1993 - 1994
 
  • Long Days Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
  •  
  • The Marriage of Bette and Boo - Christopher Durang
  •  
  • 24 Hours in the AIDS Crisis - Original Script
  •  
  • Talking With - Jane Martin
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  • Betrayal - Harold Pinter
  •  
  • Bad Habits - Terrance McNally
  •  
  • Christmas and Chanukah Program
  •  
  • The Magistrate - Arthur Wing Pinero
  •  
  • Affairs of the Heart - Readings of Love
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  • Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman
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  • Girl's Night Out
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    1994 - 1995
     
  • Hot L Baltimore - Lanford Wilson
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  • Scenes Program
  •  
  • Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna
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  • The Homecoming - Harold Pinter
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  • Christmas Program
  •  
  • Days of Wine and Roses - J.P. Miller
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  • What's Love Got to Do With IT? - 7 Scenes about Relationships
  •  
  • An Evening of Irish Playwrights
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  • Actor's Choice
  •  
  • Letters from the Famous, Infamous and Fictitious
  •    
    1995 - 1996
     
  • The Big Knife - Clifford Odets
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  • Actor's Choice
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  • All in the Timing - David Ives
  •    
    1996 - 1997
     
  • A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee
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  • Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
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  • Meeting of Minds - Steve Allen
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  • Lost in Yonkers - Neil Simon
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  • The Brick and the Rose - Lewis John Carlino
  •    
    1997 - 1998
     
  • Death Defying Acts - Mamet, May and Woody Allen
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  • Twilight of the Golds - Jonathan Tolin
  •  
  • A Tuna Christmas - Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
  •  
  • Veronica's Room - Ira Levin
  •  
  • Friends and Lovers - Scenes and Songs
  •  
  • The Wake - Steve Allen
  •  
  • A Tribute to Jim Mullen
  •    
    1998 - 1999
     
  • Time of My Life - Alan Ayckbourn
  •  
  • All About Eve - Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  •  
  • Quartermaine's Terms - Simon Gray
  •  
  • Radio Show
  •  
  • Before they were Musicals - Scenes from Auntie Mame,
         Pygmalion, The Matchmaker, Philadelphia Story, The Rainmaker
  •  
  • An Evening of Monologues
  •  
  • An Evening of New Works - T.D. Bateman
  •    
    1999 - 2000
     
  • The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
  •  
  • Merry Christmas to Us
  •  
  • The Cripple of Inishmaan - Martin McDonagh
  •  
  • Angels in America Part I: The Millenium Approaches
        - Tony Kushner
  •  
  • Angels in America Part II: Perestroika
        - Tony Kushner
  •  
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  •  
  • Scenes of the 20th Century
  •  
  • A Tribute to Carol Mullen
  •    
    2000 - 2001
     
  • The Verdict - Agatha Christie
  •  
  • Picnic - William Inge
  •  
  • Season's Readings
  •  
  • Collected Stories - David Margulies
  •  
  • Molly Sweeney - Brian Friel
  •  
  • Trio - Somerset Maugham
  •  
  • Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
  •  
  • Dylan - Sidney Michaels
  •  
  • The Women - Clare Boothe Luce
  •    
    2001 - 2002
     
  • Art - Yasmina Reza
  •  
  • Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
  •  
  • Holiday - Philip Barry
  •  
  • Criticisms and Witticisms of Dorothy Parker
  •  
  • Plaza Suite - Neil Simon
  •  
  • Shadowlands - William Nicholson
  •  
  • The World of Carl Sandburg - Norman Corwin
  •  
  • The Cocktail Party - T.S. Eliot
  •    
    2002 - 2003
     
  • ENCORE! - Scenes from 1st Season
  •  
  • The Bride of Frankenstein - Screenplay by William Hurlbut
  •  
  • Democracy - Romulus Linney
  •  
  • Miracle on 34th Street - LUX Radio Theatre Script
  •  
  • A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
  •  
  • An Evening of One Acts
  •  
  • Proof - David Auburn
  •  
  • The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Lorraine Hansberry
  •  
  • The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman
  •    
    2003 - 2004
     
  • Private Lives - Noel Coward
  •  
  • Lobby Hero - Kenneth Lonergan
  •  
  • Miracle on 34th Street - LUX Radio Theatre Script
  •  
  • Antigone - Adaptation by Jean Anouilh
  •  
  • Wuthering Heights - Adaptation by Charles Vance
  •  
  • A Walk in the Woods - Lee Blessing
  •  
  • Katherine Hepburn - From Stage to Screen
  •  
  • A Tribute to Marie Henry
  •    
    2004 - 2005
     
