Production History
2012–13 | Season Twenty-Three
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter
2011–2012 | Season Twenty-Two
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Prairie Nocturne, by Ivan Doig
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
2010–2011 | Season Twenty-One
The Cider House Rules, Part Two: In Other Parts of the World, by Peter Parnell, adapted from the novel by John Irving
Red Ranger Came Calling, by Berkeley Breathed
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Border Songs, by Jim Lynch
2009–2010 | Season Twenty
A Confederacy Of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Emma, by Jane Austen
The River Why, by David James Duncan
The Cider House Rules, Part One: Here in St. Clouds,
by Peter Parnell, adapted from the novel by John Irving
2008–2009 | Season Nineteen
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, by Tom Robbins
My Ántonia, by Willa Cather
Moby-Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu
Night Flight, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2007–2008 | Season Eighteen
Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
The Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch
2006–2007 | Season Seventeen
Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Rhoda: A Life in Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
2005–2006 | Season Sixteen
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Little Women (Part 1), by Louisa May Alcott
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
2004–2005| Season Fifteen
Waxwings, by Jonathan Raban
Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story, by Berkeley Breathed
Rebecca, by Daphne DuMaurier
Giant, by Edna Ferber
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
2003–2004 | Season Fourteen
Dracula: Jonathan Harker’s Journal, by Bram Stoker
Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story, by Berkeley Breathed
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
2002–2003 | Season Thirteen
Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Pam Houston
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
2001–2002 | Season Twelve
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, by Tim O’Brien
Howards End, by E.M. Forster
2000–2001 | Season Eleven
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Silver Water, by Amy Bloom
Sweet Thursday, by John Steinbeck
In a Shallow Grave, by James Purdy
1999–2000 | Season Ten
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Double Indemnity, by James Cain
Baseball Stories
The Last Pennant Before Armageddon, by W.P.
Kinsella
Wait ’til Next Year, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Dixon-Cornbelt, League by W.P. Kinsella
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
1998–1999 | Season Nine
Scary Stories
Subsoil, by Nicholson Baker
The Elemental, by R. Chetwyn Hayes
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,
Short Stories by Raymond Carver
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The Student’s Wife
Intimacy
Cathedral
Romance With Double Bass,
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Romance with Double Bass
Anya
The Grasshopper
Cowboys Are My Weakness, by Pam Houston
1997–1998 | Season Eight
I Am of Ireland
The Drunkard, by Frank O’Connor
She Went Gently, by Vincent Carroll
The Living, by Mary Lavin
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, by John Irving
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D H Lawrence
The Beat at Book-It (short stories and poems)
Works, by Beat Writers Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Diana Prima
1996–1997 | Season Seven
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
A Book-It Christmas
Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor, by John Cheever
A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
Grendel, by John Gardner
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
1995–1996 | Season Six
Pages of the Season
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
Trains
The Five Forty-Eight, by John Cheever
The Train, by Raymond Carver
For Better or For Worse
A Long Walk to Forever, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Here We Are, by Dorothy Parker
How To Be A Good Wife
A Couple of Kooks, by Cynthia Rylant
1994–1995 | Season Five
Eudora (short stories), by Eudora Welty
Why I live at the P.O.
Where is the Voice Calling From?
Kin
Book-It’s Holiday Show
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
The Loudest Voice, by Grace Paley
Northwest Voices
Girls, by Tess Gallagher
Romance Languages, by Alix Wilbur
Roman Fever (short stories), by Edith Wharton
Roman Fever
Xingu
1993–1994 | Season Four
Touching on Love
The Most Girl Part of You, by Amy Hempel
Lily Daw and the Three Ladies, by Eudora Welty
The Lonesomes Ain’t No Spring Picnic, by Birthalene Miller
Book-It’s Holiday Show
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
The Loudest Voice, by Grace Paley
I Am of Ireland
The Drunkard, by Frank O’Connor
She Went Gently, by Vincent Carroll
The Living, by Mary Lavin
Better be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight, by Allison Baker
How I Came West and Why I Stayed
Better Be Ready ‘Bout Half Past Eight
1990–1993| Seasons One-Three
Book-It performed over 100 short stories as part of our In-House Performance Series.
2012–13
Danger: Books!
Thank you, Mr. Falker, by Patricia Polacco
Never Forgotten, by Patricia McKissack
Skippyjon Jones, by Judy Schachner
2011-12
Danger: Books!
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman, by Kathleen Krull
The Lorax & The Sneetches and Other Stories, by Dr. Seuss
2010-11
Danger: Books!
Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices by Shanna Stevenson
The Prince of the Pond, by Donna Jo Napoli
Henry’s Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett