Every semester, PW produces three or four full productions, as well as one shorter show. They are decided on a rolling basis by the PW board, which picks among shows proposed to them by directors and playwrights. The following is a list of PW's shows over the past few years: **fall 2009 season** * [[shows:3c2c09|3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: Undergraduate New Plays Festival]] * [[The Clean House]] by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Emma Price * [[The Danube]] by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jessica Goldschmidt **spring 2009 season** * [[Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)]] by Sheila Callaghan, directed by James Anglin Flynn * [[Art]] by Yasmina Reza, directed by Gordon Sayre * [[Illusions of Grandeur|Illusions of Grandeur, a new magic show]] written, directed and performed by Andrew Evans * [[Metamorphoses]] by Mary Zimmerman, directed by Mark Brown II * [[Pleasure Dome]] conceived by David Harrington, Andrew Starner and Hillary Dixler, directed by David Harrington and Andrew Starner **fall 2008 season** * [[shows:The Thing About Air Travel]] by Max Posner, directed by Sophie Shackleton * [[shows:3c2c08|3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: Undergraduate New Plays Festival]] * [[shows:Arcadia]] by Tom Stoppard, directed by Doug Eacho * [[JB|J.B.]] by Archibald MacLeish, directed by Aubie Merrylees **spring 2008 season** * [[Living Room]] by Mateo Mancia, directed by Sarah Tolan-Mee * [[Reckless]] by Craig Lucas, directed by Dan Rogers * [[shows:Pastiche|Pastiche: The Best Brown Playwriting Festival Ever, The Festival]] * [[shows:Big Love]] by Charles Mee, directed by Sophia Shackleton * [[shows:The Music of Erich Zann in the Penal Colony]] adapted by David Harrington and Tamara Del Rosso, directed by David Harrington **fall 2007 season** * [[Stone Cold Dead Serious]] by Adam Rapp, directed by Adam Mazer * [[3c2c07| 3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: undergraduate new plays festival]] * [[The Verge]], by Susan Glaspell, directed by Hillary Dixler * [[References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot]] by Jose Rivera, directed by Charly Simpson **spring 2007 season** * [[Park Play]] by Angela Thurston, directed by Erin Adams and Angela Thurston * [[WZK|Woyzeck]] by Georg Büchner, directed by Patrick Harrison and Jeff Wood * [[Joe and the Pony Express Play Songs of Love, Joy, and Desperation]], Week in the Space concert, organized by Joe Posner * [[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]] by Dario Fo, directed by Michael Dean * [[A Doll House]] by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad **fall 2006 season** * [[The Flies]] by Jean Paul Sartre, directed by James Rutherford * [[3c2c06|3 chairs, 2 cubes]]: undergraduate new plays festival * [[i am eloise]] written and directed by Tara Schuster * [[The Skin of Our Teeth]] by Thornton Wilder, directed by Dan Rogers **spring 2006 season** * [[The Beauty Queen of Leenane]] by Martin McDonagh, directed by Austin Campion * [[Salome]] by Oscar Wilde, directed by Mustafa Samendi * [[Eternity Placement Opportunity]] * [[Twelfth Night]] by William Shakespeare, directed by James Rutherford * [[Growing Born]]: A Paripatetic Playwrighting Experiment by Matt Kelly, Emily Drumsta, Jenn Silverman and Krista Knight, directed by Danielle Kourtesis **fall 2005 season** * [[tod_i|Tod & I]] by Jeff Wood, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and Jeff Wood * [[3c2c05|3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: undergraduate new plays festival]] * [[The Mousetrap]] by Agatha Christie, directed by Michelle Oing * [[The Invention of Love]] by Tom Stoppard, directed by Kathryn Wallem **spring 2005 season** * [[The Syringa Tree]] by Pamela Gien, directed by Terese Lantos * [[The Other Side of the Closet]] written and directed by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig * [[Soul Love]] by Rick Sahlin, directed