  • Write On, Oak Park! - Works by Oak Park Authors
  •  
  • Three Tall Women - Edward Albee
  •  
  • Solomon's Child - Tom Dulack
  •  
  • Spinning into Butter - Rebecca Gilman
  •  
  • Snakebit - David Marshall Grant
  •  
  • Dancing at Lughnasa - Brian Friel
  •  
  • That Championship Season - Jason Miller
  •  
  • Actor's Choice
  •    
    2005 - 2006
     
  • Steel Magnolias - Robert Harling
  •  
  • Beyond Therapy - Christopher Durang
  •  
  • A Winter Holiday Special!
  •  
  • Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies
  •  
  • The Lady's not for Burning - Christopher Fry
  •  
  • The Man with Bogart's Face - Radio Show by Andrew J. Fenady
  •  
  • Enchanted April - Mathew Barber
  •  
  • Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flag
  •    
    2006 - 2007
     
  • Fools - Neil Simon
  •  
  • The Big Kahuna - Roger Rueff
  •  
  • Holiday Storybook Time - For Children and Grown ups!
  •  
  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - William Inge
  •  
  • Talley's Folly - Lanford Wilson
  •  
  • Marvin's Room - Scott McPherson
  •  
  • The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
  •  
  • Over the River and through the Woods - Joe DiPietro
  •    
    2007 - 2008
     
  • Chapter 2 - Neil Simon
  •  
  • Retreat from Moscow - William Nicholson
  •  
  • The Curious Savage - John Patrick
  •  
  • Prelude to a Kiss - Craig Lucas
  •  
  • Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
  •  
  • Gross Indecency - Moises Kaufman
  •  
  • Susan and God - Rachel Crothers
  •  
  • Swordplay - Lope de Vega / Jerry Bloom
  •    
    2008 - 2009
     
  • Rabbit Hole - Lindsay Abaire
  •  
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
  •  
  • Kicking a Dead Horse - Sam Shepard
  •  
  • Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune - Terrence McNally
  •  
  • Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  •  
  • The Rainmaker - N. Richard Nash
  •  
  • Picasso at the Lapine Agile - Steve Martin
  •    
    2009 - 2010
     
  • Lettice and Lovage - Peter Shaffer
  •  
  • Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
  •  
  • The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
  •  
  • Mary, Mary - Jean Kerr
  •  
  • The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote
  •  
  • Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grill - Bruce Graham
  •  
  • Mothers and Daughters: Scenes from Stage and Screen
  •    
       
    2010 - 2011
     
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  •  
  • The Subject Was Roses - Frank D. Gilroy
  •  
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner - Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
  •  
  • Murder by Poe - Jeffrey Hatcher
  •  
  • The Cemetery Club - Ivan Menshaw
  •  
  • Cakewalk - Peter Fiebleman
  •  
  • Some Of Our Favorite Things - Ensemble Members Sing
  •  
  • Bleacher Bums - Joe Mantegna / Organic Theatre Company
  •    
    2011 - 2012
     
  • Rumors - Neil Simon
  •  
  • Angel Street - Patrick Hamilton
  •  
  • Born Yesterday - Garson Kanin
  •  
  • Suddenly Last Summer - Tennessee Williams
  •  
  • 6 Degrees of Separation - John Guare
  •  
  • God of Carnage - Yasmin Reza
  •  
  • Bug - Tracy Letts
  •  
  • Letters - Mercita DeMonk / Charles Osgood
  •    
    2012 - 2013
     
  • Dorian Gray adapted from Oscar Wilde's novel by John McCrite
  •  
  • Don Juan in Hell - George Bernard Shaw
  •  
  • Love, Loss and What I Wore - Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron
  •  
  • Dial M For Murder - Frederick Knott
  •  
  • The Savannah Disputation - Evan Smith
  •  
  • The Seafarer - Conor McPherson
  •  
  • 4 Scenes - William Inge
  •  
  • Sordid Lives - Del Shores
  •    
    2013 - 2014
     
  • The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
  •  
  • Man from Nebraska - Tracy Letts
  •  
  • Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring
  •  
  • Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder / Raymond Chandler
  •  
  • Blithe Spirit - Noel Coward
  •  
  • Bill W and Dr. Bob - Bergman and Surrey
  •  
  • Pack of Lies - Hugh Whitemore
  •  
  • Conversations with Joan Crawford - Newquist / Petzke
  •    
    2014 - 2015
     
