# List of Westport Country Playhouse performers

Westport Country Playhouse notable performers include
* 1933: Kitty Carlisle in Champagne Sec
* 1934: Burgess Meredith in Hide and Seek
* 1935: Ruth Gordon in The Country Wife
* 1936:
** Eva Le Gallienne in Love for Love and Camille
** Dorothy Gish in Russet Mantle
* 1937: Henry Fonda in The Virginian
* 1938: Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife
* 1939:
** Gene Kelly, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green in Magazine Page
** Ruth Gordon in Here Today
* 1940: Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones
* 1941: Tyrone Power in Liliom directed by Lee Strasberg.
* 1942–1945:The Westport Country Playhouse closed because of World War II
* 1946:
** June Havoc in They Knew What They Wanted
** Olivia de Havilland in What Every Woman Knows
** Thornton Wilder as the stage manager for Our Town
* 1947: Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives
* 1948: Thornton Wilder in The Skin of Our Teeth
* 1949:
** Helen Hayes and Mary MacArthur in Good Housekeeping
** Carl Reiner in Pretty Penny
* 1950:
** Maureen Stapleton in My Fiddle Has Three Strings
** Maurice Evans in The Devil's Disciple
** Franchot Tone in The Second Man
** Basil Rathbone in The Winslow Boy
* 1951:
** Claudette Colbert in Island Fling
** Olivia de Havilland in Candida
* 1952: John Forsythe in Dangerous Corner and The Hasty Heart
* 1953:
** Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight and The Play's the Thing
** Lillian Gish in The Trip to Bountiful
* 1954:
** Imogene Coca in Happy Birthday
** Richard Kiley in Candle-Light
* 1955:
** Richard Kiley in Heaven Can Wait
** Eva Marie Saint in The Rainmaker (play)
* 1956:
** Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish in The Chalk Garden
** Bea Lillie in Beasop's Fables
* 1957:
** Eartha Kitt in Mrs. Patterson
** Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in Man in the Dog Suit
* 1958:
** Groucho Marx in A Time for Elizabeth
** Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet
* 1959:
** Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in The Glass Menagerie
** Tony Randall in Arms and the Man
* 1960:
** Joan Fontaine in Susan and God
** Jane Fonda in No Concern of Mine
** Mike Nichols and Elaine May in An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
* 1961:
** Cyril Ritchard and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Pleasure of His Company
** Gloria Swanson in Between Seasons
* 1962:
** Tallulah Bankhead in Here Today
** Sammy Davis Jr. in The Desperate Hours
* 1963:
** Teresa Wright in Tchin-Tchin
** Carol Channing in The Millionairess
** Hermione Gingold in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
* 1964:
** Joel Grey in Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
** Helen Hayes in The White House
* 1965:
** Michael Allinson, Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton, and Bramwell Fletcher in the George Bernard Shaw Repertory Festival
** Tammy Grimes in The Private Ear and the Public Eye
** Joan Fontaine in The Unexpected Guest
* 1966:
** Cicely Tyson and Alan Alda in The Owl and the Pussycat
** Tom Ewell in Life With Father
* 1967:
** Barbara Bel Geddes in Wait Until Dark
** E. G. Marshall in A Singular Man
** Betsy Palmer in Luv
* 1968:
** Geraldine Page in The Little Foxes
** Shirley Booth in Desk Set
* 1969: Keir Dullea and Maureen O'Sullivan in Butterflies Are Free
* 1970:
** Noel Harrison in Blithe Spirit
** Shirley Booth in Best of Friends
* 1971:
** Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Coca Cola Swamp in the Sky
** Geraldine Page and Rip Torn in Marriage & Money
* 1972:
** Mickey Rooney in See How They Run
** Robert Stack in Remember Me
* 1973:
** José Ferrer in A Song for Cyrano
** Art Carney in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
* 1974: Jack Gilford and Lou Jacobi in The Sunshine Boys
* 1975:
** Lynn Redgrave in The Two of Us
** Theodore Bikel in The Good Doctor
** Tammy Grimes in In Praise of Love
* 1976: Eva Marie Saint in Fatal Weakness
* 1977: Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley in The Master Builder
* 1978:
** Douglas Fairbank, Jr. in Out on a Limb
** Louis Jordan in 13 Rue De L'Amour
* 1979: Vincent Price in Diversions & Delights
* 1980:
** Sada Thompson in Children
** Richard Thomas in Whose Life is it Anyway?
* 1981: Eva Le Gallienne in To Grandmother's House We Go
* 1982: Eileen Heckart in What I Did Last Summer
* 1983: Shelley Winters in 84, Charing Cross Road
* 1984: Betsy Palmer in Breakfast with Les and Bess
* 1985: Christopher Walken and Katharine Houghton in A Bill of Development
* 1986: Colleen Dewhurst in Real Estate
* 1987: George Grizzard in The Perfect Party
* 1988: Arlene Francis and David Birney in Social Security
* 1989: Elizabeth Ashley in All the Queen's Men
* 1990: Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson in The Cocktail Hour
* 1991: Juliet Mills in Dangerous Obsession
* 1992: Tony Roberts in The Fourth Wall
* 1993: Charles Cioffi in The Substance of Fire
* 1994: Elaine May and Gene Saks in Intimate Exchanges
* 1996: Charles Durning, James Handy, and Dan Lauria in Men in Suits
* 1997: Jean Powell, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and Paul Benedict in After-Play
* 1998: Jean Stapleton in Eleanor - Her Secret Journey
* 1999:
** James Naughton in Street of Dreams
** Michael Learned and Ralph Waite in Chasing Monsters
* 2000:
** Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, James Naughton, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Curtin and Fritz Weaver in Ancestral Voices
** Bronson Pinchot in Nicolette & Aucassin
* 2001:
** Gene Wilder in Don't Make Me Laugh
** Leslie Uggams and Bruce Weitz in Heaven Can Wait
** Karen Allen and Chad Allen in Temporary Help
* 2002: Paul Newman, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Converse, Jane Curtin and Jeffrey DeMunn in Our Town
* 2006: James Earl Jones in Thurgood