by Nick Reber * [[The Karaoke Kid]] written and directed by Caitlin Marshall * [[Cannibal! The Musical]] by Trey Parker, directed by Benji Samit **fall 2004 season** * [[The Great Work]] by Molly Lambert, directed by Brian Faas * [[3c2c04|3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: undergraduate new plays festival]] * [[The Laramie Project]] by Moises Kaufman, directed by Michael Perlman * [[The Father]] by August Strindberg, directed by Pannill Camp **spring 2004 season** * [[The Magellan Project]] created and directed by Rebecca Rouse and Kyle Shepard * [[Balloon]] created and directed by Caroline Hurley * [[3c2cspring04|3 Chairs, 2 Cubes: undergraduate new plays festival]] * [[The Best Brown Musical Ever, The Musical]] written and directed by Andrew Hertz and Lance Rubin * [[The Country Wife]] by William Wycherly, directed by Greg Shilling **fall 2003 season** * Franz Kafka's [[The Trial]], adapted by Steven Berkoff, directed by Karola Kreitmair * [[No Returns]] written and directed by Leah Mann * [[The Skriker]] by Caryl Churchill, directed by Erica Saleh **spring 2003 season** * [[Life Is a Dream]] by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, directed by Seth Bockley * [[Constellation]], an ensemble-based queer theatre creation, offsite. * [[Dance-o-matic]] conceived and directed by Ben Asriel * [[Garden]], a sound installation and performance created by Joe Winter * [[Dido]] written and directed by Sophie Klein * [[Crave]] by Sarah Kane, directed by Cari Cymanski **fall 2002 season** * [[Endgame]] by Samuel Beckett, directed by Adam Immerwahr * [[2 out of 4]] by David Myers and Samuel Beckett, directed by Samuel Beckett * [[Equus]] by Peter Schaffer, directed by Ben Suger **spring 2002 season** * [[Fefu and her Friends]] by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Rebecca Rouse * [[play, a celebration of young playwrights]] directed by Liz Parrott * [[A Week in the Space, Work in Progress]] curated by Kerry Silva * [[A Week in the Space, The Book of Job, by God!]] by Daveed Diggs, Ben Watson-Lamprey & Noam Biale * [[The Blades of Our Knives]] an improvised soap opera directed by Jerome Saibil, musical direction by Eli Batalion * [[A Bright Room Called Day]] by Tony Kushner, directed by Rebecca Miller **fall 2001 season** * [[Woyzeck]] by Georg Buchner, directed by Nick Rosenblum * three chairs two cubes: a festival of undergraduate plays * [[The Crucible]] by Arthur Miller, directed by Michael Linden * [[how i learned to drive]] by Paula Vogel, directed by Rachael Miller **spring 2001 season** * [[the briar and the rose]] adapted and directed by Courtney Naliboff '02 and Stephen Cannon '02 * [[The Golem]] by Alix Sobler, directed by Jeff Kurtz * [[Everything You Wanted to Know about Yourself but Were Afraid to Ask Freud]] written and directed by Jerome Saibil & Eli Battalion * [[The School for Scandal]] directed by Tara Summers * [[You, Too, Are Guilty]] by Kobo Abe, directed by Jenny Gaskins **fall 2000 season** * [[the production workshop 40th anniversary arts collaborative]] * [[The Nebraska Project]] written and directed by Paul Grellong * [[Macbeth]] by William Shakespeare, directed by Seth Bockley * henrik ibsen's [[The Wild Duck]], adapted by Robert Burstein, directed by Pannill Camp **spring 2000 season** * //Cloud Nine//, by Carol Curchill, directed by Jordan Cerrutti * //art//, by Yasmine Riza * //Questing the Northeast Corridor//, written and directed by Giselda Beaudin * [[Step Real Hard]] a found objects percussion piece directed by Sam Kusnetz * the new plays festival, in conjunction with the graduate playwriting program **fall 1999 season** * //Garden of Hands//, directed by Victor Holtcamp * three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival * //Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead//, by Tom Stoppard, directed by Ryan Maxwell * //Measure for Measure//, by William Shakespeare, directed by Amanda Treyez **spring 1999 season** * //Agnes of God//, by