Manitoba Theatre Centre production history

Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre. It was founded in 1958 by John Hirsch and Tom Hendry as an amalgamation of the Winnipeg Little Theatre and Theatre 77. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.

1958-1959

• A Hatful of Rain - by Michael V. Gazzo
• Blithe Spirit - by Noel Coward
• Born Yesterday - by Garson Kanin
• Of Mice and Men - by John Steinbeck
• Ring Round the Moon - by Jean Anouilh
• Teach Me How to Cry - by Patricia Joudry
• The Diary of Anne Frank - by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams

1959-1960

• Anastacia - by Marcelle Maurette
• Look Back in Anger - by John Osborne
• On Borrowed Time - by Paul Osborn, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin
• The Solid Gold Cadillac - by Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman
• Tea and Sympathy - by Robert Anderson
• Teahouse of the August Moon - by John Patrick, based on a novel by Vern J. Sneider
• The Reclining Figure - by Harry Kurnitz
• Volpone - by Ben Jonson

1960-1961

• A Streetcar Named Desire - by Tennessee Williams
• Biggest Thief in Town - by Dalton Trumbo
• Dark of the Moon - by William Berney and Howard Richardson
• Four Poster - by Jan de Hartog
• Gaslight - by Patrick Hamilton
• Juno and the Paycock - by Sean O'Casey
• Mr. Roberts - by Joshua Logan, based on a novel by Thomas Heggen
• Visit to a Small Planet - by Gore Vidal
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad - by Arthur Kopit
• The Lesson - by Eugène Ionesco
• The Marriage Proposal - by Anton Chekhov
• Under Milk Wood - by Dylan Thomas

1961-1962

• Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
• Look Ahead! - by Len Peterson
• The Playboy of the Western World - by J. M. Synge
• Separate Tables - by Terence Rattigan
• Speaking of Murder - by Audrey Roos and William Roos
• The Boy Friend - by Sandy Wilson
• The Lady's Not for Burning - by Christopher Fry
• Thieves' Carnival - by Jean Anouilh
• Waiting for Godot - by Samuel Beckett
• Who is on My Side? Who?

1962-1963

• A Very Close Family - by Bernard Slade
• An Enemy of the People - by Henrik Ibsen
• Bonfires of 1962
• Mrs. Warren's Profession - by George Bernard Shaw
• Once More, with Feeling! - by Harry Kurnitz
• Pal Joey - music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by John O’Hara
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll - by Ray Lawler
• The Caretaker - by Harold Pinter
• The Love Merchants
• The Spirit of the People is a Sometime Thing

1963-1964

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - by Tennessee Williams
• Five Finger Exercise - by Peter Shaffer
• Little Mary Sunshine - by Rick Besoyan
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• Pygmalion - by George Bernard Shaw
• The Gazebo
• The Hostage - by Brendan Behan
• Endgame - by Samuel Beckett

1964-1965

• All About Us (revue) - by Len Peterson
• Hay Fever - by Noel Coward
• Heartbreak House - by George Bernard Shaw
• Irma La Douce - by Alexandre Breffort, music by Marguerite Monnot
• Mother Courage - by Bertolt Brecht
• The Taming of the Shrew - by William Shakespeare
• The Tiger and the Typist - by Murray Schisgal
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - by Edward Albee

1965-1966

• Andorra
• Nicholas Romanov
• The Dance of Death
• The Fantasticks - music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• The Private Ear and The Public Eye
• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• The Threepenny Opera - by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

1966-1967

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
• Charley's Aunt - by Brandon Thomas
• Galileo
• Lulu Street - by Ann Henry
• Luv
• Romeo and Juliet - by William Shakespeare
• The Rainmaker - by N. Richard Nash

1967-1968

• A Delicate Balance - by Edward Albee
• A Thousand Clowns
• Antigone - by Jean Anouilh
• Major Barbara - by George Bernard Shaw
• Oh, What a Lovely War! - by Joan Littlewood
• Sganarelle - by Molière
• The Fantasticks - music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones
• Three Sisters - by Anton Chekhov
• Exit the King
• Happy Days - by Samuel Beckett
• Red Magic
• The School for Wives - by Molière

