Vancouver Playhouse production history

The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company was a regional Canadian theatre company, producing plays from 1962 to 2012. The following is a list of the productions that have been staged since its inception to its final season of 2011–2012.

2011–2012

 * Mainstage
 * Tosca Cafe (formerly The Tosca Project) – Created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli. An American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco) production.
 * La Cage aux Folles – Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret.
 * Red – By John Logan. Directed by Kim Collier.
 * Catalyst Theatre’s Hunchback – Conceived by Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke. Adapted from Victor Hugo's novel. Originally commissioned by the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton).
 * God of Carnage – By Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton.


 * Recital Hall
 * Gunmetal Blues – Book by Scott Wentworth. Music & Lyrics by Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler.
 * The Exquisite Hour – By Stewart Lemoine - Not Presented. Presented instead at the Arts Club Theatre, Revue Stage.


 * Theatre for Young Audiences
 * The Cat Came Back – Co-Created by Fred Penner, Jay Brazeau and Kim Selody - Not Presented. Replacement concerts instead performed by Fred Penner and Friends at the Vancouver Playhouse and SFU Woodwards.

2010–2011

 * The Fantasticks – Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones; Music by Harvey Schmidt, Directed and Choreographed by Max Reimer
 * Noël Coward's Brief Encounter – Adapted for the stage by Emma Rice, Directed by Max Reimer
 * This – Written by Melissa James Gibson, Directed by Amiel Gladstone
 * Death of a Salesman – Written by Arthur Miller, Directed by John Cooper
 * The Trespassers – Written by Morris Panych Directed by Ron Jenkins
 * MacHomer – Created and Performed by Rick Miller

2009–2010

 * The Miracle Worker – by William Gibson (playwright)
 * Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane
 * Beyond Eden – by Bruce Ruddell
 * Delusion – by Laurie Anderson
 * The Love List – by Norm Foster
 * Dangerous Corner – by J. B. Priestley

2008–2009

 * Frost/Nixon – by Peter Morgan
 * The Drowsy Chaperone – book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
 * Miss Julie: Freedom Summer – by August Strindberg, adapted by Stephen Sachs
 * Toronto, Mississippi – by Joan MacLeod
 * Top Girls – by Caryl Churchill
 * Studies in Motion – by Kevin Kerr

2007–2008

 * The Wars – by Timothy Findley
 * Oliver! – by Lionel Bart
 * The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead – by Robert Hewett
 * The Amorous Adventures of Anatol – by Arthur Schnitzler
 * True West – by Sam Shepard

2005–2006

 * The Syringa Tree – by Pamela Gien
 * A Little Night Music – lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
 * Vincent in Brixton – by Nicholas Wright
 * I Am My Own Wife – by Doug Wright
 * No Great Mischief – by David S. Young

2004–2005

 * Joni Mitchell: River – by Allan McInnis
 * Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
 * Humble Boy – by Charlotte Jones
 * Copenhagen – by Michael Frayn
 * Trying – by Joanna Glass

2003–2004

 * Stones in His Pockets – by Marie Jones
 * Hello, Dolly! – book by Michael Stewart, music & lyrics by Jerry Herman
 * Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw
 * One Last Kiss – by Aaron Bushkowsky
 * Equus – by Peter Shaffer
 * Cloud Tectonics – by Jose Rivera

2002–2003

 * Proof – by David Auburn
 * Fiddler on the Roof – book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
 * Mary's Wedding – by Stephen Massicotte
 * Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
 * The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
 * Earshot – by Morris Panych
 * Asylum of the Universe – by Camyar Chai

2001–2002

 * The Edible Woman – by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood
 * The Music Man – by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
 * The School for Wives – by Molière
 * The Drawer Boy – by Michael Healey
 * The Rainmaker – by N. Richard Nash
 * The Dead Reckoning – by Aaron Bushkowsky

2000–2001

 * The Coronation Voyage – by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau
 * Guys and Dolls – music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling
 * Wit – by Margaret Edson
 * Candida – by George Bernard Shaw
 * The Beauty Queen of Leenane – by Martin McDonagh
 * Game Misconduct – by Lesley Uyeda and Tom Cone
 * Kilt – by Jonathan Wilson
 * Dona Flora – by Electric Company