John Pielmeyer, directed by Emily O'Dell * //Dangerous Liaisons//, directed by Alex Aixala * [[http://www.redcubed.com/erk/theater/blood/bloodwedding.html|Blood Weddings]], adapted by Abi Basch, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian * //Crimes of the Heart//, by Beth Henley, directed by Anne Robinson and Audrey Federman * [[http://www.redcubed.com/erk/theater/jcs/jcshome.html|Jesus Christ Superstar]], by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, directed by Eric Green **fall 1998 season** * //Gas/House, Bang/Gang//, written and directed by Benj Gerdes * //eleemosynary//, by Lee Blessing, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian * three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival * //The Dr. Electric//, assembled and directed by Max Finneran **spring 1998 season** * //Beyond Therapy// by Christopher Durang, directed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer * //Fool For Love// by Sam Shepherd, directed by Cora Goldfarb * //Kill The Lights//, written and directed by Jill Samuels * //Spring Awakening// by Frank Wedekind, directed by Paul Grellong **fall 1997 season** * //The Wallpaper Forest// written and directed by Peter Glanz * three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival * [[http://www.redcubed.com/erk/theater/rover/therover.html| The Rover]] by Aphra Behn, directed by Chris Nicosia **spring 1997 season** * //Multimedia Show// presented by Benj Gerdey and Scott Pagano * [[http://www.redcubed.com/erk/theater/1984/1984.html|1984]] by George Orwell, directed by Eric Green * //House of Yes// directed by Peter Nachtreib * //2x4// organized by Jeffrey Leichman * New Writers / Directors Workshop * //The Swan// directed by Sarah Ruhl *//Agro Expo 27// **fall 1996 season** * //Museum// by Tina Howe, directed by Nikola Smith * Three Chairs, Two Cubes : Undergraduate New Plays Festival * //Caucasian Chalk Circle// by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Jeff Leichman * //In The Flesh// by Meredyth Smith, directed by Aynne Meredyth * //The Well Wall// written and directed by Becky Stark * //"Somethin' Special"// directed by Lucas Fleisher **1993-1994 season** * Salomé * Monologues * Equus * Laughing Wild / Aria da Capo **1992-1993 season** * Dark Ride * Map of the World * Haiku / Sincerity Forever * The Idiots Karamozov * Red Noses * Julie Johnson, A New Play by Wendy Hammond * Beyond Wonderland * Duck Variations / Finding the Sun * A My Name is Alice * A Midsummer Night's Dream * The Marriage of Bette and Boo **1991-1992 season** * Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, directed by John Warren **spring 1991 season** * Lemon Sky * The Hamlet Machine * Three Sisters * Henry V * Guys & Dolls **fall 1990 season** * Antony & Cleopatra * Aunt Dan & Lemon * Monologues * Artist Descending a Staircase & Jet of Blood & Will * In the Boom Boom Room **spring 1990 season** * Through the Leaves] * Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoots MacBeth * Lydie Breeze * Feminist Festival * Fuenta Ovejuna by Lope da Vega in a new version by Adrian Mitchell, directed by Sarah Cusick **fall 1989 season season** * Eyes So Large and Bright & God * Short Eyes * Monologues * Betrayal * Merry Wives of Windsor **spring 1989 season** * Approaching Simone * Normal Heart * Plotz & New PlayS * 5th of July * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead **fall 1988 season** * Impromptu * Cowboy Mouth/The Actor's Nightmare/Shakespeare in the Park * Rodeo Fry Cook * Monologues * "S/Hot" & Alice in Wonderland * Desire Under the Elms **spring 1989 season** * Melon Boy * Monologues * Cinderella * Greasing **fall 1987 season** * Train Dreams * The Actor's Nightmare * The French Play * Colored Museum * Metanoia **1987-1988 season** * The Dutchman / Animal * Radio Fry Cook * Approaching Simone * Genitales / Pull Down the Curtains * Monologues * Plotz / Medea Eats **1986-1987 season** * Sexual Perversity in Chicago * The Family Room * Waiting for Godot * The Rimers of Eldritch * Gary * Machinal * San Francisco at this Hour * Performance Slot * As Snow Vanishes in Heat / Lost **1985-1986 season** * Like a Floating Thing * 2 Shepard Plays * The Winners / Apollo * Macbeth * The Interview **1984-1985 season** * The Files / Passing * Shots / Because You Do This * For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf * Coriolanus * Landscape of the Body * Getting Out * Black Comedy / Miss Julie / Bye Elvis * Anna Christie * Extremeties * The Mikado **1983-1984 season** * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * The Dutchman * Wait Until Dark * Blood Wedding * Jack, or the Submission * That Celebrated Wit * Equus **1982-1983 season** * The Lion in Winter * Calm Down Mother / No Exit * Bus Stop * The Woolgatherer * The Dumbwaiter / Family Business * Buried Child * Chiascuro **1981-1982 season** * A Flute Needs a Piano * Salomé * Reunion / The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs * Icarus' Mother * American Dream * In the Boom-Boom Room * The Hooverhouse Murders **1980-1981 season** * Home Free * The Room / Driving * The Trial * Loot * The Day the Whores Came Out * The Bacchae * The Creation **1979-1980 season** * The Monkey's Paw * Sexual Perversity in Chicago * It's Not the Heat * Don Juan in Hell / Marquis De Sade * Larry Park's Day in Connecticut * Lovers and Other Strangers **1978-1979 season** * The World Tipped Over and is Lying on its Side / The Empty Cookie Jar * The Boy Who Stole Blue / Si Si Spinosa * Joe Egg * Schubert's Last Serenade / The Pregnant Paw Players * Under Milkwood * Medea * Lovely Caty, Would You Care to Dance? **1977-1978 season** * //5 Dreams// * //Moon Children// * //Old Times//, by Harold Pinter * //Seascape//, by Edward Albee * The Glass Menagerie * I am a Camera, by John van Druten * //The Dance of Death//, by August Strindberg * The New Students Experimental Theatre Workshop (weekend #2), October 28-30, 1977 * The New Students Experimental Theatre Workshop (weekend #1), October 21-23, 1977 **spring 1977 season** * You Can't Hear the Sea from the City (in conjunction with the English Advanced Playwriting class and the Shubert Foundation) * Hasn't the Moon Been Thoroughly Ruined for You? (in conjunction with the English Advanced Playwriting class and the Shubert Foundation) * The Old Jawbone (in conjunction with the English Advanced Playwriting class and the Shubert Foundation) * [[No Flies on Frank]], written and directed by Jonathan Gyory, and [[shows:no_flies_on_frank|Girl Makes Good]], written and directed by Barbara Ensor, March, 1977 * [[The Misunderstanding or Cross-Purpose]], written by Albert Camus, directed by Lloyd Lynford, March 25-27, 1977 * [[Our Town]], written by Thornton Wilder, directed by Rob Barron, March 11-13, 1977 * [[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]], by Jay Presson Allen, directed by Debi Lynne Jacobson, February 25-27, 1977 * [[The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd]], by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse, directed by Nora Claire McKinney, February 4-6 and 11-13, 1977 **fall 1976 season** * [[The Knack]], by Ann Jellicoe, directed by Sharon Grodin * More One-Acts: //Pandora// by Tod Caster, //After Magritte// by Tom Stoppard, & //A Slight Ache// by Harold Pinter, directed by Jim Wheaton, Ian Toll & Audrey J. Wolfson (respectively) * An Evening of One-Acts: [[Riders to the Sea]] by J.M. Synge, [[shows:riders_to_the_sea|Aria Da Capo]] by Edna St. Vincent Millay, & [[shows:riders_to_the_sea|No Exit]] by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Ann P. Costelloe, Mark Richard & Alfie Kohn (respectively) * [[Butley]], by Simon Gray, directed by Oren Jacoby, * Peter Handke's [[Kaspar]], translated by Michael Roloff, directed by John Lantos * [[Zoo Story]] **1975-1976 season** * Original One-Act Scripts * When We Dead Awaken * Dangerous Corner * Original Scripts * Oh Coward! * Man on the Dump by Ben Lemon * The Children's Hour * Jacques Brel (is alive and well and living in Paris) * The Admirable Crichton * One-Acts * The Man Outside **1974-1975 season** * The Changeling * Enemy of the Stars * The Sport of my Mad Women **spring 1974 season** * //Ruddygore//, by WS Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan, directed by Bess Armstrong * //Twelfth Night//, by William Shakespeare * [[The Roly-Poly Pudding]], by Beatrix Potter, directed by Paul Moser **fall 1973 season** * Rhode Island Feminist Theatre presents [[The Johnnie Show]], by Mark Halliday, directed by Kate Phelps, * [[The Lady of Larkspur Lotion]] and [[shows:the_lady_of_larkspur_lotion|In the Zone]], by Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill (respectively), directed by Robert P. Barron * [[The Physicists]], by Friedrich Durrenmatt, directed by Dan E. Dickinson & Neil A. Ward **spring 1973 season** * [[Two More Short Plays by Brown Students]] * [[Three Short Plays by Brown Students]]]\ * An Independent Production of [[Exit The King]], by Eugene Ionesco * [[Brown University Modern Dance Club]] * [[The Police]], by Slawomir Mrozek, translated by Nicholas Bethell, directed by Nicholas Hartmann **fall 1972 season** * [[And She Saw That The Light Was Good]] (three plays), by Kate Phelps, Anne Chapman and Bertolt Brecht, directed by Anne Chapman, Melanie Jones and Kate Phelps, * [[The Great American Desert]], by J. Oppenheimer, directed by Michael Paliotti * [[Windrow Moongate]], written and directed by William Wilson * [[Areatha in the Ice Palace]], by Tom Eyen, directed by Ventrilla Flem **1969-1970 season** * King John * The Second Shepherd's Play * Noah * Adam and Eve * Potsy * Snow Angel * Black Theatre one-acts * Commedia Troupe * Environmental Experience **1968-1969 season** * [[The Bacchae]], by Euripides, directed by Ross Wassermann * //Lysistrata//, by Aristophanes * //Dido and Aeneas//, by Henry Purcell * //The Lovers//, by Harold Pinter * //The Dumb Waiter//, by Harold Pinter * //The New Step//, by Leonard Cohen * //Portrait of a Madonna//, by Tennessee Williams **1967-1968 season** * //Biedermann and the Firebugs//, by Max Frisch * //Comings and Goings//, by Megan Terry * //Times Square//, by Leonard Melfi * //The Bald Soprano//, by Eugene Ionesco * //The Chairs//, by Eugene Ionesco * //The Zoo Story//, by Edward Albee * //The Gas Heart//, by Tristan Tzara * //These Cornfields//, by Georges Courteline * //Vaudeville Show// **1966-1967 season** * //Antigone//, by Jean Anouilh * //The Maids//, by Jean Genet * //Blood Wedding//, by Federico Garcia Lorca * //The Wonder Show//, by Cervantes * //Crawling Arnold//, by Jules Feiffer * An Evening of American one-acts **1965-1966 season** * //A Slight Ache//, by Harold Pinter * //Before Breakfast//, by Eugene O'Neill * //In The Beginning//, by George Bernard Shaw * //The Man With a Flower Flower In His Mouth//, by Luigi Pirandello * //A Marriage Proposal//, by Anton Chekhov * //Automobile Graveyard//, by Arabel **1964-1965 season** * //Medea//, by Euripides * //Apollo of Bellac//, by Jean Giraudoux * //He Who Gets Slapped//, by Leonid Andreyev * //Aria da Capo//, by Edna St. Vincent Millay * //No Exit//, by Jean Paul Sartre **1963-1964 season** * //The Maids//, by Jean Genet * //The Strangest Kind of Romance//, by Tennessee Williams * //This Property is Condemned//, by Tennessee Williams * //The Last of My Solid Gold Watches//, by Tennessee Williams * //Endgame//, by Samuel Beckett **1962-1963 season** * //Escurial//, by Michel de Ghelderode * //The Words Upond the Windowpane//, by William Butler Yeats * //The Room, by Harold Pinter// **1961-1962 season** * //On Baile's Strand//, by William Butler Yeats * //The Widow//, by Edwin Honig * //The Caves of Salamanca//, by Cervantes * //Everyman// **1960-1961 season** * //Under Milkwood//, by Dylan Thomas * //Riders to the Sea//, by JM Synge * //When Hawks Die//, by Ordover **1959-1960 season** * //L'Apollon de Belloc//, by Jean Giraudoux * //Talk To Me Like The Rain//, by Tennessee Williams