This production history of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (RMTC) is a chronological list of the Mainstage, Warehouse, and Regional Tour productions that have been staged since RMTC's inception.
The RMTC is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre. It was founded in 1958 by John Hirsch and Tom Hendry as an amalgamation of the Winnipeg Little Theatre and Theatre 77, and was known as the Manitoba Theatre Centre until receiving its royal designation in 2010.
20th century
1958–1959 A Hatful of Rain by Michael V. Gazzo The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Ring Round the Moon adapted by Christopher Fry, based on the play Invitation to the Castle by Jean Anouilh Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Teach Me How to Cry by Patricia Joudry Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin The Diary of Anne Frank dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based upon the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
1959–1960 Solid Gold Cadillac by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson On Borrowed Time by Paul Osborn, based on the novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin Reclining Figure by Harry Kurnitz Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Volpone by Ben Jonson Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick, based on a novel by Vern J. Sneider Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette
1960–1961 Mr. Roberts by Joshua Logan, based on the novel by Thomas Heggen Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Biggest Thief in Town by Dalton Trumbo Dark of the Moon by William Berney and Howard Richardson Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal Four Poster by Jan de Hartog The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad by Arthur Kopit Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1961–1962 The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry Speaking of Murder by Audrey Roos and William Roos The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw The Boy Friend music, book, and lyrics by Sandy Wilson Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan Thieves' Carnival by Jean Anouilh Look Ahead! by Len Peterson Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1962–1963 Bonfires of 1962 by Neil Harris, Eric Donkin, Mort Forer, Goldie Gelmon, Tom Hendry, Chuck Thompson, Marilyn Gardner, Paddy Armstrong and Murray Grand Once More, with Feeling! by Harry Kurnitz A Very Close Family by Bernard Slade An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw Pal Joey music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by John O'Hara Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler The Caretaker by Harold Pinter The Spirit of the People is a Sometime Thing by Jack Ofield The Love Merchants by Jack Ofield
1963–1964 Private Lives by Noël Coward Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Hostage by Brendan Behan A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Little Mary Sunshine music, lyrics, and book by Rick Besoyan Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer The Gazebo by Alec Coppel Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Ding Dong Dell, Dandin's in the Well adapted by Betty Jane Wylie from the comedy George Dandin by Moliere Endgame by Samuel Beckett
1964–1965 Hay Fever by Noël Coward All About Us by Len Peterson Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht, English adaptation by Eric Bentley The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Irma La Douce book and lyrics by Alexandre Breffort, music by Marguerite Monnot, English book & lyrics by Julian More, David Heneker, and Monty Norman. Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee The Typists and the Tiger by Murray Schisgal
1965–1966 The Private Ear and The Public Eye by Peter Schaffer The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Andorra by Max Frisch The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Nicholas Romanov by William Kinsolving The Fantasticks music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, translation by Elizabeth Sprigge
1966–1967 Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash Galileo by Bertolt Brecht A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Lulu Street by Ann Henry Luv by Murray Schisgal
1967–1968 Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw Oh, What a Lovely War! by Joan Littlewood Antigone by Sophocles Sganarelle by Molière, English version by Miles Malleson Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov The Fantasticks, music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
1968–1969 Fiddler on the Roof book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres, translation by Peter Glenville Cactus Flower by Abe Burrows, based on the play Fleur de cactus by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy Happy Days by Samuel Beckett Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco The School for Wives by Molière Red Magic by Michel de Ghelderode, translation by George Hauger Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert Home Free by Lanford Wilson The Zoo Story by Edward Albee How the Puppets Formed a Government by Theatre Across the Street
1969–1970 Man of La Mancha, book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, music by Mitch Leigh Cabaret, book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, John Van Druten, and Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, translation by Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell You Can't Take It with You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman After the Fall by Arthur Miller Hail Scrawdyke! by David Halliwell Harry, Noon and Night by Ronald Ribman Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, translation by J. R. Hale La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler Escurial by Michel de Ghelderode The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz La Turista by Sam Shepard
