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Earlier Productions, 1967-2017
1967-1968
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, William Hanley
A Midsummer's Night Dream, Shakespeare
The World of My America, Pauline Myers
1968-1969
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
El Manco, Josef Rodriguez
Macbeth, Shakespeare
The Fantasticks, Tom Jones
1969-1970
Westside Story, Arthur Laurents
Room Service, John Murray and Allen Boretz
Burlesque Is Alive, Concocted and directed by Jay Stephens
Antigone, Jean Anouilh
The Bald Soprano, Eugene Ionesco
The Alligators Are Coming, Thaddeus Vane
Rashomon, Fay & Michael Kanin
Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, Peter Weiss (co-produced with
Negro Ensemble Company (NEC)
Eleo Pomare Dance Company
1970-1971
Street Scene, Elmer Rice
One Is A Crowd, Beah Richards Yuriko, co-produced with the Japanese
American Citizen's League and the National Arts and Humanities
Foundation
1971-1972
To Be Young Gifted and Black, Lorraine Hansberry
Gold Watch, Momoko Iko
1972-1973
Inner City Repertory Dance Company
The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey
The National Dance Company of Senegal
1973-1974
Earthquake I, C. Bernard Jackson
Langston Hughes Said, addapted & arranged by C. Bernard Jackson
Pilobolus Dance Company
1974-1975
A Black Woman Speaks, Beah Richards
EarthQuake II, C. Bernard Jackson
Selma, Tommy Butler
Departure, C. Bernard Jackson
Sortilegio, Abkias Do Nasci,ento
Georgee Faison Universal Dance Experience
1975-1976
B.C., C. Bernard Jackson
Where Is the Blood of Your Fathers? John O'Neal & Ben Spillman
(co-produced with The Free Southern Theater
Buffalo Chips, Marie & Phil Moore
1976-1977
The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler
Take Off Those Wings Faye Seraphim, Chris Longo
The House of Bernarda Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca-(co-produced with
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts)
1977-1978
Hamlet, Shakespeare,
Shaka Zulu, James Graham Bronson
Second City Flat, Momoko Iko
Summer Suns, George C. Wolfe
Warriors of the Rainbow, Nobuko Joanne Miyamoto
Beautiful Senioritas, Dolores Prida
Guns, Doris Baizlery
Once Upon In America, Mako, (co-produced with East West
Players)
Native Son, Richard Wright (co-produced with The Oakland
Ensemble Theater
Inner City, Eve Merriam (CETA program)
Fly Blackbird, C. Bernard Jackson (CETA program)
Summer Suns, Tales of Night, George Wolfe (CETA program)
Foxy, C. Bernard Jackson
Aftershock, C. Bernard Jackson
1978-1979
Back Alley Tales, George C. Wolfe
Jesse & The Bandit Queen, David Freeman
1979-1980
The 1st Annual Recognition Awards Ceremony
Crenshaw Boulevard, James Bronson
A New Lilliom, C. Bernard Jackson
Season's Reasons, Ron Milner
Iago, C. Bernard Jackson
Ring Christmas Bells, Sylvia Mitchell
Uprooted, J. Humberto Robles-Arenas (co-produced with
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay? Dario Fo
1980-1981
Antigone, Jean Anouilh
Born a Unicorn, Ted Lange
Piano Bar, C. Bernard Jackson
Deadwood Dick Legend of the West, Warren B. Burdine, Jr.
