Nestled on a hill and commanding a superb view of downtown Cincinnati, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has been offering audiences the finest in professional theatre for more than 60 years. Nationally known for its excellence and commitment to new works and as an artistic home for America’s best actors, directors and designers, the Playhouse always keeps its primary role at center stage – to serve the Tristate by producing the finest in classic and contemporary works: musicals, dramas, comedies and recent hits. Simply put, the Playhouse strives to celebrate the live theatrical experience in superlative fashion, in a setting that is second to none.
Thirtieth Season (1989-90)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton
Pump Boys and Dinettes, John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel & Jim Wann
Treasure Island, adapted by Ara Watson
¿De Donde?, Mary Gallagher
Fences, August Wilson
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Terrence McNally
St. Mark's Gospel, featuring Alec McCowen
The Boys Next Door, Tom Griffin
Fanshen, David Hare
How the Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn
Club!, The Flying Karamazov Brothers
Twenty-Ninth Season (1988-89)
I'm Not Rappaport, Herb Gardner
Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
Equus, Peter Shaffer
Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling
Invention for Fathers and Sons, Alan Brody
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe
The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien
Miss Margarida's Way, Roberto Athayde
Twenty-Eighth Season (1987-88)
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, David Richmond & Bob Hall
Max and Maxie, James McLure
Juggle and Hyde, The Flying Karamazov Brothers
Clear Liquor and Coal Black Nights, Thomas M. Atkinson
Burkie, Bruce Graham
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Wilson
American Buffalo, David Mamet
On The Verge, Eric Overmyer
The Blood Knot, Athol Fugard
Stepping Out, Richard Harris
Tapestry: The Music of Carole King, Worth Gardner, John Kroner & Scot Woolley
Twenty-Seventh Season (1986-87)
K2, Patrick Meyers
As Is, William M. Hoffman
Little Shop of Horrors, Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
Orphans, Lyle Kessler
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, William Inge
The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Christopher Durang
The Foreigner, Larry Shue
Greater Tuna, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
Sing Hallelujah!, Worth Gardner & Donald Lawrence
Twenty-Sixth Season (1985-86)
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Painting Churches, Tina Howe
Carnival!, Bob Merrill & Michael Stewart
Two Can Play, Trevor Rhone
Marry Me a Little, Stephen Sondheim
Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
Traveler in the Dark, Marsha Norman
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
And A Nightingale Sang ..., C. P. Taylor
Sing Hallelujah!, Worth Gardner & Donald Lawrence
Twenty-Fifth Season (1984-85)
Empress of China, Ruth Wolff
Shades of Brown, Michael Picardie
The Big Holiday Broadcast, Arne Zaslove, Mary-Claire Burke & the Bathhouse Theatre Company
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
Amateurs, Winnie Holzman & David Evans
Paradise, Robert Forrest & George C. Wolfe
Have, Julius Hay
Amadeus, Peter Schaffer
Sleuth, Anthony Shaffer
The Miss Firecracker Contest, Beth Henley
Twenty-Fourth Season (1983-84)
True West, Sam Shepard
Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams
They Dance to the Sun, Leigh Podgorski
Godspell, John-Michael Tebelak & Stephen Schwartz
A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller
Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Translations, Brian Friel
Hay Fever, Noel Coward
Loves and Hours, Stephen Metcalfe
The Dining Room, A. R. Gurney
Maybe I'm Doing it Wrong: Randy Newman's America, Randy Newman
Twenty-Third Season (1982-83)
Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Mass Appeal, Bill C. Davis
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, adapted by Frank Gabrielson
The Dresser, Ronald Harwood
Fifth of July, Lanford Wilson
Medea, Euripides
Sweet Basil, Lloyd Gold
The Price, Arthur Miller
Strange Snow, Stephen Metcalfe
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road, Gretchen Cryer & Nancy Ford
Twenty-Second Season (1981-82)
Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin
Home, Samm-Art Williams
Peter Pan, James M. Barrie, Mark Charlap & Carolyn Leigh
A Life in the Theatre, David Mamet
Betrayal, Harold Pinter
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, John Ford Noonan
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
A Lesson from Aloes, Athol Fugard
Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie
Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson
Twenty-First Season (1980-81)
Compulsion, Meyer Levin
Buried Child, Sam Shepard
The Man Who Came to Dinner, Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
Loose Ends, Michael Weller
Serenading Louie, Lanford Wilson
The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
The Gin Game, D. L. Coburn
Tintypes, Mary Kyte, Mel Marvin & Gary Pearle
I Love My Wife, Michael Stewart, Cy Coleman & Luis Rego
Palmer Cody's Tick-Tock Ballroom, Dorian Barth, Tony Clark & Trisha Long
2 by 5 (by 3), John Kander & Fred Ebb
Thirtieth Season (1989-90)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton
Pump Boys and Dinettes, John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel & Jim Wann
Treasure Island, adapted by Ara Watson
¿De Donde?, Mary Gallagher
Fences, August Wilson
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Terrence McNally
St. Mark's Gospel, featuring Alec McCowen
The Boys Next Door, Tom Griffin
Fanshen, David Hare
How the Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn
Club!, The Flying Karamazov Brothers
Twenty-Ninth Season (1988-89)
I'm Not Rappaport, Herb Gardner
Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
Equus, Peter Shaffer
Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling
Invention for Fathers and Sons, Alan Brody
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe
The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien
Miss Margarida's Way, Roberto Athayde
Twenty-Eighth Season (1987-88)
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, David Richmond & Bob Hall
Max and Maxie, James McLure
Juggle and Hyde, The Flying Karamazov Brothers
Clear Liquor and Coal Black Nights, Thomas M. Atkinson
Burkie, Bruce Graham
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, August Wilson
American Buffalo, David Mamet
On The Verge, Eric Overmyer
The Blood Knot, Athol Fugard
Stepping Out, Richard Harris
Tapestry: The Music of Carole King, Worth Gardner, John Kroner & Scot Woolley
Twenty-Seventh Season (1986-87)
K2, Patrick Meyers
As Is, William M. Hoffman
Little Shop of Horrors, Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
Orphans, Lyle Kessler
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, William Inge
The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Christopher Durang
The Foreigner, Larry Shue
Greater Tuna, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
Sing Hallelujah!, Worth Gardner & Donald Lawrence
Twenty-Sixth Season (1985-86)
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Painting Churches, Tina Howe
Carnival!, Bob Merrill & Michael Stewart
Two Can Play, Trevor Rhone
Marry Me a Little, Stephen Sondheim
Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
Traveler in the Dark, Marsha Norman
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
And A Nightingale Sang ..., C. P. Taylor
Sing Hallelujah!, Worth Gardner & Donald Lawrence
Twenty-Fifth Season (1984-85)
Empress of China, Ruth Wolff
Shades of Brown, Michael Picardie
The Big Holiday Broadcast, Arne Zaslove, Mary-Claire Burke & the Bathhouse Theatre Company
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
Amateurs, Winnie Holzman & David Evans
Paradise, Robert Forrest & George C. Wolfe
Have, Julius Hay
Amadeus, Peter Schaffer
Sleuth, Anthony Shaffer
The Miss Firecracker Contest, Beth Henley
Twenty-Fourth Season (1983-84)
True West, Sam Shepard
Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams
They Dance to the Sun, Leigh Podgorski
Godspell, John-Michael Tebelak & Stephen Schwartz
A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller
Monday After the Miracle, William Gibson
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Translations, Brian Friel
Hay Fever, Noel Coward
Loves and Hours, Stephen Metcalfe
The Dining Room, A. R. Gurney
Maybe I'm Doing it Wrong: Randy Newman's America, Randy Newman
Twenty-Third Season (1982-83)
Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Mass Appeal, Bill C. Davis
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, adapted by Frank Gabrielson
The Dresser, Ronald Harwood
Fifth of July, Lanford Wilson
Medea, Euripides
Sweet Basil, Lloyd Gold
The Price, Arthur Miller
Strange Snow, Stephen Metcalfe
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road, Gretchen Cryer & Nancy Ford
Twenty-Second Season (1981-82)
Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin
Home, Samm-Art Williams
Peter Pan, James M. Barrie, Mark Charlap & Carolyn Leigh
A Life in the Theatre, David Mamet
Betrayal, Harold Pinter
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, John Ford Noonan
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
A Lesson from Aloes, Athol Fugard
Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie
Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson
Twenty-First Season (1980-81)
Compulsion, Meyer Levin
Buried Child, Sam Shepard
The Man Who Came to Dinner, Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
Loose Ends, Michael Weller
Serenading Louie, Lanford Wilson
The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
The Gin Game, D. L. Coburn
Tintypes, Mary Kyte, Mel Marvin & Gary Pearle
I Love My Wife, Michael Stewart, Cy Coleman & Luis Rego
Palmer Cody's Tick-Tock Ballroom, Dorian Barth, Tony Clark & Trisha Long
2 by 5 (by 3), John Kander & Fred Ebb
“When you have
the resources to invest in new playwrights and new stories – and we do –
then doing productions like this becomes your responsibility to the art
form.” Read about our commissions and the Jerome Fey Endowment for New
Plays.
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