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Robert Falls Production Timeline


Listed below are the productions that Falls has directed during the past 30 years, as well as those which have transferred to Broadway and off-Broadway during his tenure at the Goodman.

* World premiere ** American premiere *** Midwest premiere

2009

  • Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill (Upcoming production at GoodmanTheatre)

2008

  • Shining City by Conor McPherson (Goodman Theatre)***

2007

  • Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian (Longacre Theatre, NY)

2006

  • King Lear by William Shakespeare (Goodman Theatre)
  • Frank's Home by Richard Nelson (Goodman Theatre)*
  • Shining City by Conor McPherson (Manhattan Theatre Club/Biltmore)**
  • A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet (Goodman Theatre)

2005

  • Dollhouse by Rebecca Gilman (Goodman Theatre)*
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Lyric Theatre, London)
  • Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (Walt Disney Theatrical Productions/ Germany, Japan, South Korea)

2004

  • Hughie by Eugene O'Neill (Goodman Theatre)
  • Finishing the Picture by Arthur Miller (Goodman Theatre)*

2003

  • The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee (Goodman Theatre)***
  • Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (Plymouth Theatre, NY)

2002

  • Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan (Goodman Theatre)***
  • The Guys by Anne Nelson (Goodman Theatre/Northlight Theatre co-production)
  • Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (Goodman Theatre)
  • Blue Surge by Rebecca Gilman (Joseph Papp Public Theater, NY)
  • Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (Walt Disney Theatrical Prods./ Netherlands)

2001

  • Blue Surge by Rebecca Gilman (Goodman Theatre)*
  • Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (Walt Disney Theatrical Productions/Natl. Tour)
  • House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn (Goodman Theatre)**

2000

  • Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (Walt Disney Theatrical Productions/ New York)

1999

  • Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (Walt Disney Theatrical Productions/ Chicago)
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Eugene O'Neill Theatre/NY)
  • Susannah by Carlisle Floyd (Metropolitan Opera Company/NY)

1998

  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Goodman Theatre)

1997

  • Griller by Eric Bogosian (Goodman Theatre)*
  • The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote (Longacre Theatre/New York)
  • The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote (Goodman Theatre)

1996

  • A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill (Goodman Theatre)
  • The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
  • Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams (Roundabout Theatre/NY)

1995

  • The Food Chain by Nicky Silver (Westside Theatre/New York)*
  • The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams (Circle in the Square/NY)
  • Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Goodman Theatre)

1994

  • SubUrbia by Eric Bogosian (Lincoln Center Theater/NY)*
  • Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams (Goodman Theatre)

1993

  • Susannah by Carlisle Floyd (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
  • On the Open Road by Steve Tesich (New York Shakespeare Festival)

1992

  • The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill (Abbey Theatre/Dublin)
  • Riverview: A Melodrama with Music by John Logan (Goodman Theatre)*
  • On the Open Road by Steve Tesich (Goodman Theatre)*

1991

  • Book of the Night by Louis Rosen and Thom Bishop (Goodman Theatre)*
  • The Speed of Darkness by Steve Tesich (Belasco Theatre/NY)

1990

  • The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill (Goodman Theatre)

1989

  • The Misanthrope by Moliere, adapted by Neil Bartlett (Goodman Theatre/LaJolla Playhouse co-production)
  • The Speed of Darkness by Steve Tesich (Goodman Theatre)*
  • Pravda by Howard Brenton and David Hare (Guthrie Theatre)**

1988

  • Pal Joey by Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart, and John O'Hara (Goodman Theatre)
  • Landscape of the Body by John Guare (Goodman Theatre)

1987

  • Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Adrian Hall and James Schewill (Goodman Theatre)
  • Road by Jim Cartwright (Remains Theatre/Chicago)**
  • The Tempest by Shakespeare (Goodman Theatre)

1986

  • Orchards: Seven American Playwrights Present Stories by Chekhov. Adaptations by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller, and Samm-Art Williams (The Acting Company/NY, tour with off-Broadway opening)

1985

  • In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Abbott (Wisdom Bridge Theatre production at Mayfest (Glasgow), Lyric Hammersmith Studio (London), and Ivanhoe Theatre (Chicago))
  • Hamlet by Shakespeare (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1984

  • Terra Nova by Ted Tally (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)
  • Careless Love by John Olive (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)
  • Life and Limb by Keith Reddin (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)*

1983

  • In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Abbott (Wisdom Bridge Theatre adaptation at Goodman Studio Theatre)*
  • Losing It by Jon Klein (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1982

  • We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay by Dario Fo (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1981

  • Standing on My Knees by John Olive (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)*
  • Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)
  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (St. Nicholas Theatre/ Chicago)
  • Bent by Martin Sherman (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***

1980

  • Yentl by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Leah Napolin (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • Getting Out by Marsha Norman (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wisdom Bridge Theatre/performed in rotating rep with Travesties by Tom Stoppard)

1979

  • Wings by Arthur Kopit (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • Bagtime by Alan Rosen, Louis Rosen, and Thom Bishop, based on the newspaper columns of Bob Greene and Paul Galloway (Wisdom Bridge Theatre/Drury Lane Water Tower Theatre co-production)*
  • Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard (Goodman Theatre Stage 2)***
  • Tartuffe by Moliere, co-directed with Michael Maggio (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1978

  • The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)***
  • Happy End by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (SCT Productions, Athenaeum Theatre/Chicago)
  • Othello by Shakespeare (Oak Park Shakespeare Festival/Oak Park, Illinois)
  • Fits and Starts by Grace McKeaney (Northlight Theatre/Evanston, Illinois)*
  • The Idiots Karamazov by Albert Innuarato and Christopher Durang (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1977

  • Ladyhouse Blues by Kevin O'Morrison (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)
  • The Tempest by Shakespeare (Court Theatre/University of Chicago)
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Wisdom Bridge Theatre)

1976

  • The Wax Museum by John Hawkes (Direct Theatre/New York)
  • Moonchildren by Michael Weller (Apollo Productions, St. Nicholas Theatre/Chicago)
Goodman Theatre's Broadway and off-Broadway transfers under Robert Falls

1986
Fences by August Wilson, dir. Lloyd Richards
1989
The Speed of Darkness by Steve Tesich, dir. Robert Falls
1989
Mill Fire by Sally Nemeth, dir. David Petrarca
1990
Eliot Loves by Jules Feiffer, dir. Mike Nichols
1992
On the Open Road by Steve Tesich, dir. Robert Falls
1992
Wings by Jeffrey Lunden and Arthur Perlman, dir. Michael Maggio
1993
Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson, dir. David Petrarca
1994
The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, dir. Robert Falls
1995
Seven Guitars by August Wilson, dir. Lloyd Richards
1997
The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote, dir. Robert Falls
1998
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, dir. Robert Falls
2000
Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman, dir. Michael Maggio
2000
Millennium Mambo by Kia Corthron, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ntozake Shange and Regina Taylor, dir. Henry Godinez
2001
Blue Surge by Rebecca Gilman, dir. Robert Falls
2001
Big Love by Charles L. Mee, dir. Les Waters
2002
Galileo Galilei an opera by Philip Glass, libretto by Mary Zimmerman with Philip Glass and Arnold Weinstein, dir. Mary Zimmerman
2002
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, dir. Robert Falls
2002
Hollywood Arms by Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett, dir. Harold Prince
2003
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, dir. Marion McClinton
2004
The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, dir. Bartlett Sher