# Vancouver Playhouse production history

The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company was a regional Canadian theatre company, producing plays from 1962 to 2012. The following is a list of the productions that have been staged since its inception to its final season of 2011–2012.

## 2011–2012
### Mainstage

* Tosca Cafe (formerly The Tosca Project) – Created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli. An American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco) production.
* La Cage aux Folles – Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret.
* Red – By John Logan. Directed by Kim Collier.
* Catalyst Theatre’s Hunchback – Conceived by Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke. Adapted from Victor Hugo's novel. Originally commissioned by the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton).
* God of Carnage – By Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton.

### Recital Hall

* Gunmetal Blues – Book by Scott Wentworth. Music & Lyrics by Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler.
* The Exquisite Hour – By Stewart Lemoine - Not Presented. Presented instead at the Arts Club Theatre, Revue Stage.

### Theatre for Young Audiences

* The Cat Came Back – Co-Created by Fred Penner, Jay Brazeau and Kim Selody - Not Presented. Replacement concerts instead performed by Fred Penner and Friends at the Vancouver Playhouse and SFU Woodwards.

## 2010–2011

* The Fantasticks – Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones; Music by Harvey Schmidt, Directed and Choreographed by Max Reimer
* Noël Coward's Brief Encounter – Adapted for the stage by Emma Rice, Directed by Max Reimer
* This – Written by Melissa James Gibson, Directed by Amiel Gladstone
* Death of a Salesman – Written by Arthur Miller, Directed by John Cooper
* The Trespassers – Written by Morris Panych Directed by Ron Jenkins
* MacHomer – Created and Performed by Rick Miller

## 2009–2010

* The Miracle Worker – by William Gibson (playwright)
* Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane
* Beyond Eden – by Bruce Ruddell
* Delusion – by Laurie Anderson
* The Love List – by Norm Foster
* Dangerous Corner – by J. B. Priestley

## 2008–2009

* Frost/Nixon – by Peter Morgan
* The Drowsy Chaperone – book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
* Miss Julie: Freedom Summer – by August Strindberg, adapted by Stephen Sachs
* Toronto, Mississippi – by Joan MacLeod
* Top Girls – by Caryl Churchill
* Studies in Motion – by Kevin Kerr

## 2007–2008

* The Wars – by Timothy Findley
* Oliver! – by Lionel Bart
* The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead – by Robert Hewett
* The Amorous Adventures of Anatol – by Arthur Schnitzler
* True West – by Sam Shepard

## 2005–2006

* The Syringa Tree – by Pamela Gien [d]
* A Little Night Music – lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
* Vincent in Brixton – by Nicholas Wright
* I Am My Own Wife – by Doug Wright
* No Great Mischief – by David S. Young

## 2004–2005

* Joni Mitchell: River – by Allan McInnis
* Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
* Humble Boy – by Charlotte Jones
* Copenhagen – by Michael Frayn
* Trying – by Joanna Glass

## 2003–2004

* Stones in His Pockets – by Marie Jones
* Hello, Dolly! – book by Michael Stewart, music & lyrics by Jerry Herman
* Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw
* One Last Kiss – by Aaron Bushkowsky
* Equus – by Peter Shaffer
* Cloud Tectonics – by Jose Rivera

## 2002–2003

* Proof – by David Auburn
* Fiddler on the Roof – book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
* Mary's Wedding – by Stephen Massicotte
* Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
* The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
* Earshot – by Morris Panych
* Asylum of the Universe – by Camyar Chai

## 2001–2002

* The Edible Woman – by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood
* The Music Man – by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
* The School for Wives – by Molière
* The Drawer Boy – by Michael Healey
* The Rainmaker – by N. Richard Nash
* The Dead Reckoning – by Aaron Bushkowsky

## 2000–2001

* The Coronation Voyage – by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau
* Guys and Dolls – music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling
* Wit – by Margaret Edson
* Candida – by George Bernard Shaw
* The Beauty Queen of Leenane – by Martin McDonagh
* Game Misconduct – by Lesley Uyeda and Tom Cone
* Kilt – by Jonathan Wilson
* Dona Flora – by Electric Company

