London Plays Well 1978-2010
LondonPlaysWell has a rich history going back to 1978 of seeing the best that London theatre has to offer. Check out this list of shows the group has seen over the years.
Special thanks to Dan Labeille and Joel Potash for putting this list together!
1978
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Bundle by Edward Bond
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Old Country by Alan Bennett
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by Simone Benmussa
1979
State of Revolution by Robert Bolt
Plenty by David Hare
Whose Life Is It Anyway by Brian Clark
The Double Dealer by William Congreve
Brand by Henrik Ibsen
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Night and Day by Tom Stoppard
1980
Good by C.P. Taylor
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Bartholomew’s Fair by Ben Jonson
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Hughie by Eugene O’Neill
Amadeus by Peter Schaffer
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
1981
Passion Play by Peter Nichols
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Oresteia by Sophocles
The Secret Rapture by David Hare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Sisterly Feelings by Alan Ayckbourn
The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan
Harlequinade by Terence Rattigan
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
1982
Cats by T.S. Eliot
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
The Mayor of Zalamea by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shaespeare
1983
Schweich and the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyan
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Other Places by Harold Pinter
1984
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mamet
1985
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
The Mysteries by Tony Harrison
Pravda by Howard Brenton and David Hare
The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Benefactors by Michael Frayn
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
A Little Hotel on the Side by Georges Feydeau
1986
A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Love for Love by William Congreve
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Love for Love by William Congreve
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
1987
The Rover by Aphra Behn
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
Coming Into Land by Stephen Poliakoff
The Magistrate by Arthur Wing Pinero
Tons of Money by Alan Ayckbourn
1988
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Maids by Jean Genet
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
Countrymania by Carlo Goldoni
A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
1989
Mrs. Klein by Nicholas Wright
An Englishman Abroad by Alan Bennett
A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett
Field Day by Brian Friel
Restoration by Edward Bond
1990
The Good Person of Sichuan by Bertolt Brecht
Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker
Single Spies by Alan Bennett
The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Bent by Martin Sherman
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
1991
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Racing Demon by David Hare
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
The Shape of the Table by David Edgar
1992
The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by Arthur Miller
Murmuring Judges by David Hare
The Sea by Edward Bond
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schultz
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
1993
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly
Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe
Cabaret by Fred Ebb and John Kander
Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
1994
Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
The Absence of War by David Hare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 by William Shakespeare
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Moonlight by Harold Pinter
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Oleanna by David Mamet
1995
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
Oliver by Lionel Bart
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll
The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard
Out of a House Walked a Man by Théatre de Complicité
1996
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Volpone by Ben Jonson
Stanley by Pam Gems
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Les Enfants du Paradis by Jean Cocteau
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Company by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim
The Way of the World by William Congreve
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Mother Courage and her Children by Bertolt Brecht
1997
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
Elsinore by Robert LePage
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Beauty Queen of Lenane by Martin McDonagh
Everyman RSC
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco
1998
Othello by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
Amy’s View by David Hare
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Mutabilities by Frank McGuiness
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
1999
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Closer by Patrick Marber
Amadeus by Peter Schaffer
Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
Mnemonic by Simon McBurney and Complicité
The Weir by Conor McPherson
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Loot by Joe Orton
2000
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson
Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Henry VI Parts 1 and 2 by William Shakespeare
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Candide by Voltaire
2001
Life X 3 by Yasmina Reza
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Red by John Logan
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
Stones in His Pocket by Mary Jones
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I Just Stopped by to See the Man by Stephen Jeffreys
Merrily We Roll Along by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
2009
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Gethesmane by David Hare
War Horse by Nick Stafford
Money by Edward Bulwer Litton
The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall
2010
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
The Power of Yes by David Hare
Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Tom Stoppard
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Rope by Patrick Hamilton
Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Neil Simon
Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek