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Theatre Intime is an entirely student-run drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

tic arts organization operating out of the Hamilton Murray Theater at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. Intime receives no support from the university, and is entirely acted, produced, directed, teched and managed by students.

Theatre Intime was founded in 1920 by a group of Princeton undergraduates; in 1922 it took over the Hamilton Murray Theater as its stage. It has presented the American premieres of several plays by prominent creators, including Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

's The Typewriter and W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

's Age of Anxiety. Members of the troupe have included Jimmy Stewart

James Stewart (actor)

James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...

, Joshua Logan

Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American stage and film director and writer.-Early years:Logan was born in Texarkana, Texas, the son of Susan and Joshua Lockwood Logan. When he was three years old his father committed suicide...

, Larry Strichman, William Hootkins

William Hootkins

William Michael Hootkins was an American character actor, most famous for supporting roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars, Batman and Raiders of the Lost Ark.-Early life:...

, Roger Berlind

Roger Berlind

Roger S. Berlind is a New York City theatrical producer and director of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc...

, Mark Feuerstein

Mark Feuerstein

-Career:Feuerstein got his break-through on television as a recurring character on the daytime soap opera Loving. When director Nancy Meyers was casting What Women Want, her daughter recognized Feuerstein from Practical Magic and insisted that her mother cast him...

, Charles Scribner

Charles Scribner

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, Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg is an American playwright. He is the author of over 25 plays including eight South Coast Repertory world premieres: Our Mother's Brief Affair, The Injured Party, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Three Days of Rain Richard Greenberg (1958–present) is an American...

, Winnie Holzman

Winnie Holzman

Winnie Holzman is an American dramatist, screenwriter and poet. She created the ABC television series My So-Called Life, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination for writing in 1995...

,Mark Nelson, and Wentworth Miller

Wentworth Miller

Wentworth Earl Miller III is an English-born American actor; model and screenwriter who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.-Early life:...

.

In the late 1920s, the group spawned a summer theater project, the University Players

University Players

The University Players was primarily a summer stock theater company located in West Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, from 1928 to 1932. It was formed in 1928 by eighteen college undergraduates...

, whose early members included Stewart, Logan, and Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

. Later, a semi-professional summer company was founded by Charles Bernstein, class of 1967, and Jon Lorrain and Geoff Peterson, class of 1969. It was called 'Summer Intime.' In its first season the company produced The Night of the Iguana, Amphitroyon 38, The Trial and Arms and the Man. It paid salaries to its acting company by selling subscriptions to the Princeton community. Some years later the name of the summer company was changed to Princeton Summer Theater

Princeton Summer Theater

Princeton Summer Theater was founded in 1968 by a group of Princeton University undergraduates under the name 'Summer Intime' as a high grade summer stock theater company....

Current season

2010-2011

Red Herring by Michael Hollinger

This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan

Garden District by Tennessee Williams

Recent Tragic Events by Craig Wright

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance

Amateurs by Tom Griffin

Past seasons

2009-2010

Proof by David Auburn

Venting by Mara Nelson-Greenberg

Crime and Punishment by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Reefer Madness by Kevin Murphy (books and lyrics) and Dan Studney (music)

Catch Me If You Can by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert

2008-2009

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends by Larry Larson and Levi Lee

Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Hey Boy Wonder! The Other Adventures of Ultraman by Shawn Fennell

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

2007-2008

The Violet Hour by Richard Greenberg

Top-Dog/UnderDog by Suzan-Lori Parks

The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

Macbeth by William Shakeaspeare

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman

The Foreigner by Larry Shue

2006-2007

Boston Marriage by David Mamet

Cuchulain Comforted by W.B. Yeats

Equus by Peter Schaffer

Terra Nova by Ted Talley

Valentine at Bellevue by Joshua Williams

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mamet

2005-2006

Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by The Neo-Futurists

Wonderland Salvage by Joshua Williams

Fences by August Wilson

The Goat by Edward Albee

College: The Musical by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

2004-2005

Fair Game by Karl Gajdusek

Rumors by Neil Simon

The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante (book), Marvin Hamlisch (music), Edward Kleban (lyrics)

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

The Bald Soprano and The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco

Hannah and Martin by Kate Fodor

2003-2004

Hysteria! by Terry Johnson

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Clouds by Aristophanes

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek by Naomi Wallace

Cabaret! by John Kander (music), Fred Ebb (lyrics), and Joe Masteroff (book)

The Master and Margarita adapted by Peter Morris

2002-2003

Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang

Men Without Shadows by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Hothouse by Harold Pinter

