COMEDIES THAT HAVE ENDED THEIR RUNS
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ABIGAIL'S PARTY - Whitehall Theatre Revival of Mike Leigh's dissection of marriage. Winter-Spring 2003

ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR - Garrick Theatre. Ayckbourn on 3 couples, 3 Christmas Eves.Winter-Spring 2008

AGAINST HIS WILL - Lewisham Theatre/Touring.Anglo-Jamaican comedy: man who brings charges of rape against his female employer. Spring 2000

AIRSICK - Bush Theatre. Black comedy of doomed romances. Autumn 2003

THE ALCHEMIST - Olivier Theatre Simon Russell Beale and Alex Jennings in Ben Jonson's comedy of con men. Autumn 2006

ALEX - Arts Theatre. Stage version of comic strip about City banker. Autumn 2007

ALONE IT STANDS - Duchess Theatre. How local Irish rugby team defeated the world champions January 2002.

ALL MOUTH - Menier Chocolate Factory. Comedy of actors who do commercials. Summer 2007

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL - Stray Dogs touring company's take on one of Shakespeare's more difficult comedies. 2000.

THE ANNIVERSARY - Garrick Theatre. Sheila Hancock as the mother from hell in black comedy. Winter-Spring 2005

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE - Strand Theatre. Classic screwball comedy about murderous dotty old dears. Spring 2003.

ART - Whitehall Theatre. Relationships falter when a man buys a painting a friend hates, in Yasmina Reza's long-running comedy. Closed January 2003

AS YOU LIKE IT - Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Alexandra Gilbreath as Rosalind and Anthony Howell as Orlando. Summer 2000.

AS YOU LIKE IT - The Pit. Royal Shakespeare Company transfer from Stratford, with Alexandra Gilbreath as Rosalind. Winter 2000-2001

AS YOU LIKE IT - Open Air Theatre. Shakespeare's romantic comedy in Regent's Park Summer 2002

AS YOU LIKE IT - Wyndhams Theatre. Helen McCrory as Rosalind, set in 1940s France Summer-Autumn 2005

AS YOU LIKE IT - Novello Theatre. Lia Williams was Rosalind for the RSC. March 2006

AUNTIE AND ME - Wyndham's Theatre. Alan Davies and Margaret Tyzack in comedy about man visiting a sick relative he hardly knows. Winter-Spring 2003

BEAUTIFUL THING - Sound Theatre. Romantic comedy with a gay twist.Summer 2006

BEDROOM FARCE - Aldwych Theatre. Ayckbourn revival, with Richard Briers and June Whitfield. Spring 2002

BETTY - Vaudeville Theatre. Geraldine McNulty as a spinster who sits on the washing machine and dsicovers sex. Edinburgh 2000, London July 2002.

THE BICYCLE MEN - King's Head Theatre. Comedy of hapless tourist in France. Autumn 2007

BLUE MAN GROUP - New London Theatre. The mime and percussion act from New York. 2005-2007

BOEING-BOEING - Comedy Theatre. 1960s comedy of playboy juggling three air hostess girlfriends. 2007-2008

BOMBSHELLS - Arts Theatre Caroline O'Connor played six very different women. Autumn 2004

BOSTON MARRIAGE - New Ambassadors Theatre. David Mamet's witty view of 19th century women, with Zoe Wanamaker. Winter 2001-2002.

BOUNCERS - Whitehall Theatre. John Godber's satirical study of doormen on the job is revived, starring the author. Spring 2001

BOX THE PONY - The Pit. Leah Purcell on growing up on an Aboriginal mission in the Australian outback. Double-bill with White Baptist Abba Fan. Summer 2000.

A BUSY DAY - Lyric Theatre. Fanny Burney's 18th century sex-and-confusion romp. Spring 2000

CAUGHT IN THE NET - Vaudeville Theatre. Farce-master Ray Cooney's romp, as a man with two families tries to keep them apart. Winter-Spring 2002.

