Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis) - Production History

Production History

(*=world premiere production)

1983-1984

• WARP! I,II, & III by Stuart Gordon & Bury St. Edmond
• Talking With… by Jane Martin
• Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
• How I Got That Story by Amlin Gray
• Plenty by David Hare
• Lemonade by James Prideaux
• Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
• Summer Lights* by Sam Smiley
• Escapes* by David Stooks
• The Legs on Charlie's Car* by John Sarno
• Necessities* by Kathy Fletcher & Rita Kohn
• Sour Noodles* by Jim Watt

1984-1985

• Agnes of God by John Pielmeier
• Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
• The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
• Baby With the Bathwater by Christopher Durang
• March of the Falsettos by William Finn
• Dear John* by Marcia Cebulska
• True West by Sam Shepard
• Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
• The Call* by Bruce Gelfand
• My Hand is Not My Heart* by Jack Randall Earles
• Prep Work* by Bruce Gelfand
• Porch Songs* by Pearl Cleage
• …And Stuff* by Peter Dee

1985-1986

• Stage Struck by Simon Gray
• Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson
• El Grande de Coca-Cola by House, Andrews, Shearman, Willis, & White
• As Is by William F. Hoffman
• A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
• Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
• Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell
• The Madness of Lady Bright by Lanford Wilson
• Days of our Dumping* by D.J.L. Neruda
• Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers by Firesign Theatre
• The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
• Centaurs* by Marcia Cebulska
• Night Commander* by Silas Jones
• Replay* by Bruce MacDonald
• Prairie Sunset* by Richard Sutherland

1986-1987

• The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
• *Orphans by Lyle Kessler
• The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
• Shivaree by William Mastrosimone
• Hurlyburly by David Rabe
• Hair by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, & Galt MacDermot
• Dreams* by Nell Weatherwax
• Pumpkin Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, and Other Cultural Differences by Various Poets
• Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard
• Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing
• Grendel!* by John Gardner & Bart Simpson
• Spell #7 by Ntozake Shange
• Rap Master Ronnie by Garry Trudeau & Elizabeth Swados
• Not Funny* by Douglas Anderson
• Caril & Charlie* by Gram Slaton
• Ken's Brain* by Jim Mitchell

1987-1988

• Execution of Justice by Emily Mann
• …and when the bough breaks* by Marcia Cebulska
• Loot by Joe Orton
• Advice to the Players by Bruce Bonafede
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You by Christopher Durang
• A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
• Savage/Love and Tongues by Sam Shepard
• A…My Name is Alice by Joan Micklin Silver & Julianne Boyd
• Chug by Ken Jenkins
• Graceland by Ellen Byron
• The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
• Cards & Beer* by Jack Randall Earles
• Rebels* by Gary Williams & Steven Ridenour
• Nightbreath* by Dennis Clontz

1988-1989

• Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
• Miss Margarida's Way by Roberto Athayde
• Bouncers by John Godber
• Dreamgirls by Tom Eyen & Harry Krieger
• Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally
• Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe
• Beach Party Nuclear Protest* by Jack Randall Earles & David Meek
• Lloyd's Prayer by Kevin Kling
• Aunt Dan & Lemon by Wallace Shawn
• Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down by Jerry Colker & Michael Rupert
• Mr. Right and Other Stories* by Linda Carson
• Mortal Risk* by Ron Marks

1989-1990

• Burn This by Lanford Wilson
• Beirut by Alan Bowne
• The Day Room by Don DeLillo
• Here I Am* by David Meek (cabaret)
• On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) by Eric Overmyer
• Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminati) by Larry Lawson & Levi Lee
• The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien
• Fences by August Wilson
• The Marriage of Bette & Boo by Christopher Durang
• The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin
• Su Me* by Su Ours (cabaret)
• Boy's Life by Howard Korder
• Stiff Cuffs* by Christina Cocek & John DiAguino
• Elizabeth/Regina* by Linda Carson

1990-1991

• Eastern Standard by Richard Greenberg
• T-Bone And Weasel by Jon Klein
• Split Second by Dennis McIntyre
• Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch
• Reckless by Craig Lucas
• Eleemossynary by Lee Blessing
• One Mo' Time by Vernel Bagneris
• Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick
• Roosters by Milcha Sanchez Scott
• Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
• The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlum
• Lady & the Clarinet by Michael Cristopher
• Dorothy Parker-A Symptom Recital* by Leo P. Carusone
• Dragon Slayers* by William Rough

1991-1992

• Other People's Money by Jerry Sterner
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson
• Square One by Steve Tesich
• The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell
• Only Kidding! by Jim Gehoghan
• 4 AM America by Ping Chong
• Christmas on Mars by Harry Kondoleon
• The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstien
• Angry Housewives by A.M. Collins & Chad Henry
• Joe Turner's Come & Gone by August Wilson
• The Lisbon Traviata by Terrence McNally
• Womandingo* by Sterling Houston & Arnold Aprill
• Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear* by Lester Purley & Mark Cryer
• hip my heart* by Paulette Licitra

