Geva Theatre Center
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Past Season Productions

1999-2000 Season Thunder Knocking On The Door ( Written by Keith Glover, Music Keb' Mo Anthony Edwards)
The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Uhry)
Waiting For Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose)
The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Martin McDonagh)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Christmas Carol (Hellesen/de Berry)
The Nextstage Women Who Steal (Carter W. Lewis)
Play Readings American Voices, A New Play Reading Series
Regional Playwright and Young Writers Festival
Hibernatus Interruptus
1998-99 Season The One Eyed Man is King (Carter W. Lewis)
A Girls Life (Kathleen Tolan)
Rough Crossing (Tom Stoppard)
The Triumph of Love (Pierre Carlet De Marivaux; adapted by Stephen Wadsworth)
Jitney (August Wilson)
My Fair Lady (Book and Lyrics Alan Jay Lerner; Music Frederick Loewe)
Christmas Carol (Hellesen/de Berry)
Play Readings American Voices, A New Play Reading Series
Regional Playwright and Young Writers Festival
Hibernatus Interruptus
1997-98 Season
(25th Anniversary)
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Steve Martin)
The Old Settler (John Henry Redwood)
Radio Gals (Music and Lyrics by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick)
The Illusion (Pierre Corneille)
Full Gallop (Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson)
Famous Orpheus (OyamO)
Christmas Carol (Hellesen/de Berry)
Play Readings American Voices, A New Play Reading Series
Regional Playwright and Young Writers Festival
Hibernatus Interruptus
Special Presentation: Every Good Boys Deserves Favor (A play with orchestra by Tom Stoppard/Music by Andre Previn/Collaboration with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra)
1996-97 Season State of the Union (Howard Lindsay and Rusel Crouse)
Having Our Say (A play by Emily Mann/Adapted from the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth)
Golf with Alan Shepard (Carter W. Lewis)
Antigone (by Jean Anouilh/Translated by Lewis Galantiere)
Beast on the Moon (Richard Kalinoski)
The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens/Adapted by Richard Hellesen/Music by David de Berry)
American Voices, A New Play Reading Series
1995-96 Season Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Neil Simon)
Murder by Misadventure (Edward Taylor)
The Sisters Rosensweig (Wendy Wasserstein)
Later Life (A.R. Gurney)
To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee, as adapted by Christopher Sergel)
Five Guys Named Moe (Clarke Peters)
A Christmas Carol XI (final season of Eberle Thomas adaptation)
Play Readings American Voices, A New Play Reading Series
1994-95 Season Band in Berlin (Susan Feldman with Wilbur Pauley)
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
I Hate Hamlet (Paul Rudnick)
Jar the Floor (Cheryl L. West)
The Glass Menagerie (Tenesse Williams)
Kiss Me, Kate (Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter/book by Bella and Samuel Spewack)
A Christmas Carol X
Play Readings American Voices, A New Play Reading Series (started November 1994)
1993-94 Season Conversations with My Father (Herb Gardner)
Woody Guthrie’s American Song (Songs by Woody Guthrie/Conceived by Peter Glazer/Orchestrations by Jeff Waxman)
Master Harold . . . and the boys (Athol Fugard)
Dancing at Lughnasa (Brian Friel)
The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)

Reflections 1994:

The Survival of the Species (Robert Shaffron)
The Lincoln Park Zoo (Richard Strand)
Hard Hearts (Elliott Hayes)

A Christmas Carol IX
French Roast Festival ‘94

1992-93 Season
(20th Anniversary)
Lend Me a Tenor (Ken Ludwig)
Mount Allegro (By Eberle Thomas and Barbara Redmond, based upon the book "Mount Allegro" by Jerre Mangione)
Tintypes (Conceived by Mary Kyte, with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle)
The Sum of Us (David Stevens)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Reflections 1993:

Criminal Hearts (Jane Martin)
What Is Art? (Wm. S. Leavengood)
A Penny for the Guy (Lanie Robertson)

A Christmas Carol VIII
French Roast Festival ‘93
1991-92 Season Pump Boys and Dinettes (John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann)
Other People’s Money (Jerry Sterner)
Accomplice (Rupert Holmes)
Anything Goes (Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter/book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse)
Nora (Henrik Ibesen’s A Doll’s House, as adapted by Ingmar Bergman)
The Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers)

Reflections 1992:

Peephole (Shem Bitterman) (Shem Bitterman)
Ellen Universe Joins the Band (David Rush)
Barbeque in 29 Palms (Wendy MacLeod)

A Christmas Carol VII
French Roast Festival ‘92
1990-91 Season Jane Eyre (Books and lyrics by Ted Davis/Music by David Clark/Based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte)
Driving Miss Daisy (Alfred Uhry)
A Stone Carver (William Mastrosimone)
Man of La Mancha (Dale Wasserman/Lyrics by Joe Darion/Music by Mitch Leigh)
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)

Reflections 1991:

The Closer (Willy Holtzman)
Life in the Trees (Catherine Butterfield)
Pitz and Joe (Dominique Cieri)

A Christmas Carol VI
French Roast Festival ‘91