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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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1990 - 1999

May 22, 2017, 10:38 AM

Fortieth Season (1999-2000)

Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare 

Barrymore, William Luce 

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams 

Sanders Family Christmas: More Smoke on the Mountain, Connie Ray & Alan Bailey 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry 

Wit, Margaret Edson 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh 

The Dead-Eye Boy, Angus MacLachlan 

A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler 

Spunk, Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by George C. Wolfe

Always ... Patsy Cline, Ted Swindley

L'Universe, The Flying Karamazov Brothers

 

Thirty-Ninth Season (1998-99)

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde 

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Moises Kaufman 

A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen 

The Woman in Black, Stephen Mallatratt 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Thunder Knocking on the Door, Keith Glover

Red Corners, Cecilia Fannon 

How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel 

Over the Tavern, Tom Dudzick 

Ten Years Apart, Matthew Bennett & Sean McCourt 

Appalachian Strings, Randal Myler & Dan Wheetman

 

Thirty-Eighth Season (1997-98) 

Nixon's Nixon, Russell Lees

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler 

A Brief History of White Music, DeeDee Thomas & David Tweedy 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Skylight, David Hare 

Coyote on a Fence, Bruce Graham 

Rough Crossing, Tom Stoppard 

Old Wicked Songs, Jon Marans 

The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman 

Willi, John Pielmeier 

Chaps!, Jahnna Beecham & Malcolm Hillgartner

 

Thirty-Seventh Season (1996-97)

The Notebook of Trigorin, Tennessee Williams 

Songplay: The Songs and Music of Kurt Weill, conceived & adapted by Jonathan Eaton 

The Most Happy Fella, Frank Loesser 

The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Jess Borgeson, Adam Long & Daniel Singer 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Turn of the Screw, Jeffrey Hatcher 

Sylvia, A. R. Gurney 

In Walks Ed, Keith Glover 

Having Our Say, Emily Mann 

Valley Song, Athol Fugard 

Private Lives, Noel Coward

 

Thirty-Sixth Season (1995-96)

The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie 

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Frank McGuinness 

Miss Evers' Boys, David Feldshuh 

A Tuna Christmas, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

An Asian Jockey in Our Midst, Carter W. Lewis 

She Loves Me, Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick

Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe

Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw 

All in the Timing, David Ives 

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Herman Wouk 

 

Thirty-Fifth Season (1994-95)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare 

Keely & Du, Jane Martin 

Inspecting Carol, Daniel Sullivan & The Seattle Repertory Theatre 

Beehive, Larry Gallagher 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Jar The Floor, Cheryl L. West 

The Caretaker, Harold Pinter 

The Brothers Karamazov, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe 

Hometown Heroes, Ed Graczyk 

Dracula, Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston 

Banjo Dancing, Stephen Wade

 

Thirty-Fourth Season (1993-94)

Harvey, Mary Coyle Chase 

Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman 

To Kill a Mockingbird, Christopher Sergel 

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living is Paris, Eric Blau, Mort Shuman & Jacques Brel 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Wingfield Trilogy, Dan Needles 

The Sum of Us, David Stevens 

Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel 

Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues, Caridad Svich 

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas, John L. Haber 

The Voice of the Prairie, John Olive

 

Thirty-Third Season (1992-93)

"Master Harold" ... and the Boys, Athol Fugard 

The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare 

Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker 

Scotland Road, Jeffrey Hatcher 

The Immigrant, Mark Harelik 

Separation, Tom Kempinski 

A Moon for the Misbegotten, Eugene O'Neill 

Smoke on the Mountain, Connie Ray & Alan Bailey 

Ain't Misbehavin', the music of Fats Waller

 

Thirty-Second Season (1991-92)

Our Town, Thornton Wilder 

Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Japango, Richard Epp 

From the Mississippi Delta, Endesha Ida Mae Holland 

Billy Bishop Goes to War, John Gray & Eric Peterson 

The Cocktail Hour, A. R. Gurney 

Pickle Family Circus, conceived by Larry Pisoni 

Perfect for You, Doll, Steven Sater 

Hot 'N Cole, Cole Porter 

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille, Lanie Robertson

 

Thirty-First Season (1990-91) 

Loot, Joe Orton 

Burn This, Lanford Wilson 

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, adapted by Frank Gabrielson 

Educating Rita, Willy Russell 

A Shayna Maidel, Barbara Lebow 

Stand-Up Tragedy, Bill Cain 

Other People's Money, Jerry Sterner 

Lost Electra, Bruce E. Rodgers 

The Mesmerist, Ara Watson 

The Mystery of Irma Vep, Charles Ludlam

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Playhouse Productions

1990 - 1999

May 22, 2017, 10:38 AM

Fortieth Season (1999-2000)

Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare 

Barrymore, William Luce 

The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams 

Sanders Family Christmas: More Smoke on the Mountain, Connie Ray & Alan Bailey 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry 

Wit, Margaret Edson 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh 

The Dead-Eye Boy, Angus MacLachlan 

A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler 

Spunk, Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by George C. Wolfe

Always ... Patsy Cline, Ted Swindley

L'Universe, The Flying Karamazov Brothers

 

Thirty-Ninth Season (1998-99)

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde 

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Moises Kaufman 

A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen 

The Woman in Black, Stephen Mallatratt 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Thunder Knocking on the Door, Keith Glover

Red Corners, Cecilia Fannon 

How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel 

Over the Tavern, Tom Dudzick 

Ten Years Apart, Matthew Bennett & Sean McCourt 

Appalachian Strings, Randal Myler & Dan Wheetman

 

Thirty-Eighth Season (1997-98) 

Nixon's Nixon, Russell Lees

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler 

A Brief History of White Music, DeeDee Thomas & David Tweedy 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Skylight, David Hare 

Coyote on a Fence, Bruce Graham 

Rough Crossing, Tom Stoppard 

Old Wicked Songs, Jon Marans 

The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman 

Willi, John Pielmeier 

Chaps!, Jahnna Beecham & Malcolm Hillgartner

 

Thirty-Seventh Season (1996-97)

The Notebook of Trigorin, Tennessee Williams 

Songplay: The Songs and Music of Kurt Weill, conceived & adapted by Jonathan Eaton 

The Most Happy Fella, Frank Loesser 

The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Jess Borgeson, Adam Long & Daniel Singer 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Turn of the Screw, Jeffrey Hatcher 

Sylvia, A. R. Gurney 

In Walks Ed, Keith Glover 

Having Our Say, Emily Mann 

Valley Song, Athol Fugard 

Private Lives, Noel Coward

 

Thirty-Sixth Season (1995-96)

The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie 

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Frank McGuinness 

Miss Evers' Boys, David Feldshuh 

A Tuna Christmas, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

An Asian Jockey in Our Midst, Carter W. Lewis 

She Loves Me, Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick

Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe

Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw 

All in the Timing, David Ives 

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Herman Wouk 

 

Thirty-Fifth Season (1994-95)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare 

Keely & Du, Jane Martin 

Inspecting Carol, Daniel Sullivan & The Seattle Repertory Theatre 

Beehive, Larry Gallagher 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Jar The Floor, Cheryl L. West 

The Caretaker, Harold Pinter 

The Brothers Karamazov, adapted by Anthony Clarvoe 

Hometown Heroes, Ed Graczyk 

Dracula, Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston 

Banjo Dancing, Stephen Wade

 

Thirty-Fourth Season (1993-94)

Harvey, Mary Coyle Chase 

Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman 

To Kill a Mockingbird, Christopher Sergel 

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living is Paris, Eric Blau, Mort Shuman & Jacques Brel 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

The Wingfield Trilogy, Dan Needles 

The Sum of Us, David Stevens 

Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel 

Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues, Caridad Svich 

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas, John L. Haber 

The Voice of the Prairie, John Olive

 

Thirty-Third Season (1992-93)

"Master Harold" ... and the Boys, Athol Fugard 

The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare 

Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker 

Scotland Road, Jeffrey Hatcher 

The Immigrant, Mark Harelik 

Separation, Tom Kempinski 

A Moon for the Misbegotten, Eugene O'Neill 

Smoke on the Mountain, Connie Ray & Alan Bailey 

Ain't Misbehavin', the music of Fats Waller

 

Thirty-Second Season (1991-92)

Our Town, Thornton Wilder 

Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet 

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin 

Japango, Richard Epp 

From the Mississippi Delta, Endesha Ida Mae Holland 

Billy Bishop Goes to War, John Gray & Eric Peterson 

The Cocktail Hour, A. R. Gurney 

Pickle Family Circus, conceived by Larry Pisoni 

Perfect for You, Doll, Steven Sater 

Hot 'N Cole, Cole Porter 

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille, Lanie Robertson

 

Thirty-First Season (1990-91) 

Loot, Joe Orton 

Burn This, Lanford Wilson 

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, adapted by Frank Gabrielson 

Educating Rita, Willy Russell 

A Shayna Maidel, Barbara Lebow 

Stand-Up Tragedy, Bill Cain 

Other People's Money, Jerry Sterner 

Lost Electra, Bruce E. Rodgers 

The Mesmerist, Ara Watson 

The Mystery of Irma Vep, Charles Ludlam

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Investing in New Stories

“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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