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.
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
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
“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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