CHAINS OF DEW - Orange Tree Theatre. 1923 feminist comedy by Susan Glaspell. Spring 2008

CHEAP DAY RETURN: THE WEIRD SISTERS -Battersea Arts Centre. Alison Goldie and Kath Burlinson in comic revue Spring 2001

CLOUD NINE - Almeida Theatre. Caryl Churchill's gender-bending comedy. Autumn 2007

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company watches twins get mistaken for each other. Winter 2000-2001

COMIC POTENTIAL - Lyric Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn directs Janie Dee, Matthew Cottle and David Soul in his play about living robot 1999-2000.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) - Criterion Theatre. Long-running spoof by the three-man Reduced Shakespeare Company 1996-2005

THE CONSTANT WIFE - Lyric Theatre. Jenny Seagrove in Maugham comedy of actual or threatened infidelity. Summer-autumn 2002.

THE COUNTRY WIFE - Haymarket Theatre. Resident company in bawdy Restoration comedy. Autumn-Winter 2007

DAISY PULLS IT OFF - Lyric Theatre. Revival of girls-own adventure set in a girls' school. Spring 2002.

DAMSELS IN DISTRESS - Duchess Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn repertory season - three independant comedies with the same cast Autumn-winter 2002

DANTE'S INFERNO - Comedy Theatre. Comic Arthur Smith's musings on Dante and drink. December 2004.

DICK BARTON - EPISODE II: The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb - Spoof salute to cult radio series of the 1940s. Touring 2001

DINNER - Wyndham's Theatre. Moira Buffini's dinner-party-from-hell play seen at the NT 2002. Winter 2003-2004.

DIRTY BLONDE - Duke of York's Theatre. Comedy about Mae West and her fans. Summer 2004.

DOLLY WEST'S KITCHEN - Old Vic Theatre. Abbey Theatre in Frank McGuinness's romantic comedy.Spring-summer 2000

ELLING - Trafalgar Studios. Former mental patients try to adjust to the real world. 2007

ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE - Arts Theatre. Alison Steadman and Clive Francis in Joe Orton farce. Winter-Spring 2001

FABULATION - Tricycle Theatre. Successful African-American woman loses all. 2006

THE FALSE SERVANT - Cottesloe Theatre. Marivaux comedy of sex and power. Summer 2004

A FAMILY AFFAIR - Arcola Theatre. Russian farce of a swindler swindled. Winter 2006-2007

FEELGOOD - Garrick Theatre. Henry Goodman stars as a spinmeister in Alistair Beaton's political satire. Summer-Autumn 20011.

THE FEMALE ODD COUPLE - Apollo Theatre. Neil Simon's rewrite of his classic stars Jenny Seagrove and Paula Wilcox.Spring 2001

FALLEN ANGELS - Apollo Theatre. Felicity Kendal and Frances de la Tour in Noel Coward's comedy about middle-aged lust. Spring 2001

FUDDY MEERS - Arts Theatre. Politically incorrect comedy of amnesia. Spring 2004

GARDEN - Olivier Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn played simultaneously with HOUSE next door, the cast running from one to the other between scenes. Summer 2000

GAUDEAMUS - Arcola Theatre. Co-ed university makes sex obligatory. Spring 2006

GLORIOUS! - Duchess Theatre Maureen Lipman as would-be singer Florence Foster Jenkins. 2005-2006

GOING POTTY - New End Theatre. Mother goes on strike, exposing marital rifts. Spring 2007

GRINGOS - Battersea Arts Centre. Britsol Old Vic comedy of bright young things on a back-packing tour of Latin America . Winter 1999-2000.

GRUMPY OLD WOMEN - LIVE - Lyric Theatre. Three actresses kvetch comically in offshoot of TV show. Summer 2006

THE GUARDSMAN - Albery Theatre. Janet Suzman directs Greta Scacchi and Michael Pennington in the Molnar about an acting couple. Autumn 2000

HAY FEVER - Haymarket Theatre. Judi Dench in Noel Coward comedy of bohemian family. Summer 2006

HEROES - Wyndhams Theatre. Tom Stoppard adaptation of French play of old soldiers. Winter 2005-2006

HIS GIRL FRIDAY - Olivier Theatre. Stage version of movie version of The Front Page . Summer -autumn 2003

THE HISTORY BOYS - Lyttelton Theatre. Alan Bennett play set in boys' school. National Theatre 2004-2005; Wyndham's 2006-2007; 2007-2008

HOME AND BEAUTY - Lyric Theatre. Husband returns from war to find wife remarried in Somerset Maugham's farcical look at marriage. Autumn 2002.