1970–1971 A Man's a Man by Bertolt Brecht Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Salvation by Peter Link, book, music & lyrics by C.C. Courtney Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse War and Peace by Alfred Neumann and Erwin Piscator, adapted by Guntram Prufer and Leo Tolstoy from the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translation by Robert David MacDonald Little Murders by Jules Feiffer The Sun Never Sets by Patrick Crean Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day by William Shakespeare
1971–1972 What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Keith Turnball, music by Allan Laing The Homecoming by Harold Pinter The Sun and the Moon by James Reaney Lady Frederick by W. Somerset Maugham The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Head 'Em Off at the Pas by John Wood
1972–1973 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Guys and Dolls book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser Hamlet by William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard The Promise by Aleksei Arbuzov En Pièces Detachées by Michel Tremblay, translation by Allan Van Meer Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Jacques Brel, English lyrics & additional material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman Wedding in White by William Fruet
1973–1974 You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols The Dybbuk by Sholem Anksy, adapted by John Hirsch Godspell by John-Michael Tebelak, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey Indian by George Ryga Black Comedy by Peter Schaffer Mime Over Five by Canadian Mime Theatre Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk by Herschel Hardin You're Gonna be Alright, Jamie-Boy by David Freeman Jubalay by Patrick Rose and Merv Campone
1974–1975 The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, translation by David Magarshack The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson Forget-Me-Not-Lane by Peter Nichols Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists by Carol Bolt Trelawny of the "Wells" by Arthur Wing Pinero Old Times by Harold Pinter Hosanna by Michel Tremblay, translation by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco The Knack by Ann Jellicoe Crabdance by Beverley Simons
1975–1976 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess The Price by Arthur Miller Equus by Peter Shaffer Company by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen sondhein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Private Lives by Noël Coward The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje Theatre Beyond Words by Canadian Mime Theatre Endgame by Samuel Beckett Creeps by David Freeman
1976–1977 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare All Over by Edward Albee Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn Dames at Sea book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, music by Jim Wise The Crucible by Arthur Miller She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Deval, Michael Feingold, Ira Gershwin, Paul Green, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Ogden Nash, George Tabori, and Arnold Weinstein, music by Kurt Weill, text and format by Gene Lerner Canadian Gothic by Joanna M. Glass American Modern by Joanna M. Glass Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Alpha Beta by E.A. Whitehead Fables Here and Then by David Feldshuh
1977–1978 The Last Chalice by Joanna M. Glass Knock Knock by Jules Feiffer The Contractor by David Storey The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer Hello and Goodbye by Athol Fugard Oh Coward! words and music by Noël Coward, devised by Roderick Cook Love is Meant to Make us Glad by David Brown and Pat Galloway The Sea Horse by Edward J. Moore Ashes by David Rudkin For Love and Chicken Soup by Brad Leiman
1978–1979 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, translation by John Lingard How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Veronica's Room by Ira Levin A Bee in her Bonnet by Georges Feydeau, translation by Brian Blakey Forever Yours, Marie-Lou by Michel Tremblay Theatre Beyond Words by Theatre Beyond Words The Zoo Story by Edward Albee Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet Sizwe Bansi is Dead by Athol Fugard
1979–1980 Travesties by Tom Stoppard Artichoke by Joanna M. Glass Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, translation and adaptation by Arif Hasnain The Diary of Anne Frank, a dramatization by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett Dracula, dramatized by Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston from the novel by Bram Stoker American Buffalo by David Mamet Circus Gothic by Jan Kudelka Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson Spokesong by Stewart Parker
1980–1981 Billy Bishop Goes to War by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson Jitters by David French Balconville by David Fennario Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance As You Like It by William Shakespeare Betrayal by Harold Pinter Macbeth by William Shakespeare Bent by Martin Sherman 1837: The Farmers' Revolt by Rick Salutin and Theatre Passe Muraille
1981–1982 Encore Brel! by Jacques Brel, English lyrics by Richard Ouzounian, Alasdair Clayre, Rod McKuen, and Paul Austen Candida by George Bernard Shaw The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon by W. O. Mitchell The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn The Tempest by William Shakespeare Thimblerig by Alf Silver