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The Production History of Vanderbilt University Theatre
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Vanderbilt University Theatre has a long and established tradition of producing classical and contemporary works that fulfill Aristotle's greatest charge: "To teach and to entertain." Listed below are the mainstage productions presented by the Vanderbilt University Theatre during its storied history. We've included pictures of our most recent productions. Enjoy!
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1999-2000 Season Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Desdemona by Paula Vogel Godspell by Stephen Schwartz The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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1995-1996 Season Reckless by Craig Lucas The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
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1991-1992 Season The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Bloody Poetry by Howard Brenton Antigone by Sophocles
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1990-1991 Season Scapin by Moliere Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
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1989-1990 Season All My Sons by Arthur Miller Quilters by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek Camille by Pam Gems Sand Mountain by Romulus Linney
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1988-1989 Season Ring around the Moon by Jean Anouihl On the Verge by Eric Overmeyer A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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1987-1988 Season Crime and Punishment by Alan Brown (from Feodor Dostoevsky) When You Coming Back, Red Rider? By Mark Medoff The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere Betrayal by Harold Pinter
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1986-1987 Season Ah, Wilderness! By Eugene O’Neill Getting Out by Marsha Norman Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare Translations by Brian Friel
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1985-1986 Season The Robber Bridegroom by Alfred Uhry, Robert Waldman, and Eudora Welty Fool for Love by Sam Shepard She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
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1984-1985 Season A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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1983-1984 Season The Birds by Aristophanes The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney Lady Windemere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde Fiddler’s Rock by Frank Wittow
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1982-1983 Season The Learned Ladies by Moliere Something Unspoken and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion by Tennessee Williams Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare The Leader and The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco The Secret Affairs of Myldred Wild by Paul Zindel Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
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1981-1982 Season The Death of Bessie Smith by Edward Albee Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein
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1980-1981 Season Hay Fever by Noel Coward A Separate Peace and The Rook by Tom Stoppard The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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1979-1980 Season The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard A Marriage Proposal and Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Freedom of the City by Brian Friel Oh, What a Lovely War! by Joan Littlewood
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1978-1979 Season Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan I Am a Camera by John van Druten (from Christopher Isherwood) As You Like It by William Shakespeare
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1977-1978 Season The Good Doctor by Neil Simon A Cry of Players by William Gibson Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
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1976-1977 Season A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Macbett by Eugene Ionesco The Beaux Strategem by George Farquhar A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
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1975-1976 Season Picnic on the Battlefield and Guernica by Fernando Arrabal The Show-Off by George Kelly Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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1974-1975 Season Little Murders by Jules Feiffer Godspell by Stephen Schwartz The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen Richard II by William Shakespeare Philemon by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
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1973-1974 Season Thurber Carnival by James Thurber The Resistible Rise Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht U.S.A. by Paul Shyre and John Das Passos Hostage by Brendan Behan
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1972-1973 Season Fireman’s Flame by Richard Lewine, Ted Fetter, and John Van Antwerp Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings (from Thomas Wolfe) The School for Wives by Moliere A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
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1971-1972 Season The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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1970-1971 Season Picnic on the Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal A Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
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1969-1970 Season Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco Trumpets and Drums by Bertolt Brecht Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
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1968-1969 Season The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Cavern by Jean Anouilh Eh? By Henry Livings Marat/Sade by PeterWeiss Candida by George Bernard Shaw
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1967-1968 Season The Crucible by Arthur Miller Gallows Humor by Jack Richardson Electra by Sophocles The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar
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1966-1967 Season The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey
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1965-1966 Season Rashomon by Fay and Michael Kanin Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello Judith by Jean Giraudoux She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
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1964-1965 Season The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg The Lady’s Not for Burning by Christopher Fry The Tempest by William Shakespeare Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
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1963-1964 Season Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Next Time I’ll Sing to You by James Saunders Lysistrata by Aristophanes
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1961-1962 Season The Male Animal by James Thurber Founders Capers by Babbitt Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Frank Hackett
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1960-1961 Season I Choose to Die by Cheney The Heiress by Augustus Goetz Hamlet by William Shakespeare Ring around the Moon by Jean Anouilh
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1959-1960 Season Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick Bury the Dead by George Bernard Shaw
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1958-1959 Season Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel Capek The Love of Four Colonies by Ustinov
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1957-1958 Season Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge The Miser by Moliere
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Records of previous productions before the 1957-1958 season are very unclear. The Vanderbilt University Theatre worked with other organizations to produce plays. Of the plays listed below, it is impossible to tell at this point which productions were VUT Mainstage productions and which productions were simply using the theatre (but produced by a local theatre group), co-productions with VUT, or simply a production listed on a director’s resume (that had no affiliation with VUT at all). We will be going through old programs, yearbooks, and office documents in the future to clarify these records. Thank you for your patience.
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1956-1957 Season Plain and Fancy by Joseph Stein, Will Glickman, Arnold B. Horwitt, and Albert Hague July, 1956 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett August, 1956 A View From the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays by Arthur Miller September, 1956 Bus Stop by William Inge October, 1956 Damn Yankees by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop November, 1956 A Hatful of Rain by Michael Vincente Gazzo December, 1956 Arabella by Richard Strauss January, 1957 Madam. Will You Walk by Sidney Howard February, 1957 The Lark by Jean Anouilh March, 1957 Time Limit! by Henry Denker & Ralph Berkey April, 1957 The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas Home May, 1957 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams June, 1957
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1955-1956 Season King of Hearts by Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke July, 1955 All Summer Long by Robert Anderson August, 1955 The Pajama Game by George Abbott and Richard Bissell September, 1955 Porgy by Dubose and Dorothy Heyward October, 1955 The Perfect Gentleman by W. Somerset Maugham November, 1955 Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson December, 1955 Cosi' Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart January, 1956 The Tender Trap by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith February, 1956 The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash March, 1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman April, 1956 Anasstasia by Marcelle Maurette, May,1956 The Reclining Figure by Harry Kuurnitz June, 1956
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1954-1955 Season Camino Real by Tennessee Williams August, 1954 Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson September, 1954 The Little Hut by Andre Roussin and Nancy Mitforct October, 1954 Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor November, 1954 Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and Maurice Valency December, 1954 Anniversary Waltz by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields February, 1955 Dial "M" for Murder by Frederick Knott March,1955 The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker by Liam O’Brien April, 1955 The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams May, 1955 The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick June, 1955
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1953-1954 Season The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan July, 1953 See the Jaguar by N. Richard Nash August, 1953 Misalliance by G. Bernard Shaw September, 1953 The Crucible by Arthur Miller October, 1953 The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents November, 1953 La Boheme by Giacomo December, 1953 Bernardine by Mary Chase March, 1954 Picnic by William Inge April, 1954 The Climate of Eden by Moss Hart May, 1954 The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod June, 1954
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1952-1953 Season The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert June, 1952 Gigi by Anita Loose and Colette July, 1952 Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner August, 1952 The Grass Harp by Truman Capote September, 1952 Barefoot In Athens by Maxwell Anderson October, 1952 Stalag 17 by Donald Bevon and Edmund Trzcinski February, 1953 Point of No Return by Paul Osbosrn March, 1953 Darkness at Noon by Sidney Kingsley April, 1953 The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman May, 1953 My Darlin' Aida by Charles Friedman June, 1953
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1951-1952 Season See How They Run by Philip King The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere Strangers in this World Singin' Billy by Donald Davidson & Charles F. Bryan
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1950-1951 Season Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton The Poor of New York by Don Boucicault Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan See How They Run by Philip King
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1949-1950 Season The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Room Service by Allen Boretz and John Murray Antigone by Sophocles The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan Out of the Frying Pan by Francis Swann
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1948-1949 Season Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw The Village Barber by Johann Schenk
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Past Productions