1992-1993

• M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
• Dorothy Parker-A Symptom Recital* by Leo P. Carusone
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally
• The Promise by Jose Rivera
• Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman
• Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
• The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
• Blind Spot* by Michael Davis Sutton
• Candy Store Window* by Cherie Bennett

1993-1994

• The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry
• Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
• Su Ours: No E, No H, Noel* by Su Ours & Michael Klass (cabaret)
• Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson
• Death & the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
• Three Ways Home by Casey Kurtti
• Mama Drama by Leslie Ayvazian, Christine Farrell, Donna Dailey, Mariana Houston, Rita Nactmann, & Anne O'Sullivan
• Pretty Girls, Not too Bright* by Dos Fallopia (Peggy Platt & Lisa Koch)
• Heart Timers* by Stuart Warmflash
• Veronica's Position* by Rich Orloff

1994-1995

• Falsettos by William Finn & James Lapine
• Keely & Du by Jane Martin
• Five Guys Named Moe by Clarke Peters
• Conversations With My Father by Herb Gardener
• All in the Timing by David Ives
• Jeffrey by Paul Rudnick
• Bewitched, Bothered & Bananas* by Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt)
• Points of Deviation* by Scott Sandoe
• Scotland Road by Jeffery Hatcher

1995-1996

• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner
• If We Are Women by Joanna Glass
• The Holiday Survival Game Show* by Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt)
• Six Women with Brain Death by Mark Houston
• Denial of the Fittest by Judith Sloan & Warren Leher
• Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally
• Spike Heels by Theresa Rebeck
• Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
• Pretty Girls, Not too Bright* by Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt)
• The Katydid* by Michael Davis Sutton

1996-1997

• Whoop-Dee-Doo! by Howard Crabtree
• Three Viewings by Jeffery Hatcher
• The Holiday Survival Game Show* by Peggy Platt, Rick Rankin, & Lisa Koch
• A Tuna Christmas by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams
• Florida * by Marcia Cebulska
• Trick the Devil by Bill Harris
• Sylvia by AR Gurney
• All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Ernest Zulia, David Caldwell, & Robert Fulghum
• Worst of Dos Fallopia* by Dos Fallopia (Peggy Platt & Lisa Koch)
• Reading the Mind of God * by Pat Gabridge
• Girl Party * by David Dillion & Virginia Smiley

1997-1998

• The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood
• Poor Super Man by Brad Fraser
• The Holiday Survival Game Show* by Jack O'Hara
• Summer Games* by James Farrell
• Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood
• Durang/Durang by Christopher Durang
• Company by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth
• latitude* by Tony McDonald
• Party by David Dillon
• Bride of Dos Fallopia* by Dos Fallopia (Peggy Platt & Lisa Koch)
• Princess Warrior by Julie Goldman

1998-1999

• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
• Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
• The Holiday Survival Game Show* by Jack O'Hara
• How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
• Mother Russia* by Jeffrey Hatcher
• No Way to Treat a Lady by Douglas J. Cohen
• Shakin the Mess Outta Misery by Shay Youngblood
• Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman
• The Gene Pool by Christi Stewart-Brown
• As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane
• Lisa Koch and Friends* by Lisa Koch
• Touch* by Toni Press-Coffman

1999-2000

• Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
• The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt
• The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick
• The Holiday Millennium Game Show* by Jack O'Hara
• Jackie: An American Life by Gip Hoppe
• The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
• Wit by Margaret Edson
• Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey
• Journal of Ordinary Thought by David Barr
• Resident Alien by Stuart Spencer

2000-2001

• Snakebit by David Marshall Grant
• The Gathering by Will Power
• Tongue of a Bird by Ellen McLaughlin
• The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
• Uh, Oh - Here Comes Christmas by Ernie Zulia, David Caldwell
• Bluff by Jeffrey Sweet
• The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
• Fuddy Meers by David Lindsey Abaire
• Another American: Asking and Telling by Marc Wolf
• Bodies and Hearts in the Face of the Monster* by Toni Press-Coffman
• Woody and Me* by Brad Erickson
• Seven Guitars by August Wilson

2001-2002

• The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
• Two Trains Running by August Wilson
• Ham for the Holidays by Dos Fallopia (Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt)
• Dirty Blonde by Claudia Shear
• This is our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan
• True to Scale* by Wendy Beldon
• savant* by Tony McDonald
• Goats* by Alan Berks
• Born to Goof* by Kevin Burke
• Lunching by Alan Gross
• Bat Boy: The Musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, & Laurence O'Keefe
• The Action Against Sol Schumann by Jeffrey Sweet

2002 - 2003

• Proof by David Auburn
• Flow by Will Power
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch by Stephen Trask & John Cameron Mitchell - starring Blaine Hogan, Jessica Benge, Jimmy Sizemore, Royston Lloyd, Steve Hayes and Ryan
• Over the Tavern by Tom Dudzick
• Praying for Rain by Robert Lewis Vaughan
• Stones in his Pockets by Marie Jones
• The Washington-Sarajevo Talks by Carla Seaquist
• The Home Team* by Kim Carney
• La Sangre Llama* by Toni Press-Coffman & Tony Artis
• Phideas8* by Mike Whistler
• Spain by Jim Knable
• The Handler by Robert Schenkkan

2003-2004

• The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
• Trucker Rhapsody* by Toni Press-Coffman
• Circumference of a Squirrel by John Walch
• Sophie Tucker: American Legend by Jack Fournier & Kathy Halenda
• Boston Marriage by David Mamet
• Curanderas by Elaine Romero
• Loving Lucy by Philip blue owl Hooser
• Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
• Top Dog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Naked Boys Singing! by Robert Schrock
• And/Or* by Andrew Barrett

2004-2005

• The Exonerated by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen
• Crowns by Regina Taylor
• Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge by Christopher Durang
• Running With Scissors by Michael McKeever
• Blown Sideways Through Life by Claudia Shear
• Frozen by Bryony Lavery
• This Is My Body by Amy Fortoul
• Rounding Third by Richard Dresser
• Cabfare for the Common Man* by Mark Harvey Levine
• Further Mo' by Vernel Bagneris
• Bug by Tracy Letts

2005-2006

• Urinetown: the Musical by Greg Kotis & Mark Hollmann
• I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
• Every Christmas Story Ever Told!! by Michael Carleton, John Alvarez, & Jim Fitzgerald
• A Number by Caryl Churchill
• From My Hometown conceived by Lee Summers and written by Lee Summers, Ty Stephens, & Herbert Rawlings, Jr.
• The Marijuana-logues by Arj Barker, Doug Benson, & Tony Camin
• Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton
• The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
• The Sugar Bean Sisters by Nathan Sanders
• The Ice-Breaker by David Rambo

2006-2007

• The Musical of Musicals: the Musical! by Eric Rockwell & Joanne Bogart
• Nijinsky's Last Dance by Norman Allen
• The Parenting Project: Callie's Tally by Betsy Howie & The Hoosier Dads by Kevin Burke, Dave Dugan, & Brad Tassell
• A Very Phoenix Xmas* by Christopher Bibby, Dianne Cormier, Bryan Fonseca, Jonathan Graham, Lou Harry, Tony McDonald, Jack O'Hara, Peggy Platt, Joan & L. I. Rapkin, Matthew Roland, Chris Saunders, & Scott Warrender
• Ten Percent of Molly Snyder (Marta Solano) by Richard Strand
• tempOdyssey by Dan Dietz
• Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
• Rhythms by Chris White (hosted... presented by DePauw University)
• And Her Hair Went With Her* by Zina Camblin
• Fat Pig by Neil LaBute
• The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane
• Dos Fallopia: Desperate Spuddwives by Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt

2007-2008

• Altar Boyz Music, lyrics and vocal arrangements by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker, book by Kevin Del Aguila - based on an idea by Ken Davenport and Marc Kessler
• Stuff Happens by David Hare
• A Very Phoenix Xmas* by various wacky playwrights
• End Days by Deborah Zoe Laufer
• The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
• Well by Lisa Kron
• Black Gold by Seth Rozin
• Our Dad Is In Atlantis by Javier Malpica
• Some Men by Terrence McNally
• Murderers by Jeffrey Hatcher

2008-2009

• November by David Mamet
• Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? by Caryl Churchill
• June 8, 1968 by Anna Theresa Cascio
• On Thin Ice: A Very Phoenix Xmas 3* by various wacky playwrights
• Love Person by Aditi Brennan Kapil
• The Seafarer by Conor McPherson
• Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck
• References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by José Rivera
• The Zippers of Zoomerville - or 200 Laps and a Lass* by Jack O'Hara with music by Jack O'Hara and Tim Brickley
• Octopus by Steven Yockey
• The Dos and Don'ts of Time Travel by Nicholas Wardigo

2009-2010

• The Most Damaging Wound by Blair Singer
• Shipwrecked! An Entertainment by Donald Margulies
• A Very Phoenix Xmas 4:Our Stockings Are Stuffed* by Various Artists
• The Housewives of Mannheim by Alan Brody
• Call Me Boricua!* by Ricardo Melendez
• Sunlight* by Sharr White
• Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz
• Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam
• Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute