Theatre New Brunswick is the only professional theatre company in New Brunswick, Canada. It began operation in 1968, and has been successfully operating since that time.[1][2] TNB celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018.
The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged since its inception.
1968
edit1969
edit- The Marriage-Go-Round – by Leslie Stevens
- Inadmissible Evidence – by John Osborne
- Boeing Boeing – by Marc Camoletti
- The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
- The Importance of Being Earnest – by Oscar Wilde
- Gaslight – by Patrick Hamilton
- Star Spangled Girl – by Neil Simon
- See How They Run – by Philip King
- Dick Whittington – by Nicholas Pegg
1970
edit- Two for the Seesaw – by William Gibson
- There's a Girl in My Soup – by Terence Frisby
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – by Edward Albee
- Black Comedy – by Peter Shaffer
- A Resounding Tinkle – by N. F. Simpson
- Private Lives – by Noël Coward
- Mary, Mary – by Jean Kerr
- Dial M for Murder – by Frederick Knott
- Critic's Choice – by Ira Levin
- Please Don't Sneeze
1971
edit1972
edit1973
edit1974
edit- Death of a Salesman – by Arthur Miller
- Who Killed Santa Claus? – by Terence Feely
- Born Yesterday – by Garson Kanin
- The Fantasticks – music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones
- Frankenstein – The Man Who Would Be God
- The Fourposter – by Jan de Hartog
- Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance – by Michael Cook
1975
edit- The School for Scandal – by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Godspell – by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
- Sleuth – by Anthony Shaffer
- The Man Most Likely To
- The Innocents – by William Archibald
- A Flea in Her Ear – by Georges Feydeau
- Frankenstein – adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
- No Name
- The Island – by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona
- Radisson
- The Secret in the Woods or Oedipus Overcome
1976
edit- The Servant of Two Masters – by Carlo Goldoni
- The Diary of Anne Frank – by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- Godspell – by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
- Relatively Speaking – by Alan Ayckbourn
- Wait Until Dark – by Frederick Knott
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers – by Neil Simon
- Daughter-in-law – by D. H. Lawrence
- The Mysterious Stranger
- Gilgamesh
- Dr. Mildew's Marvelous Magical Musical Medicine Show
1977
edit- The Dollar Woman – by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
- The Taming of the Shrew – by William Shakespeare
- The Price – by Arthur Miller
- Made in Heaven – by Georges Feydeau
- One Night Stand
- Equus – by Peter Shaffer
- The Vanishing Village
- Dr. Mildew's Marvellous Magical Musical Medicine Show
- Dash Leaves the Theatre
1978
edit- The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca – by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
- Vanities – by Jack Heifner
- Sizwe Banzi Is Dead – by Athol Fugard
- The Norman Conquests – by Alan Ayckbourn
- Man of La Mancha – book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh
- John Gyles: an Indian Experience by Ilkay Silk
- A Peaceable People
- All-new Dr. Mildew's Marvelous Magical Musical Medicine Show
- The Drunkard (or the Dipsomaniac Ameliorated)
1979
edit- The Au Pair Man – by Hugh Leonard
- Waiting for Godot – by Samuel Beckett
- Macbeth – by William Shakespeare
- The Return of A. J. Raffles – by Graham Greene
- The Subject Was Roses – by F. D. Gilroy
- Same Time, Next Year – by Bernard Slade
- 18 Wheels – by John MacLachlan Gray
- The Clam Made a Face – by Eric Nicol
- A Marriage Proposal – by Anton Chekhov
- Box and Cox – by John Maddison Morton
1980
edit- Hansel and Gretel – by the Brothers Grimm
- On Golden Pond – by Ernest Thompson
- Free at Last
- Twelfth Night – by William Shakespeare
- The Glass Menagerie – by Tennessee Williams
- Eight to the Bar – by Stephen Witkin
- Alexander's Birthday
- Winners (play)
- Prejudiced ... Who Me?
- A Clean Bill or How to Settle Accounts with a Laundress
- The Grandiosos
1980–1981
edit1981–1982
edit- Talley's Folly – by Lanford Wilson
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown – music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, book by John Gordon
- Murder Game – by Dan Ross
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- Wuthering Heights – by Emily Brontë
- An Astral Voyage
- The Home Children
- Punch and Judy Show
1982–1983
edit1983–1984
edit1984–1985
edit1985–1986
edit1986–1987
edit- Jitters – by David French
- The Best of Tap
- Zero Hour! – by Arthur Hailey
- The Little Foxes – by Lillian Hellman
- Educating Rita – by Willy Russell
- A Child Is Crying on the Stairs
- The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon – by W. O. Mitchell
- Peacemaker
- How I Wonder What You Are
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – by C. S. Lewis
1987–1988
edit- My Darling Judith – by Norm Foster
- Guys and Dolls – music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
- McClure
- Lucien – by Marshall Button
- The Corn Is Green – by Emlyn Williams
- Corpse!
- My Memories of You
- Lockhartville
- The Late Great Date
- I Am a Bear!
1988–1989
edit1989–1990
edit1990–1991
edit1991–1992
edit1992–1993
edit- Wrong for Each Other
- The Winter's Tale – by William Shakespeare
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – by Tennessee Williams
- Italian American Reconciliation
- Wingfield's Folly
- Night Light
- Best All Around
1993–1994
edit1994–1995
edit1995–1996
edit- I'll Be Back Before Midnight
- Steel Magnolias – by Robert Harling
- A Gift to Last – by Gordon Pinsent, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning
- The Gin Game – by D. L. Coburn
- Rock and Roll – by John MacLachlan Gray
- Lend Me a Tenor – by Ken Ludwig
- Charlotte's Web – by E. B. White
- A Marriage Proposal – by Anton Chekhov
1996–1997
edit1997–1998
edit1998–1999
edit1999–2000
edit- The Woman in Black – by Susan Hill
- A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens
- Drinking Alone
- The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux – by Gratien Gélinas
- I Do! I Do! – book and lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt
- Beo's Bedroom
- Closer to Home
- Big [citation needed]
2000–2001
edit- Song for a New World
- Ethan Clamore
- The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls
- The Drawer Boy – by Michael Healey
- Wingfield Unbound – by Dan Needles
- The Princess and the Handmaiden
- The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr – by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long and Daniel Singer
- Grease – by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
2001–2002
edit- Picasso at the Lapin Agile – by Steve Martin
- Anne – adapted for the stage by Paul Ledoux
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue – by Neil Simon
- Late Shift
- A Time for Magic
2002–2003
edit- The Secret Garden – by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 'Art' – by Yasmina Reza
- Jasper Station – book and lyrics by Norm Foster, music and lyrics by Steve Thomas
- Danny King of the Basement
- Mirror Game
- Hello, Dolly! – lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart
- A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare
2003–2004
edit- The Hobbit – by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Dear Santa
- Vinci – by Maureen Hunter
- Wingfield on Ice – by Dan Needles
- Zak and the Magic Blue Stones
- I Met a Bully on the Hill
- Secrets
- Chicago
2004–2005
edit2005–2006
edit2006–2007
edit2007–2008
edit2008–2009
edit2009–2010
edit2010–2011
edit2011–2012
edit- A Doll's House – by Henrik Ibsen
- The 39 Steps – by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Gifts of the Magi – by O. Henry
- The Dollar Woman – by Norm Foster and Alden Nowlan
- The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) – by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell
- The Wizard of Oz – by L. Frank Baum
- The Pirates of Penzance – by Sir Arthur Sullivan
- The Chocolate War – by Robert Cormier
2012–2013
edit- Oleanna – by David Mamet
- Hilda's Yard – by Norm Foster
- It's a Wonderful Life – by Philip Grecian
- Little Shop of Horrors – by Howard Ashman
- West Side Story – by Arthur Laurents
- The Little Mermaid – by Doug Wright
- Peter Pan – by J. M. Barrie
2013–2014
edit2014–2015
edit- Frankenstein, The Man Who Became God – by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan
- A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens, adapted by Caleb Marshall, Michael Doherty, and Tania Breen
- On a First Name Basis – by Norm Foster
- Beaverbrook – by David Adams Richards
- The Indigenous Peoples Project
- Somme Letters Home – Letters of Private John Bapst Cronin
- The Drowsy Chaperone – by Don McKellar and Bob Martin
- The Sound of Music – by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
2015-2016
edit- You Play Beautifully - by Thomas Morgan Jones
- Life, Death and the Blues - by Raoul Bhaneja
- Vigil - by Morris Panych
- Watching Glory Die - by Judith Thompson
- Little Women, The Musical - book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland
- The Space Between - by Thomas Morgan Jones
- Returning Fire - by Ryan Griffith
- Marion Bridge - by Daniel MacIvor
- Mary Poppins - music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (aka the Sherman Brothers), with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes.
2016-2017
edit- A Sunday Affair - by Gabrielle Houle, Thomas Morgan Jones and Richard Lee.
- Ghost Light - by Shawn Wright
- The Snow Queen - by Hans Christian Andresen | Adapted by Thomas Morgan Jones
- The Damsel In Distress Who Saved Herself - by Kira Smith
- The Boat - Ryan Griffith
- Shrek, The Musical - Music by Jeanni Tesori | Book and Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
2017-2018
edit- Fortune of Wolves - by Ryan Griffith
- A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens | Adapted by Thomas Morgan Jones
- A Herman Tale - by Paul McAllister, adapted by Tania Breen
- Goodbye Marianne - by Irene Kirstein Watts
- Finding Wolastoq Voice - by Natalie Sappier
- Beauty and the Beast - Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton
2018-2019
edit- Any Given Moment - Kim Parkhill
- Come Down From Up River - by Norm Foster (a production from The Foster Festival)
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
- Gretel & Hansel - Written by Brothers Grimm | Adapted by Thomas Morgan Jones
- Sania The Destroyer - by Mona'a Malik
- A Brief History of the Maritimes and Everywhere Else - by Ryan Griffith
- The Wizard of Oz - By L. Frank Baum, with Music and Lyrics, by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, Background Music by Herbert Stothart, Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard, Orchestration by Larry Wilcox, Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.
2023-2024
edit- Wood Buffalo - by Len Frankenstein
- All I Want for Christmas - by Rebecca Northan
- Becca - by Melanie Léger
- Sidewalk Chalk - by Cliff Cardinal
- Beneath Springhill - by Beau Dixon, with music and lyrics provided by Rob Fortan and Susan Newman[3]
References
edit- ^ Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
- ^ Theatre New Brunswick: About Us : History
- ^ newtnb (2023-06-27). "Theatre New Brunswick Announces 2023-2024 Season". Theatre New Brunswick. Retrieved 2023-09-02.