Vancouver Playhouse production history

The Vancouver Playhouse is the regional theatre for the province of British Columbia, founded in 1963. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.

1963-1964

*"The Hostage" - by Brendan Behan
*"Private Lives" - by Noel Coward
*"The Boy Friend" - by Sandy Wilson
*"Julius Caesar" - by William Shakespeare
*"The Caretaker" - by Harold Pinter
*"Charley's Aunt" - by Brandon Thomas

1964-1965

*"Ring Round the Moon" - by Jean Anouilh
*"Desire Under the Elms" - by Eugene O'Neill
*"The Taming of the Shrew" - by William Shakespeare
*"Christmas in the Market Place" - by Henry Gheon
*"The Seagull" - by Anton Chekov
*"Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" - by Arthur Kopit
*"Stop the World - I Want to Get Off" - by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

1965-1966

*"Oh! What a Lovely War" - by Joan Littlewood
*"A Month in the Country" - by Ivan Turgenev
*"The Knack" - by Ann Jellicoe
*"Major Barbara" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"The Typists & The Tiger" - by Murray Schisgal
*"Romeo and Juliet" - by William Shakespeare
*"Like Father, Like Fun" - by Eric Nicol
*"Lock Up Your Daughters" - adapted from Henry Fielding by Bernard Miles

1966-1967

*"Candida" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"Count Down to Armageddon" - by James Clavell
*"Peer Gynt" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"She Stoops to Conquer" - by Oliver Goldsmith
*"How to Run the Country" - by Paul St. Pierre
*"Anything Goes" - by Cole Porter

1967-1968

*"Androcles and the Lion" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"The Ecstasy of Rita Joe" - by George Ryga
*"The Beaux' Stratagem" - by George Farquhar
*"Philadelphia Here I Come" - by Brian Friel
*"A Streetcar Named Desire" - by Tennessee Williams
*"The Firebugs" - by Max Frisch
*"Walking Happy" - by Harold Brighouse
*"Listen to the Wind" - by James Reaney
*"Three Rituals" - by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Brian Shein and Sheldon Feldner
*"Requiem for a Dinosaur" - by James Cruikshank

1968-1969

*"The Fourth Monkey" - by Eric Nicol
*"Summer of the 17th Doll" - by Ray Lawler
*"A Thurber Carnival" - by James Thurber
*"Moby Dick-Rehearsed" - adapted by Orson Welles
*"Mrs. Mouse Are You Within?" - by Frank Marcus
*"The Filthy Piranesi" - by William D. Roberts
*"Black Comedy" - by Peter Shaffer
*"Grass and Wild Strawberries" - by George Ryga
*"Fortune & Men's Eyes" - by John Herbert
*"Tiny Alice" - by Edward Albee
*"The Partition" - by Jacques Languirand
*"Land Before Time" - by M. Charles Cohen
*"The Visitor" - by Betty Lambert

1969-1970

*"The Royal Hunt of the Sun" - by Peter Shaffer
*"The Show" - by George Kellydn
*"Colours in the Dark" - by James Reaney
*"Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun" - by John McGrath
*"Village Wooing" - and "Dear Liar" by George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kitty
*"Tango" - by Slawomir Mrozek
*"Staircase" - by Charles Dyer
*"Che Guevara" - by Mario Fratti
*"Foreplay" - by Barry Friesen
*"The Candidate" - by James Schevill
*"Space-Fan" - by James Schevill
*"The Criminals" - by Jose Triana

1970-1971

*"The Secretary Bird" - by William Douglas-Home
*"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" - by Tom Stoppard
*"Othello" - by William Shakespeare
*"A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" - by Peter Nichols
*"Plaza Suite" - by Neil Simon
*"Hobson's Choice" - by Harold Brighouse

1971-1972

*"The Chemmy Circle" - by Georges Feydeau
*"The Sorrows of Frederick" - by Romulus Linney
*"Treasure Island" - adapted by Bernard Miles
*"Crabdance" - by Beverley Simons
*"Relatively Speaking" - by Alan Ayckbourn
*"The Native" - by Merv Campone
*"Hadrian VII" - by Peter Luke

1972-1973

*"Forty Years On" - by Alan Bennett
*"How the Other Half Loves" - by Alan Ayckbourn
*"Treasure Island" - by Robert Louis Stevenson
*"Lulu Street" - by Ann Henry
*"Old Times" - by Harold Pinter
*"Pillar of Sand" - by Eric Nicol
*"Arms and the Man" - by George Bernard Shaw

