1994-1995
An Introduction to Modern Drama
June: George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
August: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
1995-1996
September: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
October: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
November: Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
Death and After Death
January: August Wilson, Two Trains Running
February: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
March: August Strindberg, The Dance of Death
April: Eugene O’Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
May: Marsha Norman, ‘night, Mother
June: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
July: William Nicholson, Shadowlands
1996-1997
September: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
October: Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
November: John Guare, The House of Blue Leaves
December: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Anger and Provocation
January: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
February: David Mamet, American Buffalo
March: Archibald MacLeish, J.B.
Friendship
April: Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion!
May: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
June: Lanford Wilson, 5th of July
July: Jean Anouilh, Becket
1997-1998
Family Values
September: Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour
October: Sam Shepard, Buried Child
November: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
December: Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
January: Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns
Madness
February: Mary Coyle Chase, Harvey
March: Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade
April: Sebastian Barry, The Steward of Christendom
The Rules
May: Luigi Pirandello, The Rules of the Game
June: David Hare, Racing Demon
July: Hugh Whitemore, Breaking the Code
1998-1999
Outsiders and Outlaws
September: Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning
October: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
November: William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
December: Alfred Uhry, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
January: Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
February: Max Frisch, Andorra
March: Brian Friel, Translations
April: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
May: Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan
June: Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
July: Athol Fugard, The Road to Mecca
1999-2000
Time & Memory: Looking Forward, Looking Back
September: Karel Capek, R.U.R.
October: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine
November: Alan Ayckbourn, Communicating Doors
December: Eric Overmyer, On the Verge
January: Diana Son, Stop Kiss
February: Richard Greenberg, Three Days of Rain
March: Heather McDonald, Available Light
April: Arthur Miller, All My Sons
May: Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden
June: Donald Margulies, Collected Stories
July: J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways
2000-2001
Survival of the Fittest
September: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
October: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind
November: Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
December: Patrick Meyers, K2
January: Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros
February: Ronald Harwood, Taking Sides
March: Mayo Simon, The Old Lady’s Guide to Survival
April: Timberlake Wertenbaker, After Darwin
May: Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
June: Frank Wedekind, Lulu (Earth Spirit & Pandora’s Box)
July: Saul Levitt, The Andersonville Trial
2001-2002
Arts and Sciences
Arts
September: Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’
October: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
November: Warren Leight, Side Man
December: Ernest Joselovitz, Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp
January: Conor McPherson, The Weir
Sciences
February: Michael Frayn, Copenhagen
March: Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Physicists
April: Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit
May: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
June: Arthur Kopit, Y2K (aka BecauseHeCan)
July: Y York, Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.
2002-2003
Women at the Footlights
September: Jean Genet, The Maids
October: James Baldwin, The Amen Corner
November: Clare Boothe Luce, The Women
December: Susan Glaspell, Alison’s House
January: Jennifer Maisel, The Last Seder
February: Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
March: Maxwell Anderson, Elizabeth the Queen
April: Rebecca Gilman, Boy Gets Girl
May: N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker
June: Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
July: Cicely Hamilton, Diana of Dobson’s
2003-2004
September: How was the Play? The Role of the Critic
October: David Auburn, Proof
November: George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
December: Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
January: Playwriting: the Process
February: Arthur Miller, The Crucible
March: August Wilson, Fences
April: Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
May: Ari Roth, Oh, the Innocents
June: Sophie Treadwell, Machinal
August: Gore Vidal, The Best Man
2004-2005
September: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
October: Sean O’Leary, Pound
November: Ferenc Molnar, Liliom (inspiration for Carousel)
December: George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
January: Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9
February: Black Women’s Playwrights’ Group
March: Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
April: Ken Ludwig, Lend Me a Tenor
May: Kate Fodor, Hannah and Martin
June: Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
August: William Inge, Bus Stop
2005-2006
September: Hyam Maccoby, The Disputation
October: Garson Kanin, Born Yesterday
November: Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
December: Charles Aidman, adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology
January: Neil LaBute, Fat Pig
February: Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
March: Karen Zacarías, The Sins of Sor Juana
April: August Wilson, Radio Golf
May: Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man
June: Ariel Dorfman, Picasso’s Closet
July: Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
2006-2007
September: Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
October: Woyzeck: The Business Side of Theater
November: Peter Shaffer, Equus
December: Horton Foote, adaptation of William Faulkner’s Tomorrow
January: Michael Frayn, Noises Off
February: Robert O’Hara, Insurrection: Holding History
March: Eugene O’Neill, Ah, Wilderness!
April: Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, Crime and Punishment
May: George Orwell, Animal Farm
June: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
July: Michael Frayn, Democracy
2007-2008
September: Albert Camus, Caligula
October: Horton Foote, The Carpetbagger’s Children
November: Conor McPherson, Shining City
December: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
January: John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable
February: Brendan Behan, The Hostage
March: Arthur Miller, The Price
April: Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding
May: Friedrich Dűrrenmatt, The Visit
June: Russell Lees, Nixon’s Nixon
July: Robert McElwaine, The Titans
2008-2009
September: Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
October: An Evening with Ted van Griethuysen
November: Conor McPherson, Dublin Carol
December: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
January: Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
February: Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice
March: Paul Green and Richard Wright, Native Son
April: Karen Zacarías, Legacy of Light
May: Tom Stoppard, Rock ‘n’ Roll
June: Noël Coward, Design for Living
July: Jack Marshall & Paul Morella, A Passion or Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow
2009-2010
September: Harold Pinter, Moonlight
October: Charles Mee, Full Circle
November: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
December: Lydia R. Diamond, Stick Fly
January: Norman Corwin, The Rivalry
February: David Ireland, Everything Between Us
March: Horton Foote, The Trip to Bountiful
April: Neil LaBute, Reasons to be Pretty
May: Allyson Currin, Treadwell: Bright and Dark
June: Peter Parnell, Trumpery
July: David Ives, New Jerusalem
2010-2011
August: Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
September: Phyllis Nagy, The Talented Mr. Ripley
October: Wajdi Mouawad, Scorched
November: Cliffor Odets, Golden Boy
December: Eugene O’Neill, Beyond the Horizon
January: G. K. Chesterton, Magic
February: Tom Stoppard, On the Razzle
March: Athol Fugard, “Master Harold” . . . and the Boys
April: Lynn Nottage, Ruined
May: Tennessee Williams, A Portrait of a Madonna and The Gnädiges Fräulein
June: Michael Hollinger, Opus
July: Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park
2011-2012
August: Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
September: Alan Bennet, The Habit of Art
October: Alfred Uhry, Parade
November: David Mamet, Race
January: Jules Feiffer, Little Murders
February: Julia Cho, The Language Archive
March: Stephen Schwartz & Nina Faso adaptation of Studs Terkel’s book, Working
April: Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
May: Matthew Lopez, The Whipping Man
June: Anthony Shaffer, Sleuth
July: dog & pony dc, Beertown
2012-2013
August: Rajiv Joseph, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
September: Oren Jacoby, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
October: Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, The Government Inspector
November: Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey, musical adapters,
James Joyce’s The Dead
January: Peter Shaffer, Black Comedy
February: Danai Gurira, The Convert
March: Kathleen Akerley adaptation of Orson Welles’ Voodoo Macbeth
April: Michael Hollinger, Ghost-Writer
May: Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
June: Jacqueline Lawton, The Hampton Years
July: Allyson Currin, Caesar and Dada
2013-2014
August: Steven Dietz, Rancho Mirage
September: Tennessee Williams, The Two-Character Play
October: Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
November: Darrah Cloud, Our Suburb
December: Richard Nelson, The Apple Family Plays
January: Mario Vargas Llosa, The Young Lady from Tacna
February: George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (Part 1 & 2)
March: Arthur Kopit, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad
April: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
May: Mark St. Germain, Freud’s Last Session
June: Noël Coward, Private Lives
July: Johnna Adams, Gidion’s Knot
2014-2015
August: Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
September: August Wilson, Seven Guitars
October: Mary Resing, Visible Language
November: Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler
December: Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
January: James Still, The Widow Lincoln
February: no meeting
March: John Strand, The Originalist
April: John W. Lowell, The Letters
May: Everett Quinton adaptation, A Tale of Two Cities
June: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
July: Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men
2015-2016
August: Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jacqueline Goldfinger, Trish Tinkler Gets Saved
Jennie Berman Eng, Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick
PatriciaConnelly, Princess Margaret
September: Jennifer Hoppe-House, Bad Dog
October: An August Wilson Retrospective
November: Sarah Ruhl, Stage Kiss
December: Marcus Gardley, The Gospel of LovingKindness
January: Andrew Bovell, When the Rain Stops Falling
February: John Hodge, Collaboraters
March: Scott Carter, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
April: Robert Schenkkan, All the Way
May: Steve Yockey, Blackberry Winter
June: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, An Octoroon
July: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Stephanie Mumford, The Lady with the Little Dog
2016-2017
August: Tony Kushner, Angels in America
September: Deborah Zoe Laufer, The Last Schwartz
October: John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation
November: Tom Stoppard, The Hard Problem
December: Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
January: Mike Bartlett, King Charles III
February: Monica Byrne, What Every Girl Should Know
Ruby Rae Spiegal, Dry Land
March: Athol Fugard, Blood Knot
April: Terrence McNally, Master Class
May: Florian Zeller, The Father
June: August Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
July: Horton Foote, Night Seasons
2017-2018
September: Max Frisch, The Arsonists
October: Caryl Churchill, Top Girls
November: Lauren Gunderson, The Book of Will
December: Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Queens Girl in Africa
January: Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jefferson’s Garden
February: Julia Cho, Aubergine
March: Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
April: Qui Nguyen, Vietgone
May: Bob Bartlett, Swimming with Whales
June: Quotidian Theatre, An Irish Twist on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2018-2019
August: Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Gloria
September: David Ives, Venus in Fur
October: August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean
November: Anot Gov, Oh, God
January: Paula Vogel, The Baltimore Waltz
February: Edward Kemp (novel by Mikhail Bulgakov), The Master and Margarita
March: Jon Klein, Resolving Hedda
April: Ken Ludwig, A Comedy of Tenors
May: Allyson Currin, Sooner/Later
June: Sarah Ruhl, The Oldest Boy
July: Harold Pinter, Betrayal
2019-2020
August: Lynn Nottage, Fabulation
September: August Wilson, Jitney
October: Edward Albee, The Occupant
November: Simon Stephens (novel by Mark Haddon), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
January: Lauren Gunderson, Silent Sky
February: Patrick Barlow, The 39 Steps
March: Alexandra Petri, Inherit the Windbag