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Speed-the-Plow April 9 - December 31, 1988

ByDavid Mamet
Directed byGregory Mosher

Royale Theatre

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

April 9 - December 31, 1988

Boys' Life February 5 - May 29, 1988

ByHoward Korder
Directed byWilliam H. Macy

Newhouse Theater

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 »

February 5 - May 29, 1988

Sarafina! January 19, 1988 - July 2, 1989

Written and Directed byMbongeni Ngema

Cort Theatre

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 »

January 19, 1988 - July 2, 1989

National Theatre of the Deaf December 26, 1987 - January 2, 1988

Newhouse Theater

The National Theater of the Deaf performed Dylan Thomas’s nostalgic “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” James Thurber’s “The Night the Bed Fell,” and three poems by e.e. cummings as part of a special Christmas program. Learn More »

December 26, 1987 - January 2, 1988

Sarafina! September 25, 1987 - January 3, 1988

Written and Directed byMbongeni Ngema

Newhouse Theater

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 »

September 25, 1987 - January 3, 1988

Anything Goes September 11, 1987 - September 3, 1989

Music and Lyrics byCole Porter
Original Book byGuy Bolton & P.G. Wodehouse
andHoward Lindsay & Russel Crouse
New Book byTimothy Crouse & John Weidman
Choreography byMichael Smuin
Directed byJerry Zaks

Beaumont Theater

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 »

September 11, 1987 - September 3, 1989

The Regard of Flight (Newhouse) July 10 - August 9, 1987

ByBill Irwin
In Collaboration WithThe Company and Nancy Harrington

Newhouse Theater

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 »

July 10 - August 9, 1987

The Comedy of Errors May 12, 1987 - July 26, 1987

byWilliam Shakespeare
Directed byRobert Woodruff

Beaumont Theater

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 »

May 12, 1987 - July 26, 1987

The Regard of Flight (Beaumont) April 7 - April 26, 1987

ByBill Irwin
In collaboration withThe Company and Nancy Harrington

Beaumont Theater

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 »

April 7 - April 26, 1987

Death and the King's Horseman February 13 - March 29, 1987

Written and Directed byWole Soyinka

Beaumont Theater

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

February 13 - March 29, 1987

Danger: Memory! January 23 - March 8, 1987

ByArthur Miller
ByArthur Miller
Directed byGregory Mosher
Directed byGregory Mosher

Newhouse Theater

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

January 23 - March 8, 1987

Bodies, Rest and Motion November 21, 1986 - January 4, 1987

ByRoger Hedden
Directed byBilly Hopkins

Newhouse Theater

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 »

November 21, 1986 - January 4, 1987

The Front Page October 31, 1986 - January 11, 1987

ByBen Hecht
AndCharles MacArthur
Directed byJerry Zaks

Beaumont Theater

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 »

October 31, 1986 - January 11, 1987

The Transposed Heads October 15 - November 2, 1986

Adapted from Thomas mann's novella byJulie Taylor
AndSidney Goldfarb
Book and lyrics bySidney Goldfarb
Music byElliot Goldenthal
Directed byJulie Taymor

Newhouse Theater

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 »

October 15 - November 2, 1986

The House of Blue Leaves (Plymouth Theatre) October 14, 1986 - March 15, 1987

ByJohn Guare
Words and Music byJohn Guare
Directed byJerry Zaks

Plymouth Theatre

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 »

October 14, 1986 - March 15, 1987

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Born in the R.S.A. October 1 - 5, 1986

Newhouse Theater

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 »

October 1 - 5, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Children of Asazi September 24 - 28, 1986

Newhouse Theater

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

September 24 - 28, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Gangsters September 24 - 28, 1986

Newhouse Theater

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

September 24 - 28, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Bopha! September 17 - 21, 1986

Newhouse Theater

The paradox of being a black policeman in South Africa is presented with explosive humor and music in BOPHA! Learn More »

September 17 - 21, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Asinamali! September 10 - 14, 1986

Written and Directed byMbongeni Ngema

Newhouse Theater

ASINAMALI! is a celebration of the resistance movement to apartheid, inspired by a 1983 rent strike in which the strike leader was assassinated. Learn More »

September 10 - 14, 1986

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