Broadway Previews & Theater Previews
Productions at Duke University 1986-present

Professional Mainstage Productions

1986

Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Director: Jonathan Miller
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey

1986

Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
Director: Gene Saks
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg
Cast: Linda Lavin, Jason Alexander

1987

A Month of Sundays by Bob Larbey
Director: Gene Saks
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg, Jerome Minskoff, and Jujamcyn
Cast: Jason Robards, Patricia Elliot

1987

An Evening With Waylon Jennings
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg, Wayne M. Rogers

1988

A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
Director: Des McAnuff
Producers: Lucille Lortel, American Playhouse Theatre, Yale Rep. Theatre
Cast: Sam Waterston , Robert Prosky

1988

My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Laury Marker and Nelsie Spencer
Director: David Warren
Producer: Dasha Epstein
Cast: Laury Marker, Nelsie Spencer

1989

Metamorphosis from a story by Kafka, adapted by Steven Berkoff
Director: Steven Berkoff
Producers: Lars Schmidt, Roger L. Stevens
Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Madeleine Potter

1989

Moonlight and Valentino by Ellen Simon
Director: Ted Swindley
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg
Cast: Robert Duncan, Sarah Fleming

1989

The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham
Director: Brian Murray
Producers: Elliot Martin, The Shubert Organization, Suntory
Cast: Rex Harrison, Patricia Conolly

1989

Artist Descending A Staircase by Tom Stoppard
Director: Tim Luscombe
Producer: The Staircase Company
Cast: Stephanie Roth, Harold Gould

1989

Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas adapted by John L. Haber
Director: Edward Stern
Producer: Merry Wives Durham Company
Cast: Charles Antalosky, Ollie O'Shea

1990

Avner the Eccentric
Producer: Eccentric Company Inc.
Cast: Avner Eisenberg

1991

Lucifer's Child by William Luce
Director: Tony Abatemarco
Producer: Ronald S. Lee
Cast: Julie Harris

1992

1492 by Christopher Bishop with contributions by Ben Shelfer
Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
Producers: Duke University, William A. Lane
Cast: Leroi Freeman, Robert Cuccioli

1993

Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
Director: Jerry Zaks
Producers: Emanuel Azenberg, Leonard Soloway
Cast: Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker, Randy Graff

1998

Kudzu by Jack Herrick, Doug Marlette, Bland Simpson
Director: Lisa Portes
Co-Producer: Ford's Theatre
Cast: Nicole Bradin, The Red Clay Ramblers

1999

Eleanor: An American Love Story by Thomas Tierney, Jonathan Bolt, and John Forster
Director: Lisa Portes
Co-Producer: Ford's Theatre
Cast: Anthony Cummings, Anne Kanengeiser

2000

Birdy by William Wharton
Director: Kevin Knight
Co-producer: Spring Sirkin
Cast: Wallace Acton, Teagle F. Bougere, Robert Hogan, Michael Pitt, Bryant Richards, Grant Show

2001

A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner
Director: John Rando
Co-Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Raymond J. Greenwald, Norma Langworthy, James Fuld Jr., Irving Welzer
Cast: Tom Selleck, Nicholas King, Bradford Cover, Barbara Garrick, Robert Lupone, Mark Blum

2002

Paper Doll by Mark Hampton & Barbara J. Zitwer
Director: Leonard Foglia
Co-producers: MARS Theatricals, Inc and Montauk Highway, Inc.
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Marlo Thomas, Joanne Genelle, Adrian Rieder

2004

Little Women - The Musical
book by Allen Knee, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Director: Susan H. Schulman
Co-producers: Randall L. Wreghitt, Dani Davis, Ken Gentry,
Chase Mishkin, Ruben Brache, and Lisa Vioni
Cast: Janet Carroll, Sutton Foster, Danny Gurwin, John Hickok, Amy McAlexander
Megan McGinnis, Maureen McGovern, Jenny Powers, Robert Stattel, Jim Weitzer            

2005

On the March to the Sea by Gore Vidal
Director: Warner Shook
Cast: Michael Learned, Isabel Keating, Harris Yulin, Charles Durning,
Cheryl Chamblee, David Turner, Richard Easton, Corey Brill, John Feltch, Chris Noth

2007

The Great Game by D. Tucker Smith
Director: Wilson Milam
Co-producers: Randall L. Wreghitt, Jana Robbins Joel & Phyllis Ehrlich,
Jackie & Brian Steele
Cast: Anjali Bhimani, David Bishins, Christopher Burns, Heather Collins,           
Marcus Dean Fuller, Lois Markle, Michael O’Hagan, Bobby Steggert, Yvonne Woods
                                   

Professional Workshop Productions

1989

Moonlight and Valentino by Ellen Simon
Director: Ted Swindley
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg
Cast: Robert Duncan, Sarah Fleming

1995

Oscar Over Here by Romulus Linney
Director: Jeff Storer
Co-Producer: ManBites Dog Theater
Cast: Angus MacLachlan

1996

Those Women by Nor Hall, Ellen Hemphill, and Sam Piperato
Director: Ellen Hemphill
Co-Producer: Archipelago Theater
Cast: Chris Morris, Cynthia Mitchell

1997

Dream True: My Life with Vernon Dexter by Tina Landau
Director: Tina Landau
Cast: Paul Mullins, Matthew Farver

1999

References to Salvadore Dali Make Me Hot by Jose Rivera
Director: Jeff Storer
Cast: Michelle Vasquez, Adam Saunders

2000

Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz
Director: Jody McAuliffe
Cast: Sol Miranda, Carmine Murcelo

2001

Little Women: The Musical by Robert Bartley (John Brooke)
Director: Nick Corley
Co-Producers: Randall Wreghitt, Dani Davis, Ken Gentry
Cast: Kerry O'Malley, Megan McGinnis, Catherine Brunell, Rachel Hardin, Mary Gordon Murray, Rita Gardner, Joe Machota, Robert Bartley, Robert Stattel, Allen Fitzpatrick

2005

Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman
Director: David Esbjornson
in association with Producers Four
Cast: Tom Hewitt, Priscilla Lopez

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