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2009–10 Season

The Tosca Project
Created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli

Round and Round the Garden
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by John Rando

Vigil
Written and directed by Morris Panych

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Domenique Lozano
Directed and designed by John Doyle
Original music by Nathaniel Stookey

Phèdre
by Jean Racine
Translated and adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Carey Perloff

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh
Music by Karl Lundeberg
Choreography by Val Caniparoli
Directed by Domenique Lozano
Based on the original direction by Carey Perloff

November
by David Mamet
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino

Noël Coward's Brief Encounter
Directed and adapted for the stage by Emma Rice
Originally produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld

2008–09 Season

Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo
Directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman

Boleros for the Disenchanted
by José Rivera
Directed by Carey Perloff

War Music
Adapted and directed by Lillian Groag
Based on the book by Christopher Logue
Choreography by Daniel Pelzig
Original music composed by John Glover

Souvenir
by Vivian Matalon
Directed by Stephen Temperley

Rich and Famous
by John Guare
Directed by John Rando

Good Breeding
by Robert O'Hara
Directed by Timothy Douglas

The Quality of Life
Written and directed by Jane Anderson

Rock 'n' Roll
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff

2007–08 Season

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
by John Ford
Directed by Carey Perloff
Music composed and performed by Bonfire Madigan Shive

Curse of the Starving Class
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Peter DuBois

The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol
Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton
Directed by Carey Perloff

Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ryan Rilette

Blood Knot
by Athol Fugard
Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright
Music composed and recorded by Tracy Chapman

Brainpeople
by José Rivera
Directed by Chay Yew

Speed-the-Plow
by David Mamet
Directed by Loretta Greco

The Rainmaker
by N. Richard Nash
Directed by Mark Rucker

The Tosca Project
A movement-theater workshop presentation
created by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli

Candida
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Barbara Oliver

The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Ken Ruta

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed and designed by John Doyle

2006–07 Season

The Imaginary Invalid
by Molière
Adapted by Constance Congdon
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino

Blackbird
2007 Olivier Award Winner for Best New Play
West Coast Premiere
by David Harrower
Directed by Loretta Greco

After the War
by Philip Kan Gotanda
Directed by Carey Perloff

Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated from the Norwegian by Paul Walsh
Directed by Richard E. T. White

The Circle
by W. Somerset Maugham
Directed by Mark Lamos

The Little Foxes
by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Laird Williamson

Travesties
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff

2005–06 Season

Happy End
A melodrama with songs
Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Kurt Weill
Original German play by Dorothy Lane
(Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht)
Books and lyrics adapted by Michael Feingold

A Number
by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Anna Shapiro

The Rivals
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Lillian Groag

Gem of the Ocean
by August Wilson
Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
by David Mamet
Directed by Peter Riegert

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Israel Hicks

The Overcoat
Created by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
Adapted from "The Overcoat," by Nikolai Gogol
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich

2004–05 Season

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
by Edward Albee
Directed by Richard E. T. White

A Moon for the Misbegotten
by Eugene O'Neill
Directed by Laird Williamson

The Voysey Inheritance
by Harley Granville-Barker
Adapted by David Mamet
Directed by Carey Perloff

Well
by Lisa Kron
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Featuring Lisa Kron and Jayne Houdyshell

The Gamester
by Freyda Thomas
Based on Le Joueur, by Jean-François Regnard
Directed by Ron Lagomarsino

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Laird Williamson and Dennis Powers
Directed by Craig Slaight

The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
Direction design and lighting by Robert Wilson
Music and lyrics by Tom Waits
Music arrangements by Greg Cohen and Tom Waits
Text by William Burroughs
Featuring Marianne Faithfull and Matt McGrath

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