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    Show History: Studio Arena

    Founded by Jane Keeler, producing from 1927 - 2008, has since re-opened as Shea's 710 Theatre.

    Shea's 710 Theatre

    Studio Arena Theatre 2007 - 2008 Season

    • Don't Talk to the Actors by Tom Dudzick (World Premiere)
    • Bat Boy the Musical by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, & Laurence O'Keefe
    • Indian Blood by A. R. Gurney
    • The Vertical Hour by David Hare
    • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    • Side by Side by Stephen Sondheim

    Studio Arena Theatre 2006 - 2007 Season

    • 3 MOi DIVAS by Marion J. Caffey
    • Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
    • The 4th Wise Man by Joy Chaitin, Sarah Stevens, Marilyn D. Anderson
    • The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
    • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    • The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
    • A Time for Love by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire

    Studio Arena Theatre 2005 - 2006 Season

    • The Johnny Cash Musical: Ring of Fire co-conceived by William Mead & Richard Maltby, Jr.
    • A Christmas Story adapted by Philip Grecian

    Studio Arena Theatre 2004 - 2005 Season

    • Hail Mary by Tom Dudzick (World Premiere)
    • Murder in Green Meadows by Douglas Post
    • A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner
    • Crowns by Regina Taylor
    • Tuesdays with Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher & Mitch Albom
    • Quartet by Ronald Harwood
    • Rounding Third by Richard Dresser

    Studio Arena Theatre 2003 - 2004 Season

    • Noises Off by Michael Frayn
    • Proof by David Auburn
    • Plaid Tidings by Stuart Ross
    • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
    • Pouring The Sun by Jay O'Callahan
    • While We Were Bowling by Carter W. Lewis (World Premiere)
    • Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones

    Studio Arena Theatre 2002 - 2003 Season

    • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
    • Cookin' at The Cookery by Marion J. Caffrey
    • The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
    • Shooting Craps by Tom Dulack
    • The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey
    • Shear Madness by Paul Portner

    Studio Arena Theatre 2001 - 2002 Season

    • City of Light by Anthony Clarvoe (World Premiere)
    • Art by Yasmina Reza
    • Lake Effect (Over The Tavern Part III) by Tom Dudzick (World Premiere)
    • Flyin West by Pearl Cleage
    • Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
    • Buffalo Gal by A. R. Gurney

    Studio Arena Theatre 2000 - 2001 Season

    • Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
    • Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
    • The Secret Garden by Paul Ledoux (American Premiere)
    • Breaking Legs by Tom Dulack
    • A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney
    • 2 Pianos, 4 Hands by Richard Greenblatt & Ted Dykstra

    Studio Arena Theatre 1999 - 2000 Season

    • Things We Do For Love by Alan Ayckbourn (American Premiere)
    • Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
    • Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick
    • The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh
    • The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood
    • Far East by A. R. Gurney
    • Italian American Reconcilliation by John Patrick Shanley

    Studio Arena Theatre 1998 - 1999 Season

    • House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
    • Dancing In The Dark by Jeffry Denman
    • King O' The Moon (Over The Tavern Part II) by Tom Dudzick (World Premiere)
    • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
    • Jitney by August Wilson
    • Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon
    • Tuna Christmas by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams
    • How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel (Studio, Too!)
    • King O' The Moon (Over The Tavern Part II) by Tom Dudzick (Return Engagement)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1997 - 1998 Season

    • Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig
    • Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
    • Greetings by Tom Dudzick
    • Having Our Say by Emily Mann
    • Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
    • Sylvia by A. R. Gurney
    • Golf With Alan Shepard by Carter Lewis
    • Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Studio, Too!)
    • Skylight by David Hare (Studio, Too!)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1996 - 1997 Season

    • 13 Rue de'l Amour by Georges Feydeau
    • Mud, River, Stone by Lynn Nottage (World Premiere)
    • Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn
    • Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick
    • Dead Guilty by Richard Harris
    • Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (American Premiere of Revised Play)
    • Springtime For Henry by Benn Levv
    • Dames At Sea by George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, & Jim Wise
    • Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher (Studio, Too!)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1995 - 1996 Season

    • Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
    • A Lesson From Aloes by Athol Fugard
    • Inspecting Carol by Daniel Sullivan & Seattle Repertory Co.
    • Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick (at the Pfieffer Theater)
    • Later Life by A. R. Gurney
    • The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein
    • A Penny For The Guy by Lanie Robertson
    • All In The Timing by David Ives

    Studio Arena Theatre 1994 - 1995 Season

    • Harvey by Mary Chase
    • A Shayna Maidel by Barbara Lewbow
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Amlin Gray
    • Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick (World Premiere at the Pfeiffer Theater)
    • The Snow Ball by A. R. Gurney
    • Dial M For Murder by Frederick Knott
    • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
    • I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick

    Studio Arena Theatre 1993 - 1994 Season

    • Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn
    • My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Amlin Gray
    • The World Goes 'Round: The Kander and Ebb Musical by Scott Ellis, Susan Strohman, & David Thompson (at the Pfeiffer Theater)
    • Murder by Misadventure by Edward Taylor
    • Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
    • The Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux, adapt. and trans. by Neil Barlett (World Premiere)
    • Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

    Studio Arena Theatre 1992 - 1993 Season

    • Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig
    • Lost Electra by Bruce Rodgers
    • Amelia Lives by Laura Annawyn Shamas (at the Calummet Arts Cafe)
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Amlin Gray
    • The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney
    • The Business of Murder by Richard Harris
    • Miss Evers' Boy by David Feldshuh
    • The Voyage of Mary C. by Lawrence Carr
    • A...My Name Is STILL Alice by Julianne Boyd & Joan Micklin Silver

    Studio Arena Theatre 1991 - 1992 Season

    • Sweet N' Hot In Harlem - a Harold Arlen Revue
    • Other People's Money by Jerry Sterner
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Amlin Gray
    • Catch Me If You Can by Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert
    • Fences by August Wilson
    • The Immigrant, a Hamilton Country Album by Mark Harelik & Randal Myler
    • Love Letters by A. R. Gurney

    Studio Arena Theatre 1990 - 1991 Season

    • A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
    • Jane Eyre adapted by Ted Davis & David Clark
    • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    • Birdsend by Keith Huff
    • Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
    • The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
    • Children by A. R. Gurney

    Studio Arena Theatre 1989 - 1990 Season

    • You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
    • Joe Turner's Come And Gone by August Wilson
    • Galileo by Keith & Jeanine Levenson & Alexa Junge (World Premiere)
    • Speed The Plow by David Mamet
    • A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
    • Beyond Therapy/Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang
    • Last Love by Tom Cole

    Studio Arena Theatre 1988 - 1989 Season

    • Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart (American Premiere)
    • Abingdon Square by María Irene Fornés
    • Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
    • The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson
    • West Memphis Mojo by Martin Jones
    • The Beaux Strategem by George Farquhar
    • A Walk In The Woods by Lee Blessing

    Studio Arena Theatre 1987 - 1988 Season

    • The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
    • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    • Stepping Out by Richard Harris
    • Benefactors by Michael Frayn
    • Tintypes by Mary Kyte, Mel Marvin, & Gary Pearle
    • Isn't It Romantic by Wendy Wasserstein
    • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

    Studio Arena Theatre 1986 - 1987 Season

    • A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller
    • The Value of Names by Jeffrey Sweet
    • Quilters by Molly Newman & Barbara Damashek
    • The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
    • A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler & Stephen Sondheim
    • T Bone N Weasel by Jon Klein
    • Hay Fever by Noel Coward

    Studio Arena Theatre 1985 - 1986 Season

    • The Foreigner by Larry Sue
    • Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff
    • Sleuth by Anthony Schaffer
    • Ain't Misbehavin' by Murray Horwitz & Richard Maltby Jr.
    • The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
    • Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, & Ed Howard
    • Arsenals by Jeremy Lawrence (World Premiere)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1984 - 1985 Season

    • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
    • Dark Of The Moon by Howard Richardson & William Berney
    • The Doom of Frankenstein by Geoffrey Sherman & Paul Wonsek (World Premiere)
    • Master Harold and The Boys by Athol Fugard
    • Anything Goes by Cole Porter
    • I Ought To Be In Pictures by Neil Simon
    • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

    Studio Arena Theatre 1983 - 1984 Season

    • What I Did Last Summer by A. R. Gurney
    • Cabaret by Kander & Ebb
    • Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
    • The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
    • Tera Nova by Ted Tally
    • Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw
    • A Place To Stay by Ruchard Culliton (World Premiere)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1982 - 1983 Season

