2000–2009

The Constant Wife 

by W. Somerset Maugham
directed by Joanne Woodward

with Mikel Sarah Lambert, Donald Corren, Sharron Bower, Denise Lute, Jessie Cantrell, Allison Mackie, Kali Rocha, Daniel Gerroll, Armand Schultz, John Rothman

Orson’s Shadow 

by Austin Pendleton
conceived Judith Auberjonois
directed by David Cromer

with David Warren, Dominic Conti, Jeff Still, John Judd, Sarah Wellington, Lee Roy Rogers

Ancestral Voices – (A Family Story) 

by A.R. Gurney
directed by David Saint

company A
Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Curtin, Frank Converse, Elizabeth Wilson, and Fritz Weaver

company B
Paul Rudd, Swoosie Kurtz, James Naughton, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

Triangles for Two

World Premiere
by David Wiltse
directed by Joe Grifasi

with Jayne Atkinson, Jeffrey Jones

Morphic Resonance 

by Katherine Burger
directed by James Naughton

with John Cunningham, Claire Lautier, Keira Naughton, Stephen Barker Turner, Tony Ward

Nicolette and Aucassin 

book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg
music by David Friedman
directed by Seth Barrish

with Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Allen, Darlesia Cearcy, James Judy, Jeremy Webb, Bill Buell, Richard White, Nancy K. Anderson, Chuck Cooper, Michael Wiggins, Sean Horgan

Princess Turandot

written and directed by Darko Tresnjak
inspired by Carlo Gozzi and The Arabian Nights

with Anna Belknap, Jeffrey Binder, Wes Day, Jack Ferver, Matthew Gasper, Roxanna Hope, Christopher K. Morgan, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Ron Nahass, Gregor Paslawsky, Caroline Pasquantonio, Josh Radnor, Maria Elena Ramirez, Mark Shunock, Dan Snook, James Stanley

Don’t Make Me Laugh (Presented in Four Parts)

directed by Gene Saks

The Music Cure

by George Bernard Shaw

with Bill Buell, David Costabile

Caught with His Trance Down

by Georges Feydeau
adapted by Norman R. Shapiro

with Gene Wilder, David Costabile, Bill Buell, Bob Dishy, Carol Kane, Vivienne Benesch

The Proposal

by Anton Chekhov
adapted by Gene Wilder

with Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Bob Dishy

The Dangers of Tobacco

by Anton Chekhov
adapted by Gene Wilder

with Gene Wilder

Three Days of Rain

by Richard Greenberg
directed by Joanne Woodward

with Alyssa Bresnahan, David Conrad, Alex Draper

Heaven Can Wait

by Harry Seagall
directed by Joe Grifasi

with Leslie Uggams, Ray Weiderhold, William A. Barry, Jessie Lynn Cantrell, Tristina Duarte, Sharde Edwards, Jerry Finnegan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Virginia Lity, Andrea Magenheimer, John Tiscia, Keith Reddin, Peter Rini, Dean Nolen, Phoebe Jonas, Mary Fogarty, Mia Barron, Bruce Weitz, John Bowman

Temporary Help

by David Wiltse
directed by Gordon Edelstein

with Jeffrey DeMunn, Karen Allen, Sam Freed, Chad Allen

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder
directed by James Naughton
Transferred to Broadway (Booth Theatre)

with Paul Newman, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Converse, Jane Curtin, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jake Robards, Andy Friedland, Kristen Hahn,Harry Cooper, Maggie Lacey, Ben Fox, John Braden, Cynthia Wallace, Susan DeVaney, Jim Lones, Stephen Spinella, Mia Dillon, Robert  Burian, Walter Kosner, Chris Wood, Danny Williams, Carter Jackson, Bill Barry

