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  • Parade

    Parade November 12, 1998 - February 28, 1999

    Book byAlfred Uhry
    Music and Lyrics byJason Robert Brown
    Co-conceived byHarold Prince
    Directed byHarold Prince
    Beaumont Theater

    The story of PARADE is true. It is a love story against all odds, a love story played against a backdrop of religious intolerance and political injustice that make this musical so emotionally compelling. Learn More »

    November 12, 1998 - February 28, 1999
  • Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night June 19 - August 30, 1998

    Beaumont Theater

    Written 400 years ago this madcap tale of mistaken identities and misplaced affection is truly timeless. Thus, LCT's new production was not rooted in a specific time or place, although it did have a contemporary feel. Learn More »

    June 19 - August 30, 1998
  • A New Brain

    A New Brain May 14 - August 23, 1998

    Music and Lyrics byWilliam Finn
    Book byWilliam Finn
    andJames Lapine
    Directed and Choreographed byGraciela Daniele
    Newhouse Theater

    The story of A NEW BRAIN is drawn from William Finn's own life. Back in 1992, shortly after the successful opening of Falsettos on Broadway—Finn suffered a brain seizure and was hospitalized. From such dire source material came this surprisingly joyous and funny musical about songwriter Gordon Schwinn. Learn More »

    May 14 - August 23, 1998
  • Ah, Wilderness!

    Ah, Wilderness! February 19 - May 3, 1998

    Beaumont Theater

    A comedy...by Eugene O'Neill? Yes! Although he is one of the pillars of 20th-century drama and created some of the most memorable, tragic stories for the stage, O'Neill did write one comedy in 1933: AH, WILDERNESS! Learn More »

    February 19 - May 3, 1998
  • Pride's Crossing

    Pride's Crossing November 6, 1997 - April 5, 1998

    Newhouse Theater

    PRIDE'S CROSSING is Tina Howe's fictional biography of Mabel Tidings Bigelow, a New Englander whose life has spanned the twentieth century, by turns a gentile young lady, a burgeoning feminist, and a discreet iconoclast. Learn More »

    November 6, 1997 - April 5, 1998
  • Ivanov

    Ivanov October 23, 1997 - January 4, 1998

    Beaumont Theater

    This early, neglected play by Anton Chekhov was adapted by David Hare, staged by Gerald Gutierrez and starred Oscar and two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline in the title role. Learn More »

    October 23, 1997 - January 4, 1998
  • An American Daughter

    An American Daughter March 20 - June 29, 1997

    Directed byDaniel Sullivan
    Cort Theatre

    When the President nominates Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes to a Cabinet post, a minor indiscretion from her past is discovered and the media whips it into a scandal which imperils her confirmation and divides her family and friends. Learn More »

    March 20 - June 29, 1997
  • God's Heart

    God's Heart March 7 - May 25, 1997

    Newhouse Theater

    GOD'S HEART presents a compassionate view of the ways in which our society is fractured and how it might yet come together via new technology. Learn More »

    March 7 - May 25, 1997
  • It's a Slippery Slope

    It's a Slippery Slope November 2, 1996 - January 6, 1997

    written and performed bySpalding Gray
    Beaumont Theater

    The title refers to Spalding Gray's learning to ski for the first time at age 53, but in a larger sense, he's also getting at the slipperiness of adjusting to middle age and some major life changes. Learn More »

    November 2, 1996 - January 6, 1997
  • Sex and Longing

    Sex and Longing September 12, 1996 - November 17, 1996

    Cort Theatre

    SEX AND LONGING follows the outrageous and comical exploits of Lulu Dubois, a nymphomaniac, who with her gay roommate Justin, has just published an 'art' book called "Explicit Photographs Of The Last 300 People We Slept With". Learn More »

    September 12, 1996 - November 17, 1996
  • Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance

    Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance March 28 - September 29, 1996

    Directed byGerald Gutierrez
    Plymouth Theatre

    With this play, Albee held up the dramatic equivalent of a funhouse mirror to the audience which was alternately amused and disturbed by his story about the fragile nature of marriages, families and friendships. Learn More »

    March 28 - September 29, 1996
  • A Fair Country

    A Fair Country February 1 - June 30, 1996

    Newhouse Theater

    A gripping story about a cursed family on assignment in Durban during the late 1970s. When the father makes a Faustian bargain in order to move his family away from their isolated life in South Africa, his actions have tragic ramifications. Learn More »

    February 1 - June 30, 1996
  • Racing Demon

    Racing Demon November 1 - December 31, 1995

    Beaumont Theater

    In this marvelously entertaining and bracingly intelligent play, we view the current tensions within the Chruch of England, as personified by a team of Anglican priests in the inner city who are struggling to hold onto their dwindling parishioners. Learn More »

    November 1 - December 31, 1995
  • Northeast Local

    Northeast Local October 5, 1995 - January 7, 1996

    Newhouse Theater

    Tom Donaghy's remarkable, funny-sad play is about a blue-collar family, depicted over thirty years of turbulent times in America: from the assassination of President Kennedy to the scourge of AIDS. Learn More »

    October 5, 1995 - January 7, 1996
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold May 18 - July 16, 1995

    Based on the novel byGabriel García Márquez
    Adapted byGraciela Daniele
    andJim Lewis
    Music byBob Telson
    Additional material byMichael John LaChiusa
    Conceived, Directed and Choreographed byGraciela Daniele
    Plymouth Theatre

    This exciting and unusual adaptation was inspired by the director/choreographer Graciela Daniele's deep passion for this compelling story. Her work began as a search for the theatrical equivalents of García Márquez's evocative literary style. Learn More »

    May 18 - July 16, 1995
  • Twelve Dreams

    Twelve Dreams May 11 - August 6, 1995

    Written and Directed byJames Lapine
    Newhouse Theater

    TWELVE DREAMS is a haunting drama that concerns a 10-year-old girl who has an extraordinary series of dreams that foreshadow her own death. It combines music, dance and visual imagery with a touching family story of a widowed doctor and his beloved young daughter. Learn More »

    May 11 - August 6, 1995
  • Arcadia

    Arcadia March 2 - August 27, 1995

    Beaumont Theater

    ARCADIA has the brain-tingling mixture of language, literature, science and history one expects from playwright Tom Stoppard, but this very funny and sexy new play aimed for the heart as well as the head. Learn More »

    March 2 - August 27, 1995
  • The Heiress

    The Heiress February 9 - December 31, 1995

    Cort Theatre

    THE HEIRESS centers on a shy, lonely heiress, her domineering father to whom she is devoted, and a handsome suitor with whom she falls in love despite her father's objections. Learn More »

    February 9 - December 31, 1995