Season

Almost on a Runway

Playwright: Donna de Matteo

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Rudy Bond, Wesley Addy, Shirley Bodtke, Celeste Holm, Stephen Strimpell, Ben Piazza, Inga Boorg, Dolores Dorn-Heft, Jeremy Stevens, Frank Gerachi, Rosemary De Angelis, Linda Poskanzer

 Designer: Lester Polakov Lighting Designer: Timmy Harris Costume Designer: Deborah Warhafting Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Brandwell Teuscher Stage Manager: Steve Yoo Lighting Technician: Walter Mantani Lighting Technician: Martin Warhaftig Director for the Foundation: Sandra Cannon Assistant House Manager: Cheryl Gassman Production Assistant: Dan Flannery Production Assistant: Tom McCready Production Assistant: Linda Poskanzer Production Assistant: John-Pierre Stewart Production Assistant: Kristin Wilson

Almost on a Runaway was performed June 14th – July 3rd

Public Insult and Self Accusation

Playwright: Peter Handke Translated: Michael Roloff

Director: Herbert Berghof (PUBLIC INSULT), Albert Sinkys (SELF-ACCUSATION)

Cast: Jess Osuna, Michael Kell, Tom McCready, Brandwell Teuscher, Ronald Silver, Ken Baltin, James McMahon, Peter Von Berg, Marc Slivka, Paul Thomas, John Rodrigue, Linda Poskanzer, Marlene Mancini

Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton Design: Kathe Berl Design: Martin Warhaftig Costumes: Deborah Warhafting Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Brandwell Teuscher Stage Manager: Jim Burger Stage Manager: Joseph Pantoliano Assistant to the Stage Managers: Cheryl Gassman  Lighting Technician: Martin Warhaftig Lighting Technician: Linda Line Lighting Technician: Ken Cash Director for the Foundation: Sandra Cannon

Public Insult and Self Accusation was performed May 10th – 29th

Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks

Playwright: Romulus Linney

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Mason Adams, Vincenetta Gunn, William Prince, Wesley Addy, Elizabeth Herron, Anne Roby, Jack Axelrod, Joan Hoffer, Guy Sorel, Donald Bishop, George Matthews, Katherine Squire, Ben Carney, Edward Morehouse, David Stock, John Walter Davis, James McMahon, Jean-Pierre Stewart, Tisa Chang, Tom McCready, Bob Sohne, Dorothy Dorff, Jess Osuna, Brandwell Teuscher, Del Green, Rik Pierce, Arabella Hong Young

 Designer: Lester Polakov Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton Costume Designer: Deborah Warhaftig Composer: Paul Earls Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Brandwell Teuscher Stage Manager: April Adams Assistant Stage Manager: Steve Yoo Assistant Stage Manager: Edward Kramer Assistant Lighting Designer: R. S. Winkler Lighting Technician: Walter Mantani Lighting Technician: Martin Warhaftig

Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks was performed March 22nd – April 10th

Je T’aime Jessica

Playwright: Stephen Levi

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Kevin Conway, Verna Pierce, Walter McGinn and Leigh Curran

Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Foundation Secretary: Peggy Penniman Lighting Designer: Tom Randol Set Designer: Philip Lerman Costume Designer: Kathe Berl Stage Manager: Fran Gerardi Production Assistant: Edward Horton, David Leopold, Jack Longhi, Tom McCready, Bob Medina, Linda Poskanzer and Peter Von Berg

Je T’aime Jessica was performed July 9th – 18th of the year 1970.

Synopsis:

 

Caravaggio

Playwright: Michael Straight

Director: Edward Morehouse

Cast: Edward Greer, Edward Moorehouse, Ken Chapin, Jeffrey Koppel, Kurt H. Levister, Gary Enck, Tom McCready III, Austin Pendleton, Paul Thomas, Michael Moody, Robert Giarrtimo, Thomas McCready, Edward Horton, Renos Mandis, James Norman, Antonio Canal, Brandwell Teuscher, Eddy Grove, Gary Swartz, Terry Deck, Christopher Scott, Raymond Alvin, James Norman, Robert Giarratano, John Le Grand, Edward Garrabrandt, Rik Pierce, Robert Vervoordt, George Bartenieff, Earle Hyman, Michael Mullins, Ronald Silver, Ron Vaad, John Gillespie and Rosemary De Angelis

Lighting Designer: Tony Quintavalla Guitarist: Hyman Gubernick Production Assistant and Lighting Technician: Claudia J.Dobkins Stage Manager: John Gillespie Assistant Stage Managers: Claudia Dobkins and Michael Mullins

Caravaggio was performed October 18th – 26th of the year 1969.

Synopsis: 

Caravaggio is a play about an artist of genius. He could be one of a number of men, if the play has any general validity; he is, in fact, drawn wholly, and I hope faithfully, from one man.

Kaspar

Playwright: Peter Handke

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: E. G. Marshall, Jess Osuna, Frank Geraci, Brandwell Teuscher, Stephen Levi, Ronald Silver and Tom McCready

Translator: Michael Roloff Lighting and Set Director: Jennifer Tipton Costumes: Whitney Blausen Masks and Supervision: Bill Baird Mozart Cannons: Hyman Gubernick Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Secretary for the Playwrights Foundation: Peggy Penniman

Kaspar was performed May 11th – 20th of the year 1970.

Synopsis:

Kaspar is based on the historical case of a 16-year-old boy who appeared from nowhere in Nuremberg in 1828 and who had to be taught to speak from scratch . . . Handke’s play is a downright attack on the way language is used by a corrupt society to depersonalize the individual.

Goodbye Howard and the Broofer

Playwright: Romulus Linney

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: K. Callan, Suzanne Smith, Dorothy Von Muchow, Eddy Grove, Edward Morehouse, James Bulleit, Tom McCready, Jess Osuna, Ronald Silver, Stephen Levi, Brandwell Teuscher, Anne Ashcraft, Andrea Gruen, Virginia Arrea, Maria Manay, Frank Geraci, Jaime Sanchez, Antonio Canal, Michael Mullins, Craig Dalzell, Peter Von Berg, Bruce Copeland, Edward Horton, Peter Von Berg, Joanne Bayes, Leigh Burch, Jean Francis, Naomi Riordan, Shirley Bodtke, Lily Lodge, Justine Herman, Mary Briggs, John F. Boylan, Herbert Berghof, Jack Axelrod, Leigh Burch, Paul Thomas

Lighting and Set Director: Jennifer Tipton Costumes: Barbara Baretta Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Brandwell Tuscher Secretary to the Playwrights Foundation: Peggy Penniman Stage Manager: Bruce Copeland Stage Manager: Justine Herman Lighting Technician: Marsha Appet Lighting Technician: Faye Kleinhaus Production Assistant: Mary Briggs Production Assistant: Craig Dalzell Production Assistant: Bill Freedman

Goodbye Howard and the Broofer was performed March 23rd-April 12th

Salute a Distant Man

Playwright: Robert Sugarman

Director: Frank Geraci

Cast: Donna Pizzi, Kristin Helmore, Jack Axelrod, Rudy Caringi, James Kiernan, Richard Meibers, Brandwell Teuscher and Charles Cilona

Set: Robert Joel Schwartz Lighting: Tony Quintavalla Costumes: Michele Cohen Production Stage Manager: Marsha Appet Stage Managers: Bruce Copeland and Peggy Penniman Technical Director: Brandwell Teuscher

Synopsis:

Santacqua

Playwright: Joanna Glass

Director: Austin Pendleton

Cast: Sylvia Burnell, Elinor Ellsworth, Frank Geraci, Michael Higgins, Marlene Mancini, Paul Thomas, Katina Commings and Robert Elston

Set and Costume Designer: Charles D. Tomlinson Lighting Designer: Walter Uhrman Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Stage Manager: Lynn Grossman and Elizabeth Hoover Understudy: Edith Greenfield Poster: Ann Raychel and Kathryn Stein Technical Director: Brandwell Teuscher Lighting Technician: Arlene Siegel Production Assistants: Ed Horton, Jim Boyle, James McMahon, Stephen Levi, Fran Gerardi, Justine Herman and Michael Hanks House Assistants: Andrea Gruen, Marsha Appet, Ed Horton and Marian Cates

Santaqua was performed December 12th – 21st of the year 1969.

Synopsis:

 

Democracy and Esther

Playwright: Romulus Linney

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Mason Adams, Lily Lodge, Richard Duschinsky, William Prince, Inga Swenson, Ben Piazza, George Grizzard, Leigh Burch, Hurd Hatfield, Uta Hagen, Fritz Weaver, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Tony Weaver

Designer: Jennifer Tipton Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Lighting Assistant: Antonio Canal House Manager: Ann Dallwitz Poster Designer: Ann Raychel Production Assistant: James Hurley and John Santaromite

Democracy and Esther was performed December of the year 1969.

Synopsis: 

Democracy is an adaptation of two Henry Adams novels, Democracy and Esther and the diaries of General Ulysses S. Grant.  The play premiered in 1974 at the Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond, Virginia.  Theatre scholar James Seymour commented “Esther’s story focuses mainly on religion, while Madeline’s dilemma centers on the responsibilities of the state.  The common denominator is the remarkable independence and spirit of these two strong women.”  While the play focuses on the two women and their journeys, Linney wrote that “this play is about the childhood of democracy: it’s about youth; it looks at what was wrong with democracy when it was young.”