List of Westport Country Playhouse performers

Westport Country Playhouse notable performers include cite book
title = Timeline of Significant Events and Selected Appearances by Notable Artists
publisher = Westport Country Playhouse
date = 19 July 2002
location = Westport, Connecticut] [Somerset-Ward, Richard. "An American Theatre: The Story of Westport Country Playhouse." Yale University Press. (2005)]

*1933: Kitty Carlisle in "Champagne Sec" *1934: Burgess Meredith in "Hide and Seek" *1935: Ruth Gordon in "The Country Wife" *1936: **Eva Le Gallienne in "Love for Love" and "Camille" **Dorothy Gish in "Russet Mantle" *1937: Henry Fonda in "The Virginian" *1938: Ethel Barrymore in "The Constant Wife" *1939: **Gene Kelly, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green in "Magazine Page" **Ruth Gordon in "Here Today" *1940: Paul Robeson in "The Emperor Jones" *1941: Tyrone Power in "Liliom" directed by Lee Strasberg. *1942 - 1945:"The Westport Country Playhouse closed because of World War II" *1946: **June Havoc in "They Knew What They Wanted" **Olivia de Havilland in "What Every Woman Knows" **Thornton Wilder as the stage manager for "Our Town" *1947: Tallulah Bankhead in "Private Lives" *1948: Thornton Wilder in "The Skin of Our Teeth" *1949: **Helen Hayes and Mary MacArthur in "Good Housekeeping" **Carl Reiner in "Pretty Penny" *1950: **Maureen Stapleton in "My Fiddle Has Three Strings" **Maurice Evans in "The Devil’s Disciple" **Franchot Tone in "The Second Man" **Basil Rathbone in "The Winslow Boy" *1951: **Claudette Colbert in "Island Fling" **Olivia de Havilland in "Candida" *1952: John Forsythe in "Dangerous Corner" and "The Hasty Heart" *1953: **Eva Gabor in "Sailor's Delight" and "The Play’s the Thing" **Lillian Gish in "The Trip to Bountiful" *1954: **Imogene Coca in "Happy Birthday" **Richard Kiley in "Candle-Light" *1955: **Richard Kiley in "Heaven Can Wait" **Eva Marie Saint in "The Rainmaker (play)" *1956: **Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish in "The Chalk Garden" **Bea Lillie in "Beasop's Fables" *1957: **Eartha Kitt in "Mrs. Patterson" **Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in "Man in the Dog Suit" *1958: **Groucho Marx in "A Time for Elizabeth" **Bert Lahr in "Visit to a Small Planet" *1959: **Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in "The Glass Menagerie" **Tony Randall in "Arms and the Man" *1960: **Joan Fontaine in "Susan and God" **Jane Fonda in "No Concern of Mine" **Mike Nichols and Elaine May in "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" *1961: **Cyril Ritchard and Cornelia Otis Skinner in "The Pleasure of His Company" **Gloria Swanson in "Between Seasons" *1962: **Tallulah Bankhead in "Here Today" **Sammy Davis, Jr. in "Desperate Hours" *1963: **Teresa Wright in "Tchin-Tchin" **Carol Channing in "The Millionairess" **Hermione Gingold in "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" *1964: **Joel Grey in "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" **Helen Hayes in "The White House" *1965: **Michael Allinson, Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton, and Bramwell Fletcher in the George Bernard Shaw Repertory Festival **Tammy Grimes in "The Private Ear and the Public Eye" **Joan Fontaine in "Unexpected Guest"

*1966: **Cicely Tyson and Alan Alda in "The Owl and the Pussycat" **Tom Ewell in "Life with Father" *1967: **Barbara Bel Geddes in "Wait Until Dark" **E. G. Marshall in "A Singular Man" **Betsy Palmer in "Luv" *1968: **Geraldine Page in "The Little Foxes" **Shirley Booth in "Desk Set" *1969: Keir Dullea and Maureen O'Sullivan in "Butterflies are Free" *1970: **Noel Harrison in "Blithe Spirit" **Shirley Booth in "Best of Friends" *1971: **Colleen Dewhurst in "The Big Coca Cola Swamp in the Sky" **Geraldine Page and Rip Torn in "Marriage & Money" *1972: **Mickey Rooney in "See How They Run" **Robert Stack in "Remember Me" *1973: **Jose Ferrer in "A Song for Cyrano" **Art Carney in "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" *1974: Jack Gilford and Lou Jacobi in "The Sunshine Boys" *1975: **Lynn Redgrave in "The Two of Us" **Theodore Bikel in "The Good Doctor" **Tammy Grimes in "In Praise of Love" *1976: Eva Marie Saint in "Fatal Weakness" *1977: Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley in "Master Builder" *1978: **Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in "Out on a Limb" **Louis Jordan in "13 Rue De L'Amour" *1979: Vincent Price in "Diversions & Delights" *1980: **Sada Thompson in "Children" **Richard Thomas in "Whose Life is it Anyway?" *1981: Eva Le Gallienne in "To Grandmother's House We Go" *1982: Eileen Heckart in "What I Did Last Summer" *1983: Shelley Winters in "84 Charing Cross Road" *1984: Betsy Palmer in "Breakfast with Les and Bess" *1985: Christopher Walken and Katherine Houghton in "A Bill of Development" *1986: Colleen Dewhurst in "Real Estate" *1987: George Grizzard in "The Perfect Party" *1988: Arlene Francis and David Birney in "Social Security" *1989: Elizabeth Ashley in "All the Queen's Men" *1990: Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson in "The Cocktail Hour" *1991: Juliet Mills in "Dangerous Obsession" *1992: Tony Roberts in "The Fourth Wall" *1993: Charles Cioffi in "The Substance of Fire" *1994: Elaine May and Gene Saks in "Intimate Exchanges" *1995: Eileen Eckhart in "The Cemetery Club" *1996: Charles Durning, James Handy, and Dan Lauria in "Men in Suits" *1997: Jean Powell, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and Paul Benedict in "After-Play" *1998: Jean Stapleton in "Eleanor - Her Secret Journey" *1999: **James Naughton in "Street of Dreams" **Michael Learned and Ralph Waite in "Chasing Monsters" *2000: **Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, James Naughton, Swoozie Kurtz, Jane Curtin and Fritz Weaver in "Ancestral Voices" **John Cunningham in "Morphic Resonance" **Bronson Pinchot in "Nicolette & Aucassin" *2001: **Gene Wilder in "Don't Make Me Laugh" **Leslie Uggams and Bruce Weitz in "Heaven Can Wait" **Karen Allen and Chad Allen in "Temporary Help" *2002: Paul Newman, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Converse, Jane Curtin and Jeffrey DeMunn in "Our Town" *2006: James Earl Jones in "Thurgood" *2007: Shuler Hensley, Cady Huffman and Eartha Kitt in Kander & Ebb's "All About Us" *2008: "Of Mice and Men" directed by Paul Newman

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