- (1956 - 2004) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1956) Stage Play: The Lovers. Directed by Michael Gordon and Arthur Penn [earliest Broadway credit]. Martin Beck Theatre: 10 May 1956-12 May 1956 (4 performances).
- Stage: Directed "Two for the Seesaw" on Broadway, for which he won a Tony award, in 1958.
- (1959) Stage Play: The Miracle Worker. Drama. Written by William Gibson. Directed by Arthur Penn. Playhouse Theatre: 19 Oct 1959- 1 Jul 1961 (719 performances). Cast: Anne Bancroft (as "Annie Sullivan"), Patty Duke (as "Helen Keller") [Broadway debut], Dale Ellen Bethea (as "Child"), Juanita Bethea (as "Mary"), Miriam Butler (as "Martha"), Kathleen Comegys (as "Aunt Ev"), James Congdon (as "James Keller"), Michael Constantine (as "Anagnos"), Roger De Koven (as "Doctor"), Caswell Fairweather (as "Percy"), Lori Heineman (as "Child"), Rita Levy (as "Child"), John Marriott (as "John"), Eileen Musumeci (as "Child"), Patricia Neal (as "Kate Keller"), Donna Pastore (as "Child"), Beah Richards (as "Viney') [Broadway debut], Lynn Schoenfeld (as "Child"), Torin Thatcher (as "Captain Keller"). Understudies: Dale Ellen Bethea (as "Martha/Percy"), Juanita Bethea (as "Mary/Viney), Clarice Blackburn (as "Kate Keller"). Replacement actors during run: R.G. Armstrong (as "Captain Keller"), Mary Bell (as "Aunt Ev"), Dale Ellen Bethea (as "Martha"), Clarice Blackburn (as "Kate Keller"), Clifford Cothren (as "Doctor"), Candace Culkin (as "Child Jack Hollander (as "Anagnos/Doctor"), Karen Lee (as "Child"), Geoffrey Lumb (as "Captain Keller"), Suzanne Pleshette (as "Annie Sullivan"). Understudies: Clifford Cothren (as "Anagnos"), Candace Culkin (as "Helen Keller"), Jack Hollander (as "Anagnos/Captain Keller"), Ruth Hope (as "Aunt Ev"), Tresa Hughes (as "Annie Sullivan"), Karen Stride (as "Helen Keller"), Bronia Wheeler [credited as Bronia Stefan] (as "Annie Sullivan"). Note: Filmed by Playfilm Productions (distributed by United Artists) as The Miracle Worker (1962).
- Stage: Replaced Gower Champion as director of "My Mother, My Father and Me" by Lillian Hellman on Broadway, 1963.
- Broadway stage: "Wait Until Dark" (1966). Drama. Directed by Arthur Penn. Ethel Barrymore Theatre (moved to The Shubert Theatre on 11 Jul 1966; to The George Abbott Theatre on 3 Oct 1966; and to The Music Box Theatre, 28 Nov 1966 to close): 2 Feb 1966 to 31 Dec 1966 (374 performances).
- Broadway stage: Directed "Golden Boy". Majestic Theatre: 20 Oct 1964-5 Mar 1966 (568 performances).
- Broadway stage: "Sly Fox" (2004). Comedy (revival). Directed by Arthur Penn. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 1 Apr 2004- 29 Aug 2004 (173 performances).
- Broadway stage: The Lovers (1956). Directed by Michael Gordon and Arthur Penn. Martin Beck Theatre: 10 May 1956-12 May 1956 (4 performances).
- (2002) Stage: Directed "Fortune's Fool", a play by Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Mike Poulton (Stamford Center for the Arts, Truglia Theater, Stamford, CT, March 2002).
- (1962) Stage Play: In the Counting House. Written by Leslie Weiner. Scenic Design and Lighting Design by David Hays. Directed by Arthur Penn. Biltmore Theatre: 13 Dec 1962- 15 Dec 1962 (4 performances + 2 previews that began on 12 Dec 1962). Cast: Sydney Chaplin (as "Woody Hartman"), Howard Da Silva (as "Max Hartman"), Sol Frieder (as "Freddy Wexler"), Harold Gary (as "Sam Bader"), Lou Gilbert (as "Harry Stein"), Kay Medford (as "Mary Buckley"), Barbara Murray (as "Madeline Hanes"), Robert Pastene (as "Jack Gabriel"), Nancy R. Pollock (as "Vera Stern"), Paul E. Richards (as Arnold Dreyer"), Mel Stewart [credited as Melvin Stewart] (as "John Bell"). Understudies: Martin E. Brooks [credited as Martin Brooks] (as "Woody Hartman"), Ben Hammer (as "Max Hartman") and Kate Wilkinson (as "Mary Buckley"). Produced by David J. Cogan.
- (October 16, 1961) He directed William Gibson's play, "The Miracle Worker," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Eileen Brennan (Annie Sullivan); Donna Zimmerman (Helen Keller); Douglas Herrick; Laurinda Barrett; C.M. Gampel; Sharane McCurry; Perry Greene; Javotte Sutton Greene; Thomas Connolly; Alice Yourman; Frank Shaw Stevens; Lorraine Abate; Laurie Millar; Annette Hunt; and Stanley Greene in the cast. George Jenkins was set designer. Ruth Morley was costume designer. Martin Tashe and Fred Coe were producers.
- (October 31 to December 13, 1987) He directed Janusz Glowacki's play, "Hunting Cockroaches," in a West Coast premiere at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California with Swoosie Kurtz in the cast.
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