Shows Archive

Barbara Cook, who captivated LCT audiences in her brilliant "Mostly Sondheim" concert two years ago, returned to the Beaumont for a limited engagement during the run of King Lear. Learn More »

Shakespeare's KING LEAR is the story of an old and vain king unwisely divides his kingdom between his two fawning older daughters and banishes his third daughter, who truly loves him but speaks more modestly. Learn More »

A portrait of legendary tennis player William Tilden, BIG BILL illuminates the sportsman's distinguished career, extravagant style, personal travails, and, ultimately, his calamitous downfall. Learn More »

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH explores the strained and complex relationship between those blacks who remained in South Africa to lead the struggle against apartheid and those who returned victoriously after living in exile. Learn More »

William Shakespeare's HENRY IV, originally two parts, condensed into a single evening by dramaturg/adapter Dakin Matthews and directed by Jack O'Brien. Learn More »

A BAD FRIEND focuses on Rose, a typical teenager growing up in 1953 Brooklyn. What isn't typical about Rose, however, is her family's membership in the Communist Party, which leads to betrayal and recriminations in this moving yet funny play. Learn More »

ELEGIES: A SONG CYCLE, written by Tony Award-winning composer William Finn, is a celebration of life told through the power of song. Learn More »

VINCENT IN BRIXTON presents Van Gogh as he genuinely might have been: raw, ruthless, naive, tactless and comically direct. Learn More »

July 1, 1916 started with a light rain, but soon turned into a clear, bright hot day in the north of France. Along a 21-mile stretch of the Somme river, German and Allied troops gathered on either side of a 'no man's land'. Learn More »

Gerald Gutierrez directed this revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 comedy, DINNER AT EIGHT. Learn More »

The new musical A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE was based on the touching 1994 film of the same name. Creators Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty were reunited for this project with their Ragtime collaborator, Terrence McNally. Learn More »

A revival of Paul Osborn's bittersweet comedy, MORNING'S AT SEVEN, staged by one of our favorite directors, Daniel Sullivan. Learn More »

In an homage to Chekhov, Horton Foote tells a tale of three sisters--played by Roberta Maxwell, his own daughter, Hallie Foote, and Jean Stapleton--and in the process chronicles Central Texas history from the Confederacy to the present. Learn More »

Accompanied by longtime musical director Wally Harper, Barbara Cook performed a memorable evening of songs by the great Stephen Sondheim mixed with songs Sondheim has said he wished he had written. Learn More »

Alan Alda as Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate with a larger-than-life personality and a career that included developing the atom bomb and explaining the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Learn More »

The delightfully clever and heartfelt play spans half a century in the lives of an immigrant Jewish family as they assimilate into American society. Learn More »

THOU SHALT NOT tells a story of uncontrollable passion set in New Orleans just after World War II. Adapted from Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin. Learn More »

John Guare’s CHAUCER IN ROME bears his trademark mix of absurdist humor, offbeat characters and thought-provoking drama. Learn More »

Love is once again on Tom Stoppard's mind in this play, which imaginatively explores the life and afterlife of A.E. Housman, one of England's favorite poets. Learn More »

Set in the early 1990s, TEN UNKNOWNS is a play of remarkable power that traces tangled alliances and betrayals which develop among its precisely-rendered characters. At the center of the story is Malcolm Raphelson, an iconoclastic American painter in his seventies. Learn More »