Manitoba Theatre Centre production history
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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.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 1961-1962
- Arms and the Man - by George Bernard Shaw
- Look Ahead!
- 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?
[edit] 1962-1963
- A Very Close Family
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 1964-1965
- All About Us - by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Indian Wants The Bronx
[edit] 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
- Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 1976-1977
- All Over
- Dames at Sea - book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, 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
[edit] 1977-1978
- Knock Knock
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 1979-1980
- American Buffalo
- Circus Gothic
- Spokesong
- Talley's Folly - by Lanford Wilson
- Waiting for the Parade - by John Murrell
[edit] 1980-1981
- As You Like It - by William Shakespeare
- Balconville
- Billy Bishop Goes to War - by John 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- The Actor's Nightmare - by Christopher Durang
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- The Rez Sisters
- The Unseen Hand
[edit] 1988-1989
- 1949
- A View From the Bridge
- B-Movie, The Play - by Tom Wood
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- Quills
- Skylight - by David Hare
- Street of Blood
[edit] 1998-1999
- Billy Bishop Goes to War - by John 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 2001-2002
- Stones in His Pockets - by Marie Jones
- Syncopation
- The Rainmaker - by N. Richard Nash
- The School for Wives - by Molière
- The Wave
- Vinci
- The Blue Room
- The Lonesome West
- The Lost Boys
- The Threepenny Opera - by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
[edit] 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 Phillip 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
[edit] 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
- I, Claudia - by Kirsten Thomson
- Mating Dance of the Werewolf
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - by Edward Albee
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 - by Edward Albee
[edit] 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
[edit] 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