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  • The Lights

    The Lights October 13 - December 12, 1993

    ByHoward Korder
    Directed ByMark Wing-Davey
    Newhouse Theater

    This is Korder's most mature and poetic play, chronicling the spiritual homelessness of life in an unnamed big city where a young man and his girlfriend yearn for a better life and do not find it. Learn More »

    October 13 - December 12, 1993
  • In the Summer House

    In the Summer House July 8 - August 22, 1993

    ByJane Bowles
    Directed byJoanne Akalaitis
    Beaumont Theater

    First produced on Broadway in 1953, IN THE SUMMER HOUSE is a strange and darkly funny work. It is the only play by Jane Bowles, whose bohemian life and world travels ended in 1973, leaving behind a very small body of work. Learn More »

    July 8 - August 22, 1993
  • Playboy of the West Indies

    Playboy of the West Indies April 14 - July 25, 1993

    byMustapha Matura
    Directed byGerald Gutierrez
    Newhouse Theater

    Matura's charming, ironic and very funny play is not so much an adaptation of J.M. Synge's famous 1912 work, 'The Playboy of the Western World', as it is an effortless translation of one play into another, one setting into another, and most important, one culture into another. Learn More »

    April 14 - July 25, 1993
  • Four Baboons Adoring the Sun

    Four Baboons Adoring the Sun February 22 - April 19, 1992

    ByJohn Guare
    Music byStephen Edwards
    Directed byPeter Hall
    Beaumont Theater

    Two American archeologists, recently married, are set to enjoy a working holiday with the children from their previous marriages. The play begins as a domestic comedy and then moves into a world that is dark, deep and mythic. Learn More »

    February 22 - April 19, 1992
  • The Substance of Fire

    The Substance of Fire January 31 - July 26, 1992

    ByJon Robin Baitz
    Directed byDaniel Sullivan
    Newhouse Theater

    Here is a play by a young writer that has all the hallmarks of what used to be called a "good evening of theater—” witty, intelligent, literate writing, deep passions and a tour-de-force leading role. Learn More »

    January 31 - July 26, 1992
  • The Most Happy Fella

    The Most Happy Fella January 24 - August 30, 1992

    Book, Music and Lyrics byFrank Loesser
    Directed byGerald Gutierrez
    Booth Theatre

    Audiences have loved Frank Loesser's musicals for years—most notably his Guys and Dolls and the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. However, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA was a startling rediscovery, even for Loesser fans. Learn More »

    January 24 - August 30, 1992
  • Two Shakespearean Actors

    Two Shakespearean Actors December 17, 1991 - February 9, 1992

    byRichard Nelson
    Directed byJack O'Brien
    Cort Theatre

    The year is 1849. Two arch rivals—the English star William Macready and the American matinee idol Edwin Forrest—tempt fate when both perform the Scottish Play on the same night in neighboring downtown theaters. Learn More »

    December 17, 1991 - February 9, 1992
  • Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen

    Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen May 10 - July 28, 1991

    ByElaine May
    Directed byGregory Mosher
    Newhouse Theater

    Both humor and pathos are present in this off-beat tale about the unlikely friendship between Mr. Gogol, a reclusive retiree, and Mr. Preen, a door-to-door salesman who falls ill during a sales call at Mr. Gogol's apartment—and winds up staying there to recuperate. Learn More »

    May 10 - July 28, 1991
  • Mule Bone

    Mule Bone January 20 - April 14, 1991

    ByLangston Hughes
    andZora Neale Hurston
    Prologue & Epilogue byGeorge Houston Bass
    Music byTaj Mahal
    Directed ByMichael Schultz
    Barrymore Theatre

    MULE BONE had its opening night a little late. Sixty years late, to be precise. Although this comedy with music about life in an all-African-American Florida town was written in 1930, the play had never been produced before Lincoln Center Theater produced it in the winter of 1991. Learn More »

    January 20 - April 14, 1991
  • Township Fever

    Township Fever November 23, 1990 - January 20, 1991

    Book, Music & Lyrics byMbongeni Ngema
    Conceived, Choreographed & Directed byMbongeni Ngema
    Majestic Theater

    Like Sarafina!, TOWNSHIP FEVER explodes with music, passion and hope. It also reveals some of the pain and violence that are a part of Black life in South Africa. Learn More »

    November 23, 1990 - January 20, 1991
  • Monster in a box

    Monster in a box November 2, 1990 - May 27, 1991

    Written and Performed bySpalding Gray
    Directed byRenée Shafransky
    Newhouse Theater

    Like all of Gray's work, this new one-man adventure story stakes out its most fascinating territory in the mind and spirit of its storyteller. Learn More »

    November 2, 1990 - May 27, 1991
  • Six Degrees of Separation (Beaumont)

    Six Degrees of Separation (Beaumont) October 30, 1990 - January 5, 1992

    ByJohn Guare
    Directed byJerry Zaks
    Beaumont Theater

    Ouisa and her husband Flan, a pair of affluent New Yorkers, open their door to Paul, a charming young man who claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier. And so unwittingly open Pandora’s Box. Learn More »

    October 30, 1990 - January 5, 1992
  • Some Americans Abroad (Beaumont)

    Some Americans Abroad (Beaumont) April 25 - June 17, 1990

    ByRichard Nelson
    Directed byRoger Michell
    Beaumont Theater

    In Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD a group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) Learn More »

    April 25 - June 17, 1990
  • Some Americans Abroad (Newhouse)

    Some Americans Abroad (Newhouse) January 24 - April 22, 1990

    ByRichard Nelson
    Directed byRoger Michell
    Newhouse Theater

    In Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD a group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) Learn More »

    January 24 - April 22, 1990
  • The Tenth Man

    The Tenth Man November 10, 1989 - January 14, 1990

    byPaddy Chayefsky
    Directed byUlu Grosbard
    Beaumont Theater

    According to Orthodox beliefs, a quorum of ten men must be assembled before the service can begin, and Arthur, a lapsed Jew who doesn't believe in anything except his analyst, is the only person they could find as a tenth witness. Learn More »

    November 10, 1989 - January 14, 1990
  • Oh, Hell

    Oh, Hell November 7 - December 31, 1989

    Author, The Devil and Billy MarkhamShel Silverstein
    Author, Bobby Gould in HellDavid Mamet
    Directed byGregory Mosher
    Newhouse Theater

    Bobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet was presented as a double-bill with Shel Silverstein’s The Devil and Billy Markham in an evening titled OH, HELL. Learn More »

    November 7 - December 31, 1989