1999–2000

 * Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck
 * The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – by Jim Cartwright
 * She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
 * Patience – by Jason Sherman
 * The Bachelor Brothers on Tour – by Bill Dow and Martin Kinch
 * 2 Pianos, 4 Hands – by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
 * The Overcoat – by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling

1998–1999

 * An Ideal Husband – by Oscar Wilde
 * The Attic, The Pearls and 3 Fine Girls – by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer, Martha Ross
 * Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John Gray and Eric Peterson
 * Skylight – by David Hare
 * Tartuffe – by Molière
 * The History of Things to Come – by Morris Panych, Gary Jones and Shawn Macdonald
 * Suburban Motel – by George F. Walker

1997–1998

 * 2 Pianos, 4 Hands – by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
 * The Overcoat – by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling
 * A Perfect Ganesh – by Terrence McNally
 * Atlantis – by Maureen Hunter
 * Mrs. Warren's Profession – by George Bernard Shaw
 * Picasso at the Lapin Agile – by Steve Martin

1996–1997

 * Ghosts – by Henrik Ibsen
 * Tons of Money – by Alan Ayckbourn
 * 2000 – by Joan MacLeod
 * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – by Edward Albee
 * The Heiress – by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz
 * Money and Friends – by David Williamson

1995–1996

 * Three Tall Women – by Edward Albee
 * The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
 * The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
 * Later Life – by A. R. Gurney
 * Betrayal – by Harold Pinter
 * Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, A Love Story – adapted by James Nichol
 * True Mummy – by Tom Cone

1994–1995

 * Oleanna – by David Mamet
 * Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas
 * Fronteras Americanas – by Guillermo Verdecchia
 * The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov
 * Waiting for the Parade – by John Murrell
 * Homeward Bound – by Elliott Hayes

1993–1994

 * Born Yesterday – by Garson Kanin
 * A Little of Wot You Fancy – by Susan Cox
 * If We Are Women – by Joanna McClelland Glass
 * The Relapse – by Sir John Vanbrugh
 * A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen
 * Struggle of the Dogs & the Black – by Bernard-Marie Koltès

1992–1993

 * The Millionairess – by George Bernard Shaw
 * The Wingfield Trilogy – by Dan Needles
 * Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell
 * Lips Together, Teeth Apart – by Terrence McNally
 * Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare
 * Death and the Maiden – by Ariel Dorfman
 * Private Lives – by Noël Coward

1991–1992

 * A Moon for the Misbegotten – by Eugene O'Neill
 * The Miser Molière – adapted by Tom Cone
 * Love and Anger – by George F. Walker
 * Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
 * Fallen Angels – by Noël Coward
 * My Children! My Africa! – by Athol Fugard

1990–1991

 * A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
 * The Heidi Chronicles – by Wendy Wasserstein
 * Hosanna – by Michel Tremblay
 * Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
 * Other People's Money – by Jerry Sterner
 * Herringbone, The Musical – by Tom Cone, Skip Kennon and Ellen Fitzhugh

1989–1990

 * Hedda Gabler – by Henrik Ibsen
 * Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
 * We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! – by Dario Fo
 * Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell
 * Doc – by Sharon Pollock
 * Rock and Roll – by John Gray

1988–1989

 * A Lie of the Mind – by Sam Shepard
 * Nothing Sacred – by George F. Walker
 * The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
 * Health, The Musical – by John Gray
 * Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – by Terrence McNally
 * Les Liaisons Dangereuses – by Christopher Hampton

1987–1988

 * A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
 * Fire – by Paul LeDoux and David Young
 * B-Movie, The Play – by Tom Wood
 * Back to Beulah – by W. O. Mitchell
 * We, the Undersigned – by Aleksandr Gelman
 * The Dining Room – by A.R. Gurney Jr.

1986–1987
A Chorus Line.
 * Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
 * Paracelsus – by George Ryga
 * Diary of Anne Frank – by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
 * Private Lives – by Noël Coward
 * Master Class – by David Pownall
 * Foxfire – by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
 * I'm Not Rappaport – by Herb Gardner

1984–1985

 * A Man for All Seasons – by Robert Bolt
 * Terra Nova – by Ted Tally
 * Better Watch Out, You Better Not Die – by John Gray
 * Clarence Darrow – by David W. Rintels
 * The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * Cloud 9 – by Caryl Churchill
 * I'll Be Back Before Midnight – by Peter Colley

1983–1984

 * Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
 * The Murder of Auguste Dupin – by J. Ben Tarver
 * Godspell – by Michael Tebelak
 * K-2 – by Patrick Meyers
 * The Tomorrow Box – by Anne Chislett
 * Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
 * Terrace Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap – by Claire Luckham
 * North Shore Live – by Tom Wood, Nicola Cavendish and Bob Baker
 * The Guys – Jean Barbeau, translated by Linda Gaboriau
 * Win, Lose, Draw – by Mary Gallagher and Ava Watson

1982–1983

 * The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon – by W. O. Mitchell
 * The Dresser – by Ronald Harwood
 * A Gift to Last – by Gordon Pinsent, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
 * Mass Appeal – by Bill C. Davis
 * The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – by Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove
 * Dry Rot – by John Chapman
 * White Boys – by Tom Walmsey
 * Clarence Darrow – by David W. Rintels
 * As Loved Our Fathers – by Tom Kahill
 * Dylan Thomas Bach – by Leon Pownall

1981–1982

 * The Notebook of Trigorin – by Tennessee Williams
 * The Curse of the Werewolf – by Ken Hill and Ian Armit
 * Wings – by Arthur Kopit
 * Hunchback of Notre Dame – by Dennis Foon
 * Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
 * See How They Run – by Philip King
 * Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson

1980–1981

 * The Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni
 * The Red Devil Battery Sign – by Tennessee Williams
 * The Man Who Came to Dinner – by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
 * The Lady from the Sea – by Henrik Ibsen
 * Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
 * Dreaming and Duelling – by John Lazarus
 * The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
 * Much Ado About Nothing – by William Shakespeare

1979–1980

 * Jitters – by David French
 * Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
 * The Innocents – by William Archibald
 * Love for Love – by William Congreve
 * A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
 * Henry VI, Part 1 – by William Shakespeare
 * As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
 * Gunga Heath – by Heath Lamberts

1978–1979

 * Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
 * A Flea in Her Ear – by Georges Feydeau
 * The Crucible – by Arthur Miller
 * Tales from the Vienna Woods – by Ödön von Horváth
 * Ghosts – by Henrik Ibsen
 * The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin – by Steve J. Spears
 * Midtown Aces – by Jesse Boydan
 * The Promise – by Aleksei Arbuzov
 * Endgame – by Samuel Beckett

1977–1978

 * Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
 * Arsenic and Old Lace – by Joseph Kesselring
 * Oedipus (Swollen Foot) – by Seneca, adapted by Ted Hughes
 * The Contractor – by David Storey
 * Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
 * Ashes – by David Rudkin
 * A Respectable Wedding – by Bertolt Brecht
 * Jack Sprat – by Joe Wiesenfeld
 * Loot – by Joe Orton

1976–1977

 * Tartuffe – by Molière
 * Count of Monte Cristo – by Ken Hill
 * King Lear – by William Shakespeare
 * Travesties – by Tom Stoppard
 * Camino Real – by Tennessee Williams
 * Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land – by Tom Stoppard
 * The Blues – by Hrant Alianak
 * The Sound of Distant Thunder – by Christopher Newton
 * 7 Under the 0 – by Allan Stratton

1975–1976

 * Equus – by Peter Shaffer
 * The Speckled Band – by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
 * Leonce and Lena – by George Büchner
 * Camille – by Robert David MacDonald
 * Kennedy's Children – by Robert Patrick
 * Komagata Maru incident – by Sharon Pollock
 * Back to Beulah – by W. O. Mitchell
 * Dear Janet, Dear Mr. Kooning – by Stanley Eveling
 * Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down – by Tom Eyen

1974–1975

 * The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
 * Harvey – by Mary Coyle Chase
 * The Adventures of Pinocchio – adapted by John Wood
 * Of the Fields, Lately – by David French
 * The Caucasian Chalk Circle – by Bertolt Brecht
 * And Out Goes You? – by Sharon Pollock
 * Frankenstein – adapted by Alden Knowlan and Walter Learning

1973–1974
Travesties - by Tom Stoppard
 * Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
 * Leaving Home – by David French
 * Mr. Scrooge – music by Doroles Claman, book by Richard Morris and Ted Wood
 * Mandragola – by Niccolò Machiavelli
 * A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen
 * Dutch Uncle – by Simon Gray
 * Queer Sights, A Mouldy Tale – by Frank McEnaney

1972–1973

 * Forty Years On – by Alan Bennett
 * How the Other Half Loves – by Alan Ayckbourn
 * Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson
 * Lulu Street – by Ann Henry
 * Old Times – by Harold Pinter
 * Pillar of Sand – by Eric Nicol
 * Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw

1971–1972

 * The Chemmy Circle – by Georges Feydeau
 * The Sorrows of Frederick – by Romulus Linney
 * Treasure Island – adapted by Bernard Miles
 * Crabdance – by Beverley Simons
 * Relatively Speaking – by Alan Ayckbourn
 * The Native – by Merv Campone
 * Hadrian VII – by Peter Luke

1970–1971

 * The Secretary Bird – by William Douglas-Home
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – by Tom Stoppard
 * Othello – by William Shakespeare
 * A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – by Peter Nichols
 * Plaza Suite – by Neil Simon
 * Hobson's Choice – by Harold Brighouse

1969–1970

 * The Royal Hunt of the Sun – by Peter Shaffer
 * The Show-Off – by George Kelly
 * Colours in the Dark – by James Reaney
 * Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun – by John McGrath
 * Village Wooing – and Dear Liar by George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kitty
 * Tango – by Sławomir Mrożek
 * Staircase – by Charles Dyer
 * Che Guevara – by Mario Fratti
 * Foreplay – by Barry Friesen
 * The Candidate – by James Schevill
 * Space-Fan – by James Schevill
 * The Criminals – by Jose Triana

1968–1969

 * The Fourth Monkey – by Eric Nicol
 * Summer of the 17th Doll – by Ray Lawler
 * A Thurber Carnival – by James Thurber
 * Moby Dick-Rehearsed – adapted by Orson Welles
 * Mrs. Mouse Are You Within? – by Frank Marcus
 * The Filthy Piranesi – by William D. Roberts
 * Black Comedy – by Peter Shaffer
 * Grass & Wild Strawberries – by George Ryga
 * Fortune and Men's Eyes – by John Herbert
 * Tiny Alice – by Edward Albee
 * The Partition – by Jacques Languirand
 * Land Before Time – by M. Charles Cohen
 * The Visitor – by Betty Lambert

1967–1968

 * Androcles and the Lion – by George Bernard Shaw
 * The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – by George Ryga
 * The Beaux' Stratagem – by George Farquhar
 * Philadelphia, Here I Come – by Brian Friel
 * A Streetcar Named Desire – by Tennessee Williams
 * The Firebugs – by Max Frisch
 * Walking Happy – by Harold Brighouse
 * Listen to the Wind – by James Reaney
 * Three Rituals – by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Brian Shein and Sheldon Feldner
 * Requiem for a Dinosaur – by James Cruikshank

1966–1967

 * Candida – by George Bernard Shaw
 * Count Down to Armageddon – by James Clavell
 * Peer Gynt – by Henrik Ibsen
 * She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
 * How to Run the Country – by Paul St. Pierre
 * Anything Goes – by Cole Porter

1965–1966

 * Oh, What a Lovely War! – by Joan Littlewood
 * A Month in the Country – by Ivan Turgenev
 * The Knack – by Ann Jellicoe
 * Major Barbara – by George Bernard Shaw
 * The Typists & The Tiger – by Murray Schisgal
 * Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
 * Like Father, Like Fun – by Eric Nicol
 * Lock Up Your Daughters – adapted from Henry Fielding by Bernard Miles

1964–1965

 * Ring Round the Moon – by Jean Anouilh
 * Desire Under the Elms – by Eugene O'Neill
 * The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
 * Christmas in the Market Place – by Henry Gheon
 * The Seagull – by Anton Chekhov
 * Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad – by Arthur Kopit
 * Stop the World – I Want to Get Off – by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

1963–1964

 * The Hostage – by Brendan Behan
 * Private Lives – by Noël Coward
 * The Boy Friend – by Sandy Wilson
 * Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
 * The Caretaker – by Harold Pinter
 * Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas