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Master clown Bill Irwin and his comic cohorts, M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner kicked up their heels in THE REGARD OF FLIGHT. Learn More »

Wole Soyinka wrote an extraordinary modern-day tragedy, based on actual events which took place in 1946, incorporating music and dance. Learn More »

Two new plays by Arthur Miller—distinct but with a thematic connection—comprised DANGER: MEMORY! Learn More »

Hot, young playwright Roger Hedden had written screenplays and one-act plays but BODIES, REST AND MOTION was his first full-length play. Learn More »

A stage full of wisecracking newspaper reporters and double-talking politicians filled the Beaumont for Hecht and MacArthur's classic, THE FRONT PAGE. Learn More »

This adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella added vocal and instrumental music to an actor-and-puppets stage version inspired by Mann’s retelling of this Indian legend. Learn More »

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

A government informer betrays his mistress and colleagues who actively oppose apartheid. The director, Barney Simon, conceived the docu-drama as “a living newspaper.” Learn More »

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

The paradox of being a black policeman in South Africa is presented with explosive humor and music in BOPHA! Learn More »

ASINAMALI! is a celebration of the resistance movement to apartheid, inspired by a 1983 rent strike in which the strike leader was assassinated. Learn More »

Quite by accident, or because he was in a rush, or because Mercury was in retrograde, or all the above, Spalding Gray buys a perfectly imperfect house in the Catskills that just happens to be built on clay. Learn More »

This tenth in a series of ongoing autobiographic monologs is based on Spalding’s exploits as an actor in the award-winning film 'The Killing Fields'. Learn More »

The first of Spalding’s monologues, which was first performed in New York in 1979 is a funny account of his adolescent initiation to sex and death while growing up as a Christian Scientist in Rhode Island. Learn More »

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

The Flying Karamazov Brothers continue that Grand Tradition of the Theatre, performing their full-sized stage show with all the bells and whistles in nice places everywhere, from Broadway on up. Learn More »

The Flying Karamazov Brothers continue that Grand Tradition of the Theatre, performing their full-sized stage show with all the bells and whistles in nice places everywhere, from Broadway on up. Learn More »

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

These 1985 performances of David Mamet’s ghost stories, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN and THE SHAWL were the very first productions of the newly formed Lincoln Center Theater. Learn More »