Since its founding as The Philadelphia Company in 1974, Philadelphia Theatre Company has produced over 140 World and Philadelphia premieres.
Past Productions
2016/2017 Season
- Rizzo (Theatre Exile Production) by Bruce Graham
- Found book by Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree, music & lyrics by Eli Bolin*
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Emily Mann
- Hand To God by Robert Askins
- The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by James Lecesne*
2015/2016 Season
- Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
- The McCarter Theatre/Arena Stage Production of Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
- Exit Strategy by Ike Holter^+
- Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason
- Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath+
2014/2015 Season
- Detroit by Lisa D’Amour
- Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley
- Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally
- brownsville song (b-side for tray) by Kimber Lee^
- Murder for Two Book & Lyrics by Kellen Blair,
Book & Music by Joe Kinosian
2013/2014 Season
- 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog*
- NERDS Book & Lyrics by Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner
Music by Hal Goldberg - Tribes by Nina Raine^*
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang *
- Colin Quinn Unconstitutional by Colin Quinn
2012/2013 Season
- Stars of David by Charles Busch, Based on the book by Abigail Pogrebin**
- The Mountaintop by Katori Hall*
- Seminar by Theresa Rebceck*
- Venus in Fur by David Ives*^
- Love, Loss, and What I Wore An intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, Based on the book by Ilene Beckerman*
2011/2012 Season
- Red by John Logan
- The Scottsboro Boys music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by David Thompson*
- The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham
- reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute
- Summer Film Series: The Great American Musical
2010/2011 Season
- Spelling Bee by William Finn
- Race by David Mamet
- Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith
- Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
2009/2010 Season
- Humor Abuse by Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt
- The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel
- Golden Age by Terrence McNally**
- Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel**
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
- The Second City 50th Anniversary Tour
2008/2009 Season
- Unusual Acts of Devotion by Terrence McNally**
- 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother by Kate Moira Ryan & Judy Gold*
- Resurrection by Daniel Beaty**
- At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee*
- Grey Gardens by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel & Michael Korie*
- City of Nutterly Love: Funny as Bell! by Ed Furman, TJ Shanoff, and The Second City*
2007/2008 Season
- Being Alive by Stephen Sondheim, Billy Porter & William Shakespeare**
- M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang*
- Third by Wendy Wasserstein*
- The Happiness Lecture by Bill Irwin**
2006/2007 Season
- Murderers by Jeffrey Hatcher**
- The Frog Bride by David Gonzalez*
- Nerds://A Musical Software Satire by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Erik Weiner & Hal Goldberg**
- In The Continuum by Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter*
- Orson’s Shadow by Austin Pendleton**
2005/2006 Season
- Adrift in Macao by Christopher Durang & Peter Melnick**
- Ben Franklin: Unplugged by Josh Kornbluth*
- After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo*
- Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage*
- Some Men by Terrence McNally**
2004/2005 Season
- Trumbo by Christopher Trumbo*
- The Story by Tracey Scott Wilson*
- Elegies: A Song Cycle by William Finn*
- Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg*
2003/2004 Season
- Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks*
- Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden, adapted from Barbara Ehrenreich’s book*^
- According to Goldman by Bruce Graham**
- The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee*
2002/2003 Season
- Fully Committed by Becky Mode*
- King Hedley II by August Wilson*
- The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown*
- A Picasso by Jeffrey Hatcher**
2001/2002 Season
- Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies*
- The Infidel by Bruce Norris+
- The Play About the Baby by Edward Albee*
- Barbra’s Wedding by Daniel Stern**
2000/2001 Season
- Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher*
- No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs by John Henry Redwood**^ (co-produced with Primary Stages)
- This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan*
- The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project*
1999/2000 Season
- Dinah Was: The Dinah Washington Musical by Oliver Goldstick*
- White People by J.T. Rogers**
- Wit by Margaret Edson*
- Side Man by Warren Leight*
1998/1999 Season
- How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel*
- Lives of the Saints by David Ives**
- Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman*
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh*
1997/1998 Season
- Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson*
- Minutes from the Blue Route by Tom Donaghy*
- A Question of Mercy by David Rabe*
- Birdy by William Wharton, adapted by Naomi Wallace+
1996/1997 Season
- Bunny Bunny by Alan Zweibel**
- Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel*
- Sylvia by A.R. Gurney*^ (co-produced with Delaware Theatre Company)
- Seven Guitars by August Wilson*
1995/1996 Season
- Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher*
- I Am A Man by OyamO*
- Broken Glass by Arthur Miller*
- Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally*
1994/1995 Season
- All in the Timing by David Ives*
- Keely and Du by Jane Martin*^ (co-produced with the George Street Playhouse)
- The Woods by David Mamet*
- Master Class by Terrence McNally (winner of 3 Tony Awards)**
1993/1994 Season
- Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies*
- The World Goes ‘Round by John Kander and Fred Ebb*
- “2” by Romulus Linney+
- Night Sky by Susan Yankowitz*
1992/1993 Season
- Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas*
- Mountain by Douglas Scott (starring Len Cariou)*^ (co-produced with Delaware Theatre Company)
- Tiny Tim is Dead by Barbara Lebow**
- Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally*
1991/1992 Season
- National Anthems by Dennis McIntyre*
- Miss Evers’ Boys by David Feldshuh*
- Lady-Like by Laura Shamas*+
- Nagasaki Dust by W. Colin McKay**
1990/1991 Season
- Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet*
- The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney (starring Celeste Holm)*
- Pill Hill by Samuel Kelley*+
1989/1990 Season
- The Middle of Nowhere by Randy Newman and Tracy Friedman*
1988/1989 Season
- Elaine’s Daughter by Mayo Simon*
- The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive*
- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally (First Black production)*
- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet*^ (co-produced with Capital Repertory Theatre)
- Hannah Senesh by Lori Wilner and David Schechter (adaptation of Senesh diaries)*
- Avner the Eccentric by Avner Eisenberg (starring Avner Eisenberg)*
1987/1988 Season
- Stauf by Eric Saltzman and Michael Sahl**^ (co-produced with the American Music Theater Festival)
- Orphans by Lyle Kessler*
- Southern Exposure: Sister and Miss Lexie by Eudora Welty, adapted by Brenda Curran; and From The Mississippi Delta by Endesha Ida Mae Holland*
- Hospitality by Allan Havis**
- Out! by Lawrence Kelly (first fully-mounted production)*
1986/1987 Season
- Williams & Walker by Vincent D. Smith*
- Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast (starring Richard Thomas)**^ (co-produced with The Kennedy Center)
- Days and Nights Within by Ellen McLaughlin*
- As Is by William M. Hoffman*
1985/1986 Season
- Painting Churches by Tina Howe*
- Split Second by Dennis McIntyre (original music by Grover Washington, Jr.)*^ (co-produced with Freedom Theatre)
- Great American Sideshow: One Acts by Romulus Linney, Alan Zweibel and Robert Pine*
- Extremities by William Mastrosimone*
1984/1985 Season
- Terra Nova by Ted Tally*
- Geniuses by Jonathan Reynolds*
- To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday by Michael Brady*
- Fool for Love by Sam Shepard*
1983/1984 Season
- Getting Out by Marsha Norman
- True West by Sam Shepard*
- Strange Snow by Steve Metcalfe*
- Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson*
1982/1983 Season
- Wings by Arthur Kopit*
- Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon by James McLure*
- Final Passages by Robert Schenkkan*
- Dylan Thomas by Jack Aranson (starring Jack Aranson)
1981/1982 Season
- When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder by Mark Medoff*
- The Vietnamization of New Jersey by Christopher Durang*
- Nuts by Tom Topor*
1980/1981 Season
- The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson*
- Alice Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Company developed)
- Hooters by Ted Tally*
- Jesse and the Bandit Queen by David Freeman*
- Getting Out by Marsha Norman*
1979/1980 Season
- Streamers by David Rabe*
- The Insanity of Mary Girard by Lainie Robertson**
- The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill
- Dementia 80 by Don Steele**
1979 Season
- Ashes by David Rudkin*
- The Exhibition by Thomas Gibbons**
- Some of My Best Friends are Women by Don Steele and Edward Earle**
1978 Season
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie by Albert Innaurato*
- The Persecution of Eugene Waterman by Louis Lippa**
- The Final Concert Tour of Mickey Colossus by Peter Mattaliano**
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Center City Soap by Dorothy Louise**
1976/1977 Season
- The Lion and the Lamb by Joseph Orazi**
- Future Tense by John Sevcik**
- The Keeper by Karolyn Nelke**
- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams
- Mars by Clay Goss**
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (Theatre in the Court)
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Theatre in the Court)
1976 Season
- Marlowe by John Yinger**
- Rain by W. Somerset Maugham, adapted by Colton and Randolph
- The Crossing/As I Lay Dying A Victim of Spring by David Rabe & Leslie Lee**
- The Three Daughters of M. Dupont by E. Brieux**
- Translation by Pauline Jones
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (NewMarket)
1975 Season
- The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
- Sargeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden
- Between Now and Then by Leslie Lee**
