Production History
| 2016 A Doll’s House , by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Thornton Wilder performed in rotating repertory with The Father, by August Strindberg, a new version in English by David Greig, featuring Maggie Lacey and John Douglas Thompson, directed by Arin Arbus. Pericles, by William Shakespeare, featuring Christian Camargo, directed by Trevor Nunn. Isolde, written and directed by Richard Maxwell2015 The Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare, directed by Jessie Austrian and Ben Steinfeld. An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and directed by Sarah Benson. Tamburlaine the Great, by Christopher Marlowe, edited and directed by Michael Boyd, featuring John Douglas Thompson. A Valley of Astonishment, Written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, featuring Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni, and Jared McNeill.2014 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, directed by Julie Taymor, music by Elliot Goldenthal. King Lear, by William Shakespeare, directed by Arin Arbus, featuring Michael Pennington in a company of 22 actors. The Killer, by Eugène Ionesco, newly translated by Michael Feingold, Featuring Kristine Nielsen, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Robert Stanton in a company of 20 actors, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Grasses of a Thousand Colors, by Wallace Shawn, directed by André Gregory. |
                                
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| 2013 Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Arin Arbus. Kafka’s Monkey, Based on Franz Kafka’s A Report to An Academy, adapted by Colin Teevan, directed by Walter Meierjohann, featuring Kathryn Hunter. Fragments, from texts by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. The Designated Mourner, by Wallace Shawn, directed by André Gregory. |
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| 2012 Cymbeline, directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld. Fragments, by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. Shlemiel the First, based on the Play by Isaac Bashevis Singer, conceived and adapted by Robert Brustein, lyrics by Arnold Weinstein, composed, adapted and orchestrated by Hankus Netsky, musical arrangements and additional music by Zalmen Mlotek, editorial supervision by David Gordon, music direction by Zalmen Mlotek, directed and choreographed by David Gordon. The Broken Heart, by John Ford, directed by Selina Cartmell. The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Arin Arbus. |
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| 2011 Notes from Underground, adapted and directed by Robert Woodruff from the novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Cymbeline, directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld. The Merchant of Venice, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Macbeth, directed by Arin Arbus. |
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| 2010 Orpheus X, written and composed by Rinde Eckert, directed by Robert Woodruff. Measure for Measure, directed by Arin Arbus. Love Is My Sin, adapted and directed by Peter Brook. |
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| 2009 The Grand Inquisitor, adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne, based on an extract from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Peter Brook. Co-presented with New York Theatre Workshop Chair, by Edward Bond, directed by Robert Woodruff. Othello, directed by Arin Arbus. Hamlet, directed by David Esbjornson. |
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| 2008 Ohio State Murders, by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Oroonoko, adapted by Biyi Bandele from the novel by Aphra Behn, directed by Kate Whoriskey. Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Darko Tresnjak. |
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| 2007 The Merchant of Venice, in New York City and at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England as a part of the Compete Works Festival, directed by Darko Tresnjak. The Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe, directed by David Herskovits. Oliver Twist, adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett from the novel by Charles Dickens. |
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| 2006 Measure for Measure, directed by John Dove. Co-presented with Arts at St. Ann’s in association with 2Luck Concepts. Souls of Naples, by Eduardo De Filippo, directed by Roman Paska at Teatro Mercadante, Naples, Italy. All’s Well That Ends Well, directed by Darko Tresnjak. Sore Throats, by Howard Brenton, directed by Evan Yionoulis. |
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| 2005 Švejk, adapted by Colin Teevan from the novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, directed by Dalia Ibelhauptaite. Coriolanus, directed by Karin Coonrod. Souls of Naples, by Eduardo De Filippo, newly translated by Michael Feingold, directed by Roman Paska. |
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| 2004 The Last Letter, adapted and directed by Frederick Wiseman, from the novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Pericles, directed by Bartlett Sher. Engaged, by W.S. Gilbert, directed by Doug Hughes. |
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| 2003 The General from America, written and directed by Richard Nelson. Julius Caesar, directed by Karin Coonrod. Don Juan, by Moliere, directed by Bartlett Sher. |
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| 2002 Cymbeline, at the RSC and in New York City, directed by Bartlett Sher. Andorra, by Max Frisch, newly translated by Michael Feingold, directed by Liviu Ciulei. |
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| 2001 Saved by Edward Bond, directed by Robert Woodruff. Troilus and Cressida, directed by Sir Peter Hall. |
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| 2000 King John, directed by Karin Coonrod. Waste by Harley Granville-Barker, directed by Bartlett Sher. The Green Bird by Carlo Gozzi, translated by Albert Bermel, directed by Julie Taymor, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal; On Broadway at the Cort Theatre. |
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| 1999 The Iphigenia Cycle by Euripides, translated by Nick Rudall, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, music composed by Bruce Odland. Macbeth, directed by Ron Daniels. |
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| 1998 Richard II and Richard III, directed by Ron Daniels, music composed by Michael Ward. |
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| 1997 The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, directed by Robert Woodruff. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, produced in association with The International Shakespeare Globe Centre, London, directed by Jack Shepherd, music composed by Claire van Kampen. |
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| 1996 The Green Bird, by Carlo Gozzi, translated by Albert Bermel, directed by Julie Taymor, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. Measure for Measure, directed by Barry Kyle, musical score composed by Michael Ward. |
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| 1995 Henry VI, Part I: The Contention; Part II: The Civil War, directed by Barry Kyle, musical score composed by Michael Ward. |
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| 1994 As You like It, directed by Mark Rylance, music composed by Claire van Kampen. Titus Andronicus, directed by Julie Taymor, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Elizabeth Diamond. |
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| 1993 Henry V, directed by Barry Kyle. Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Michael Langham. |
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| 1992 The Comedy of Errors, directed by William Gaskill. The New Americans, by Elizabeth Swados. Excerpts from The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor for PBS. |
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| 1991 Romeo and Juliet, directed by Bill Alexander. The Mud Angel by Darrah Cloud, directed by Kevin Kuhlke. |
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| 1990 Othello, directed by William Gaskill. The Red Sneaks, written and directed by Elizabeth Swados. |
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| 1989 Macbeth, directed by Nicholas Mahon. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Jeffrey Horowitz. The Red Sneaks, written and directed by Elizabeth Swados. |
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| 1988 The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Julie Taymor, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. Evening Star by Milcha Sanchez-Scott, directed by Paul Zimet. |
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| 1987 Twelfth Night, directed by Mary B. Robinson, music composed by Ray Leslee. The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor. Inside Out by Willy Holtzman, directed by John Pynchon Holmes. |
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| 1986 The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. Home Street Home by Phil Bosakowski, directed by Elizabeth Diamond, music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. |
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| 1979-1985 Produced Shakespeare and other new plays for New York audiences. Toured the northeast U.S. with collages of Shakespeare’s scenes, soliloquies and songs, directed by Frank Corsaro. Premiered The Changeling by Joyce Carol Oates, directed by Lisa Lindstrom |
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| Pictured above: Kathryn Hunter and cast members of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, photo by Joan Marcus. |