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.