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2005-2006 Season


 Mainstage Productions

  • Sunrise at Monticello, by Guillero Reyes

  • The Good Girl is Gone, by D.W. Gregory

Roundtable Reading Series

  • Cecilia's Last Tea Party, by Russell Davis

  • October 1962 by D. W. Gregory

  • Opus by Michael Hollinger

  • Tranced by Robert Clyman

  • The Good German by David Wiltse

  • Public Exposure by Robert Reich

  • Curious Father by Austin Bunn

  • He Took Me Then and Made Me His by Vincent Sessa

  • The Nature of Mutation by John Walch


 

2004-2005 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Circumference of a Squirrel, by John Walch

  • Whores, by Lee Blessing

  • The Song of Grendelyn, by Russell Davis

Roundtable Reading Series

  • Feeble Minds, by Seth Rozin

  • Sunrise at Monticello, by Guillermo Reyes

  • ...And the Two Romeos, by Jennifer Maisel

  • Before Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Elaine Romero

  • Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven, by Russell Davis

  • Leaving Jane, by Buzz McLaughlin

  • Slow Falling Bird, by Christine Evans

  • Returning, by Yasmine Rana


 

2003-2004 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Spain, by Jim Knable

  • Foreign Exchange, by Peter Hays

Concert Readings

  • Peter and the Wolf, by Ari Roth

  • The Will and Bart Show, by Jim Lehrer


 

2002-2003 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Big Boys, by Rich Orloff

  • Greek Holiday, by Mayo Simon

Concert Readings

  • The Kingdom of Clara, by Russell Davis

  • phidias8, by Michael Whistler

  • Ben, by Jon Dorf


2001-2002 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • The Book of Candy, book and lyrics by Susan Dworkin, music by Mel Marvin

  • The Special Prisoner, adapted by James Glossman, from the novel by Jim Lehrer

  • How His Bride Came to Abraham, by Karen Sunde

Concert Readings

  • Big Boys, by Rich Orloff

  • The Good Girl is Gone, by Dolores Whiskeyman

  • Twilight, by Karim Alrawi

  • Stolen Spirit, by Peter Hays

 

2000 - 2001 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Dance with Me conceived by Elisabeth Lewis Corley and Joseph Megel, songs of John & Johanna Hall, and Jonell Mosser

  • Criminal Acts, by Kim Merrill

Staged Readings

  • The Special Prisoner, by James Glossman adapted from the novel by Jim Lerher

Concert Readings

  • The Last Seder, by Jennifer Maisel

  • A Simple Gift, by T. Cat Ford


1999 - 2000 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • A Southern Christmas by Guillermo Reyes

  • Fathers and Sons by J. Rufus Caleb

  • Radium Girls by Dolores Whiskeyman

Concert Readings

  • Ouroboros by Tom Jacobson

  • Bart the Temp by Steve Feffer

  • Yearnings by Sachi Oyama

  • Cheat by Julie Jensen

  • Human Interest by Jeanmarie Williams

New Theatre Festival, presented jointly with the John Harms Center for the Arts at the Harms in Englewood

  • Dance With Me:  an evening with the music of John & Johanna Hall and Jonell Moser conceived by Elisabeth Lewis Corley and Joseph Megel

  • One Acts by New Jersey Writers (Yasmine Rana, Simon Saltzman, Peter Hays, Dominique Cieri, Jerome Shaw)

  • Storm in the Iron Box by Adam Kraar

  • Grimm Virtues by Peter Hays

Roundtable Readings

  • Winners by Haris Orkin

  • Criminal Acts by Kim Merrill

  • Lake Incognito by Bill Wise

  • Appointed Rounds by Bill Wise

  • Grimm Virtues by Peter Hays

  • The Second Death of Priscilla by Russell Davis

  • The Last Seder by Jennifer Maisel


1998-1999 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • The Quarrel by David Brandes

Concert Readings

  • Eden by Jennifer Maisel

  • The Boundary by Tammy Ryan

  • Foreign Exchange by Peter Hays

  • Southern Christmas by Guillermo Reyes

  • Traverse des Sioux by Buzz McLaughlin

  • Lindstrom and Motambi by Dan Owens

                At the John Harms Theatre, Englewood

  • Fathers and Sons by J. Rufus Caleb

  • Syncopation by Alan Knee

  • Deep Cleaning by Rose Caruso,

  • Dear Diary by David Landau

  • Blood Sky by Yasmine Rana

  • The Appointment by Robert Clyman

                At the Lark Theatre, NYC

  • Radium Girls by Dolores Whiskeyman

Roundtable Readings

  • Fabulous Invalid by John Marans

  • Spill of Light by Margaret Dulaney

  • Fathers and Sons  by J. Rufus Caleb

  • Bart the Temp by Steve Feffer

  • Radium Girls by Dolores Whiskeyman

  • Sword of Kazaran by Keith Glover

  • Lindstrom and Motambi by Dan Owens

  • Ouroboros by Tom Jacobson

  • Syncopation by Alan Knee

  • Yearnings  by Satchi Oyama


1997-1998 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Miss Consuelo by Guillermo Reyes

Concert Readings

  • Dear Digby by Joseph Megel and Elisabeth Lewis Corley

  • The Good Daughter by Dolores Whiskeyman

  • The Art Lovers by Robert Clyman

  • The Quarrel by David Brandes

Roundtable Readings

  • The Boundary by Tammy Ryan

  • The House of Eeyore by Karen Sunde

  • The Bergs and the B’s by Richard Krevolin

  • The Trees Don’t Bleed in Tuskegee by Duane Chandler

  • Fulfilling Prophecies by Andrew Young

  • Eden by Jennifer Maisel

  • Traverse des Sioux by Buzz McLaughlin


1996-1997 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project (published by the Dramatic Publishing Company, 1999)

  • Dead Bolivians on a Raft by Guillermo Reyes

  • The Apron by Meg Griffith

  • Rowing to America, by Kitty Chen

  • Slave Coffle/With Observer by Rufus Caleb

  • Homeland by Sachi Oyama

  • Famous Ali by Robert Clyman

  • A Mule in J.F.K. by Keith Glover

  • Let Us Go Then by Akhil Sharma

  • Oh Wild West Wind by Karen Sunde

Concert Readings

  • God's Field by Meg Griffith

  • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Karen Sunde

  • Fathers and Sons : The Rehearsal by J. Rufus Caleb

  • Shamanism in New Jersey by Rosemarie Caruso

  • Miss Consuelo by Guillermo Reyes

Roundtable Readings

  • Men Dancing by David Crespy

  • Untitled by Robert Clyman

  • Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project (see authors above)

  • Untitled by Dolores Whiskeyman

  • The Quarrel by David Brandes

  • Hymns for the Drowning by Akhil Sharma


1995-1996 Season

 

Mainstage Productions

  • I See My Bones by Kitty Chen

  • The Lower Cortex by Robert Clyman

  • Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin

Concert Readings

  • An Asian Jockey in our Midst by Carter Lewis

  • Secret Wife by Y York

  • Tar River Love Story by Jett Parsley

  • Seductions of Johnny Diego by Guillermo Reyes

Roundtable Readings

  • Thunder Knocking on the Door by Keith Glover

  • Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin

  • God’s Field by Meg Griffith

  • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Karen Sunde

            New Theatre Festival (co-sponsored with John Harms Theatre)

  • Satan's Ashes by Eduardo Garcia

  • The Forgotten Lover by Susan Dworkin

  • Voices Carry by Rosemary McLaughlin

  • Strangers by Lawrence Harvey Schulman

  • Hymns for the Drowning by Akhil Sharma

  • White Jazz by Marc Alan Zagoren

  • The Road Block by John Petrick

  • Pitz and Joe by Dominique Cieri

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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