Contents
Prologue: By Way of Background
The 1960s
1960 The Fantasticks at the Sullivan Street Playhouse
1961 The Living Theatre’s The Connection
1962 Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1963 Anne Bancroft in Mother Courage
1964 After the Fall at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre
1965 Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade
1966 Bread and Puppet’s Fire
1967 Hair at the Public Theater
1968 Jean-Louis
Barrault’s Rabelais
1969 Jerzy Grotowski’s The Constant Prince
The 1970s
1970 Luca Ronconi’s Orlando Furioso
1971 The Manhattan Project’s Alice in Wonderland
1972 Ariane Mnouchkine’s 1789
1973 Charles Ludlam’s Camille
1974 Richard Foreman’s Pain(t)
1975 Giorgio Strehler’s King Lear
1976 Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls . . .
1977 Andrei Serban’s The Cherry Orchard
1978 Squat Theatre’s Andy Warhol’s Last Love
1979 Cornell University’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The 1980s
1980 Peter Brook’s The Conference of the Birds
1981 The Wooster Group’s Route 1 & 9
1982 The RSC’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1983 Mabou Mines’ Cold Harbor
1984 Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman
1985 Thomas Langhoff’s The Merchant of Venice
1986 The Market Theatre’s Asinamali!
1987 John Krizanc’s Tamara
1988 David Edgar’s Entertaining Strangers
1989 Yuri Lyubimov’s Three Sisters
The 1990s
1990 Reza Abdoh’s Father Was a Peculiar Man
1991 Split Britches’ Belle Reprieve
1992 Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror
1993 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
1994 Tadashi Suzuki’s The Tale of Lear
1995 Karen Beier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1996 Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker
1997 Julie Taymor’s The Lion King
1998 Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive
1999 El-Warsha’s Spinning Lives
The 2000s
2000 Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project
2001 Stephen Sondheim’s Follies
2002 Big Art’s Flicker
2003 Lee Breuer’s Dollhouse
2004 Ivo van Hove’s Hedda Gabler
2005 Romeo Castellucci’s Tragedia Endogonidia L.#09
2006 Rimini Protokoll’s Wallenstein
2007 August Wilson’s Radio Golf
2008 Signa’s The Ruby Town Oracle
2009 The Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s
Romeo and Juliet
2010 The Passion Play at Oberammergau
Coda (2014): The Transport Group’s I Remember Mama
Index