Citadel Theatre production history

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The Citadel Theatre is the major theatre-arts venue in Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta, Canada. This is a chronological list of the productions staged there since its opening night on November 10, 1965.[1]

1965–1966[]

1966–1967[]

1967–1968[]

1968–1969[]

1969–1970[]

1970–1971[]

  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • Staircase – by Charles Dyer
  • – by William Douglas-Home
  • Plaza Suite – by Neil Simon
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • – by
  • – by

1971–1972[]

1972–1973[]

1973–1974[]

1974–1975[]

  • The Rivals – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • – by Bob Randall
  • Anything Goes – by Cole Porter
  • – by Hugh Leonard
  • Uncle Vanya – by Anton Chekhov
  • – by Michel Tremblay
  • The Alchemist – by Ben Jonson
  • – by
  • – by George Bernard Shaw
  • – by

1975–1976[]

1976–1977[]

  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • Equus – by Peter Shaffer
  • Oh, Coward! – by Noël Coward
  • Schweik in the Second World War – by Bertolt Brecht
  • – by
  • Same Time, Next Year – by Bernard Slade
  • The Master Builder – by Henrik Ibsen
  • – by Beverley Simons
  • – by Sharon Pollock

1977–1978[]

  • Happy Days – by Samuel Beckett
  • Bedroom Farce – by Alan Ayckbourn
  • Pygmalion – by George Bernard Shaw
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • The Night of the Iguana – by Tennessee Williams
  • Dames at Sea – book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and , music by Jim Wise
  • Antigone – by Jean Anouilh
  • – by
  • – by Paddy Campbell, music by
  • – by David Rudkin
  • The Lover – by Harold Pinter
  • The Stronger – by August Strindberg
  • – by
  • Treasure Island – by Robert Louis Stevenson

1978–1979[]

  • Harold and Maude – by Colin Higgins
  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • Flowers for Algernon – by Daniel Keyes
  • Cause Célèbre – by Terence Rattigan
  • Charley's Aunt – by Brandon Thomas
  • – by George Ryga
  • Moby Dick - Rehearsed – by Orson Welles
  • Rashomon – by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
  • – by
  • – by Eugène Ionesco
  • – by Richard Ouzounian
  • – by Peter Coe
  • – by A. A. Milne

1979–1980[]

1980–1981[]

1981–1982[]

  • Catholics – by Brian Moore
  • – by W. O. Mitchell
  • The Boy Friend – by Sandy Wilson
  • The Comedy of Errors – by William Shakespeare
  • The Elephant Man – by Bernard Pomerance
  • – by Keith Baxter
  • Talley's Folly – by Lanford Wilson
  • Tom Foolery – by Tom Lehrer
  • Inadmissible Evidence – by John Osborne
  • The Lion in Winter – by James Goldman
  • – by Allan Stratton
  • The Hobbit – by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Cinderella – by

1982–1983[]

1983–1984[]

  • The Lark – by Jean Anouilh
  • Educating Rita – by Willy Russell
  • King Lear – by William Shakespeare
  • Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
  • Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
  • Duddy – by Mordecai Richler, music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
  • – by
  • – by Allan Miller
  • – by
  • – by Gale Garnett
  • Nuts – by Tom Topor
  • – by
  • – by

1984–1985[]

  • – by
  • Peter Pan – by J. M. Barrie
  • The Real Thing – by Tom Stoppard
  • Mephisto – by Klaus Mann and Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night – by Eugene O'Neill
  • Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four – by George Orwell
  • Glengarry Glen Ross – by David Mamet
  • – by
  • "Master Harold"...and the Boys – by Athol Fugard
  • – by Peter Whelan
  • The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
  • The Promise – by Aleksei Arbuzov
  • – by

1985–1986[]

  • – by Anne Chislett
  • Pieces of Eight – book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, music by Jule Styne
  • The Tempest – by William Shakespeare
  • Trafford Tanzi – by
  • Top Girls – by Caryl Churchill
  • Private Lives – by Noël Coward
  • Master Class – by David Pownall
  • Salt-Water Moon – by David French
  • Ain't Misbehavin' – book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., music by Fats Waller
  • Fool for Love – by Sam Shepard
  • – by Becker/Clinton
  • Winnie-the-Pooh – by A. A. Milne
  • She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
  • – by
  • – by

1986–1987[]

  • Brighton Beach Memoirs – by Neil Simon
  • – by Marsha Norman
  • Pride and Prejudice – by Jane Austen
  • Tsymbaly – by
  • – by Andrew Johns
  • Jerry's Girls – by Jerry Herman
  • The Double Bass – by Patrick Süskind
  • – by Mbongeni Ngema
  • Fire – by Paul Ledoux and David Young
  • Pericles – by William Shakespeare
  • The Lord of the Rings – by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Wizard of Oz – by L. Frank Baum
  • – by
  • – by Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – by Washington Irving
  • The Wind in the Willows – by Kenneth Grahame

1987–1988[]

1988–1989[]

1989–1990[]

1990–1991[]

1991–1992[]

  • Aspects of Love – book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart
  • The Good Doctor – by Neil Simon
  • – by Norm Foster
  • Lend Me a Tenor – by Ken Ludwig
  • Fallen Angels – by Noël Coward
  • Oedipus / Black Comedy (double bill) – by Sophocles and Peter Shaffer
  • Democracy – by John Murrell
  • – by
  • – by
  • Letter from Wingfield Farm – by Dan Needles
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • – by David Craig and Robert Morgan
  • Robin Hood – by David Wood, and Toni Arthur
  • – by Mark Leiren-Young
  • Three Men in a Boat – by

1992–1993[]

  • The Royal Hunt of the Sun – by Peter Shaffer
  • – by John Murrell
  • Man of La Mancha – book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
  • La Bête – by David Hirson
  • The Two of Us – by Michael Frayn
  • She Stoops to Conquer – by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hamlet – by William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Invisible Friends – by Alan Ayckbourn
  • The Diary of Anne Frank – by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
  • – by Eileen Whitfield
  • Shirley Valentine – by Willy Russell
  • Hosanna – by Michel Tremblay
  • Duet for One – by Tom Kempinski

1993–1994[]

  • Saint Joan – by George Bernard Shaw
  • Wait Until Dark – by Frederick Knott
  • Oliver! – by Lionel Bart
  • Cyrano de Bergerac – by Edmond Rostand
  • Oleanna – by David Mamet
  • Hay Fever – by Noël Coward
  • Our Town – by Thornton Wilder
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Alan Ayckbourn
  • Love Letters – by A. R. Gurney
  • – by Katherine Beaumont
  • – by Gale Garnett
  • Someone Who'll Watch Over Me – by Frank McGuinness

1994–1995[]

  • Caesar and Cleopatra – by George Bernard Shaw
  • The Lay of the Land – by Mel Shapiro
  • The Music Man – by Meredith Willson
  • The Cherry Orchard – by Anton Chekhov, translation by John Murrell
  • The Beggar's Opera – by John Gay
  • A Man for All Seasons – by Robert Bolt
  • Richard III – by William Shakespeare
  • Oh, What a Lovely War! – by Joan Littlewood

1995–1996[]

  • – by
  • – by A. R. Gurney
  • – by Georges Feydeau
  • – by Terence Frisby
  • Fiddler on the Roof – music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein
  • Da – by Hugh Leonard
  • Three Tall Women – by Edward Albee
  • – by Stewart Lemoine

1996–1997[]

  • Ghosts – by Henrik Ibsen
  • Travels with My Aunt – by Graham Greene
  • Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika – by Tony Kushner
  • My Fair Lady – book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe
  • – by Raymond Storey
  • The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
  • An Ideal Husband – by Oscar Wilde
  • – by Edward Albee
  • Wingfield's Folly – by Dan Needles
  • Mata Hari – by
  • – by Mary Lou Fallis
  • The Piano Man's Daughter – by Timothy Findley
  • – by
  • – by Stewart Lemoine

1997–1998[]

  • Suddenly, Last Summer – by Tennessee Williams
  • – by Soh Kuramoto
  • Othello – by William Shakespeare
  • Hello, Dolly! – lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart
  • A Delicate Balance – by Edward Albee
  • Mrs. Warren's Profession – by George Bernard Shaw
  • Master Class – by Terrence McNally
  • Lady, Be Good – written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, music by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

1998–1999[]

  • Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck
  • How I Learned to Drive – by Paula Vogel
  • – by Dan Needles
  • The King and I – by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Tartuffe – by Molière
  • Skylight – by David Hare
  • Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
  • Babes in Arms – by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
  • Wealth – by Aristophanes

1999–2000[]

2000–2001[]

  • To Kill A Mockingbird – by Harper Lee and
  • Wit's End – by
  • Betty's Summer Vacation – by Christopher Durang
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
  • – by Melody Anderson
  • Wit – by Margaret Edson
  • – by and George Elliott Clarke
  • Camelot – by Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe
  • Romeo and Juliet – by William Shakespeare
  • 'Art' – by Yasmina Reza

2001–2002[]

2002–2003[]

  • Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni
  • The Actor's Nightmare – by Christopher Durang
  • Proof – by David Auburn
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
  • – by Joanna McClelland Glass
  • Einstein's Gift – by Vern Thiessen
  • Homeward Bound – by Elliott Hayes
  • Grease – by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
  • – by
  • – by Marty Chan

2003–2004[]

  • Arms and the Man – by George Bernard Shaw
  • Amadeus – by Peter Shaffer
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
  • Stones in His Pockets – by Marie Jones
  • Measure for Measure – by William Shakespeare
  • Wingfield on Ice – by Dan Needles
  • The Sound of Music – by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
  • The Shape of Things – by Neil LaBute
  • Blue/Orange – by Joe Penhall
  • The Syringa Tree – by
  • Love You Forever – by Robert Munsch
  • – by Dennis Foon
  • Where The Wild Things Are – by Maurice Sendak

2004–2005[]

2005–2006[]

  • Blithe Spirit – by Noël Coward
  • – by
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
  • I Am My Own Wife – by Doug Wright
  • Guys and Dolls – music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
  • Trying – by Joanna Glass
  • Peter Pan – by adapted from the novel by J. M. Barrie
  • Frozen – by Bryony Lavery
  • Fully Committed – by Becky Mode
  • – by Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks
  • A Year With Frog and Toad – by Arnold Lobel
  • – by William Kurelek
  • – by Margaret Mahy

2006–2007[]

2007–2008[]

  • Noises Off – by Michael Frayn
  • I, Claudia – by Kirsten Thomson
  • Hana's Suitcase – by
  • – by Vern Thiessen
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
  • Beauty and the Beast – music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton
  • Shining City – by Conor McPherson
  • Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
  • – by Colleen Murphy
  • – by John Mighton
  • Fire – by Paul Ledoux and David Young

2008–2009[]

  • Pride and Prejudice – by Jane Austen, adapted by
  • – by Ronnie Burkett
  • The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead – by
  • – by Marty Chan
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by
  • Scorched – by Wajdi Mouawad
  • – by
  • Julius Caesar – by William Shakespeare
  • – by John Patrick Shanley
  • – by
  • The Wizard of Oz – by L. Frank Baum

2009–2010[]

  • The Drowsy Chaperone – by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
  • Blackbird – by David Harrower
  • The Jungle Book – by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by
  • Rock 'n' Roll – by Tom Stoppard
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by
  • Wingfield's Lost and Found – by Dan Needles
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – by Hugh Wheeler
  • – by Michael Healey
  • The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
  • – by , and
  • As You Like It – by William Shakespeare
  • Beauty and the Beast – music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton

2010–2011[]

  • The Three Musketeers – adaptation by Tom Wood; book by Alexandre Dumas
  • – by Allan Knee, based on the book by Louisa May Alcott
  • – by Brad Fraser
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • – by Dennis Foon
  • – by Joan McLeod
  • Billy Bishop Goes to War – by John Gray
  • Hunchback – by
  • – by Kevin Kerr
  • Intimate Apparel – by Lynn Nottage
  • August: Osage County – by Tracy Letts

2011-2012[]

  • Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
  • Blind Date – by Rebecca Northan
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • – by Daniel MacIvor
  • The Sound of Music – by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse
  • Red – by John Logan
  • Seussical – by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, based on the works of Dr. Seuss
  • The Rocky Horror Show – by Richard O’Brien
  • Penny Plain – by Ronnie Burkett
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – by William Shakespeare
  • God of Carnage – Yazmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton

2012-2013[]

  • A Few Good Men - by Aaron Sorkin
  • Next to Normal - book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt
  • A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by
  • Private Lives - by Noël Coward
  • Ride the Cyclone - by , music by & Jacob Richmond
  • The Kite Runner - adapted by Matthew Spangler, based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Penelopiad - by Margaret Atwood
  • Monty Python's Spamalot - book & lyrics by Eric Idle, music by John Du Prez & Eric Idle

2013-2014[]

[2]

2014-2015[]

  • Kim’s Convenience – by Ins Choi
  • – by Ronnie Burkett
  • One Man, Two Guvnors – by Richard Bean
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • Venus in Fur – by David Ives
  • Playing with Fire – by Kirstie McLellan Day and Theoren Fleury
  • Life, Death and The Blues – by Raoul Bhaneja
  • Vigilante – by Jonathan Christenson
  • Arcadia – by Tom Stoppard
  • Avenue Q – by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx

2015-2016[]

  • BOOM - by Rick Miller
  • Evangeline - by Ted Dykstra
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • Chelsea Hotel - by Tracey Power
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - by Edward Albee
  • The Gay Heritage Project - by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass - by Lewis Carroll, adapted for the stage by James Reaney
  • Other Desert Cities - by Jon Robin Baitz
  • West Side Story - book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

2016-2017[]

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - by Simon Stephens
  • Bittergirl - The Musical - by Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore
  • Million Dollar Quartet - by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • - by Jonathan Christensen
  • Disgraced - by Ayad Akhtar
  • Crazy for You - music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, book by Ken Ludwig
  • Peter and the Starcatcher - stage adaptation by Rick Elice, based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
  • Sense and Sensibility - adapted by Tom Wood from novel by Jane Austen

2017-2018[]

  • Shakespeare in Love - based on the Screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
  • Hadestown - by Anaïs Mitchell, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin
  • The Humans - by Stephen Karam
  • Empire of the Sun - by Tetsuro Shigematsu
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • Children of God - by Corey Payette
  • Silver Arrow - by Mieko Ouchi
  • Ubuntu: The Capetown Project - by D. Cloran, M.Grootboom, D.Hay, D. Jansen, H. Lewis, M. Monteith, and A. Nebulane
  • Mamma Mia! - Music & lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus with Some songs Stig Anderson, Book by Catherine Johnson
  • Undercover - by Rebecca Northan with Bruce Horak

2018-2019[]

  • Once - by Enda Walsh
  • Redpatch - by Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver
  • Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley - by Margot Melcon and Lauren Gunderson
  • A Christmas Carol – adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the book by Charles Dickens
  • Sweat - by Lynn Nottage
  • Matilda the Musical - Written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, based on the book by Roald Dahl
  • The Candidate - by Kat Sandler
  • The Party- by Kat Sandler (played in repertory with The Candidate)
  • The Tempest -by William Shakespeare

[3]

2019-2020[]

  • Ring of Fire - by Richard Maltby Jr. , music by Johnny Cash
  • Six - by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

Productions have been suspended due to the Coronavirus Pandemic as of March 2020

References[]

  1. ^ "History". The Citadel Theatre. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
  2. ^ "News: Citadel Theatre in Edmonton Announces 2013-2014 Season". Theatre Alberta. Theatre Alberta. Mar 19, 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Citadel Theatre announces inclusive, political, and heartwarming 2018-19 season". The Gateway. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2020-09-06.

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