CRT Production History 1960’s
In 1964, Frank W. Ballard introduced the first courses in puppetry at UConn. His early puppet productions such as The Mikado (1968), took place in the Jorgensen Theatre and became hallmarks of CRT’s experimental side. Puppetry’s integration with main-stage productions broadened the theatre’s creative palette and lifted UConn’s arts program onto a national stage.
CRT also experimented with workshop-based stagings, particularly during the summer, which offered deeper creative exploration, for instance, staging A Streetcar Named Desire in a workshop format.
1960-1961
Main Stage Series
Clerambard
Romeo and Juliet
Harvey
Rashomon
The Crucible
Guys and Dolls
Nutmeg Summer Series
Auntie Mame
The Gazebo
Make a Million
The Happy Time
Bell, Book & Candle
Golden Fleecing
1961-1962
Main Stage Series
The Rivals
A Streetcar Named Desire
John Brown’s Body
Look Homeward, Angel
Angel Street
Oklahoma!
Nutmeg Summer Series
A Thurber Carnival
The Mousetraps
The Philadelphia Story
Life with Father
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Three Men on a Horse
The Pleasure of His Company
The Fantasticks
1962-1963
Main Stage Series
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sweet Bird of Youth
All the King’s Men
Misalliance
Brigadoon
Nutmeg Summer Series
The Glass Menagerie
Come Blow Your Horn
Affairs of State
Sunday in New York
Deal M for Murder
Papa is All
Twelve Angry Men
The Seven Year Itch
Little Mary Sunshine
1963-1964
Main Stage Series
King John
The Imaginary Invalid
The Heiress
Cock-a-doodle Dandy
The Music Man
Nutmeg Summer Series
Take Her, She’s Mine
A Shot in the Dark
A Thousand Clowns
The Irregular Verb To Love
Janus
See How They Run
The Tunnel of Love
King of Hearts
1964-1965
Main Stage Series
Oh Dad, Poor Dad
The Merchant of Venice
Under Milkwood
Pantagliege
All the Way Home
Oedipus Rex
The Importance of Being Earnest
Nutmeg Summer Series
Mary, Mary
Nobody Loves an Albatross
Don Juan in Hell
Fools Paradise
The Winslow Boy
The Private Eye & The Public Ear
The Hostage
1965-1966
Main Stage Series
A Man for All Seasons
The Three Sisters
The Cocktail Party
The Braggart Soldier
Carnival
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Nutmeg Summer Series
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Tender Trap
U.S.A
Time of Your Life
You Never Can Tell
Look Back In Anger
You Can’t Take It With You
1966-1967
Main Stage Series
Billy Budd
Keep an Eye on Amelie
The Women
Corruption in the Palace of Justice
A Scrap of Paper
L Bechet
Wuthering Heights
Once Upon a Mattress
The Taming of the Shrew
Nutmeg Summer Series
Stop the World I Want to Get Off
Luv
Arsenic & Old Lace
Rhinoceros
Inadmissible Evidence
Charley’s Aunt
Marat De Sade
1967-1968
Main Stage Series
Caligula
The Knack
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Mother Courage and her Children
The Mikado
The Runoff
Nutmeg Summer Series
Tiny Alice
Impossible Years
Enrico IV
Barefoot in the Park
The Balcony
The Male Animal
Androcles and the Lion
1968-1969
Main Stage Series
The Homecoming
Othello
Confrontation of ‘69
The Adding Machine
Summer Tree
The Threepenny Opera
The House of Bernarda Alba
Nutmeg Summer Series
Lovers
The Lion in Winter
Flea in her Ear
Loot
Everything in the Garden
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Odd Couple
1969-1970
Main Stage Series
The Queen & The Rebels
The Love for Three Oranges
The Roar of Greasepaint The Smell of the Crowd
The Rimers of Eldritch
Royal Hunt of the Sun
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Lysistrata
Nutmeg Summer Series
Star Spangled Girl
Black Comedy/White Lies
Hayfever
Candida
Little Murderers
The Miser
Camino Real
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