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES - Duchess Theatre. Comic trio Peepolykus deconstruct Sherlock Holmes.2007

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Vaudeville Theatre. Penelope Keith was Lady Bracknell. Winter-Spring 2008

JACKIE MASON - Queen's Theatre. The veteran stand-up comic's wry views on current events, Jews and gentiles, and the idiot in the front row.Autumn 2001

JUS' LIKE THAT! - Garrick Theatre. Salute to comic Tommy Cooper. Summer 2003

KING OF HEARTS - Hampstead Theatre. Political satire - what if the heir to the throne loved a Muslim? Spring 2007

THE LADY IN THE VAN - Queens Theatre. Maggie Smith starred in Alan Bennett play about the woman who parked in his garden for years. Spring 2000

A LAUGHING MATTER - Lyttelton Theatre. New farce set backstage at She Stoops to Conquer. In rep with the original, winter 2002-2003.

LEGAL FICTIONS - Savoy Theatre. Double bill of John Mortimer comedies starring Edward Fox. Spring 2008

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE - Garrick Theatre. Martin McDonagh's tale of gore, the IRA and pussycats Pit Winter 2001-2002; Garrick Summer-Autumn 2002

LIFE X 3 - Old Vic Theatre. National Theatre does new Yasmina Reza, with Mark Rylance & Imelda Staunton. NT, then West End Winter-Spring 2001

LITTLE WOLF'S BOOK OF BADNESS - Hampstead Theatre. Good little wolf has to learn to be bad. Winter 2007-2008

LOVE IN A WOOD - Swan Theatre. Royal Shakspeare Company in Wycherley comedy. Summer 2001

LOVE'S LABOURS LOST - Open Air Theatre. Romantic comedy in the park.Summer 2001

LOVE'S LABOURS LOST - Olivier Theatre. The NT's first go at this early Shakespeare play in 30 years; Trevor Nunn directed. Spring-summer 2003.

LOVE SONG - Ambassadors Theatre. Romantic comedy - lonely boy meets pretty burglar. Winter 2006-2007

THE LOVER and THE COLLECTION - Comedy Theatre. Double bill of early, light Pinter plays. Spring 2008

MADAMOISELLE COLOMBE - Bridewell. Honor Blackman in Anouilh's romantic comedy. Autumn 2000

THE MADNESS OF GEORGE DUBYA - Arts Theatre. Satirical look at Iraqi war. Spring 2003.

MAJOR BARBARA - Orange Tree Theatre. Shaw's debate over saving souls or saving bodies. Autumn-Winter 2006

THE MAN OF MODE - Olivier Theatre. Restoration comedy in modern dress.Spring 2007

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE STING - BAC. Niall Ashdown on growing up to the sound of the Police. Winter 2003-2004.

THE MANDATE - Cottesloe Theatre. Russian farce set in the 1920s. Autumn-Winter 2004

MARKET BOY - Olivier Theatre. Comedy by David Eldridge set in a street market. Spring-summer 2006

MASKS AND FACES - Finborough Theatre. Fringe production of 19th Century sentimental comedy. Spring 2004

MATING BEHAVIOUR - Pentameters Theatre. Comic dissection of sexual politics among London's thirty-somethings. Winter 2000-2001

MEAT AND TWO VEG / LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHERE AM I? - Street theatre company Cartoon de Salvo offers two comedies in repertory 2003

MEMBERS ONLY - Trafalgar Studios. French play about threatened friendship Spring 2006

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - Old Vic Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company transfer from Stratford.Summer 2003

MICHAEL MOORE - Roundhouse. The American social critic vents his spleen. Autumn 2002

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Josette Simon and Daniel Ryan. Autumn 1999

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Alan Strachan's production of Shakespeare's evergreen fantasy. Summer 2000

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Open Air Theatre. Shakespeare-in-the-Park, delightful play in a delightful setting. Summer 2001

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakspeare Company touring production visits London Spring 2002.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Open Air Theatre. The Shakespeare-in-the-Park summer perennial. Summer 2003

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Comedy Theatre. All-male production. Autumn 2003

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - Novello Theatre. Part of the RSC Comedies season. February 2006

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - The Roundhouse. Tim Supple directs an all-Indian cast Spring 2007

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Shakespeare's comedy about feuding couples.Summer 2000

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Haymarket Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford. August 2002

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Novello Theatre. RSC from Stratford, with Joseph Millson and Tamsin Greig. Winter 2006-2007

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Olivier Theatre. Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker as Benedick and Beatrice. 2007-2008

MUM'S THE WORD - Albery Theatre. Comedy of actresses facing motherhood. Spring 2003

MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE - Apollo Theatre. Dawn French in solo show by Geraldine Aron. Spring 2003.

MY HUSBAND IS A SPACEMAN - Battersea Arts Centre. Kazuko Hohki's multimedia performance piece. June 2001

A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER - Trafalgar Studios. Marie Jones' solo play about Irish Protestant who realises Catholics have more fun. Autumn 2007

ON THE CEILING - Garrick Theatre. Comedy about Michaelangelo's apprentices. Autumn 2005

ONCE IN A LIFETIME - Olivier Theatre. Kaufmann-Hart satire of Hollywood. Winter 2005-2006

OVER THE MOON - Old Vic Theatre. Joan Collins in Ray Cooney-directed backstage farce. Autumn 2001

PEGGY FOR YOU Comedy Theatre. Alan Plater's salute to agent Peggy Ramsay, who discovered dozens of playwrights. Maureen Lipman starred. Spring 2000

PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT - Almeida Theatre. Tennessee Williams' one Broadway comedy. Spring 2006

PETE AND DUD - COME AGAIN - The Venue. Play about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Spring 2006

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY - Old Vic Theatre. Philip Barry's romantic comedy. Spring-summer 2005

THE PHILANTHROPIST - Donmar Theatre. Simon Russell Beale as Christopher Hampton's nice guy. Autumn 2005

PIANO/FORTE - Royal Court Theatre. Terry Johnson's soap-opera of very different sisters. Autumn 2006.

PINTER'S PEOPLE - Haymarket Theatre. Sketches and short plays by the Nobel Prize winner. February 2007

THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE - Wyndhams Theatre. Salute to comics Morcambe and Wise by contemporary comics The Right Size. Spring & autumn 2002.

THE POCKET ORCHESTRA - Trafalgar Studios. Comic history of classical music. Spring 2006

POWER - Cottesloe Theatre. Serious comedy of manners by Nick Dear, about politics and sex in 17th century France. Summer-Autumn 2003.

PREACHEROSITY - Jermyn Street Theatre. Comedy of preacher's effect on Texas town. Spring 2006

PRESENT LAUGHTER - Lyttelton Theatre. Alex Jennings in Noel Coward. 2007-2008

PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES - Orange Tree Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn's latest (as of 2005) comedy-with-a-touch-of-pathos Spring 2005

PRIVATE LIVES - Albery Theatre. Noel Coward's comedy with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan Winter 2001-2002.

THE PUB LANDLORD: "...AND A GLASS OF WHITE WINE FOR THE LADY" - Playhouse Theatre.Al Murray's one-man show. Spring 2000.

QUARTET - Albery Theatre. Donald Sinden and Alec McCowen in comedy about retired opera singers. Autumn 1999.

RAFTA, RAFTA - Lyttelton Theatre. Comedy of Indian family in England. 2007

RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN - Comedy Theatre. Charles Dyer's 1962 play of mismatched couple. Spring 2004

THE RELAPSE - Olivier Theatre. Trevor Nunn directs Alex Jennings in Vanbrugh's post-Restoration comedy. Summer-Autumn 2001

RING ROUND THE MOON - Playhouse Theatre. Christopher Fry's version of Anouilh's romantic comedy 2008

THE RIVALS - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare company does Sheridan -- marital plotting and Mrs. Malaprop Winter 2000-2001

ROMANCE - Almeida Theatre. David Mamet courtroom farce. Autumn 2005

ROUND THE HORNE REVISITED - The Venue. Staging of original scripts from the legendary radio comedy 2004-2005.

