Shows Archive

Spalding Gray was the Narrator in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of this acclaimed revival of Thorton Wilder’s enduring American play. Learn More »

Vladimir (Steve Martin) and Estragon (Robin Williams) wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. In each act, they encounter a man called Pozzo (F. Murray Abraham) and his slave, Lucky (Bill Irwin). Learn More »

ROAD is set in a small Lancashire working class town whose inhabitants are railing against the economic hardships increasingly nipping at their heels. Learn More »

I'LL GO ON was conceived and commissioned three years prior to its performance at LCT, when Michael Colgan, artistic director of the Gate Theatre Dublin, approached actor Barry McGovern about doing a one-man show based on the works of Samuel Beckett. Learn More »

Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver, and Madonna lit up Broadway with the verbal fireworks of this classic David Mamet play, set in Hollywood. Learn More »

BOYS' LIFE is a 1980s take on much the same territory that David Mamet mined in his early one-act, Sexual Perversity in Chicago: guys who won't grow up, women who would like to kill them, the whole hilarious unhappy mess. Learn More »

SARAFINA was written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, (Woza Afrika!) He collaborated with South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela on the lively score that fused South African music, jazz, and American pop. Learn More »

SARAFINA was written and directed by Mbongeni Ngema, (Woza Afrika!) He collaborated with South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela on the lively score that fused South African music, jazz, and American pop. Learn More »

The first Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s romantic musical comedy in over 50 years featured Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 1988. Learn More »

Master clown Bill Irwin and his comic cohorts, M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner kicked up their heels in THE REGARD OF FLIGHT. Learn More »

Lincoln Center Theater happily reunited The Flying Karamazov Brothers and Avner the Eccentric in their adaptation of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS—William Shakespeare’s giddy play about identical twins caught up in a chaos of mistaken identities. Learn More »

Master clown Bill Irwin and his comic cohorts, M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner kicked up their heels in THE REGARD OF FLIGHT. Learn More »

Wole Soyinka wrote an extraordinary modern-day tragedy, based on actual events which took place in 1946, incorporating music and dance. Learn More »

Two new plays by Arthur Miller—distinct but with a thematic connection—comprised DANGER: MEMORY! Learn More »

Hot, young playwright Roger Hedden had written screenplays and one-act plays but BODIES, REST AND MOTION was his first full-length play. Learn More »

A stage full of wisecracking newspaper reporters and double-talking politicians filled the Beaumont for Hecht and MacArthur's classic, THE FRONT PAGE. Learn More »

This adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella added vocal and instrumental music to an actor-and-puppets stage version inspired by Mann’s retelling of this Indian legend. Learn More »

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

A government informer betrays his mistress and colleagues who actively oppose apartheid. The director, Barney Simon, conceived the docu-drama as “a living newspaper.” Learn More »