1968-1969

• A Man for All Seasons - by Robert Bolt
• Cactus Flower
• Fiddler on the Roof - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein
• Hotel Paradiso
• Fortune and Men's Eyes
• Home Free
• How the Puppets Formed a Government
• The Zoo Story

1969-1970

• After the Fall
• Cabaret - book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander
• Man of La Mancha - book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
• Marat/Sade
• You Can't Take It with You
• Escurial
• Hail Scrawdyke!
• Harry, Noon and Night
• La Turista
• Mandragola - by Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Indian Wants the Bronx

1970-1971

• A Man's a Man
• Hobson's Choice - by Harold Brighouse
• Little Murders
• Long Day's Journey Into Night - by Eugene O’Neill
• Salvation
• War and Peace - by Leo Tolstoy
• The Sun Never Sets^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day

1971-1972

• Alice Through the Looking Glass - by Lewis Carroll
• Lady Frederick
• The Comedy of Errors - by William Shakespeare
• The Homecoming
• The Sun and the Moon
• What the Butler Saw
• Doctor and the Blind Man
• Head 'Em Off At The Pas
• The Flying
• The Jealous Husband

1972-1973

• A Streetcar Named Desire - by Tennessee Williams
• A Thurber Carnival - by James Thurber
• Guys and Dolls - music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• Hedda Gabler - by Henrik Ibsen
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - by Tom Stoppard
• Sleuth
• En Pièces Detachées
• Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris - by Jacques Brel
• On the Air
• The Promise - by Aleksei Arbuzov
• Wedding in White

1973-1974

• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - by Peter Nichols
• Godspell - by Michael Tebelak
• Indian and Black Comedy
• The Dybbuk
• The Plough and the Stars - by Sean O’Casey
• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk
• Jubalay
• Mime Over Fire
• You're Gonna be Alright, Jamie Boy - by David Freeman

1974-1975

• Forget-Me-Not-Lane
• Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists
• The Boy Friend - by Sandy Wilson
• The Cherry Orchard - by Anton Chekhov, translation by John Murrell
• The Sunshine Boys - by Neil Simon
• Trelawny of the "Wells" - by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Androcles and the Lion - by Aurand Harris
• Crabdance - by Beverley Simons
• Hosanna - by Michel Tremblay
• Old Times - by Harold Pinter
• The Knack - by Ann Jellicoe

1975-1976

• Company
• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• Equus - by Peter Shaffer
• Of Mice and Men - by John Steinbeck
• Private Lives - by Noel Coward
• The Price
• Canadian Mime Theatre
• Creeps
• Endgame - by Samuel Beckett
• The Collected Works of Billy The Kid - by Michael Ondaatje

1976-1977

• All Over
• Dames at Sea - book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller^{[disambiguation needed ]}, music by Jim Wise
• Relatively Speaking - by Alan Ayckbourn
• She Stoops to Conquer - by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Crucible - by Arthur Miller
• Twelfth Night - by William Shakespeare
• Alpha Beta
• Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill
• Canadian Gothic & American Modern
• Fables Here and Then
• Waiting for Godot - by Samuel Beckett

1977-1978

• Knock Knock - by Jules Feiffer
• Measure for Measure - by William Shakespeare
• The Contractor - by David Storey
• The Last Chalice
• The Night of the Iguana - by Tennessee Williams
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun - by Peter Shaffer
• Ashes - by David Rudkin
• For Love and Chicken Soup
• Hello and Goodbye
• Love is Meant to Make us Glad
• Oh Coward!
• The Potato People
• The Sea Horse

1978-1979

• A Bee in her Bonnet
• A Doll's House
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Miller
• How the Other Half Loves - by Alan Ayckbourn
• Veronica's Room
• Forever Yours, Marie-Lou - by Michel Tremblay
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• Sizwe Bansi is Dead
• The Zoo Story
• Theatre Beyond Words