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare

The Water Engine by David Mamet

Bums and Monkeys by David Brundige

The Fix by John Depsey and Dana P. Rowe

2001-2002

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Shadow Box by Michael Christopher

The American Dream and Zoo Story by Edward Albee

The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

Stop Kiss by Diana Son

1996-1997

An Actors Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All for You, by Christopher Durang

Guest Production: Murder, Mystery, Mayhem, by Marvin Cheiten '65, directed by Dan Berkowitz '70

Keely and Du by Jane Martin

1995-1996

Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare

Gatsby, adapted and directed by Erik Brodnax '96 from the novel

Burn This by Lanford Wilson, directed by Suzanne Agins '97

The Bacchae by Euripides

Dime Store Zen, organized by Joseph Hernandez-Kolski

Bent by Martin Sherman

Daughters of Survival, 50 year memorial of female experience in Auschwitz, written and directed by Jennifer Huang '97

True West by Sam Shepherd

Student Plays

1994-1995

Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally

Sexual Peversity in Chicago by David Mamet

Ducks by David Mamet

Across Jordan by Merle Field and Margaret Pine: Guest Production and World Premiere

Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton

The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang

Grotesque Lovesongs by Don Nigro

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Dime Store Zen, a festival of scenes, dances and monologues organized by Kiersten Van Horne '95

The Maids by Jean Genet

Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...

Student Plays

1993-1994

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch

Charles Busch

Charles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which was a success on Broadway.-Early life:Busch was born in 1954 and...

The Shadow Box by Michael Christopher

Hamlet by Pirandello

Buried Child by Sam Shepherd

The Tempest

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

Student Plays

Great Tuna by Gaston, Sears and Howard

1992-1993

Little Footsteps by Ted Tally

Ted Tally

Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter.-Screenwriter:Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them...

Master Harold and the Boys by Atho Fugard

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

by Oscar Wilde

The House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves is a play by American playwright John Guare, first staged in 1966 by Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut....

by John Guare

Noises Off by Michael Frayn

Another Antigone by A.R. Gurney

Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

Solitary Confinement by Jeff Gothard '95

1991-1992

Here Lies Jeremy Troy by Jack Sharkey

Drinking in America by Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...

The Foreigner by Larry Shue

Larry Shue

Larry Shue was an American playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner.-Early life:...

Deathtrap by Ira Levin

As You Like It

The Gospel of Luke by Bruce Kuhn

The Rehearsal

The Rehearsal

The Rehearsal may refer to:* The Rehearsal , 1672, by George Villiers.* The Rehearsal , 1974, about the Greek junta.* The Rehearsal , 2008, by Eleanor Catton.* The Rehearsal, a short film....

by Jean Anouilh

Find Me by Olwen Wynmark

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The Cherry Orchard

Student plays

1990-1991

White Stones by Bill Boesky '88

Laundry and Bourbon by James McLure

James McLure

James Miller McLure, Jr. was an American playwright. He was born in Alexandria, Louisiana and grew up in Shreveport where he was educated by the Jesuits. He became interested in acting in high school, performing in Shakespearean plays...

Talk Radio by Eric Bogosain

Hurlyburly by David Rabe

Rhinoceros by Ionesco

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's...

by Samuel Beckett

Student Plays

Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

1989-1990

Luv

Luv

Luv or LUV may refer to:* An intentional misspelling of love, sometimes used to show an affection that is more endearing than the word love shows.-Entertainment:*LUV , a Korean pop group*Luv', a Dutch pop group...

by Murray Schisgal

No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

Uncommon Women by Wendy Wasserstein

A Lesson from Aloes by Athol Fugard

Burn This by Lanford Wilson

Orphans

Orphans (Lyle Kessler play)

Orphans is a play by Lyle Kessler. It premiered in 1983 at the in Los Angeles starring Joe Pantoliano, Lane Smith and Paul Leiber, where it received critical and commercial success and won the Drama-Logue Award....

by Lyle Kessler

Fool For Love by Sam Shepard

Student Plays

Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi

1988-1989

Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains Its All For You by Christopher Durang

Benefactors by Michael Frayn

In the Jungle of the Cities by Bertolt Brecht

Hair by Geronme Ragnim James Rando and Galt MacDermot

Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock

Old Times by Harold Pinter

Student Plays

The Day Room by Don Delilo

1987-1988

Private Scenes

Play/ Come and Go/ What,Where, by Samuel Beckett, directed by Elizabeth Quainton '89 and Colgate grad Russel Reich

Equus

Equus (play)

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....

by Peter Schaffer

The Promise by Alexei Arbuzov

The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon

The Serpent by Jean Claude van Itallie

Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...

Student Plays

Mousetrap by Agatha Christie

1986-1987

Condemned by Tennessee Williams

Alternative Voices in American Theater, led by Kevin Teal and Ilze Thielman

The Dutchman and The Sound of a Voice by David Hwang

Happy Birthday Wanda June by J=Kurt Vonnegut

The Real Thing by Ton Stoppard

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Extremities by William Mastrosimone

William Mastrosimone

William Mastrosimone is an American playwright and screenwriter from Trenton, New Jersey. He attended high school at The Pennington School and received a graduate degree in playwrighting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a part of Rutgers University....

The Time by Paul Schiff Berman '88

1985-1986

Home Free by Lanford Wilson

The Maids by Jean Genet

Shivaree by William Mastrosimone

Blue Window by Craig Lucas

Twelfth Night

Dracula

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

1984-1985

Lone Star by Kevin Groome '85

A Night Out by Harold Pinter

Performing by Michael Kaplan '85

The Diviners by Jim Leonard

Lion in Winter by James Goldman

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play written by David Mamet that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970's. The play is filled with profanity and regional jargon that reflects the working-class language of Chicago. The characters' relationships become hindered by the caustic...

Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

Julius Caesar

1983-1984

The American Dream by Edward Albee

Silence by Harold Pinter

Miss Julie by Strindberg

The House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves

The House of Blue Leaves is a play by American playwright John Guare, first staged in 1966 by Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut....

by John Guare

Curiculo by Plautus

Pippin by Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz

The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot

Nuts

Nuts (play)

Nuts is a 1979 play by Tom Topor. It is a suspense, psychological, and courtroom drama that explores sexual abuse issues, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system. It was staged off-off-Broadway in 1979 and transferred to Broadway the following year...

by Tom Topor

Tom Topor

Tom Topor is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Topor was born in Vienna, Austria, and was brought to London in 1939, where he remained until he came to New York City in 1949. He earned his bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College in 1961.Topor is the author of the 1980 play and 1987...

Dead Give-Away by Michael Rosenfeld '84, directed by Veronica Brady

Feiffer's People by Jules Feiffer

1982-1983

Jack of Submission by Ionesco

The Bear by Anton Chekhov

On the Harmfulness of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov

A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov

As You Like It

They Are Dying Out by Peter Handke

Adaptation by Elaine May

Elaine May

Elaine May is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She achieved her greatest fame in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols...

Plants and Waiters by William Anastasi

Brussels by Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson

Born Yesterday by Garson Kanvin

A Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing and...

by Neil Simon

1981-1982

Feiffer's People by Jules Feiffer

The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year by John Guare

The Dumwaiter by Harold Pinter

Camino Real

Camino Real (play)

Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play, Williams directs the reader to use the Anglicized pronunciation "Cá-mino Réal." The play takes its title from its setting, alluded to El Camino Real, a dead-end place in a Spanish-speaking town...

by Tennessee Williams

Misanthrope by Molière

Godspell by Stephen Schwartz

Black Comedy by Peter Schaffer

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Stage Directions by Israel Horowitz

Aria de Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...

Scenes from American Life by A.R. Gurney

1980-1981

The Birdbath by Leonard Malfi

No Exit

No Exit

No Exit is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The original French title is Huis Clos, the French equivalent of the legal term in camera, referring to a private discussion behind closed doors; English translations have also been performed under the titles In Camera, No Way Out...

by Jean Paul Sartre

The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway

Harvey by Mary Chase

Man is Man by Bertolt Brecht

The Impressario by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Lovers by Brian Friel

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

A Child's Guide to American History

One woman show based on the life of Edna St. Vincint Millay, by Kelly Easterling '81

1979-1980

A Jaques Brel by Jaques Brel

Welcome to Andromeda by Ron Whyte

Home Free by Lanford Wilson

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour...

by Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...

by Henrik Ibsen

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols

Antigone by Jean Anouilh

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble in Residence, performing The Winter's Tale

1978-1979

Anatol by Arthur Schnitxler

Romeo and Juliet

The Typists by Murray Schisgal

27 Wagons of Cotton, by Tennessee Williams

On the Harmfullness of Tobacco by Chekhov

Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan

Aeneas in Flames by Carol Eliot

The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

Troilus and Cressida

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble in Residence.

1977-1978

The Tiger

Anyone Can Whistle by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Geoff Rich '78

When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? by Mark Medoff

House of Blue Leaves by John Guare

On the Harmfullness of Tobacco by Chekhov

The Bear by Chekhov

The Chorus Girl by Chekhov

This Property is Condemned by Tennessee Williams

Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let me Listen by Tennessee Williams

Loot by Joe Orten

1976-1977

How He Lied to Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw

Old Times by Harold Pinter

The Tempest

Don Juan by Molière

Sea Fantasy by Billy Aronson

Tonight at 8.30 by Noel Coward

The Vise by Pirandello

The Birdbath by Leonard Malfi

Ring Around the Moon by Jean Anouilh, directed by Geoff Rich '78

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

1975-1976

The Golden Fleece by A.R. Gurney

The Public Eye by Peter Schaffer, director Kate Stewart '77

The Private Ear by Peter Schaffer, director by Mitchell Ivers '77

All's Well That Ends Well

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

We're on the One Road

The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang

1974-1975

The Typists by Murray Schisgal

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds bu Paul Zindel

The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

After Magritte by Tom Stoppard

Lovers by Brian Friel

Ubu Cuckold by Alfred Jarry

The Puppet Show by Alexander Blok

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

1973-1974

The Lover by Harold Pinter

Adaptation by Elaine Mat

Next by Terrence McNally

Balls by Paul Foster

The Successful Life of 3 by Maria Irene Fornes

Measure for Measure

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground by William Hanley

The American Dream by Edward Albee

The Sandbox by Edward Albee

Citizen Kong

'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford

1972-1973

The Hundred and First by Kenneth Carmon

As you Like It

Electra by Euripides

Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie

Squanto by Jim Magnuson, directed by Professor Robert Knapp

Hay Fever by Noel Coward

1971-1972

Dracula adapted from Tod Browning's film by Daniel Blackmon '73 and William Bowman '74

Frogs! by Aristotle

Phaedra by Racine

The two Executioners by Arrabal

The Hostage by Brendan Behan

Woyzeck by Georg Buchner

The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw

1970-1971

Zoo Story by Edward Albee

Swan Song by Chekhov

Three Penny Opera by Brecht

The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Endgame by Samuel Becket

Henry IV Part I

Beyond the Fringe

1969-1970

The Red Eye of Love by Arnold Weinstein

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

The Happy time by Samuel Taylor

Marat/Sade

1968-1969

The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter

The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco

The Clouds by Aristophanes

The Killer by Eugène Ionesco, Directed by Professor Frederic O'Brady

The World of Carl Sandburg

Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, by William Hanley, directed by Professor Robert Knapp

The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

An Irish Faustus by Lawrence Durrell, directed by Dan Berkowitz '70

Moby Dick Rehearsed by Orson Welles

The Knack by Ann Jellicoe

The Madness of Lady Bright by Lanford Wilson

1967-1968

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

The Balcony by Jean Genet

Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller

The Misanthrope by Molier, Directed by Professor Frederic O'Brady

The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter

Hamlet

Luv by Murray Schisgal

Once Upon a Mattress

Once Upon a Mattress

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...

by Jay Thompson, Marshall Baker and Dean Fuller

Miracle by Max Kerpelman and Barry Miles, directed by Geoff Peterson '69

1965-1966

Th White Devil by John Webster

Sophocles' King Oedipus by W.B. Yeats

The Bespoke Overcoat by Wolf Mankowitz

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...

, by George Kaufman and Moss Hart

Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

The Taming of the Shrew

Those that I Fight by Joanna Russ

The Cat and the Canary by John Willard, directed by Geoff Peterson '69

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Thurber Carnival by James Thurber

1964-1965

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind (play)

Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The play, which debuted in 1955, is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.-Background:...

by Lawrence and Robert Lee

Passion, Poison, and Petrification by George Bernard Shaw

Mister Roberts by Joshua Logan

Joshua Logan

, Princeton '31 and Thomas Heggen

Escurial by Michel de Gheldore

The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter

A Man's a Man by Bertolt Brecht

1963-1964

The Potholder by Alice Gerstenberg

The Skin of Our Teeth

Kind Lady by Edward Choderate

Zoo Story by Edward Albee

The American Dream by Edward Albee

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

1962-1963

Hello Out There by William Saroyan

Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw

1961-1962

The Fisherman by Jonthon Tree

Passion, Poison, and Petrification by George Bernard Shaw

Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas

Henry IV by Pirandello

Look Back in Anger by John Osbourne

Calvary by W.B. Yeats

A Night of the Trojan War by John Drinkwater

Passion, Poison and Petrification

1960-1961

Purgatory by W.B. Yeats

Professor Taranna by Arthur Adamov

Recollections by Arthur Adamov

The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Woyzeck by Georg Buchner

Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams

The Purification by Tennessee Williams

La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler

1958-1959

A Masque of Reason by Robert Frost

World Without End

Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill

The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Trourneur

Ondine

Ondine (play)

Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man....

by Jean Giraudoux

Student Plays

1957-1958

Hello OutThere by William Saroyan

Sweeney Agonistes by T.S. Eliot

The Rainmaker by Richard Nash

The Alchemist by Ben Johnson

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Mother Loves me: A Freudian Fable by Clark Gesner

Clark Gesner

Clark Gesner was an American composer, songwriter, author, and actor. He is probably best known for composing You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical adaptation of the Charles M...

, class '60, author of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...

1956-1957

Alcestis by Euripides

Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...

Bound East for Cardiff by eugene O'Neil

Student Plays

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships...

by Herman Wouk

1955-1956

Liliom by Feremc Molnar

Clash by Night by Clifford Odets

Student Plays

The Braggart Warrior by Plautus

1954-1955

Murder in the Cathedral

The Victors by Jean Paul Sartre

The Knight of the Burning Pestle by William Congreve

Student Plays

Love for Love by William Congreve

1953-1954

An Evening of Readings

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:"Arma virumque cano" ....

by George Bernard Shaw

Henry IV, Part I

Student Plays

Tartuffe by Molière

1952-1953

Antigone by Jean Anouilth

Othello

The White Rooster, film adapted by Charles Robinson '54

Student Plays

The Drunkard by Anonymous

1951-1952

The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux

Student Plays, including A Modern Romance by Edwin Conquest, directed by Roger Berlind Princeton, '52

The Searching Sun by John O'Hara

1950-1951

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Petrified Forest by Robert Sherwood

Henry IV

Volpone by Ben Johnson

Student Plays

1949-1950

The School for Scandal by Sheridan

The Typewriter by Jean Cocteau

King Lear

Student Plays

Captain Brassbound's Conversion by George Bernard Shaw

1948-1949

Yes Is for a Very Young Man by Gertrude Stein

The Cenci by Percy Shelly

A Christmas Carol

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

Student Plays

Boy Meets Girl by Bella dn Samuel Spewack

1947-1948

High Tor by Maxwell Anderson

The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

Richard II

One on the House

1946-1947

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

The Critic by Sheridan

The Scheming Lieutenant by Sheridan

Twilight Bar

Make Mine Sherry

1945-1946

Break the Ice

1941-1942

Jim Dandy by William Saroyan

Three White Leopards

Gabbatha

Give the Earth a Little Longer by Jules Romains

Come What April

1940-1941

Our Boys by Bryon

Troilus and Cressida

Time of Their Lives by Robert Nail, Princeton '33

The Lawyer by Ferenc Molnár

Raise your Six

1928-1929

Much Ado About Nothing

Crocadiles Are Happy

Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch by Alexei Tolstoy

The Tourchbearers by George Kelly

The Old Timer by Charles Mather

1927-1928

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw

Open Collars by Erik Barnouw '29

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

The Truth About Blayds by A.A. Milne

The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw

1926-1927

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Student Plays

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Outward Bound by Sutton Vane

Sutton Vane

Sutton Vane was a British playwright best known work for Outward Bound , which was filmed twice and was still being performed eight decades after its premiere.- Career as actor :...

Hamlet

1925-1926

Where the Cross is Made by Eugene O'Neill

Wurzel-Flummery by A.A. Milne

The Proposal by Chekhov

Two Crooks and a Lady by Eugene Pillot

A Good Woman by Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

- Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...

Candida

Candida (play)

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions...

by George Bernard Shaw

1919-1920

Le Ballet Intime

Ghost by Ibsen (last act)

Macbeth

Hamlet

The Glittering Gate by Lord Dunsany

Fame and the Poet by Lord Dunsany

Swine by Lewis Laflin '26

A Game of Chess by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman

Sampson and Delilah by Ralph Kent '21 and Reginald Lawrence '21

Interlude by A. Hyatt Mayor '22

Isle of Paradise by Henry Hart '23 and Louis Laflin '26

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

by Herman Wouk

External links

Sources

Dorgers, Edward (1950) A History of Dramatic Production in Princeton NJ. New York University: NLB

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