Contigo Pan Y Cebolla, Hector Quintero (co-produced with The
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts)
1981-1982
Showgirls, Linda Victoria Hood (co-produced with Cliff Roquemore &
Mickey Stevenson
Proud, C. Bernard Jackson
Remembering Blue Velvet, Peter DeAnda
The Fantasticks,
Mojo, Alice Childress
Home Free, Robert Alexander
1982-1983
Sleep No More, Felton Perry
Piano Bar, C. Bernard Jackson
The One, Oliver Pitcher
Heather and Other Love Laughs, Felton Perry & Jalindah Greene
The Loot & Mama's Man, Crystal Rhodes
Don't Start Me To Talking Or I'll Tell You Everything I Know, John O'Neal
( co-produced with The Provisional Theater)
1983-1984
Sleep No More, Felton Perry
The Sky Never Stops
Enter Fredick Douglas, Sylvia Jarrico (co-produced with Federation for Progress and Society for the Development of Black Heritage Drama
Operators, Michael Ballard
The Vault, Maggi Woutherland
The Nifty 50s, Dootsie Williams
Anna's Child
Jesse and the Games
A Black Woman Speaks
Juneteenth
A Hatful of Rain
Christmas In Never Never Land
Little People, Gary Veney
Repertory Dance Theatre of Trinidad & Tobago
Wilson Pico Ecuadoran dance Company
Pre-Olympic Arts Festival
2nd Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Coompetition
1984-1985
A Black Woman Speaks,
Handy Dandy,
3rd Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Competition
1985-1986
What Is To Be Done,
Dance LA Dance
1986-1987
Williams & Walker, Vincent D. Smith (co-produced with the National Black Touring Circuit-Woodie King Checkmates, Ron Milner (co-produced with Crossroads Theater & National Black Touring Circuit
1987-1988
A Black Woman Speaks, Beah Richards
Four Seasons, C. Bernard Jackson
Piano Bar, C. Bernard Jackson
Fat's Place
Amen Corner, James Baldwin
One is a Crowd, Beah Richards
Remember Me,
Silent Cries
A Song For My Brothers...Tick...Tick...Tick
What Is to Be Done, C. Bernard Jackson
Boogie Woogie Pico Nights
Black Women In Theater West, Inc (4 one-act plays)
*The Race to Olduvai, (Peter DeAnda Productions co-production)
*Two Different Worlds, (Raven Productios co-production)
Almost Famous, (Dennis Rowe Productions co-production)
Martin Dance Co.
Experimental Sunday Series, Talk With - A presentation of women's monologues (5 plays)
*The New Alliance
*Rented Rooms
*Zoo Story, Edward Albee
*The Monkeys
*Black Man In a Bottle
American Jazz Cultural Exhibition
*Charlie Parker Award, Artist United
*Third Annual Joplin/Parker Awards, started by Lena Horne's musical director, Larry Nash
6th Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Competition, Sponsored by Ted Lange
ICCC First Act Short Play Competition, Sponsored by Marguerite Ray
22nd Anniversary, Honorary Chair, Milton Berle
1988-1989
Othello, William Shakespeare
Triple Exposure, When the Trumpet Sounds
Shadow Box,
Fly Blackbird Revisited, C. Bernard Jackson
Calavereando,
Oscar Brown Jr.
Autumn Heat (4 one-acts)
*Lucy & Callie, Lorenzo Buford
*Willie & Esther, James Bronson
*Katinka & Lorraine, Kathleen Mazzola
*George & Grace, Hawthorne James
Renascence, A Short Play Festival (18 plays)
*The Dorchester County Sheriff Department's Annual Ball
*The Night The Queen of Outer Space Played A
*24 Pacific Ocean Way
*A Matter of Hate
*Visions - It Never Was
*U Betta Believe It
*The Joy in Althea Hawkins
*Up All Night
*Triptych
*Grandma
*Dinosaurs
*Jolted
*Solid As A Rock
*The Playwright
*Women In Pieces
*Two Sisters
*Long Journey Home (Sister Lena)
If They Come Back, (Eric Monte co-production)
The Nation, (The Nation co-production)
Barro Rojo, Contemporary Dance Troupe of Mexico City
Joo Myung Sook Dance Company
7th Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Competition
Act II Short Play Competition, sponsored by Marguerite Ray
1st Bar Composers and Songwriters Competition, sponsored by Robert Guillaume
Piano Lesson, Benefit performance
1989-1990
Down Payments, Tracee Lyles (The National Black Touring Circuit & Tracee Lyles co-production)
A Moment With Linda Michellebaron
Smart Woman From the Town, Samm-Art Williams
Oscar Brown, Jr.