1979-1980

• American Buffalo
• Circus Gothic
• Spokesong
• Talley's Folly - by Lanford Wilson
• Waiting for the Parade - by John Murrell

1980-1981

• As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
• Balconville
• Billy Bishop Goes to War - by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson
• Grease - by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
• Jitters - by David French
• The Elephant Man - by Bernard Pomerance
• 1837: The Farmers' Revolt
• Bent
• Betrayal - by Harold Pinter
• Macbeth - by William Shakespeare

1981-1982

• Candida - by George Bernard Shaw
• Encore Brel!
• The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon - by W. O. Mitchell
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• The Little Foxes - by Lillian Hellman
• The Taming of the Shrew - by William Shakespeare
• A Moon for the Misbegotten - by Eugene O'Neill
• Side by Side by Sondheim
• The Gin Game - by D. L. Coburn
• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• Thimblerig

1982-1983

• Blood Relations - by Sharon Pollock
• Mass Appeal - by Bill C. Davis
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Richard III - by William Shakespeare
• The Man Who Came to Dinner - by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
• The Three Musketeers - by Alexandre Dumas
• Climate of the Times
• Cloud Nine - by Caryl Churchill
• Fifth of July
• How I Got That Story - by Amlin Gray
• Paper Wheat

1983-1984

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Bedroom Farce - by Alan Ayckbourn
• Much Ado About Nothing - by William Shakespeare
• The Dining Room - by A.R. Gurney Jr.
• The Duchess of Malfi - by John Webster
• The Mikado - music by Arthur Sullivan, libretto by W. S. Gilbert
• Clearances
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
• La Sagouine - by Antonine Maillet
• Remember Me^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• The Actor's Nightmare - by Christopher Durang

1984-1985

• Amadeus - by Peter Shaffer
• Born Yesterday - by Garson Kanin
• Old World
• Quartermaine's Terms
• Quiet in the Land - by Anne Chislett
• Tartuffe - by Molière
• 'Night, Mother
• Automatic Pilot
• Beautiful Deeds
• De beaux gestes
• Sea Marks

1985-1986

• Barnum
• Filthy Rich - by George F. Walker
• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• Talking Dirty - by Sherman Snukal
• The Real Thing - by Tom Stoppard
• Tsymbaly - by Ted Galay
• Einstein
• Fool for Love - by Sam Shepard
• Garrison's Garage - by Ted Johns
• Once in a Million
• The Last Doors’ Bootleg

1986-1987

• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Brighton Beach Memoirs - by Neil Simon
• Doc - by Sharon Pollock
• I'm Not Rappaport
• Mirandolina
• The Foreigner
• Henry V - by William Shakespeare
• Life After Hockey
• Salt Water Moon - by David French
• The Double Bass - by Patrick Süskind
• We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! - by Dario Fo

1987-1988

• 101 Miracles of Hope Chance
• Morning's at Seven
• Royalty is Royalty
• Ten Little Indians
• The Road to Mecca - by Athol Fugard
• You Never Can Tell - by George Bernard Shaw
• Killer's Head
• Letter From Wingfield Farm - by Dan Needles
• Loot - by Joe Orton
• The Club^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• The Rez Sisters
• The Unseen Hand

1988-1989

• 1949
• A View From the Bridge
• B-Movie, The Play - by Tom Wood^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Brass Rubbings
• Falstaff
• Woman in Mind
• A Walk in the Woods - by Lee Blessing
• Frankenstein: Playing with Fire
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - by Terrence McNally
• Life Skills
• When That I Was

1989-1990

• Broadway Bound - by Neil Simon
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - by Tennessee Williams
• Emerald City
• Master Class - by David Pownall
• The Mousetrap - by Agatha Christie
• You Can't Take It With You
• Beautiful Lake Winnipeg
• Driving Miss Daisy - by Alfred Uhry
• Kiss of the Spider Woman - by Manuel Puig
• The Dragons' Trilogy
• The Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams

1990-1991

• Band
• Les Misérables
• Macbeth - by William Shakespeare
• Noises Off - by Michael Frayn
• Of the Fields, Lately - by David French
• Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled
• The Heidi Chronicles - by Wendy Wasserstein
• Burn This - by Lanford Wilson
• Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
• My Children! My Africa! - by Athol Fugard
• Toronto, Mississippi