  • What the Butler Saw - Joe Orton
  •  
  • The Weir - Conor McPherson
  •  
  • Sylvia - A.R. Gurney
  •  
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - by Robert Louis Stevenson /
         adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
  •  
  • Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
  •  
  • The Underpants - Carl Sternheim / adapted by Steve Martin
  •  
  • Freud's Last Session - Mark St. Germain
  •  
  • On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
  •    
    2015 - 2016
     
  • Knuckle - David Hare
  •  
  • Next Fall - Geoffrey Nauffts
  •  
  • Doubt - a Parable by John Patrick Shanley
  •  
  • The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon
  •  
  • These Shining Lives - Melanie Marnich
  •  
  • 2 Across - Jerry Mayer
  •  
  • A Skull in Connemara - Martin McDonagh
  •  
  • Freud's Last Session - Mark St. Germain
  •    
    2016 - 2017
     
  • Frost / Nixon - Peter Morgan
  •  
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
  •  
  • Becoming Dr. Ruth - Mark St. Germain
  •  
  • Time Stands Still - Donald Marguiles
  •  
  • Embracable Me - Victor L. Cahn
  •  
  • Smokefall - Noah Haidle
  •  
  • FREE Poets Society
  •  
  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - Christopher Durang
  •    
    2017 - 2018   [ 25th Season ]
     
  • Murder By Poe - Jeffrey Hatcher
  •  
  • Betrayal - Harold Pinter
  •  
  • All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  •  
  • Swordplay - Lope de Vega / Jerry Bloom
  •  
  • Rumors - Neil Simon
  •  
  • Dancing at Lughnasa - Brian Friel
  •  
  • A Walk in the Woods - Lee Blessing
  •  
  • Over the River and through the Woods - Joe DPietro
  •    
    2018 - 2019
     
  • The Foreigner - Larry Shue
  •  
  • ROSE - Laurence Leamer
  •  
  • The Cocktail Hour - AR Gurney
  •  
  • Visiting Mr. Green - Jeff Baron
  •  
  • The Property known as Garland - Billy Van Zandt
  •  
  • Life Sucks - Aaron Posner
  •  
  • Clybourne Park - Bruce Norris
  •  
  • 45 Seconds from Broadway - Neil Simon
  •    
    2019 - 2020
     
  • DRACULA - Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston
  •  
  • A Doll's House part 2 - Lucas Hnath
  •  
  • Its Only a Play - Terrance McNally
  •  
  • Good People - David Lindsay-Abaire
  •  
  • WIT - Margaret Edson
  •    
    2020 - 2021
     
  • LUX Radio Hour presents "Miracle on 34th Street"
  •    
    2021 - 2022
     
  • BARRYMORE - William Luce
  •  
  • Chapatti - Christian O’Reilly
  •  
  • Mindwalk - screenplay by Fritjof Capra and Floyd Byars
  •  
  • Cigarettes and Chocolate - Anthony Minghella
  •  
  • There Is A Happiness That Morning Is - Mickle Maher
  •  
  • Wild and Precious Life, The Rules of Comedy,
          Did I Miss Anything? - Patricia Cotter
  •    
    2022 - 2023
     
  • Molly Sweeney - Brian Friel
  •  
  • Hillary and Clinton - Lucas Hnath
  •  
  • Holiday Memories and Songs of the Season
  •  
  • Trying - Joanna McClelland Glass
  •  
  • Beyond Therapy - Christopher Durang
  •  
  • Outside Mullingar - John Patrick Shanely
  •  
  • Lobby Hero - Kenneth Lonnergan
  •  
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  •    
    Special Performances
     
  • Love Letters - Village Players - February 1998
  •  
  • Works by Ernest Hemingway - Hemingway Centennial
           - July 1999
  •  
  • Writers Who Matter - Oak Park Public Library - August 2002
  •  
  • Holiday Program - St. Bernadine's Women's Club
          - December 2002
  •  
  • Excerpts from Beyond Therapy and Enchanted April
         United Methodist Women's Annual Spring Luncheon
         - April 2006
  •  
  • Fahrenheit 451 - One Book, Two Villages
          - Oak Park Public Library/River Forest Public Library
         - May 2006
  •  
  • Celebrating Mark Twain ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
          - Oak Park Public Library - October 2010
  •  
  • Love, Loss and What I Wore
          - Ascension Women's Club Spring Luncheon - 2012
  •  
  • The Bride of Frankenstein
          - River Forest Public Library - October 2013
  •  
  • Miracle on 34th Street - LUX Radio Theatre Script
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