The Voice of the Turtle

by John Van Druten
directed by Connie Grappo

with Katie MacNichol, Sarah Zimmerman, Stephen Barker Turner

Master Harold…and the Boys

by Athol Fugard
directed by Walter Dallas

with Ray Anthony Thomas, Leon Addison Brown, Joshua Park

Outward Bound

by Sutton Vane
directed by Doug Hughes

with Tari Signor, Denis Holmes, Garret Dillahunt, Jefferson Mays, Pamela Payton-Wright, T. Scott Cunningham, Patricia Conolly, Henry Strozier, Edward Hibbert

A Saint She Ain’t

book and lyrics by Dick Vosburgh
music by Denis King
directed by Eric Hill

with P. J. Benjamin, Joel Blum, Allison Briner, Lovette George, Jason Gillman, Christina Marie Norrup, Roland Rusinek, Jay Russell, Caroline Saxe, John Gray, Devon Higby, Kathleen Mooney, Eric Thorne

Hay Fever

by Noel Coward
directed by Darko Tresnjak

with Sarah Hudnut, Austin Lysy,  Denny Dillon, Amy Van Nostrand, Jack Gilpin, Timothy Carter, Tessa Auberjonois, Robert Stanton, Arden Myrin

The Good German

World Premiere
by David Wiltse
directed by James Naughton

with Kathleen McNenny, Victor Slezak, Boyd Gaines, Casey Biggs

The Old Settler

by John Henry Redwood
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Brenda Thomas, Tina Fabrique, Edward O’Blenis, Cherise Boothe

All My Sons

by Arthur Miller
directed by Doug Hughes

with Richard Dreyfuss, Jill Clayburgh, Tom Hammond, David Costabile, Katie MacNichol, Carolyn Baeumler, Sam Trammell, Conor Donovan, Jenny Bacon, David Aaron Baker

The Streets of New York

written by Dion Boucicault
adaptation
songs and direction by Charlotte Moore

with David Staller, John Keating, Ciaran O’Reilly, John Bolton, Donald Corren, Greg Stone, Margaret Hall, Joshua Park, Nancy Anderson, Rebecca Bellingham, Terry Donnelly, Danielle Ferland

Interim location at Ridgefield Playhouse while Westport Country Playhouse is being renovated.

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

by Frank McGuinness
directed by Ethan McSweeny, with Sterling K. Brown, Michael Emerson, Ciaran O’Reilly

Trumbo

by Christopher Trumbo
directed by Peter Askin

with Gordon MacDonald, Paul Newman

The School for Husbands

by Moliere
translated by Richard Wilbur
directed by Doug Hughes

with Mia Barron, Paul Blankenship, Joe Delafield, Danielle Ferland, Wayne Kasserman, Maggie Lacey, Louis Rosen, Henry Strozier, Andrew Weems

Finian’s Rainbow

music by Burton Lane
book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy
lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
book revised in concert form by Charlotte Moore
directed by Charlotte Moore

with David Staller, Kimberly Dawn Neumann, A. J. Irvin, Jonathan Hadley, Joacquin Stevens, Milo O’Shea, Melissa Errico, Stephen R. Buntrock, Malcolm Gets, John Sloman, Eric Jackson, Andi Hopkins, Wendi Bergamini, Barry McNabb

Dear Brutus

by J. M. Barrie
directed by Gregory Boyd

with Beth Fowler, Meg Gibson, Emma   Roberts, Allison Mackie, Cheryl Lynn Bowers, Simon Jones, Noble Shropshire, Patrick Horgan, Christopher Evan Welch, Curzon Dobell, Corinne Chandler

The Member of the Wedding

by Carson McCullers
directed by Joanne Woodward

with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Liz Morton, Jack Metzger, Brian Letscher, Dana Powers Acheson, Reed Birney, Carolyn Baeumler, Emma Wiseman, Samantha Kindler, Aleta Mitchell, Michael W. Howell, Edward O’Blenis, Brett Aresco

Journey’s End

by R.C. Sherriff
directed by Gregory Boyd

with Daniel Freedom Stewart, James Black, Noble Shropshire, Kieran Campion, Mark Shanahan, Andrew Weems, Tommy Schrider, George Taylor, Trevor Vaughn, Jayce Henderson, Andrew Kirsch

