Dorset Theatre Festival Production History 1977 – 2009

1977: As Harlequin, Ltd.
A Thurber Carnival By James Thurber
Angel Street By Patrick Hamilton
The Amorous Flea By Jerry Devine and Bruce Montgomery
Mark’s Place By Joan Vatsek
1978
The Rainmaker By N. Richard Nash
Play It Again, Sam By Woody Allen
Two for the Seesaw By William Gibson
Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie
A Shot in the Dark By Marcel Achard
The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes By John Nassivera
1979
The Lusty and Comical History of Tom Jones By Henry Fielding
Frankenstein By Tim Kelly, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum By Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Stephen Sondheim
The Private Ear By Peter Shaffer
The Miracle Worker By William Gibson
Nobody and Me By C.A. Philips
1980
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street By Christopher G. Bond, adapted by Michael Wright and John Nassivera
A Penny Earned From the Miser and Other Moliere Farces By Annie Lebeaux and Stephen Kelsey
How the Other Half Loves By Alan Ayckbourn
Phallacies By John Nassivera
Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
1981
The Passion of Dracula By Bob Hall and David Richmond
Artichoke By Joanna McClelland Glass
Feiffer’s People By Jules Feiffer Gorilla By John Patrick Shanley
Talley’s Folly By Lanford Wilson
Four of a Kind By John Nassivera
1982
The Miss Firecracker Contest By Beth Henley
You Never Know By Siegfried Geyer, Robert Katscher, and Cole Porter
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln By James Prideaux
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Marian De Forset
Deathtrap By Ira Levin
Harvey By Mary Chase
1983
Peg o’ My Heart By J. Hartley Manners
A Moon for the Misbegotten By Eugene O’Neill On Borrowed Time By Paul Osborn
You Never Know By Siegfried Geyer, Robert Katscher, and Cole Porter
Sleuth By Anthony Shaffer
1984
Greater Tuna By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, and Jaston Williams
Making a Killing By John Nassivera
George Washington Slept Here By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
The Matchmaker By Thornton Wilder
1985
The Golden Age By A.R. Gurney
Fifth of July By Lanford Wilson
The Lusty and Comical History of Tom Jones By Henry Fielding
The 1940’s Radio Hour By Walton Jones
Family Affairs By Lynne Kadish
1991
Italian American Reconciliation By John Patrick Shanley
The Jazz Club By John Nassivera
A Hard Look at Old Times By John Nassivera
The Voice of the Prairie By John Olive
Dial “M” for Murder By Frederick Knott
Lend Me a Tenor By Ken Ludwig
1992
Write Me a Murder By Frederick Knott
Other People’s Money By Jerry Sterner
Godspell By Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
Saving Grace By Tom Ziegler
The Country Club By Douglas Carter Beane
1993
Relatively Speaking By Alan Ayckbourn
My Children! My Africa! By Athol Fugard
Mama Drama By Leslie Ayvasian, Donna Daley, Christine Farrell, Rita Nachtmann, and Ann Sachs
Sherlock Holmes and the Unseen Hand By John Nassivera
1994
Blithe Spirit By Noel Coward
What I Did Last Summer By A.R. Gurney
The Mousetrap By Agatha Christie
The Diary of Anne Frank By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
I Do! I Do! By Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
1995
The Unexpected Guest By Agatha Christie
A Lesson From Aloes By Athol Fugard Rough Crossing By Tom Stoppard
Greater Tuna By Ed Howard, Joe Sears, and Jaston Williams
Moon Over the Brewery By Bruce Graham
1996
Witness for the Prosecution By Agatha Christie
Stanton’s Garage By Joan Ackermann
How the Other Half Loves By Alan Ayckbourn
Forever Plaid By Stuart Ross
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds By Paul Zindel
1997
The Color of Love By John Nassivera
Black Coffee By Agatha Christie
Moon Over Buffalo By Ken Ludwig
On Golden Pond By Ernest Thompson
Valley Song By Athol Fugard
Travels with My Aunt By Graham Greene
1998
Room Service By Allen Boretz and John Murray
Gold With Alan Shepard By Carter W. Lewis
Old Wicked Songs By Jon Marans
Spider’s Web By Agatha Christie
Don’t Dress for Dinner By Marc Camoletti
1999
Go Back for Murder By Agatha Christie
Barrymore By William Luce
As Bees in Honey Drown By Douglas Carter Beane
Hay Fever By Noel Coward
The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden By Alan Ayckbourn
2001
Art By Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Oh The Days! By Shelia Walsh
Ten Little Indians By Agatha Christie
Noises Off By Michael Frayn
Redwood Curtain By Lanford Wilson
2002
Towards Zero By Agatha Christie
She Loves Me By Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
Shady Business By Robin Hawdon
The Music Lesson By Tammy Ryan
Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett
2003
The Sign of Four By Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Dennis Rosa
The Orchard By Anton Chekhov, adapted by John Nassivera
Appointment with Death By Agatha Christie
The Foreigner By Larry Shue
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Marian De Forest
2004
After Magritte By Tom Stoppard
Mass Appeal By Bill C. Davis
Nunsense By Dan Goggin
Relatively Speaking By Alan Ayckbourn
Swing Street By John Nassivera and Jeff Bernstein
Sylvia By A.R. Gurney
The Mousetrap Agatha Christie
2005
The Au Pair Man By Hugh Leonard
The Subject Was Roses By Frank D. Gilroy
The Woman in Black By Susan Hill, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
The Lion in Winter By James Goldman
Sky Girls By Jenny Laird
2006
A Murder is Announced By Agatha Christie, adapted by Leslie Darbon
The Lusty and Comical History of Tom Jones By Henry Fielding
Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up By J.M. Barrie, adapted by Brian Feehan
The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams
Moonlight and Magnolias By Ron Hutchinson
2007
Theophilus North By Thornton Wilder, adapted by Matthew Burnett
Talley’s Folly By Lanford Wilson
Dulcy By George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
Sleuth By Anthony Shaffer
2008
Nobody Don’t Like Yogi By Thomas Lysaght
The Dining Room By A.R. Gurney
A Year With Frog and Toad By Arnold Lobel
June Moon By George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner
2009
St. Nicholas By Conor McPherson
Merton of the Movies By George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
The Hollow By Agatha Christie
Marry Me a Little By Craig Lucas, Norman Rene, and Stephen Sondheim