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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.  

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1980 - 1989

May 22, 2017, 10:38 AM

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

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Playhouse Productions

1980 - 1989

May 22, 2017, 10:38 AM

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

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