Alan Ayckbourn: North American Premieres

This page contains basic details about the North American premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's plays, click on a play title to find out more about the play.

Notes: The list includes North American premieres of the plays - where a play has been produced in New York, a provincial premiere is also included if applicable. Plays not available for production have been omitted from the list. Plays are listed in the order they were written. Italicised titles indicate plays which the website is not aware of having been produced in America.
Help needed: No records exist about the North American premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's plays. If you have information which expands, corrects or updates this page, your help is gratefully received. Please contact Simon Murgatroyd at: admin@alanayckbourn.net.

Play Title

Premiere

Venue

Mr Whatnot
Relatively Speaking
Relatively Speaking
How The Other Half Loves
How The Other Half Loves
Family Circles
Time And Time Again
Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular
The Norman Conquests
The Norman Conquests
Absent Friends
Absent Friends
Confusions
Jeeves
By Jeeves
By Jeeves
Bedroom Farce
Bedroom Farce
Just Between Ourselves
Ten Times Table
Joking Apart
Joking Apart
Sisterly Feelings
Taking Steps
Taking Steps
Suburban Strains
Season’s Greetings
Season's Greetings
Way Upstream
Intimate Exchanges
It Could Be Any One Of Us
A Chorus Of Disapproval
Woman In Mind
Woman In Mind
A Small Family Business
A Small Family Business
Henceforward...
Man Of The Moment
Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays
The Revengers’ Comedies
Invisible Friends
Body Language
This Is Where We Came In
Callisto 5
Callisto#7
Wildest Dreams
My Very Own Story
Time Of My Life
Dreams From A Summer House
Communicating Doors
Communicating Doors
Haunting Julia
A Word From Our Sponsor
The Champion Of Paribanou
Things We Do For Love
Comic Potential
Comic Potentiall
The Boy Who Fell Into A Book
House & Garden
House & Garden
Whenever
GamePlan
FlatSpin
RolePlay
Snake In The Grass
The Jollies
Sugar Daddies
Orvin: Champion Of Champions
My Sister Sadie
Drowning On Dry Land
Private Fears In Public Places
Miss Yesterday
Improbable Fiction
If I Were You
Life & Beth
Awaking Beauty
My Wonderful Day
My Wonderful Day
Life Of Riley
Neighbourhood Watch
Surprises
Arrivals & Departures
Roundelay
Hero’s Welcome
Consuming Passions
A Brief History of Women
Better Off Dead
Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present
Anno Domino
The Girl Next Door
All Lies
Family Album
Welcome to the Family
Constant Companions
Show & Tell
Earth Angel

10 August 1970
August 1994
March 1971
29 March 1971
1999
2010
August 1974
8 October 1974
10 October 1975
7 December 1975
2 April 1976
1991
8 July 1982

17 October 1996
29 October 2001
March 1979
29 March 1979
30 September 1981
1983
2004
28 May 2010
1987
1983
20 February 1991

2 December 1983
6 July 1985
24 February 1982
31 May 2007
2005
14 July 1988
17 February 1988
2 November 1988
27 April 1992
July 1994
4 October 1987
14 April 1992
February 1994
18 July 1992
26 August 1992
2003
2000
2005

2008
2007
30 January 1995
21 October 1993
1994
20 August 1998
26 October 2012


17 September 1999
16 November 2000
2003
2004
2001
21 May 2002



2005
2005

September, 2013



9 June 2005
Summer 2006
2009

29 March 2013

10 November 2009
May 2011
30 April 2011
30 November 2011

29 May 2014

26 May 2016

1 May 2018

Westport Country Playhouse, CT
INTAR Theater, New York, NY
Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA
Royale Theater, New York, NY
Black River Playhouse, Chester, NJ
Orinda Community Playhouse, CA
Westport Country Playhouse, CT
Music Box Theater, New York, NY
Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Morosco Theater, New York, NY
Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, CT
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY
Body Politic Theater, Chicago, IL

The Norma Terris Theater, Chester, CT
Helen Hayes Theater, New York, NY
Eisenhower Theatre, Washington, DC
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, NY
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
Cleveland Playhouse, OH
Minneapolis, MN
T. Schrieber Studio, New York, NY
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Alley Theater, Houston, TX
Circle In The Square, New York, NY

Berkeley Rep Theatre, California, CA
Joyce Theater, New York, NY
Alley Theater, Houston, TX
59E59 Theaters, New York, NY
Wimberley Players, Wimberley, TX
ACT, Seattle, WA
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY
ACT, San Francisco, CA
Music Box Theater, New York, NY
Olney Theater Centre, MD
Alley Theater, Houston, TX
Cleveland Playhouse, OH
The Old Globe, San Diego, CA
ACT, Seattle, WA
Seattle Children's Theater, WA
Black River Playhouse, Chester, NJ
University Of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD

American Academy Of Dramatic Arts, NY
Madison Children's Theatre, AL
Steppenwolf Theater Comp, Chicago, IL
ACT, Seattle, WA
Chicago International Theater Festival, IL
Variety Arts Theater, New York, NY
Little Theatre Of Norfolk, VA


Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY
Aurora Fox Theater, Denver, CO
Lamb's Players Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York, NY



Pittsburgh Public Theatre, PA
Black River Playhouse, Chester, NJ

ACT, Seattle, WA



59E59 Theaters, New York, NY
ACT, Seattle, WA
Black River Playhouse, Chester, NJ

Theatre In The Round, Minneapolis, MN

59E59 Theaters, New York, NY
Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA
The Old Globe, San Diego, CA
59E59 Theaters, New York, NY

59E59 Theaters, New York, NY

59E59 Theaters, New York, NY

59E59 Theaters, New York, NY
The information on this page has been compiled by Simon Murgatroyd with the grateful assistance of Michael T. Mooney.