1991-1992

• Hedda Gabler - by Henrik Ibsen
• Lend Me a Tenor - by Ken Ludwig
• M. Butterfly
• Not Wanted on the Voyage - by Timothy Findley
• Shirley Valentine - by Willy Russell
• The Miracle Worker - by William Gibson
• Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - by Ann Marie MacDonald
• The Affections of May Medea
• Wingfield Trilogy - by Dan Needles

1992-1993

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
• Another Time
• Arsenic and Old Lace - by Joseph Kesselring
• Democracy - by John Murrell
• Lost in Yonkers
• Transit of Venus
• Death and the Maiden - by Ariel Dorfman
• Gunmetal Blues - by Richard March and Marion Adler
• Steel Magnolias
• Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love

1993-1994

• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Hay Fever - by Noel Coward
• Henceforward...
• Wait Until Dark - by Frederick Knott
• Wingfield's Folly - by Dan Needles
• Awful Manors
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart - by Terrence McNally
• Mrs. Klein
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

1994-1995

• Hamlet - by William Shakespeare
• Homeward Bound - by Elliott Hayes
• If We Are Women - by Joanna McClelland Glass
• Oleanna - by David Mamet
• Six Degrees of Separation
• The Sisters Rosensweig
• Fronteras Americanas (American Borders)
• Poor Super Man
• The Monument
• Tinka's New Dress

1995-1996

• Atlantis - by Maureen Hunter
• Cyrano de Bergerac - by Edmond Rostand
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - A Love Story
• Keely & Du
• Little Shop of Horrors - by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
• Season's Greetings
• Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium - by Tony Kushner
• Approaches
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
• Les Belles Soeurs - by Michel Tremblay
• Our Country's Good

1996-1997

• Arcadia
• Death of a Salesman - by Arthur Miller
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile - by Steve Martin
• The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum
• There Goes the Bride
• Travels With My Aunt - by Graham Greene
• An Inspector Calls - by J.B. Priestley
• Misery
• None Is Too Many
• True West

1997-1998

• A Perfect Garnesh
• Master Class - by David Pownall
• Office Hours
• Sylvia
• The Crucible - by Arthur Miller
• Three Tall Women - by Edward Albee
• High Life^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Quills
• Skylight - by David Hare
• Street of Blood

1998-1999

• Billy Bishop Goes to War - by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson
• Blessings in Disguise
• Cabaret - book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, music by John Kander
• Lady Be Good - music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson
• Of Mice and Men - by John Steinbeck
• Proposals
• Cherry Docs
• Fine Girls
• How I Learned to Drive - by Paula Vogel
• The Attic, The Pearls & Three
• Wit - by Margaret Edson

1999-2000

• 2 Pianos, 4 Hands - by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
• A Streetcar Named Desire - by Tennessee Williams
• 'Art' - by Yasmina Reza
• King Lear - by William Shakespeare
• The Overcoat - by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
• Wingfield Unbound - by Dan Needles
• Closer
• Patience - by Jason Sherman
• The Beauty Queen of Leenance
• The Last Night of Ballyhoo

2000-2001

• Camelot - by Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe
• Larry's Party - by Margaret Atwood
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
• The Drawer Boy - by Michael Healey
• The Weir
• To Kill A Mockingbird - by Harper Lee and Christopher Sergel
• A Penny for the Guy
• Happy
• The Gist
• Waiting for Godot - by Samuel Beckett

2001-2002

• Stones in His Pockets - by Marie Jones
• Syncopation
• The Rainmaker - by N. Richard Nash
• The School for Wives - by Molière
• The Wave^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Vinci
• The Blue Room
• The Lonesome West
• The Lost Boys
• The Threepenny Opera - by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

2002-2003

• Dracula - by Hamilton Deane
• Evita
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• Proof - by David Auburn
• Richard III - by William Shakespeare
• The Philadelphia Story - by Philip Barry
• The Woods
• Bigger Than Jesus - by Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks
• The Homecoming
• The Shape of Things - by Neil LaBute
• Time After Time: The Chet Baker Project

2003-2004

• Cookin' at the Cookery: The Music & Times of Alberta Hunter
• Crimes of the Heart - by Beth Henley
• My Fair Lady - book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
• The Diary of Anne Frank - by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
• The Winslow Boy
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Feelgood^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• I, Claudia - by Kirsten Thomson
• Mating Dance of the Werewolf
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - by Edward Albee

2004-2005

• Humble Boy - by Charlotte Jones
• Much Ado About Nothing - by William Shakespeare
• Night of the Iguana - by Tennessee Williams
• The Dresser - by Ronald Harwood
• Trying - by Joanna McClelland Glass
• Hosanna - by Michel Tremblay
• Provenance
• Real Live Girl
• The Last Five Years

2005-2006

• A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
• Crowns
• Driving Miss Daisy - by Alfred Uhry
• Guys and Dolls - music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
• The Clean House
• The Innocent Eye Test
• Cul-de-sac
• Fully Committed - by Becky Mode
• Long Day's Journey into Night - by Eugene O’Neill
• The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? - by Edward Albee

2006-2007

• Half Life - by John Mighton
• Orpheus Descending - by Tennessee Williams
• Over the Tavern
• The Constant Wife - by Somerset Maugham
• The Rocky Horror Show
• The Tempest - by William Shakespeare
• Summer of My Amazing Luck
• The Real Thing - by Tom Stoppard
• The Retreat from Moscow
• What Lies Before Us - by Morris Panych

2007-2008

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• The Importance of Being Earnest - by Oscar Wilde
• Fiddler on the Roof - music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein
• Shakespeare's Dog - by Rick Chafe
• The Syringa Tree - by Pamela Gien
• Dreamgirls - by Tom Eyen, music by Henry Krieger
• Hardsell - by Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks
• Glengarry Glen Ross - by David Mamet
• Rope's End - by Douglas Bowie
• Satchmo' Suite

2008-2009

• Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
• Medea - by Euripides, adapted by Robinson Jeffers
• Jitters - by David French
• The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead - by Robert Hewett
• Doubt, A Parable - by John Patrick Shanley
• The Boys in the Photograph - book and lyrics by Ben Elton
• Scorched - by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau
• The Price - by Arthur Miller
• Bad Dates - by Theresa Rebeck
• Bleeding Hearts - by Kevin Klassen

2009-2010

• Strong Poison - by Dorothy L. Sayers | Adapted for the Stage by Frances Limoncelli
• It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play - Adapted by Philip Grecian | Based on the Film by Frank Capra
• The Drowsy Chaperone - Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison | Book by Bob Martin & Don McKellar
• Mother Courage and Her Children - by Bertolt Brecht | in a New Version by Peter Hinton | with Songs by Bertolt Brecht, Paul Dessau and Kurt Weill in New Arrangements by Allen Cole
• Educating Rita - by Willy Russell
• Steel Magnolias - by Robert Harling
• 5 O'Clock Bells - Written & Performed by Pierre Brault
• East of Berlin - by Hannah Moscovitch
• Top Girls - by Caryl Churchill
• Looking Back – West - by Robert Lewis Vaughan

2010-2011 season

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - by Dale Wasserman | Based on the Novel by Ken Kesey
• Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Musical - Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin | Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
• Noël Coward's Brief Encounter - Adapted by Emma Rice
• The Shunning - by Patrick Friesen
• Calendar Girls - by Tim Firth
• The 39 Steps - Adapted by Patrick Barlow | From the Novel by John Buchan | From the Film of Alfred Hitchcock
• Juno Productions' Jake's Gift - Written and Performed by Julia Mackey
• The Seafarer - by Conor McPherson
• After Miss Julie - A Version of Strindberg's Miss Julie | by Patrick Marber
• Bent Out of Shape Productions' The Drowning Girls - by Daniela Vlaskalic, Beth Graham & Charlie Tomlinson

External links

• Manitoba Theatre Centre site