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:

spring 2008 season

• Pastiche: The Best Brown Playwriting Festival Ever, The Festival
• Big Love by Charles Mee, directed by Sophia Shackleton
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 by Jeff Wood, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and Jeff Wood
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Step Real Hard a found objects percussion piece directed by Sam Kusnetz
• Questing the Northeast Corridor, written and directed by Giselda Beaudin
• art, by Yasmine Riza
• Cloud Nine, by Carol Curchill, directed by Jordan Cerrutti
• the new plays festival, in conjunction with the graduate playwriting program

fall 1999 season

• Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare, directed by Amanda Treyez
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, directed by Ryan Maxwell
• three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival
• Garden of Hands, directed by Victor Holtcamp

spring 1999 season

• Jesus Christ Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, directed by Eric Green
• Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley, directed by Anne Robinson and Audrey Federman
• Blood Weddings, adapted by Abi Basch, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
• Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Alex Aixala
• Agnes of God, by John Pielmeyer, directed by Emily O’Dell

fall 1998 season

• The Dr. Electric, assembled and directed by Max Finneran
• three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival
• eleemosynary, by Lee Blessing, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
• Gas/House, Bang/Gang, written and directed by Benj Gerdes

spring 1998 season

• Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, directed by Paul Grellong
• Kill The Lights, written and directed by Jill Samuels
• Fool For Love by Sam Shepherd, directed by Cora Goldfarb
• Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang, directed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

fall 1997 season

• The Wallpaper Forest written and directed by Peter Glanz
• three chairs, two cubes : undergraduate new plays festival
• The Rover by Aphra Behn, directed by Chris Nicosia

spring 1997 season

• Agro Expo 27
• New Writers / Directors Workshop
• 2×4 organized by Jeffrey Leichman
• House of Yes directed by Peter Nachtreib
• The Swan directed by Sarah Ruhl
• 1984 by George Orwell, directed by Eric Green
• Multimedia Show presented by Benj Gerdey and Scott Pagano

fall 1996 season

• “Somethin’ Special” directed by Lucas Fleisher
• The Well Wall written and directed by Becky Stark
• In The Flesh by Meredyth Smith, directed by Aynne Meredyth
• Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Jeff Leichman
• Three Chairs, Two Cubes : Undergraduate New Plays Festival
• Museum by Tina Howe, directed by Nikola Smith

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
• Beyond Wonderland
• Duck Variations / Finding the Sun
• A My Name is Alice
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Marriage of Bette and Boo

spring 1991 season

• Lemon Sky
• The Hamlet Machine
• Three Sisters
• Henry IV
• 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

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 & Dutchman
• Rodeo Fry Cook
• Monologues
• “S/Hot” & Alice in Wonderland
• Desire Under the Elms

spring 1988 season

• Melon Boy
• One for the Road
• Monologues
• Cinders
• Greases Pieces

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 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, Aria Da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay, & 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

1975-1976 season

• Original One-Act Scripts
• When We Dead Awaken
• Dangerous Corner
• Original Scripts
• Oh Coward!
• Man on the Dump
• 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 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