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Asolo Repertory Theatre production history
2026-11-15 02:22:45 · Cedar Herald Index
The Asolo Repertory Theatre is located in Sarasota, Florida. It was originally a summers-only operation called The Asolo Comedy Festival. In 1963 it began to be referred to as The Asolo Theatre Festival. Starting in the fall of 1966, when it went into year-round operation, the name was changed to The Asolo Theater Company (and it continued under that name for the next 30 years, when its title reverted to The Asolo Theater Festival). Starting in 2006, it became The Asolo Repertory Theater, familiarly known as The Asolo Rep.
1960
Asolo Comedy Festival Productions
The Ridiculous Ladies (Les Précieuses Ridicules) by Molière
The Doubles (I Due Simili), commedia dell'arte scenario
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
The Man of Mode by George Etherege
1961
Asolo Comedy Festival Productions
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
The World in the Moon
Commedia Dell'Arte
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Tartuffe by Molière
The Secret Marriage
1962
Asolo Comedy Festival Productions
The Way of the World by William Congreve
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Barber of Seville
The Misanthrope by Molière
La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
The Music Master
1963
Asolo Theatre Festival Productions
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Wives by Molière
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
1964
Asolo Theatre Festival Productions
Twelfth Night or What You Will by William Shakespeare
The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1965
Asolo Theatre Festival Productions
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Volpone by Ben Jonson
Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux; translated into English by Christopher Fry
1966
Asolo Theatre Festival Productions
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Miser by Molière
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
1966-1967
Asolo Theater Company Productions
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
The Fan
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Madwoman of Challiot
The Farce of Scalin
Eleonora Duse
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Asolo Theater Company Tours
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
1967–1968
Asolo Theater Company Productions
Henry the Fourth, Part One by William Shakespeare
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Tartuffe by Molière
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
The Alchemist by Fred Gaines based on Ben Jonson's play
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Wilde! by Fred Gaines
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
1966-1967
Asolo Theater Company ProductionsAsolo Theater Company Tours
Henry the Fourth, Part One by William Shakespeare
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Asolo Theater Company Productions
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
The Misanthrope by Molière
Oh! What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
The Lark by Jean Anouilh
The Hostage by Brendan Behan
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
The Silver Thread
Asolo Rep Tours
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
The Misanthrope by Molière
1969–1970
Asolo Rep Productions
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