## 1999–2000

* Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck
* The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – by Jim Cartwright
* She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
* Patience – by Jason Sherman
* The Bachelor Brothers on Tour – by Bill Dow and Martin Kinch
* 2 Pianos, 4 Hands – by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
* The Overcoat – by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling

## 1998–1999

* An Ideal Husband – by Oscar Wilde
* The Attic, The Pearls and 3 Fine Girls – by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer, Martha Ross
* Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John Gray and Eric Peterson
* Skylight – by David Hare
* Tartuffe – by Molière
* The History of Things to Come – by Morris Panych, Gary Jones and Shawn Macdonald
* Suburban Motel – by George F. Walker

## 1997–1998

* 2 Pianos, 4 Hands – by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
* The Overcoat – by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
* A Perfect Ganesh – by Terrence McNally
* Atlantis – by Maureen Hunter
* Mrs. Warren's Profession – by George Bernard Shaw
* Picasso at the Lapin Agile – by Steve Martin

## 1996–1997

* Ghosts – by Henrik Ibsen
* Tons of Money – by Alan Ayckbourn
* 2000 – by Joan MacLeod
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – by Edward Albee
* The Heiress – by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz
* Money and Friends – by David Williamson

## 1995–1996

* Three Tall Women – by Edward Albee
* The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
* The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
* Later Life – by A. R. Gurney
* Betrayal – by Harold Pinter
* Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, A Love Story – adapted by James Nichol
* True Mummy – by Tom Cone

## 1994–1995

* Oleanna – by David Mamet
* Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas
* Fronteras Americanas – by Guillermo Verdecchia
* The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov
* Waiting for the Parade – by John Murrell
* Homeward Bound – by Elliott Hayes

## 1993–1994

* Born Yesterday – by Garson Kanin
* A Little of Wot You Fancy – by Susan Cox
* If We Are Women – by Joanna McClelland Glass
* The Relapse – by Sir John Vanbrugh
* A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen
* Struggle of the Dogs & the Black – by Bernard-Marie Koltès

## 1992–1993

* The Millionairess – by George Bernard Shaw
* The Wingfield Trilogy – by Dan Needles
* Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell
* Lips Together, Teeth Apart – by Terrence McNally
* Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
* Death and the Maiden – by Ariel Dorfman
* Private Lives – by Noël Coward

## 1991–1992

* A Moon for the Misbegotten – by Eugene O'Neill
* The Miser Molière – adapted by Tom Cone
* Love and Anger – by George F. Walker
* Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
* Fallen Angels – by Noël Coward
* My Children! My Africa! – by Athol Fugard

## 1990–1991

* A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
* The Heidi Chronicles – by Wendy Wasserstein
* Hosanna – by Michel Tremblay
* Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
* Other People's Money – by Jerry Sterner
* Herringbone, The Musical – by Tom Cone, Skip Kennon and Ellen Fitzhugh

## 1989–1990

* Hedda Gabler – by Henrik Ibsen
* Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
* We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! – by Dario Fo
* Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell
* Doc – by Sharon Pollock
* Rock and Roll – by John Gray

## 1988–1989

* A Lie of the Mind – by Sam Shepard
* Nothing Sacred – by George F. Walker
* The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
* Health, The Musical – by John Gray
* Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – by Terrence McNally
* Les Liaisons Dangereuses – by Christopher Hampton

## 1987–1988

* A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
* Fire – by Paul LeDoux and David Young
* B-Movie, The Play – by Tom Wood
* Back to Beulah – by W. O. Mitchell
* We, the Undersigned – by Aleksandr Gelman
* The Dining Room – by A.R. Gurney Jr.

## 1986–1987

* Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
* Paracelsus – by George Ryga
* Diary of Anne Frank – by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
* Private Lives – by Noël Coward
* Master Class – by David Pownall
* Foxfire – by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
* I'm Not Rappaport – by Herb Gardner
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## 1984–1985

* A Man for All Seasons – by Robert Bolt
* Terra Nova – by Ted Tally
* Better Watch Out, You Better Not Die – by John Gray
* Clarence Darrow – by David W. Rintels
* The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* Cloud 9 – by Caryl Churchill
* I'll Be Back Before Midnight – by Peter Colley

## 1983–1984

* Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
* The Murder of Auguste Dupin – by J. Ben Tarver
* Godspell – by Michael Tebelak
* K-2 – by Patrick Meyers
* The Tomorrow Box – by Anne Chislett
* Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
* Terrace Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap – by Claire Luckham
* North Shore Live – by Tom Wood, Nicola Cavendish and Bob Baker
* The Guys – Jean Barbeau, translated by Linda Gaboriau
* Win, Lose, Draw – by Mary Gallagher and Ava Watson

## 1982–1983

* The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon – by W. O. Mitchell
* The Dresser – by Ronald Harwood
* A Gift to Last – by Gordon Pinsent, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
* Mass Appeal – by Bill C. Davis
* The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove
* Dry Rot – by John Chapman
* White Boys – by Tom Walmsey
* Clarence Darrow – by David W. Rintels
* As Loved Our Fathers – by Tom Kahill
* Dylan Thomas Bach – by Leon Pownall

## 1981–1982

* The Notebook of Trigorin – by Tennessee Williams
* The Curse of the Werewolf – by Ken Hill and Ian Armit
* Wings – by Arthur Kopit
* Hunchback of Notre Dame – by Dennis Foon
* Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
* See How They Run – by Philip King
* Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson

## 1980–1981

* The Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni
* The Red Devil Battery Sign – by Tennessee Williams
* The Man Who Came to Dinner – by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
* The Lady from the Sea – by Henrik Ibsen
* Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
* Dreaming and Duelling – by John Lazarus
* The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
* Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare

## 1979–1980

* Jitters – by David French
* Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
* The Innocents – by William Archibald
* Love for Love – by William Congreve
* A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
* Henry VI, Part 1 – by William Shakespeare
* As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
* Gunga Heath – by Heath Lamberts

## 1978–1979

* Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
* A Flea in Her Ear – by Georges Feydeau
* The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
* Tales from the Vienna Woods – by Ödön von Horváth
* Ghosts – by Henrik Ibsen
* The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin – by Steve J. Spears
* Midtown Aces – by Jesse Boydan
* The Promise – by Aleksei Arbuzov
* Endgame – by Samuel Beckett

## 1977–1978

* Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
* Arsenic and Old Lace – by Joseph Kesselring
* Oedipus (Swollen Foot) – by Seneca, adapted by Ted Hughes
* The Contractor – by David Storey
* Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
* Ashes – by David Rudkin
* A Respectable Wedding – by Bertolt Brecht
* Jack Sprat – by Joe Wiesenfeld
* Loot – by Joe Orton

## 1976–1977

* Tartuffe – by Molière
* Count of Monte Cristo – by Ken Hill
* King Lear – by William Shakespeare
* Travesties – by Tom Stoppard
* Camino Real – by Tennessee Williams
* Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land – by Tom Stoppard
* The Blues – by Hrant Alianak
* The Sound of Distant Thunder – by Christopher Newton
* 7 Under the 0 – by Allan Stratton

## 1975–1976

* Equus – by Peter Shaffer
* The Speckled Band – by Arthur Conan Doyle
* Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
* Leonce and Lena – by George Büchner
* Camille – by Robert David MacDonald
* Kennedy's Children – by Robert Patrick
* Komagata Maru incident – by Sharon Pollock
* Back to Beulah – by W. O. Mitchell
* Dear Janet, Dear Mr. Kooning – by Stanley Eveling
* Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down – by Tom Eyen

## 1974–1975

* The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
* Harvey – by Mary Coyle Chase
* The Adventures of Pinocchio – adapted by John Wood
* Of the Fields, Lately – by David French
* The Caucasian Chalk Circle – by Bertolt Brecht
* And Out Goes You? – by Sharon Pollock
* Frankenstein – adapted by Alden Knowlan and Walter Learning

