A list of early modern companies and theaters associated with Middleton's plays when they were first produced, please look here.

For Middleton productions before 1985, please consult Marilyn Roberts' comprehensive list, 'A Preliminary Check-List of Productions of Thomas Middleton's Plays,' in Research opportunities in Renaissance drama: the report of the Modern Language Association conference, vol 28.

Beginning on October 11, 2012, this website will begin posting information about any performances (stage, radio, television, film) of dramatic works in the Middleton canon, as defined by the Oxford edition. Please send advance notices of such productions, or offers to review them, or production photographs suitable for legal display on the website, etc., to Kate Lechler at kal09d@fsu.edu or to
Kate Lechler
English Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32301

We are also interested in images of earlier productions, if these can be legally reproduced on the internet.

Middleton productions after 1985:
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside:
1997, Shakespeare's Globe

A Trick to Catch the Old One:
1994, White Bear Pub, Instant Classics
2011, Blackfriars Playhouse, ASC
2008 Shakespeare's Globe, Read Not Dead series, dir. James Wallace

A Yorkshire Tragedy:
1987 National Theatre (Cottesloe)

Mad World, My Masters:
1998, Shakespeare's Globe
2012, Blackfriars Playhouse, ASC

Michaelmas Term:
2007 Shakespeare's Globe, Read Not Dead series

The Changeling:
1986, Buxton Festival, Edinburgh, Yorick Theatre Company, dir. Michael Batz
1986, Arts Centre, Cambridge, dir. Bill Pryde
1988, National Theatre (Lyttelton), dir. Richard Eyre
1989, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario
1990, Newcastle Playhouse, RSC, part of Fringe events
1990, Finborough Theater Club, British Chinese Theater, dir. Mark Rylance
1992, Swan Theatre, RSC, dir. Michael Attenborough
1993, London Pit
1998, Battersea Art Centre, dir. Tassos Stevens
1999, toured, The Kneehigh Theatre Company, dir. Emma Rice (Called "The Itch"; based on Changeling)
1999, Salsberg Studio, Salisbury, dir. Guy Retallack
2001, BAC, London, Third Party Productions, dir. John Wright
2001, Phoenix Theater, Exeter, Graeae Theatre Company, dir. Jenny Sealey
2002, Southwark Playhouse, Mamamissi Theatre Company, dir. Dawn Walton
2004, Tobacco Factory/The Pit, Bristol/London, dir. Andrew Hilton
2005, Courtyard Theatre, London, KDC Theatre, dir. Sarah Drinkwater
2005, Barbican, London, Cheek By Jowl, dir. Declan Donnellan
2007, English Touring Theater
2009, Blackfriars Playhouse, ASC
2011, Southwark Playhouse, dir. Michael Oakley
2012, The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL, Resurgens Theatre Company, dir. Brent Griffin

The Ghost of Lucrece (staged reading):
1997, Shakespeare's Globe, Read Not Dead series, dir. Claire van Kampen/Jenny Tiramini

The Honest Whore:
1998, Shakespeare's Globe

The Lady's Tragedy:
1994, Show of Strength, Bristol, dir. Alan Coveney
1995, Upstart Crow Theatre, Boulder, CO,
1995, Unseam'd Shakespeare, Pittsburgh PA (called Cardenio)
1995, Palm Beach Shax Fest, pro. Kevin Crawford (called Cardenio)
1998, Next Theatre, Evanston, IL, dir. Kate Buckley (called Cardenio)
2002, Lone Star Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA (called Cardenio)
2004, White Bear Theatre, London, Blue Eyes (called Cardenio)

The Phoenix:
2007 Shakespeare's Globe, Read Not Dead series, dir. James Wallace

The Puritan:
1986, Shakespeare Globe Museum, dir. Patrick Spottiswoode

The Revenger's Tragedy:
1987, The Swan Theatre, RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company), dir. Di Trevis
1988, London Pit
1988, The People's Theatre
1996, Protean Theatre, NYC, dir. Anthony Sher
1997, The Studio , Stratford College
2000, Blackfriars Playhouse, ASC (American Shakespeare Company)
2008, National Theatre, dir. Melly Still
2008, Royal Exchange, Manchester, dir. Jonathan Moore
2009, Blackfriars Playhouse, American Shakespeare Company

The Roaring Girl:
2000, Shenandoah Shakespeare, touring

Women Beware Women:
1986, Royal Court Theatre, dir. William Gaskill, adapt. Howard Barker
1989, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
1994, Duke of Cambridge, Kentish Town, London, Buttonhole Theatre Company, dir. Christopher Geelan
1994 Lilian Baylis Theatre, London, GBH Theatre Company (Barker adaptation)
1995 Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, dir. Philip Prowse
2006 Swan Theatre, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Laurence Boswell
2008, Red Bull Theater, New York, dir. Jesse Berger
2010, Constellation Theatre
2010, National Theatre (Olivier), dir. Marianne Elliot

Your Five Gallants:
1990 Shenandoah Shakespeare, dir. Ralph Alan Cohen
2008 Shakespeare's Globe, Read Not Dead series, dir. James Wallace

Beginning on October 11, 2012, this website will begin posting information about any performances (stage, radio, television, film) of dramatic works in the Middleton canon, as defined by the Oxford edition. Please send advance notices of such productions, or offers to review them, or production photographs suitable for legal display on the website, etc., to Kate Lechler at kal09d@fsu.edu or to

Kate Lechler
English Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32301

We are also interested in images of earlier productions, if these can be legally reproduced on the internet.

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