1973-1974

*"Julius Caesar" - by William Shakespeare
*"Leaving Home" - by David French
*"Mr. Scrooge" - music by Doroles Claman, book by Richard Morris and Ted Wood
*"Mandragola" - by Niccolo Machiavelli
*"A Doll's House" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"Dutch Uncle" - by Simon Gray
*"Queer Sights, A Mouldy Tale" - by Frank McEnaney

1974-1975

*"The Taming of the Shrew" - by William Shakespeare
*"Harvey" - by Mary Coyle Chase
*"The Adventures of Pinocchio" - adapted by John Wood
*"Of the Fields, Lately" - by David French
*"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" - by Bertolt Brecht
*"And Out Goes You?" - by Sharon Pollock
*"Frankenstein" - adapted by Alden Knowlan and Walter Learning

1975-1976

*"Equus" - by Peter Shaffer
*"The Speckled Band" - by Arthur Conan Doyle
*"Macbeth" - by William Shakespeare
*"Leonce and Lena" - by George Buchner
*"Camille" - by Robert David MacDonald
*"Kennedy's Children" - by Robert Patrick
*"Komagata Muru Incident" - by Sharon Pollock
*"Back to Beulah" - by W.O. Mitchell
*"Dear Janet, Dear Mr. Kooning" - by Stanley Eveling
*"Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down" - by Tom Eyen

1976-1977

*"Tartuffe" - by Molière
*"Count of Monte Cristo" - by Ken Hill
*"King Lear" - by William Shakespeare
*"Travesties" - by Tom Stoppard
*"Camino Real" - by Tennessee Williams
*"Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land" - by Tom Stoppard
*"The Blues" - by Hrant Alianak
*"The Sound of Distant Thunder" - by Christopher Newton
*"7 Under the 0" - by Allan Stratton

1977-1978

*"Pygmalion" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"Arsenic and Old Lace" - by Joseph Kesselring
*"Oedipus (Swollen Foot)" - by Seneca, adapted by Ted Hughes
*"The Contractor" - by David Storey
*"Twelfth Night" - by William Shakespeare
*"Ashes" - by David Rudkin
*"A Respectable Wedding" - by Bertolt Brecht
*"Jack Sprat" - by Joe Wiesenfeld
*"Loot" - by Joe Orton

1978-1979

*"Hamlet" - by William Shakespeare
*"A Flea in Her Ear" - by Georges Feydeau
*"The Crucible" - by Arthur Miller
*"Tales from the Vienna Woods" - by Ödön von Horváth
*"Ghosts" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin" - by Steve J. Spears
*"Midtown Aces" - by Jesse Boydan
*"The Promise" - by Aleksei Arbuzov
*"Endgame" - by Samuel Beckett

1979-1980

*"Jitters" - by David French
*"Blithe Spirit" - by Noel Coward
*"The Innocents" - by William Archibald
*"Love for Love" - by William Congreve
*"A Streetcar Named Desire" - by Tennessee Williams
*"Henry VI, Part 1" - by William Shakespeare
*"As You Like It" - by William Shakespeare
*"Gunga Heath" - by Heath Lamberts

1980-1981

*"The Servant of Two Masters" - by Carlo Goldoni
*"The Red Devil Battery Sign" - by Tennessee Williams
*"The Man Who Came to Dinner" - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
*"The Lady From the Sea" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"Macbeth" - by William Shakespeare
*"Dreaming and Duelling" - by John Lazarus
*"The Tempest" - by William Shakespeare
*"Much Ado About Nothing" - by William Shakespeare

1981-1982

*"The Notebook of Trigonin" - by Tennessee Williams
*"The Curse of the Werewolf" - by Ken Hill and Ian Armit
*"Wings" - by Arthur Kopit
*"Hunchback of Notre Dame" - by Dennis Foon
*"Romeo and Juliet" - by William Shakespeare
*"See How They Run" - by Philip King
*"Billy Bishop Goes to War" - by John Gray and Eric Peterson

1982-1983

*"The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon" - by W.O. Mitchell
*"The Dresser" - by Ronald Harwood
*"A Gift to Last" - by Gordon Pinsent, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
*"Mass Appeal" - by Bill C. Davis
*"The Tempest" - by William Shakespeare
*"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" - by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove
*"Dry Rot" - by John Chapman
*"White Boys" - by Tom Walmsey
*"Clarence Darrow" - by David W. Rintels
*"As Loved Our Fathers" - by Tom Kahill
*"Dylan Thomas Bach" - by Leon Pownall

1983-1984

*"Death of a Salesman" - by Arthur Miller
*"The Murder of Auguste Dupin" - by J. Ben Tarver
*"Godspell" - by Michael Tebelak
*"K-2" - by Patrick Meyers
*"The Tomorrow Box" - by Anne Chislett
*"Amadeus" - by Peter Shaffer
*"" - by Claire Luckham
*"North Shore Live" - by Tom Wood, Nicola Cavendish and Bob Baker
*"The Guys" - Jean Barbeau, translated by Linda Gaboriau
*"Win, Lose, Draw" - by Mary Gallagher and Ava Watson

1984-1985

*"A Man For All Seasons" - by Robert Bolt
*"Terra Nova" - by Ted Talley
*"Better Watch Out, You Better Not Die" - by John Gray
*"Clarence Darrow" - by David W. Rintels
*"The School for Scandal" - by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
*"Cloud 9" - by Caryl Churchill
*"I'll Be Back Before Midnight" - by Peter Colley

1985-1986

*"Goodnight Disgrace" - by Michael Mercer
*"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - by Edward Albee
*"Season's Greetings" - by Alan Ayckbourn
*"Of Mice and Men" - by John Steinbeck
*"Noises Off" - by Michael Frayn
*"A Chorus Line" - by Michael Bennett
*"Under the Influence" - by Cedric Smith
*"Salt Water Moon" - by David French

1986-1987

*"Noises Off" - by Michael Frayn
*"Paracelsus" - by George Ryga
*"Diary of Anne Frank" - by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
*"Private Lives" - by Noel Coward
*"Master Class" - by David Pownall
*"Foxfire" - by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
*"I'm Not Rappaport" - by Herb Gardner

1987-1988

*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - by William Shakespeare
*"Fire" - by Paul LeDoux and David Young
*"B-Movie, The Play" - by Tom Wood
*"Back to Beulah" - by W.O. Mitchell
*"We, the Undersigned" - by Aleksandr Gelman
*"The Dining Room" - by A.R. Gurney Jr.

1988-1989

*"A Lie of the Mind" - by Sam Shepard
*"Nothing Sacred" - by George F. Walker
*"The Glass Menagerie" - by Tennessee Williams
*"Health, The Musical" - by John Gray
*"Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" - by Terrence McNally
*"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" - by Christopher Hampton

1989-1990

*"Hedda Gabler" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"Blithe Spirit" - by Noel Coward
*"We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!" - by Dario Fo
*"Shirley Valentine" - by Willy Russell
*"Doc" - by Sharon Pollock
*"Rock and Roll" - by John Gray

1990-1991

*"A Streetcar Named Desire" - by Tennessee Williams
*"The Heidi Chronicles" - by Wendy Wasserstein
*"Hosanna" - by Michel Tremblay
*"Pygmalion" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"Other People's Money" - by Jerry Sterner
*"Herringbone, The Musical" - by Tom Cone, Skip Kennon and Ellen Fitzhugh

1991-1992

*"A Moon for the Misbegotten" - by Eugene O'Neill
*"The Miser" Molière - adapted by Tom Cone
*"Love and Anger" - by George F. Walker
*"Macbeth" - by William Shakespeare
*"Fallen Angels" - by Noel Coward
*"My Children! My Africa!" - by Athol Fugard

1992-1993

*"The Millionairess" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"The Wingfield Trilogy" - by Dan Needles
*"Shirley Valentine" - by Willy Russell
*"Lips Together, Teeth Apart" - by Terrence McNally
*"Much Ado About Nothing" - by William Shakespeare
*"Death and the Maiden" - by Ariel Dorfman
*"Private Lives" - by Noel Coward

1993-1994

*"Born Yesterday" - by Garson Kanin
*"A Little of Wot You Fancy" - by Susan Cox
*"If We Are Women" - by Joanna McClelland Glass
*"The Relapse" - by Sir John Vanbrugh
*"A Doll's House" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"Struggle of the Dogs & the Black Bernard" - by Marie Koltes

1994-1995

*"Oleanna" - by David Mamet
*"Charley's Aunt" - by Brandon Thomas
*"Fronteras Americanas" - by Guillermo Verdecchia
*"The Cherry Orchard" - by Anton Chekov
*"Waiting for the Parade" - by John Murrell
*"Homeward Bound" - by Elliott Hayes

1995-1996

*"Three Tall Women" - by Edward Albee
*"The Importance of Being Earnest" - by Oscar Wilde
*"The Crucible" - by Arthur Miller
*"Later Life" - by A.R. Gurney
*"Betrayal" - by Harold Pinter
*"Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, A Love Story" - adapted by James Nichol
*"True Mummy" - by Tom Cone

1996-1997

*"Ghosts" - by Henrik Ibsen
*"Tons of Money" - by Alan Ayckbourn
*"2000" - by Joan MacLeod
*"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - by Edward Albee
*"The Heiress" - by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz
*"Money and Friends" - by David Williamson

1997-1998

*"2 Pianos, 4 Hands" - by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
*"The Overcoat" - by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
*"A Perfect Ganesh" - by Terrence McNally
*"Atlantis" - by Maureen Hunter
*"Mrs. Warren's Profession" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" - by Steve Martin

1998-1999

*"An Ideal Husband" - by Oscar Wilde
*"The Attic, The Pearls and 3 Fine Girls" - by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer, Martha Ross
*"Billy Bishop Goes to War" - by John Gray and Eric Peterson
*"Skylight" - by David Hare
*"Tartuffe" - by Molière
*"The History of Things to Come" - by Morris Panych, Gary Jonesdn and Shawn Macdonald
*"Suburban Motel" - by George F. Walker

1999-2000

*"Of Mice and Men" - by John Steinbeck
*"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" - by Jim Cartwright
*"She Stoops to Conquer" - by Oliver Goldsmith
*"Patience" - by Jason Sherman
*"The Bachelor Brothers on Tour" - by Bill Dow and Martin Kinch
*"2 Pianos, 4 Hands" - by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
*"The Overcoat" - by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling

2000-2001

*"The Coronation Voyage" - by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau
*"Guys and Dolls" - music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling
*"Wit" - by Margaret Edson
*"Candida" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" - by Martin McDonagh
*"Game Misconduct" - by Lesley Uyeda and Tom Cone
*"Kilt" - by Jonathan Wilson
*"Dona Flora" - by Electric Company

2001-2002

*"The Edible Woman" - by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood
*"The Music Man" - by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
*"The School for Wives" - by Molière
*"The Drawer Boy" - by Michael Healey
*"The Rainmaker" - by N. Richard Nash
*"The Dead Reckoning" - by Aaron Bushkowsky

2002-2003

*"Proof" - by David Auburn
*"Fiddler on the Roof" - book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
*"Mary's Wedding" - by Stephen Massicotte
*"Romeo and Juliet" - by William Shakespeare
*"The Caretaker" - by Harold Pinter
*"Earshot" - by Morris Panych
*"Asylum of the Universe" - by Camyar Chai

2003-2004

*"Stones in His Pockets" - by Marie Jones
*"Hello, Dolly!" - book by Michael Stewart, music & lyrics by Jerry Herman
*"Arms and the Man" - by George Bernard Shaw
*"One Last Kiss" - by Aaron Bushkowsky
*"Equus" - by Peter Shaffer
*"Cloud Tectonics" - by Jose Rivera

2004-2005

*"" - by Allan McInnis
*"Noises Off" - by Michael Frayn
*"Humble Boy" - by Charlotte Jones
*"Copenhagen" - by Michael Frayn
*"Trying" - by Joanna McLelland Glass

2005-2006

*"The Syringa Tree" - by Pamela Gien
*"A Little Night Music" - lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
*"Vincent in Brixton" - by Nicholas Wright
*"I Am My Own Wife" - by Doug Wright
*"No Great Mischief" - by David S. Young

2007-2008

*"The Wars" - by Timothy Findley
*"Oliver!" - by Lionel Bart
*"The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead" - by Robert Hewett
*"The Amorous Adventures of Anatol" - by Arthur Schnitzler
*"True West" - by Sam Shepard

2008-2009

*"Frost/Nixon" - by Peter Morgan
*"The Drowsy Chaperone" - book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
*"" - by August Strindberg, adapted by Stephen Sachs
*"Toronto, Mississippi" - by Joan MacLeod
*"Top Girls" - by Caryl Churchill
*"Studies in Motion" - by Kevin Kerr

External links

* [http://www.vancouverplayhouse.com/ Vancouver Playhouse website]