Las Penas Saben Hadar, Adria Santana (The Ashgrove co-production)
Autumn Heat - Spring Festival of Plays
8th Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Competition sponsored by Ted Lange
Act II Short Play Competition sponsored by Marguerite Ray
1st Bar Composers and Songwriters Competition sponsored by Robert Guillaume
1990-1991
Fly Blackbird Revisited, C. Bernard Jackson
TKO
The Blacks, Jean Genet
Down Payments, Tracee Lyles
Spring Festival of Plays
Shadow of a Gunman, (Celtic Arts co-production)
ID (Peter DeAnda Productions co-production)
The Sculpture (Peter DeAnda Productions co-production)
Changing (Peter DeAnda Productions co-production)
Only for the Telling (Ernie Fann Productions co-production)
Evanna, Ernie Fann (Ernie Fann Productions co-production)
Timeless Messages, A Tribuute to Curtis Mayfield, E.D. Dillhay
8th Annual Ira Aldridge Acting Competition sponsored by Ted Lange
Act II Short Play Competition sponsored by Marguerite Ray
1st Bar Composers and Songwriters Competition sponsored by Robert Guillaume
1991-1992
Payments Due, Carol Connelly
Pushkin
Christopher Columbus
Sunday Mornings at the IVAR (15 events)
*Lucia & Levi and the Little Zipper Band
*Legends and Traditions
*Jazz Concert
*Public Nuisance Comedy Group
*Vana Carter
Elder Tales
*Love Conquers All
*Winfred Harris, 'Between the Lines Dance Co
*Black History MonTH A Dedication to Martin LuthER King
*Brotherhood for the ArTS Foundation Benefit Concert Film FestivalI
*An Evening of Music
The Legend of the Mayan Volcano, Dulce Capadocia Dance Co.
10th Annual Ira Aldridge actin Competition cponsored by Ted Lange
2009-2010
PIANO BAR, C. Bernard Jackson
2010 TRIBUTE to C. Bernard Jackson, and
Inner City Cultural Center Alumni
2010-2011
Shaping Black Culture
SLEEP NO MORE
Readers Theatre Series
*Sleep No More, Felton Perry
Video Shoot with GLYNN TURMAN, ART EVANS, TED LANGE, LAWRENCE HILTON JACOBS
2011-2012
Shaping Black Culture
2011 TRIBUTE to C. Bernard Jackson, and Inner City Cultural Center Alumni
ICCC HOLIDAY GATHERING
A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, BILINGUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, READERS THEATRE SERIIES
Piano Bar, C. Bernard Jackson
2012-2013
2012 TRIBUTE to C. Bernard Jackson, and Inner City Cultural Center Alumni
A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, Beah Richards
Lysistrata, Hawthorne James
Readers Theatre Series
National Women’s History Month Event
2013-2014
ICCC Tribute to CBJ, The Man, His Music, His Art
READERS THEATRE SERIES
National Women’s History Month Event
1st Annual Readers Theatre Festival
2014-2015
A Black Woman Speaks, C. Bernard Jackson
READERS THEATRE SERIES
National Women’s History Month Event
2nd Annual Readers Theatre Festival
1ST ANNUAL YOUTH THEATRE FESTIVAL
50th Anniversary CBJ/ICCC - Phase I
2015-2016
50th ANNIVERSARY (Phase I)
READERS THEATRE SERIES
3rd Annual Readers Theatre Festival
50th Anniversary CBJ/ICCC - Phase II
2016-2017
READERS THEATRE SERIES
4th Annual Readers Theatre Festival
50th Anniversary CBJ/ICCC - Phase III