Birmingham Festival Theatre Production History

1972- Season 1

  • The Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht-Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill

  • A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney

  • Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas

  • She Loves Me by Joe Masteroff

1973- Season 2

  • Love-In

  • The Ballad of Billy the Kid

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

  • The Amorous Flea by Jerry Devine- Music and lyrics by Bruce Montgomery

  • Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey

  • The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley

  • The Decline and Fall of the Entire World As Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter-Music and lyrics by Cole Porter

  • No Strings by Samuel A. Taylor

  • The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

1974-Season 3

  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

  • Berlin to Broadway by Gene Lerner, music by Kurt Weill

  • The Country Girl by Clifford Odets

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Musical by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman

  • Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

  • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

  • The Seagull by Anton Chekov

  • My Heart is in the Highlands by William Saroyan

1975- Season 4

  • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel

  • Oh Coward!, Musical by Noël Coward

  • Severino, Death and the Life of a Stone

  • The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus

  • Trouble in Tahiti, Opera by Leonard Bernstein

  • El Grande de Coca-Cola, Musical by Diz White and Ronald E. House

  • Who’s Happy Now? by Oliver Hailey

  • When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? by Mark Medoff

1976-Season 5

  • George Gershwin Revue

  • Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney

  • Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams

  • Kennedy’s Children by Robert Patrick

  • A Little Night Music, Musical by Hugh Wheeler and Patrick Quentin; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

  • Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade

  • Three Sisters by Anton Chekov

1977-Season 6

  • Davis, J.

  • The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare

  • Southern Comfort

  • Butley by Simon Gray

  • The Last Meeting of the Knight of the White Magnolia by Preston Jones

  • The Oldest Living Graduate by Preston Jones

1978-Season 7

  • Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander by Preston Jones

  • The Mystery Play- Jean-Claude Van Itallie

  • The Beggar’s Opera, Ballad opera by Johann Christoph Pepusch

  • Streamers by David Rabe

  • The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt

  • Starting Here, Starting Now; a musical revue with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and music by David Shire

  • Knock, Knock by Jules Feiffer

  • Welcome to Andromeda by Ron Whyte

1979-Season 8

  • P.S. Your Cat is Dead by James Kirkwood Jr.

  • The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer

  • Side by Side by Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim

  • Counter Culture/1967

  • That Championship Season by Jason Miller

  • Bad Habits by Terrence McNally

  • The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

1980-Season 9

  • Dummy, or, Your Lips Are Moving

  • Hay Fever by Noël Coward

  • The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

  • Ashes by David Rudkin

  • Anyone Can Whistle, Musical by Arthur Laurents

1981- Season 10

  • The Hostage by Brendan Behan

  • A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet

  • El Grande de Coca-Cola, Musical by Diz White and Ronald E. House

  • A Breeze From the Gulf by Mart Crowley

  • Old Flames

  • The Club by David Williamson

1982- Season 11

  • Childe Byron by Romulus Linney

  • A Variation on Macbeth

  • Getting Out by Marsha Norman

  • Only Clowns Wander Here

  • A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan, Loudon Wainwright III

  • Dylan by Sidney Michaels

1983- Season 12

  • Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein

  • The 1940’s Radio Hour, Musical by Walton Jones

  • Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson

  • Talley’s Folly by Lanford Wilson

  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

  • The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty by Brad Bailey

1984- Season 13

  • Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  • Perfectly Frank; written by Kenny Solms. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser

  • March of the Falsettos, Musical by William Finn

  • The Wake of Jamey Foster by Beth Henley

  • The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet

1985- Season 14

  • Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

  • Royal Gambit by Hermann Gressieker, George White

  • Hooters by Ted Tally

  • A Soldier’s Tale by Charles Fuller

  • Fool for Love by Sam Shepard

  • Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill

1986- Season 15

  • The Dresser by Ronald Harwood

  • Painting Churches by Tina Howe

  • Wings by Arthur Kopit

  • Buried Child by Sam Shepard

  • The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone

  • Talking With…by Jane Martin

1987-Season 16

  • Quilters, Musical by Barbara Damashek and Molly Newman

  • The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice

  • A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

*Renovation and Reopening*

1988- Season 17

  • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

  • Personals; written by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta Kauffman, with music by William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz and Michael Skloff

  • A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard

  • Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

1989-Season 18

  • Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally

  • Tartuffe by Molière

  • Burn This by Lanford Wilson

  • Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

  • Foxfire by Susan Cooper

  • I’m Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner

1990- Season 19

  • Veronica’s Room by Ira Levin

  • The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard

  • Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis

  • Betrayal by Harold Pinter

  • The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

  • The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam ( A Birmingham Repertory Theatre Production)

1991- Season 20

  • They’re Playing Our Song by Neil Simon

  • Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

  • A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

  • Zoo Story/The Duck Variations by playwrights Edward Albee and David Mamet

  • Fences by August Wilson

  • On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning by Eric Overmyer

1992- Season 21

  • A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill

  • Breaking the Silence Stephen Poliakoff

  • The Secret Rapture by David Hare

  • Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon

  • Assassins, Musical by John Weidman with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

1993- Season 22

  • The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

  • Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening With the Illuminati) by Larry Larson and Levi Lee

  • My Children, My Africa! Athol Fugard

  • Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell

  • Festival Festival of New Plays (Staged Readings)

  • The Fantasticks, Musical by Tom Jones

  • A Woman in Mind (December Bee) by Alan Ayckbourn

  • Righting the Perfect Girl/Menage a 2 1/2 (BFT EXTRA)

1994- Season 23

  • The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy

  • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

  • Purlie Victorious, Musical by Ossie Davis, Peter Udell, and Philip Rose

  • Love Letters by A. R. Gurney

  • Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw

  • Many Things Have Happened Since He Died And Here Are the Highlights by Elizabeth Dewberry

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

  • The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia by Preston Jones

1995-Season 24

  • Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare

  • Al Dempart for Governor

  • Oleanna by David Mamet

  • Ali

  • Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine

  • The Second Festival Festival of New Plays

1995-1996- Season 25

  • A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner

  • Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness

  • Jake’s Women by Neil Simon

  • Hunting Cockroaches by Janusz Glowacki

  • Angry Housewives by A.M. Collins and Chad Henry

  • A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally

  • The Last Hotel for Women (Southern Playworks) by Randy Marsh

1996-1997- Season 26

  • Sylvia by A.R. Gurney

  • Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver

  • Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon

  • The Ladies of Tennessee (One Acts by Tennessee Williams)

  • American Buffalo by David Mamet

  • Alabama Rain

  • Gloria Duplex (Southern Playworks)

1997-1998-Season 27

  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen

  • Romance, Romance by Barry Harman and Keith Herrmann

  • Second Samuel by Pamela Parker

  • Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

  • Travels With My Aunt by Giles Havergal

  • Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

1998-1999- Season 28

  • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

  • Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson

  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin

  • Many Things Have Happened Since He Died And Here Are the Highlights by Elizabeth Dewberry

  • The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

  • Jack & Jill

  • Catfish Moon (Southern Playworks) by Laddy Sartin

  • Two Kinds of Romantics (Southern Playworks)

1999-2000- Season 29

  • The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry

  • As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane

  • Closer Than Ever by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr.

  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  • Master Class by Terrance McNally

  • Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman

2000-2001- Season 30

  • The Dining Room by A. R. Gurney

  • The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

  • Popcorn by Ben Elton

  • Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg

  • The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein

  • Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

2001-2002- Season 31

  • The Country Club by Douglas Carter Beane

  • Putting It Together by Stephen Sondheim

  • The SantaLand Diaries/Seasons Greetings by David Sedaris and Joe Mantello

  • Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman

  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany, and Amy Hill Hearth

  • Art by Yasmina Reza

  • The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman

2002-2003- Season 32

  • Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman

  • Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies

  • Inspecting Carol by Daniel J. Sullivan

  • Hello Again by Michael John LaChiusa (Based on La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler)

  • The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

  • Angels In America Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner

  • Tom Jones

  • Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell

2003-2004- Season 33

  • Apartment 3A by Jeff Daniels

  • The Guys by Anne Nelson

  • The Fourth Wall by A. R. Gurney

  • Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn

  • The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask

  • Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

2004-2005- Season 34

  • The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

  • The Subject Tonight is Love

  • Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol by Tom Mula

  • Jar the Floor by Cheryl West

  • Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg

  • The Vast Difference by Jeff Daniels

  • Collected Stories by Donald Margulies

2005-2006-Season 35

  • First Lady Suite by Michael John LaChiusa

  • Hazard County

  • The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown

  • The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode

  • Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage

  • Voice of Good Hope by Kristine Thatcher

  • Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro

  • Acrobats and Line by Israel Horovitz

2006-2007- Season 36

  • The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel

  • Fat Pig by Neil LaBute

  • The Woman in Black by Stephen Mallatratt (based on the novel by Susan Hill)

  • The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode

  • Mahalia by Tom Stolz

  • The Children's Hour by lillian Hellman

  • Frozen by Bryony Lavery

  • I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

  • Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire

2007-2008- Season 37

  • Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson

  • Quills by Doug Wright

  • The Santaland Diaries and Seasons Greetings to our Friends and Family!! by David Sedaris and Joe Mantello

  • Hiding Behind Comets by Brian Dykstra

  • Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens by Bill Russell and Janet Hood (adapted from Spoon River Anthology)

  • The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch

  • The White Rose by Lillian Garrett-Groag

  • The Underpants by Carl Sternheim and Steve Martin

2008-2009- Season 38

  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom (based on the book by Mitch Albom)

  • Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

  • The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane

  • Kindertransport by Diane Samuels

  • Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang

  • The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

  • Screwups

  • The Great Wrong Way: Broadway Favorites Backwards

2009-2010- Season 39

  • The Cocktail Hour by A. R. Gurney

  • Bus Stop

  • The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 by Joh Bishop

  • Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

  • Almost, Maine by John Cariani

  • Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell and Jack Kirkland

  • Dedication: Haden Gaines Marsh Gallery

2010-2011- Season 40

  • Talking With... by Jane Martin

  • Lobby Hero by kenneth Lonergan

  • Loot by Joe Orton

  • Around the World in 80 Days

  • Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz

  • Cobb by Lee Blessing

2011-2012- Season 41

  • That Championship Season by Jason Miller

  • Quilters by Barbara Damashek and Molly Newman

  • Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo

  • Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney

  • Hay Fever by Noël Coward

  • The Last Hotel for Women by Randy Marsh

2012-2013- Season 42

  • Black Pearl Sings! by Frank Higgins

  • Love, Loss & What I Wore by Delia Ephron, Ilene Beckerman, and Nora Ephron

  • Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz

  • Red by Joh Logan

  • Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz

  • The Last Flapper by William Luce

2013-2014- Season 43

  • Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

  • Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz

  • Grace by Mick Gordon and A. C. Grayling

  • Quartet by Ronald Harwood

  • The Book of Liz by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris

  • Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams

2014-2015- Season 44

  • Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang

  • Ghost Write

  • Completeness by Itamar Moses

  • Tribes by Nina Raine

  • Venus in Fur by David Ives

2016-2017- Season 45

  • Red Herring by Michael Hollinger

  • I and You by Lauren Gunderson

  • Stop Kiss by Diana Son

  • Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

2017-2018- Season 46

  • Becky’s New Car by Steven Dietz

  • The Dresser by Ronald Harwood

  • Picasso at the Lapine Agile by Steve Martin

  • Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee and Giles Cooper

  • The Diviners by Jim Leonard Jr.

  • Well by Lisa Kron

2018-2019- Season 47

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens

  • The Good Doctor by Neil Simon

  • Christmas with The Clauses (BFT Extra)

  • A Weekend of Comedy (BFT Fundraiser)

  • Maytag Virgin by Audrey Cefaly

  • The Mountaintop by Katori Hall

  • Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson

  • Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown

Between Seasons

  • Choir Boy (Birmingham Black Reparatory Theatre Company) by Tarell Alvin McCraney

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield

2019-2020- Season 48

  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder

  • The Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings (Studio BFT) by David Sedaris and Joe Mantello

  • Christmas with the Clauses (BFT Extra)

  • Picnic by William Inge

  • Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance (Studio BFT) by John Patrick Shanley

  • The Icefront by Eric Samuelson

*COVID-19 shut down the theatre after it’s first weekend run of The Icefront. The remainder of the season was cancelled.

  • Moonlight in the Magic City

  • Puffs by Matt Cox

  • A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Studio BFT)

  • The Liar by David Ives and Pierre Corneille

2020-2021*

*COVID-19 quarantines and safety procedures caused BFT to remain closed and not have a 49th season during this time frame. In June of 2021, we were able to have fundraising comedy shows and give The Icefront the run they deserved.

  • Vulcan’s Underpants Improv Comedy by ETC.

  • Ugly Baby does BFT

  • The Ice Front by Eric Samuelson

2021-2022- Season 49

  • 24 Hour Play Festival (Studio BFT)

  • OffScript Comedy at BFT (BFT Extra)

  • Puffs by Matt Cox

  • The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Studio BFT) by Jeff Goode

  • Christmas with the Clauses (BFT Extra)

  • Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mamet

  • Just Black Enough (Chris Davis Standup Comedy Show)

  • Significant Other by Joshua Harmon

  • Sordid Lives by Del Shores

  • Ladies in Waiting (BFT Reader’s Theatre Series) by James Cougar Canfield

  • Clue by Jonathan Lynn, Hunter Foster, Sandy Rustin, Eric Price

  • Anatomy of Gray by Jim Leonard Jr.

2022-2023- Season 50