The Immigrant

book by Mark Harelik
lyrics by Sarah Knapp
music by Steven M. Alper
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Tally Sessions, Beth Fowler, Dale Hensley, Kyra Miller

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens
adapted by Giles Havergal
directed by Anne Keefe and Joanne Woodward

with Mark Shanahan, Kieran Campion, Molly Regan, Beth Fowler, Samantha Soule, Sean Cullen, John Keating, Bill Buell, Nicole Lowrance, Saxon Palmer, Simon Jones, Allison Mackie, Tom Beckett, Patrick Horgan, Winslow Corbett, Siena D’Addario, Brendan Geiling, Adam Riegler, Josh King, Betsy Selman

On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning)

by Eric Overmyer
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Laiona Michelle, Molly Wright Stuart, Susan Bennett, Tom Beckett, narrator: Christopher Plummer

Thurgood

World Premiere
by George Stevens, Jr.
directed by Leonard Foglia
Transfer to Broadway (Booth Theatre)

with James Earl Jones

Jam & Spice:  The Music of Kurt Weill

World Premiere
musical arrangement and supervision by Dianne Adams McDowell
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Carey Brown, Jason Ma, Mary Testa, Christianne Tisdale, J.D. Webster, Kurt Zischke

The Drawer Boy

by Michael Healey
directed by John Tillinger

with Michael Countryman, Carson Elrod, John Bedford Lloyd

Constant Star

Written and directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Janeece Aisha Freeman, Gail Grate, Tracey Conyer Lee, Laiona Michelle, Gayle Turner

A Marriage Minuet

World Premiere
by David Wiltse
directed by Tracy Brigden

with Doug Stender, Suli Holum, Douglas Rees, Patricia Kalember, Deirdre Madigan

The Archbishop’s Ceiling

by Arthur Miller
directed by Gregory Mosher

with Bruce McCarty, Sara Surrey, David Rasche, Heather Kenzie, Thomas G. Waites

Old Wicked Songs

by Jon Marans
directed by Loy Arcenas

with Michael Cristofer, Joe Paulik

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
Adapted and directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Wynn Harmon, Nick Cordileone, Robert Adelman Hancock, Michael Deleget, Kirsten Therese Leslie, Mary Jo Mecca, Howard Kaye, Forrest McClendon, Steven Stein-Grainger, Christianne Tisdale, Allen E. Read, Michelle Dawson, Richard Weidlich, Ayla Guttman, Emma Ruchefsky, Christopher Hamlin, Brandon Rakowski, Kitty Robertson, Laura Lehman, Ash Natarajan, Claire Hilton, Siena D’Addario, Luke Sauer, Adam Riegler, Shannon Bolcer, Caroline Chanin, Noah Witke, Lisa Dempsey, Kyrian Friedenberg, Collin Shay

All About Us

book by Joseph Stein
music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
based on Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth
directed by Gabriel Barre

with Tony Freeman, Cady Huffman, Yvette Freeman, David Standish, Carlo Alban, Samantha Futerman, Shuler Hensley, Eric Michael Gillett, Drew Taylor, Daniel Marcus, Michael Thomas Holmes, Frank Vlastnik, Michael James Leslie, Eartha Kitt, J. Elaine Marcos, Sally Ann Tumas, Rachelle Rak

Souvenir

by Stephen Temperley
directed by Vivian Matalon

with Donald Corren, Judy Kaye

Mary’s Wedding

by Stephen Massicotte
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Lee Aaron Rosen, Hannah Cabell

Relatively Speaking

by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by John Tillinger

with Geneva Carr, Cecilia Hart, James Waterston, Paxton Whitehead

Sedition

World Premiere
by David Wiltse
directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Chris Sarandon, Mark Shanahan, Bryant Martin, Hannah Cabell, Colin McPhillamy, Jeffrey DeMunn

Being Alive!

World Premiere
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
conceived and directed by Billy Porter
additional text by William Shakespeare

with Natalie Venetia Belcon, Chuck Cooper, Joshua Henry, N’Kenge, Leslie Odom, Jr., Ken Robinson, Rema Webb

The Turn of the Screw

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
From the story by Henry James
directed by Loy Arcenas

with Charlotte Parry, Tom Beckett

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens
Adapted and directed by Tazewell Thompson

with Wynn Harmon, Nick Cordileone, Nicholas Galbraith, Zachary James, Jonathan C. Kaplan, Mary Jo Mecca, Howard Kaye, Forrest McClendon, Will Ray, Carey Brown, Steven Stein-Grainger, Christianne Tisdale, Bryant Martin, Rebecca Strimaitis, Marcy McGuigan, Brandon Rakowski, Ayla Guttman, Leigha Nicoloro, Claire Hilton, Meaghan Elliot, Emma Ruchefsky, Jordan Bloom, Luke Sauer, Camden Archambeau, Caroline Chanin, Noah Witke, Peter Sauer, Martin Menz

Vigil

by Morris Panych
directed by Stephen DiMenna

with Timothy Busfield, Helen Stenborg

Time of My Life

by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by John Tillinger

with Jason Antoon, Geneva Carr, Carson Elrod, Cecilia Hart, Seana Kofoed, James Waterston, Paxton Whitehead

The Pavilion

by Craig Wright
directed by Chad Rabinovitz

with Michael Laurence, Tracy Middendorf, Michael Milligan

Hot ‘n Cole:  A Cole Porter Celebration!

words and music by Cole Porter
devised by David Armstrong, Mark Waldrop, and Bruce W. Coyle
musical arrangements by Bruce W. Coyle
directed by James Naughton

with Whitney Bashor, Donna Lynne Champlin, Lewis Cleale, Andrea Dora, Peter Reardon, Shonn Wiley

Scramble!

by David Wiltse
directed by Tracy Brigden

with Tom Beckett, Candy Buckley, Rebecca Harris, Colin McPhillamy, Jennifer Mudge, Matthew Rauch

Tryst

by Karoline Leach
directed by Joe Brancato

with Andrea Maulella, Mark Shanahan

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck
directed by Mark Lamos

with Mateo Gomez, Kene Holliday, Brian Hutchison, Mark Mineart, Matthew Montelongo, Betsy Morgan, Tommy Nohilly, Sean Patrick Reilly, Rafael Sardina, Edward Seamon, Buster (the dog)

A Holiday Garland

devised by Eileen Atkins and John Tillinger
directed by John Tillinger

with Blythe Danner, Daniel Gerroll, Jack Gilpin, Joanna Gleason, Edward Herrmann, Anne Keefe, James Naughton, Q. Smith, Aurelia Williams, Joanne Woodward, Colin Donnell (rotating cast)

Around the World in 80 Days

by Mark Brown
based on the novel by Jules Verne
directed by Michael Evan Haney

with Jeff Biehl, Andrew Grusetskie, Lauren Elise McCord, Mark Shanahan, Evan Zes

Children

by A. R. Gurney
directed by John Tillinger

with Mary Bacon, Katie Finneran, Judith Light, James Waterston, Chad Kinsman

tick, tick…BOOM!

book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson
directed by Scott Schwartz

with Wilson Cruz, Colin Hanlon, Pearl Sun, Ken Robinson

How the Other Half Loves

by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by John Tillinger

with Geneva Carr, Carson Elrod, Cecilia Hart, Darren Pettie, Karen Walsh, Paxton Whitehead

That Championship Season

by Jason Miller
directed by Mark Lamos

with Robert Clohessy, John Doman, Lou Liberatore, Tom Nelis, Skipp Sudduth

The Breath of Life

by David Hare
directed by Mark Lamos

with Jane Alexander, Stockard Channing