## 1973–1974

* Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
* Leaving Home – by David French
* Mr. Scrooge – music by Doroles Claman, book by Richard Morris and Ted Wood
* Mandragola – by Niccolò Machiavelli
* A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen
* Dutch Uncle – by Simon Gray
* Queer Sights, A Mouldy Tale – by Frank McEnaney
Travesties - by Tom Stoppard

## 1972–1973

* Forty Years On – by Alan Bennett
* How the Other Half Loves – by Alan Ayckbourn
* Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson
* Lulu Street – by Ann Henry
* Old Times – by Harold Pinter
* Pillar of Sand – by Eric Nicol
* Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw

## 1971–1972

* The Chemmy Circle – by Georges Feydeau
* The Sorrows of Frederick – by Romulus Linney
* Treasure Island – adapted by Bernard Miles
* Crabdance – by Beverley Simons
* Relatively Speaking – by Alan Ayckbourn
* The Native – by Merv Campone
* Hadrian VII – by Peter Luke

## 1970–1971

* The Secretary Bird – by William Douglas-Home
* Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – by Tom Stoppard
* Othello – by William Shakespeare
* A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – by Peter Nichols
* Plaza Suite – by Neil Simon
* Hobson's Choice – by Harold Brighouse

## 1969–1970

* The Royal Hunt of the Sun – by Peter Shaffer
* The Show-Off – by George Kelly
* Colours in the Dark – by James Reaney
* Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – by John McGrath
* Village Wooing – and Dear Liar by George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kitty
* Tango – by Sławomir Mrożek
* Staircase – by Charles Dyer
* Che Guevara – by Mario Fratti
* Foreplay – by Barry Friesen
* The Candidate – by James Schevill
* Space-Fan – by James Schevill
* The Criminals – by Jose Triana

## 1968–1969

* The Fourth Monkey – by Eric Nicol
* Summer of the 17th Doll – by Ray Lawler
* A Thurber Carnival – by James Thurber
* Moby Dick-Rehearsed – adapted by Orson Welles
* Mrs. Mouse Are You Within? – by Frank Marcus
* The Filthy Piranesi – by William D. Roberts
* Black Comedy – by Peter Shaffer
* Grass & Wild Strawberries – by George Ryga
* Fortune and Men's Eyes – by John Herbert
* Tiny Alice – by Edward Albee
* The Partition – by Jacques Languirand
* Land Before Time – by M. Charles Cohen
* The Visitor – by Betty Lambert

## 1967–1968

* Androcles and the Lion – by George Bernard Shaw
* The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – by George Ryga
* The Beaux' Stratagem – by George Farquhar
* Philadelphia, Here I Come – by Brian Friel
* A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
* The Firebugs – by Max Frisch
* Walking Happy – by Harold Brighouse
* Listen to the Wind – by James Reaney
* Three Rituals – by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Brian Shein and Sheldon Feldner
* Requiem for a Dinosaur – by James Cruikshank

## 1966–1967

* Candida – by George Bernard Shaw
* Count Down to Armageddon – by James Clavell
* Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen
* She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
* How to Run the Country – by Paul St. Pierre
* Anything Goes – by Cole Porter

## 1965–1966

* Oh, What a Lovely War! – by Joan Littlewood
* A Month in the Country – by Ivan Turgenev
* The Knack – by Ann Jellicoe
* Major Barbara – by George Bernard Shaw
* The Typists & The Tiger – by Murray Schisgal
* Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
* Like Father, Like Fun – by Eric Nicol
* Lock Up Your Daughters – adapted from Henry Fielding by Bernard Miles

## 1964–1965

* Ring Round the Moon – by Jean Anouilh
* Desire Under the Elms – by Eugene O'Neill
* The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
* Christmas in the Market Place – by Henry Gheon
* The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
* Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad – by Arthur Kopit
* Stop the World – I Want to Get Off – by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

## 1963–1964

* The Hostage – by Brendan Behan
* Private Lives – by Noël Coward
* The Boy Friend – by Sandy Wilson
* Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
* The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
* Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas