List of Westport Country Playhouse performers
Westport Country Playhouse notable performers include[1][2]
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Carl Van Vechten photo portrait of Anna May Wong, in costume for a dramatic adaptation of Puccini's Turandot at Westport, August 11, 1937[3]
- 1933: Kitty Carlisle in Champagne Sec
- 1934: Burgess Meredith in Hide and Seek
- 1935: Ruth Gordon in The Country Wife
- 1936:
- Eva Le Gallienne in Love for Love and Camille
- Dorothy Gish in Russet Mantle
- 1937: Henry Fonda in The Virginian
- 1938: Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife
- 1939:
- Gene Kelly, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green in Magazine Page
- Ruth Gordon in Here Today
- 1940: Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones
- 1941: Tyrone Power in Liliom directed by Lee Strasberg.
- 1942–1945:The Westport Country Playhouse closed because of World War II
- 1946:
- 1947: Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives
- 1948: Thornton Wilder in The Skin of Our Teeth
- 1949:
- Helen Hayes and Mary MacArthur in Good Housekeeping
- Carl Reiner in Pretty Penny
- 1950:
- Maureen Stapleton in My Fiddle Has Three Strings
- Maurice Evans in The Devil's Disciple
- Franchot Tone in The Second Man
- Basil Rathbone in The Winslow Boy
- 1951:
- Claudette Colbert in Island Fling
- Olivia de Havilland in Candida
- 1952: John Forsythe in Dangerous Corner and The Hasty Heart
- 1953:
- Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight and The Play's the Thing
- Lillian Gish in The Trip to Bountiful
- 1954:
- Imogene Coca in Happy Birthday
- Richard Kiley in Candle-Light
- 1955:
- Richard Kiley in Heaven Can Wait
- Eva Marie Saint in The Rainmaker (play)
- 1956:
- Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish in The Chalk Garden
- Bea Lillie in Beasop's Fables
- 1957:
- Eartha Kitt in Mrs. Patterson
- Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in Man in the Dog Suit
- 1958:
- Groucho Marx in A Time for Elizabeth
- Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet
- 1959:
- 1960:
- Joan Fontaine in Susan and God
- Jane Fonda in No Concern of Mine
- Mike Nichols and Elaine May in An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
- 1961:
- Cyril Ritchard and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Pleasure of His Company
- Gloria Swanson in Between Seasons
- 1962:
- Tallulah Bankhead in Here Today
- Sammy Davis Jr. in The Desperate Hours
- 1963:
- 1964:
- Joel Grey in Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
- Helen Hayes in The White House
- 1965:
- Michael Allinson, Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton, and Bramwell Fletcher in the George Bernard Shaw Repertory Festival
- Tammy Grimes in The Private Ear and the Public Eye
- Joan Fontaine in The Unexpected Guest
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1968:
- 1969: Keir Dullea and Maureen O'Sullivan in Butterflies Are Free
- 1970:
- Noel Harrison in Blithe Spirit
- Shirley Booth in Best of Friends
- 1971:
- Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Coca Cola Swamp in the Sky
- Geraldine Page and Rip Torn in Marriage & Money
- 1972:
- Mickey Rooney in See How They Run
- Robert Stack in Remember Me
- 1973:
- José Ferrer in A Song for Cyrano
- Art Carney in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- 1974: Jack Gilford and Lou Jacobi in The Sunshine Boys
- 1975:
- 1976: Eva Marie Saint in Fatal Weakness
- 1977: Jane Alexander and Richard Kiley in The Master Builder
- 1978:
- Douglas Fairbank, Jr. in Out on a Limb
- Louis Jordan in 13 Rue De L'Amour
- 1979: Vincent Price in Diversions & Delights
- 1980:
- 1981: Eva Le Gallienne in To Grandmother's House We Go
- 1982: Eileen Heckart in What I Did Last Summer
- 1983: Shelley Winters in 84, Charing Cross Road
- 1984: Betsy Palmer in Breakfast with Les and Bess
- 1985: Christopher Walken and Katharine Houghton in A Bill of Development
- 1986: Colleen Dewhurst in Real Estate
- 1987: George Grizzard in The Perfect Party
- 1988: Arlene Francis and David Birney in Social Security
- 1989: Elizabeth Ashley in All the Queen's Men
- 1990: Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson in The Cocktail Hour
- 1991: Juliet Mills in Dangerous Obsession
- 1992: Tony Roberts in The Fourth Wall
- 1993: Charles Cioffi in The Substance of Fire
- 1994: Elaine May and Gene Saks in Intimate Exchanges
- 1996: Charles Durning, James Handy, and Dan Lauria in Men in Suits
- 1997: Jean Powell, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller and Paul Benedict in After-Play
- 1998: Jean Stapleton in Eleanor - Her Secret Journey
- 1999:
- James Naughton in Street of Dreams
- Michael Learned and Ralph Waite in Chasing Monsters
- 2000:
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, James Naughton, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Curtin and Fritz Weaver in Ancestral Voices
- Bronson Pinchot in Nicolette & Aucassin
- 2001:
- Gene Wilder in Don't Make Me Laugh
- Leslie Uggams and Bruce Weitz in Heaven Can Wait
- Karen Allen and Chad Allen in Temporary Help
- 2002: Paul Newman, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Converse, Jane Curtin and Jeffrey DeMunn in Our Town
- 2006: James Earl Jones in Thurgood
Notes
- Timeline of Significant Events and Selected Appearances by Notable Artists. Westport, Connecticut: Westport Country Playhouse. July 19, 2002.
- Somerset-Ward, Richard. An American Theatre: The Story of Westport Country Playhouse. Yale University Press. (2005)
- Hodges, Graham Russell, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend, p 180, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 0-312-29319-4, this footnote and information taken from Anna May Wong article
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