    • She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
    • True West by Sam Shepard
    • Witness For The Prosecution by Agatha Christie
    • A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
    • Weapons of Happiness by Howard Brenton (World Premiere)
    • In The Sweet Bye and Bye by Donald Driver (World Premiere)
    • Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
    • Monteith and Rand (Summer Scene)
    • Lovesong by Michael Valenti (Summer Scene)
    • The Fantasticks by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt (Summer Scene)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1981 - 1982 Season

    • Whose Life Is It Anyways? by Brian Clark
    • Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein by Marty Martin (Dark Week Special)
    • The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley (East Coast Premiere)
    • Deathtrap by Ira Levin
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Eastern Opera Theatre
    • Tartuffe by Molière
    • Derelict by Robert Schenkkan (World Premiere)
    • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    • Rhino Fat From Red Dog Notes (A Salute to Buffalo's Sesquicentennial) by Davey Marlin-Jones, Patrick Desmond, and Studio Arena Theatre Company (World Premiere)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1980 - 1981 Season

    • Lady of the Diamond by Mark Berman (World Premiere)
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman
    • Write Me a Murder by Frederick Knott
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Geoffrey Sherman (at Shea's Buffalo)
    • Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard
    • Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
    • Loot by Joe Orton
    • Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson

    Studio Arena Theatre 1979 - 1980 Season

    • Da by Hugh Leonard
    • My Husband's Wild Desires Almost Drove Me Mad by John Tobias (World Premiere)
    • The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Mary Elizabeth Holmes (at Shea's Buffalo)
    • Ashes by David Rudkin
    • I Won't Dance by Oliver Hailey
    • The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn
    • The Letter by Somerset Maugham

    Studio Arena Theatre 1978 - 1979 Season

    • Funny Face by George & Ira Gershwin (1st play at the Palace Burlesque at 710 Main Street)
    • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
    • A Christmas Carol adapted by Rae Allen & Timothy Near
    • Countess Dracula by Neal Du Brock (World Premiere)
    • The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt
    • Catsplay by Istvan Orkeny
    • The Madwoman of Central Park West by Phyllis Newman & Arthur Laurents

    Studio Arena Theatre 1977 - 1978 Season

    • Sunset by Louis LaRusso II, Gary William Friedman, Will Holt (World Premiere)
    • Semmelweiss by Howard Sackler (World Premiere)
    • Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade
    • The Crucifer of Blood by Paul Giovanni (World Premiere)
    • The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
    • Coward in Two Keys by Noel Coward
    • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

    Studio Arena Theatre 1976 - 1977 Season

    • The Eccentricites of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams
    • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    • Vanities by Jack Heifner
    • Sizwe Bansi Is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, & Winston Ntshona
    • Emlyn Williams As Charles Dickens / Dylan Thomas Growing Up
    • Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson
    • A Very Private Life by Neal Du Brock (World Premiere)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1975 - 1976 Season

    • Butley by Simon Gray
    • Scapino! by Frank Dunlop & Jim Dale, adapted from Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin
    • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
    • Equus by Peter Schaffer
    • The Magic Show by Bob Randall & Stephen Schwartz
    • A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler & Stephen Sondheim
    • Replika by Josef Szajna

    Studio Arena Theatre 1974 - 1975 Season

    • I Got A Song by E. Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy (World Premiere)
    • Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge
    • Gabrielle by Gilbert Becaud & Jose Quintero (World Premiere)
    • Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
    • 13 Rue De L'Armour by Georges Feydeau
    • P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! by James Kirkwood (World Premiere)
    • Godspell by John-Michael Tebelak & Stephen Schwartz
    • The Legend of Wu-Chang by Tisa Chang

    Studio Arena Theatre 1973 - 1974 Season

    • Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote & Anna Marie Barlow (World Premiere)
    • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
    • Funny Face by George & Ira Gershwin
    • That Championship Season by Jason Miller
    • Flint by David Mercer (American Premiere)
    • There's A Girl In My Soul by Terence Frisby
    • The Miser by Molière
    • Oh, Coward! by Noel Coward

    Studio Arena Theatre 1972 - 1973 Season

    • Roberta by Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
    • Sitting and The Saving Grace by John Tobias (World Premiere)
    • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, Mark Charlap & Carolyn Leigh
    • Ring-A-Levio by Donald Ross, Jason Darrow, & Lance Mulcahy (World Premiere)
    • Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
    • The Taming of the Shew by William Shakespeare
    • Child's Play by Robert Marasco
    • Berlin to Broadway by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
    • The Women by Clare Boothe Luce (Special Production)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1971 - 1972 Season

    • The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon
    • Buying Out by Lawrence Roman (World Premiere)
    • The Me Nobody Knows by Stephen M. Joseph, Gary William Friedman, Will Holt, Herb Schapiro
    • Mama by Neal Du Brock, John Clifton, & John Van Druten (World Premiere)
    • The Trail of the Catonsville Nine by Daniel Berrigan
    • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    • The Proposition concieved by Albert Allen (Improvisational Theatre)
    • Play Strindberg by Friedrich Durrenmatt (From Lincoln Center)
    • Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, & Joe Darion
    • The Proposition concieved by Albert Allen (Improvisational Theatre, Return Engagement)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1970 - 1971 Season

    • Dames at Sea by George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, & Jim Wise
    • Scenes From an American Life by A. R. Gurney (World Premiere)
    • The Survival of St. Joan: A Medieval Rock Opera by James Lineberger & Smoke Rise (World Premiere)
    • The Price by Arthur Miller
    • L. A. Under Siege by Mayo Simon (World Premiere)
    • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Eric Blau, Mort Shuman, & Jacques Brel
    • Othello by William Shakespeare
    • The Effect of Gamma Ray On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
    • Scuba Duba by Bruce Jay Friedman
    • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Eric Blau, Mort Shuman, & Jacques Brel (Return Engagement)
    • Indians by Arthur Kopit

    Studio Arena Theatre 1969 - 1970 Season

    • Episodes in the Life of an Author by Jean Anouilh (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory. American Premiere)
    • The Orchestra by Jean Anouilh (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory. American Premiere
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Larry Gelbart, Burt Slevelove, Stephen Sondheim
    • Tiny Alice by Edward Albee
    • Don't Drink the Water by Woody Allen
    • The Only Game in Town by Frank D. Gilroy
    • Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
    • Lemon Sky by Lanford Wilson (World Premiere)
    • Stop the World - I Want To Get Off! by Anthony Newley & Lesclie Bricusse

    Studio Arena Theatre 1968 - 1969 Season

    • The Death of Bessie Smith by Edward Albee (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • The American Dream by Edward Albee (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao-Tse-Tung by Edward Albee (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • Happy Days by Samuel Beckett (Pre-Season Playwright's Repertory)
    • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schultz & Clark Gesner
    • Lion in Winter by James Goldman
    • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
    • The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus
    • The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
    • The Star-Spangled Girl by Neil Simon
    • The School for Wives by Molière
    • Lost in the Stars by Maxwell Anderson & Kurt Weill
    • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schultz & Clark Gesner (Return Engagement)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1967 - 1968 Season

    • The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
    • The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
    • H. M. S. Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan
    • The Emperor by Luigi Pirandello
    • A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
    • Box-Mao-Box by Edward Albee (World Premiere)
    • Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas
    • The Knack by Ann Jellicoe

    Studio Arena Theatre 1966 - 1967 Season

    • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
    • The Man Who Came To Dinner by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
    • The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan
    • After The Fall by Arthur Miller
    • Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
    • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
    • Antigone and The Lesson by Jean Anouilh & Eugene Ionesco
    • Oh, Kay! by George & Ira Gershwin, Guy Bolton, & P. G. Wodehouse
    • Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
    • Beyond the Fringe by Allan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
    • Luv by Murray Schisgal

    Studio Arena Theatre 1965 - 1966 Season

    • A Moon For the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
    • Oh! What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood
    • The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams
    • The Firebugs by Max Frisch
    • Irma La Douce by Julian More, David Heneker, & Monty Norman, music by Marguerite Monnot
    • A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
    • The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
    • You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
    • The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd by Anthony Newley & Lesclie Bricusse
    • The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manhoff
    • Privates Lives by Noel Coward
    • The Fantasticks by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt

    Studio Arena Theatre 1964 - 1965 Season

    • The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams (Revival)
    • Carousel by Rodgers & Hammerstein
    • Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (Revival)
    • The Tiger and the Typists by Murray Schisgal
    • The Three Sisters by Anton Chekov (Special Production)
    • Requiem For a Nun by William Faulkner
    • Stop the World - I Want To Get Off! by Anthony Newley & Lesclie Bricusse
    • The Physicists by Frederick Durrenmatt
    • The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson
    • Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill (NY Production at State Teachers College)
    • A Holiday Festival: Snow White (Theatre For Children)
    • Nutcracker Ballet (Theatre For Children)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1963 - 1964 Season

    • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
    • The Hostage by Brendan Behan (Revival)
    • The King and I by Rodgers & Hammerstein
    • The Marriage Go-Round by Leslie Stevens (at the Off-Broadway)
    • Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
    • Regina (Opera) by Marc Blitstein
    • The Music Man by Meredith Wilson
    • Six Characters In Search Of An Author by Luigi Pirandello (New York Production at SUCB)
    • Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad by Arthur Kopit
    • Yerma by Garcia Lorca (Workshop Production)
    • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    • River Wind by John Jennings
    • King Arthur's Sword (Theatre For Children)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1962 - 1963 Season

    • The Fantasticks by Tom Jones & Harvey Smith
    • The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
    • The Hostage by Brendan Behan
    • The Lark by Jean Anouilh
    • Theatre Annual
    • Gypsy by Aurents Laurents & Jules Styne
    • Clerambard by Marcel Ayme

    Studio Arena Theatre 1961 - 1962 Season

    • Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill
    • Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
    • The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
    • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
    • Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer
    • Between Two Thieves by Warner LeRoy
    • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
    • The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco
    • The New Tenant by Graham Greene
    • Camino Real by Tennesse Williams
    • Lady in the Dark by Moss Hart
    • The Rear of the Bus by Roger Squire (Special Production)
    • Cat on the Oregon Trail (Theatre For Children)
    • Many Moons by M. B. Healy, music by Anthony Scibetta (Theatre For Children)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1960 - 1961 Season

    • Auntie Mame by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
    • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
    • Mary Stuart by Jean Stock Goldstone & John Reich
    • Service Service by William Hooker Gillette
    • Third Best Sport by Eleanor & Leo Bayer
    • All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
    • Many Moons by M. B. Healy, music by Anthony Scibetta (Theatre For Children)
    • Winnie the Pooh, music by Anthony Scibetta (Theatre For Children)
    • Godey's Ladies 2nd Edition (produced by the Women's Committee)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1959 - 1960 Season

    • Tall Story by Howard Lindsey & Russell Crouse
    • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
    • The Man in the Dog Suit by Albert Beich & William H. Wright
    • Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
    • The Seagull by Anton Chekov
    • The Happiest Millionare by Kyle Crichton
    • Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving (Theatre For Children)
    • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Theatre For Children)
    • Godey's Ladies (a costume fashion show produced by the Women's Committee)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1958 - 1959 Season

    • Thieves' Carnival by Jean Anouilh
    • Picnic by William Inge
    • The Innocents by William Archibald
    • A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller
    • Who Was The Lady I Saw With You by Norman Krasna
    • Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
    • Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (Theatre For Children)
    • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Theatre For Children)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1957 - 1958 Season

    • The Great Sebastians by Howard Lindsay & Russell Crouse
    • Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams
    • Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (Revival)
    • The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
    • The Enchanted by Jean Giraundoux (Presented at the Art Gallery)
    • The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
    • The Reluctant Debutante by William Douglas Homes

    Studio Arena Theatre 1956 - 1957 Season

    • The Ponder Heart by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov
    • Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette
    • The Prescott Proposals by Howard Lindsay & Russell Crouse
    • Bell, Book, and Candle by John Van Druten
    • The Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot (Experimental)
    • Dandy Dick by Arthur Wing Pinero
    • The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold

    Studio Arena Theatre 1955 - 1956 Season

    • Dial M For Murder by Frederick Knott
    • Mrs. McThing by Mary Chase
    • The Tender Trap by Max Schulman & Robert Paul Smith
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
    • The Frogs by Aristophanes
    • The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod
    • Morning's at Seven by Paul Osborn

    Studio Arena Theatre 1954 - 1955 Season

    • What Every Woman Knows by J. M. Barrie (Revival)
    • The Velvet Glove by Rosemary Casey
    • Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor
    • The Country Girl by Clifford Odets
    • Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
    • The Confidential Clerk by T. S. Eliot

    Studio Arena Theatre 1953 - 1954 Season

    • The Male Animal by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent
    • Dark Of The Moon by Howard Richardson & William Berney
    • Point Of No Return by Paul Osborn
    • Arms & The Man by George Bernard Shaw (Revival)
    • The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot (Experimental)
    • Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil
    • January Thaw by William Ross

    Studio Arena Theatre 1952 - 1953 Season

    • No Time For Comedy by S. H. Berman
    • Ring Around The Moon by Jean Anouilh
    • Kind Lady by Edward Chodorov
    • Imagine Me by Alice Scanlan & Anthony Scibetta
    • The Winslow Boy by Terrence Rattigan
    • Apple of His Eye by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson

    Studio Arena Theatre 1951 - 1952 Season

    • The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie
    • The Heiress by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
    • State of the Union by Howard Lindsay & Russell Crouse
    • The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
    • The Perfect Alibi by A. A. Milne
    • Father of the Bride by Caroline Franck

    Studio Arena Theatre 1950 - 1951 Season

    • Goodbye, My Fancy by Fay Irwin
    • The Silver Whistle by Robert R. McEnroe
    • The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw (Revival)
    • Harvey by Mary Clare
    • The Royal Family by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman (Revival)
    • Born Yesterday by Garson Kahn

    Studio Arena Theatre 1949 - 1950 Season

    • The Late George Apley by John T. Marquand & George S. Kaufman
    • The Corn is Green by Lalyn Williams
    • Claudia by Rose Franken
    • Edward My Son by Robert Morley & Noel Langley
    • Two Blind Mice by Samuel Spewack
    • George and Margaret by Gerald Savory

    Studio Arena Theatre 1948 - 1949 Season

    • An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly
    • Counsellor-At-Law by Elmer Rice
    • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
    • The Guardsman by Franz Molnar
    • All My Sons by Arthur Miller
    • John Loves Mary by Norman Krasna

    Studio Arena Theatre 1947 - 1948 Season

    • The Truth About Blayds by A. A. Milne
    • Years Ago by Ruth Gordon
    • Another Language by Rose Franken
    • School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    • Craig's Wife by George Kelly
    • Sing Out Sweet Land by Walter Kerr

    Studio Arena Theatre 1946 - 1947 Season

    • My Sister Eileen by Joseph A. Fields & Jerome Chodorov
    • The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
    • The Hasty Heart by John Patrick
    • Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
    • Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson
    • The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge

    Studio Arena Theatre 1945 - 1946 Season

    • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
    • Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
    • The Damask Cheek by John Van Druten & Lloyd Morris
    • First Lady by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton
    • A Bell For Adano by Paul Osborn
    • You Touched Me! by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham

    Studio Arena Theatre 1944 - 1945 Season

    • The Great Big Doorstep by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
    • The Skin Of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
    • Dodsworth by Sidney Howard
    • _____ But Not Goodbye by George Seaton
    • Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
    • Hay Fever by Noel Coward (Revival)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1943 - 1944 Season

    • The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault (Revival)
    • Laburnum Grove by J. B. Priestly
    • Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
    • Papa Is All by Patterson Greene
    • Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
    • Spring Again by Leighton & Block
    • Uncle Harry by Thomas Job

    Studio Arena Theatre 1942 - 1943 Season

    • Clarence by Booth Tarkinton
    • The Eve of St. Mark by Maxwell Anderson
    • Jason by Samson Raphelson
    • The Flying Gerados by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles K. Robinson
    • Guest in the House by Hager Wilde & Dale Euson
    • When We Are Married by J. B. Priestly
    • The Play's The Thing by Franz Molnar

    Studio Arena Theatre 1941 - 1942 Season

    • Flight to the West by Elmer Rice
    • Knickerbocker Holiday by Maxwell Anderson
    • Moor Born by Dan Totheroh
    • Morning's at Seven by Paul Osborn
    • Good Fairy by Ferene Molnar
    • Out of the Frying Pan by Francis Swann
    • Village Green by Carl Allensworth
    • Susan B. Anthony by Helen Kennedy (Special Production)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1940 - 1941 Season

    • Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind
    • Whiteoaks by Mazo de la Roche
    • Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert Sherwood
    • The Second Man by S. N. Behrman
    • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Revival)
    • Ah, Wilderness by Eugene O'Neill
    • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

    Studio Arena Theatre 1939 - 1940 Season

    • Our Town by Thornton Wilder
    • Susan and God by Rachel Crothers
    • Tovarich by Jacques Duval
    • The Gentle People by Irwin Shaw
    • What a Life by Clifford Goldsmith
    • MacBeth by William Shakespeare
    • John Ferguson by St. John Irvine

    Studio Arena Theatre 1938 - 1939 Season

    • To-Night at 8:30 by Noel Coward
    • High Tor by Maxwell Anderson
    • Stage Door by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman
    • Right You Are by Luigi Pirandello
    • The Far Off Hills by Lennox Robinson
    • The Amazing Mr. Clitterhouse by Barrie Lyndon
    • Holiday by Philip Barry (Revival)

    Studio Arena Theatre 1937 - 1938 Season

    • Candida by George Bernard Shaw
    • Call It A Day by Dodie Smith
    • Excursion by Victor Wolfson
    • Parnell by Elsie Schauffler
    • Green Grows the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs
    • Mr. Pim Passes By by A. A. Milne

    Studio Arena Theatre 1936 - 1937 Season

    • Spring Dance by Philip Barry
    • The Petrified Forest by Robert Sherwood
    • Libel! by Edward Wooll
    • Noah by Andre Obey
    • Another Language by Rose Franken
    • Dear Brutus by J. M. Barrie
    • Anthony and Anna by St. John Irvine

    Studio Arena Theatre 1935 - 1936 Season

    • Post Road by Wilbur Daniel Steele & Norma Mitchell
    • The Distaff Side by John Van Druten
    • Ten Minute Alibi by Anthony Armstrong & Herbert Shaw
    • Accent On Youth by Samson Raphelson
    • Death Takes a Holiday by Alberto Cassella
    • The Bishop Misbehaves by Frederick J. Jackson
    • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov
    • Mädchen in Uniform by Christa Winsloe (Revival)
    • The Great Adventure by Arnold Bennett

    Studio Arena Theatre 1934 - 1935 Season

    • The Late Christopher Bean by Sidney Howard
    • Autumn Crocus by C. L. Anthony (Dodie Smith)
    • Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestly
    • The Pursuit of Happiness by L. Langner & A. Marshall
    • Big-Hearted Herbert by Sophie Kerr & Anne Stefse Richardson (1st play at the Teck Theatre)
    • Her Master's Voice by Clare Humner
    • The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
    • The Tavern by George M. Cohan

    Studio Arena Theatre 1933 - 1934 Season

    • Whistling In The Dark by Lawrence Gross & Edward Childs Carpenter
    • There's Always Juliet by John Van Druten
    • The Source by Spencer Whedon
    • The Show-Off by George Kelly (Revival)
    • Mädchen in Uniform by Christa Winsloe
    • School for Husbands by Molière
    • One Sunday Afternoon by James Hagan
    • Three Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy Friedberg
    • Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw
    • The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault

    Studio Arena Theatre 1932 - 1933 Season

    • Hay Fever by Noel Coward
    • Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw
    • Escape by John Galsworthy (1st play at the Gaiety Theatre)
    • Banco by Alfred Savoir
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
    • Interference by Roland Pertwee
    • The First Year by Frank Craven

    Studio Arena Theatre 1931 - 1932 Season

    • Barley Square by John L. Balderston
    • Bird in Hand by John Drinkwater
    • What Every Woman Knows by J. M. Barrie
    • The Royal Family by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman
    • Pgymalion by George Bernard Shaw
    • He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev
    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Studio Arena Theatre 1930 - 1931 Season

    • Perfect Alibi (The Fourth Wall) by A. A. Milne
    • Trelawny of the Wells by A. W. Pinero
    • Paris Bound by Philip Barry
    • Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
    • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

    Studio Arena Theatre 1929 - 1930 Season

    • Loyalties by John Galsworthy
    • Snow White
    • The Show-Off by George Kelly
    • As You Like It by William Shakespeare (student production)
    • Bill of Divorcement by Clemence Dane
    • You Can Never Tell by George Bernard Shaw
    • Sun-Up by Lulu Vollmer

    Studio Arena Theatre 1928 - 1929 Season

    • The Swan by Ferene Molnar
    • Cradle Song by Martinez Sierra
    • Dover Road by A. A. Milne
    • Liliom by Ferene Molnar
    • The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    • The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife by Anatole France (Belasco Cup Winner)
    • Crabbed Youth and Age by Lennox Robinson

    Studio Arena Theatre 1927 - 1928 Season

    • You and I by Philip Barry (1st play)
    • Whiteheaded Boy by Lennox Robinson
    • The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife by Anatole France
    • How He Lied To Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw
    • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
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