keith Glover | |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | |
| Collected Stories | Donald Margulies | |
| Scent of the Roses | Lisette Lecat Ross | World Premiere; production went on to New York |
| The Summer Moon | John Olive | World Premiere |
| Quills | Doug Wright | |
| Violet | Jeanine Tesori | |
| 1997 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Notebook of Trigorin | Tennessee Williams | |
| The Nina Variations | Steven Dietz | |
| Room Service | John Murray and Allen Boretz | |
| Going to St. Ives | Lee Blessing | World Premiere |
| Blues for an Alabama Sky | Pearl Cleage | |
| Old Wicked Songs | John Marans | |
| The Big Slam | Bill Corbett | |
| 1996 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Arcadia | Tom Stoppard | |
| Avenue X | Jon Jiler and Ray Leslee | |
| Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Neil Simon | |
| Cheap | Tom Topor | World Premiere, First performance in ACT's new home at Kreielsheimer Place |
| The Crimson Thread | Mary Hanes | |
| My One Good Nerve | Ruby Dee | World Premiere |
| 1995 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Gospel at Colonus | Lee Breuer and Bob Telson | |
| Hospitality | Allan Havis | |
| Handing Down the Names | Steven Dietz | World Premiere |
| Later Life | A.R. Gurney | |
| The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | |
| Tea | Velina Hasu Houston | |
| The Language of Flowers | Edit Villarreal | World Premiere |
| 1994 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Betty the Yeti | Jon Klein | |
| Gray's Anatomy | Jim Leonard Jr. | World Premiere |
| Keely and Du | Jane Martin | |
| Man of the Moment | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Fish Head Soup | Philip Kan Gotanda | |
| Voices in the Dark | John Pielmeier | World Premiere |
| 1993 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Red and the Black | Jon Klein | World Premiere |
| The Cover of Life | R.T. Robinson | |
| Lonely Planet | Steven Dietz | |
| Life During Wartime | Keith Reddin | |
| Agnes Smedley: Our American Friend | Doris Baizley | World Premiere |
| Dreams From a Summer House | Alan Ayckbourn and John Pattison | |
| 1992 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Trust | Steven Dietz | |
| Shadowlands | William Nicholson | |
| The Revengers' Comedies (Parts I and II) | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Eleemosynary | Lee Blessing | |
| Sunsets and Glories | Peter Barnes | |
| 1991 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| My Children! My Africa! | Athol Fugard | |
| The Illusion | Tony Kushner | |
| Tears of Rage | Doris Baizley | World Premiere |
| Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
| Willi: An Evening of Wilderness and Spirit | John Pielmeier | World Premiere |
| Halcyon Days | Steven Dietz | World Premiere |
| 1990 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| An American Comedy | Richard Nelson | |
| Lloyd's Prayer | Kevin Kling | |
| A Normal Life | Erik Brogger | World Premiere |
| Born in the RSA | Barney Simon and The Market Theatre Company | |
| Four Our Fathers | Jon Klein | |
| Hapgood | Tom Stoppard | |
| 1989 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Downside | Richard Dresser | |
| Breaking the Silence | Stephen Poliakoff | |
| A Walk in the Woods | Lee Blessing | |
| Red Noses | Peter Barnes | |
| Happenstance | Steven Dietz and Eric Bain Peltoniemi | World Premiere |
| Woman in Mind | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| 1988 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Merrily We Roll Along | Stephen Sondheim and George Furth | |
| Mrs. California | Doris Baizley | |
| A Chorus of Disapproval | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| God's Country | Steven Dietz | World Premiere |
| Principia Scriptoriae | Richard Nelson | |
| The Voice of the Prairie | John Olive | |
| 1987 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| March of the Falsettos | William Finn | |
| A Lie of the Mind | Sam Shepard | |
| The Diary of a Scoundrel | Erik Brogger | |
| The Marriage of Bette and Boo | Christopher Durang | |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet | |
| Biloxi Blues | Neil Simon | |
| 1986 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| On the Razzle | Tom Stoppard | |
| Painting Churches | Tina Howe | |
| Tales from Hollywood | Christopher Hampton | |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | |
| The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs | David Edgar | |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman and Alan Menken | |
| 1985 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | |
| True West | Sam Shepard | |
| Maydays | David Edgar | |
| Other Places | Harold Pinter | |
| End of the World | Arthur Kopit | |
| Quartermaine's Terms | Simon Gray | |
| 1984 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | |
| Top Girls | Caryl Churchill | |
| Angels Fall | Lanford Wilson | |
| Thirteen | Lynda Myles | World Premiere |
| Fool for Love | Sam Shepard | |
| The Communication Cord | Brian Friel | |
| 1983 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Dresser | Ronald Harwood | |
| The Dining Room | A.R. Gurney | |
| Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley | |
| Educating Rita | Willy Russell | |
| A Soldier's Play | Charles Fuller | |
| Cloud 9 | Caryl Churchill | |
| 1982 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Da | Hugh Leonard | |
| Fridays | Andrew Johns | |
| Waiting for the Parade | John Murrell | |
| The Gin Game | Donald L. Coburn | |
| The Greeks: The War (Part 1) | John Barton and Kenneth Cavander | |
| The Greeks: The War (Part 2) | John Barton and Kenneth Cavander | |
| 1981 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Custer | Robert E. Ingham | |
| Getting Out | Marsha Norman | |
| Billy Bishop Goes to War | John Gray with Eric Peterson | |
| Night and Day | Tom Stoppard | |
| Loose Ends | Michael Weller | |
| Whose Life Is It, Anyway? | Brian Clark | |
| 1980 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Ntozake Shange | |
| Catholics | Brian Moore | World Premiere |
| Artichoke | Joanna Glass | |
| Wings | Arthur Kopit | |
| Buried Child | Sam Shepard | |
| Starting Here, Starting Now | Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire | |
| 1979 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Fanshen | David Hare | |
| Otherwise Engaged | Simon Gray | |
| Holy Ghosts | Romulus Linney | |
| The Water Engine | David Mamet | |
| The Fantasticks | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt | |
| 1978 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Henry IV, Part I | William Shakespeare | |
| The Shadow Box | Michael Cristofer | |
| Ballymurphy | Michael Neville | World Premiere. Voted "Best of Season" by subscribers. Play went on to Manhattan Theatre Club. |
| The Sea Horse | Edward J. Moore | |
| Makassar Reef | Alexander Buzo | |
| Anything Goes | Cole Porter, Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 1977 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | |
| Travesties | Tom Stoppard | |
| Ladyhouse Blues | Kevin O'Morrison | |
| Streamers | David Rabe | |
| The Club | Eve Merriam | |
| Absurd Person Singular | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| 1976 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Sizwe Bansi Is Dead | Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona | |
| The Time of Your Life | William Saroyan | |
| Scapino | Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale | |
| Desire Under the Elms | Eugene O'Neill | |
| Relatively Speaking | Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Boccaccio | Kenneth Cavander | |
| 1975 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Sleuth | Anthony Schaffer | |
| The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Bertolt Brecht | |
| When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Mark Medoff | |
| Quiet Caravans | Barry Dinerman | World Premiere |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
| Oh Coward! | Roderick Cook | |
| 1974 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Hot L Baltimore | Lanford Wilson | |
| Twigs | George Furth | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | |
| Count Dracula | Ted Tiller | |
| In Celebration | David Storey | |
| The Chairs/The Bald Soprano | Eugène Ionesco | |
| Godspell | Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak | |
| 1973 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| No Place to Be Somebody | Charles Cordone | |
| Old Times | Harold Pinter | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Wasserman | |
| The Contractor | David Storey | |
| A Conflict of Interest | Jay Broad | |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Nichols |
| The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter | Ben Bagley | |
| 1972 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Me Nobody Knows | Gary William Friedman and Will Holt | |
| What the Butler Saw | Joe Orton | |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds | Paul Zindel | |
| Echoes | N. Richard Nash | World Premiere |
| The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | Fr. Daniel Berrigan | |
| Moonchildren | Michael Weller | |
| Butterflies Are Free | Leonard Gershe | |
| 1971 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Hadrian VII | Peter Luke | |
| The Boys in the Band | Mart Crowley | |
| The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee | |
| Ceremonies in Dark Old Men | Lonne Elder III | |
| Plaza Suite | Neil Simon | |
| A Cry of Players | William Gibson | |
| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Clark Gesner and John Gordon | |
| 1970 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter | On same bill as The Balcony |
| The Balcony | Jean Genet | On same bill as The Birthday Party |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht | |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jay Presson Allen | |
| Endgame | Samuel Beckett | |
| Your Own Thing | Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar | |
| 1969 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Celebration | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt | |
| The Homecoming | Harold Pinter | |
| Rhinoceros | Eugène Ionesco | |
| Inadmissible Evidence | John Osborne | |
| Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss | |
| Philadelphia, Here I Come | Brian Friel | |
| Crabdance | Beverly Simons | World Premiere |
| 1968 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Slow Dance on the Killing Ground | William Hanley | |
| Eh? | Henry Livings | |
| Royal Hunt of the Sun | Peter Shaffer | |
| The Lion in Winter | James Goldman | |
| Black Comedy | Peter Shaffer | On same bill as Captain Fantastick Meets the Ectomorph |
| Captain Fantastick Meets the Ectomorph | Barry Pritchard | On same bill as Black Comedy |
| A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee | |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | |
| 1967 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Luv | Murray Schisgal | |
| The Deputy | Rolf Hochhuth | |
| Out at Sea/Striptease | Sławomir Mrożek | |
| After the Fall | Arthur Miller | |
| The Great Divide | William Vaughn Moody | |
| The Fantasticks | Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt | |
| The Caretaker | Harold Pinter | |
| 1966 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| In White America | Martin B. Duberman | |
| The Typist/The Tiger | Murray Schisgal | |
| Tiny Alice | Edward Albee | |
| A Thurber Carnival | James Thurber | |
| The Physicists | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | Joseph Kesselring | |
| The Collection/The Room | Harold Pinter | |
| 1965 Season | Playwright | Notes |
| Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad | Arthur Kopit | |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | |
| Who'll Save the Plowboy? | Frank Gilroy | |
| Dark of the Moon | H. Richardson and William Berney | |
| The Private Ear/The Public Eye | Peter Shaffer | |
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