THE ROYAL FAMILY - Haymarket Theatre. Peter Hall directs Judi Dench and others in classic farce about theatre folk. Winter 2001-2002.

SEE HOW THEY RUN - Duchess Theatre. Venerable farce - which vicar is the real one? Summer-Autumn 2006

SEE U NEXT TUESDAY - Albery Theatre. French farce of man saddled with an idiot visitor Autumn-Winter 2003-2004

A SERVANT TO TWO MASTERS - New Ambassadors - RSC-Young Vic co-production of Goldoni's 1746 romp of mistaken identities. Stratford Autumn 1999; London Spring 2000; London Winter 2000-2001; London Summer 2001

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH - Queen's Theatre. Daryl Hannah as a nervous middle-aged man's fantasy. Autumn 2000.

SHOLOM ALEICHEM: NOW YOU'RE TALKING - King's Head. Saul Reichlin's solo show speaks of Tevya and others.Winter 2001-2002.

SHOOT THE CROW - Trafalgar Studio. Play about Irish workmen. Autumn 2005.

SIMPLICITY - Orange Tree Theatre. 18th Century romantic comedy. Autumn 2003

SINGULAR WOMEN - King's Head Theatre. Lesley Joseph in quartet of comic monologues. Autumn 2003

THE SOLDIERS' FORTUNE - Young Vic Theatre. Restoration comedy of intrigues and cuckolding. Spring 2007

THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC - Garrick Theatre. Patricia Routledge in comedy of little old lady vs. Wall Street. Autumn - winter 2004

SOME GIRLS - Gielgud Theatre. David Schwimmer in romantic comedy. Summer 2005

SONGBIRDS LTD. - The Courtyard. Satire on a performers' agency run by performers. Jan/Feb -2002.

SOUTHWARK FAIR - Cottesloe Theatre. Comedy of life and love in south London. Spring 2006

STAR QUALITY - Apollo Theatre. Penelope Keith in lost Noel Coward comedy about power politics in the theatre. Winter 2001-2002.

STONES IN HIS POCKETS - Duchess Theatre. Return of Marie Jones's two-hander on a film set in Ireland.Autumn 2006

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Queen's Theatre. The RSC's Stratford hit, in rep with The Tamer Tamed. Winter 2003-2004.

TAMING OF THE SHREW - Old Vic Theatre. All-male Shakespeare, in rep with Twelfth Night. January-February 2007

THE TAMER TAMED - Queen's Theatre. The RSC's rediscovery of Fletcher's 'sequel' to The Shrew, in rep with Shakespeare. Winter 2003-2004

TARTUFFE - Lyttelton Theatre. Lindsay Posner directs Martin Clunes in Moliere. Spring 2002.

THE TEMPEST - The Pit. Royal Shakespeare Company small-scale production Autumn 1999

THE TEMPEST - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. At the replica of Shakespeare's original theatre with Vanessa Redgrave as Prospero. Summer 2000

THE TEMPEST - Roundhouse. Michael Boyd's production with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Spring 2002.

THE TEMPEST - Old VicTheatre. Derek Jacobi was Prospero in touring production that played London in early 2003.

THE TEMPEST - Novello Theatre. RSC from Stratford, with Patrick Stewart. Spring 2007

THEATRE OF BLOOD - Lyttelton Theatre. Staging of campy horror film. Spring-summer 2005.

THUNDERBIRDS F.A.B. - Aldwych Theatre. Two-man salute to cult kids' TV show. Winter 2001-2002

TOM, DICK AND HARRY - Duke of York's Theatre. Ray Cooney farce. Autumn 2005.

TREATS - Garrick Theatre. Darkly comic drama of romantic triangle by Christopher Hampton. Spring 2007

TWELFTH NIGHT - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company: Zoe Waites as Viola, Guy Henry Malvolio. Winter 2001-2002

TWELFTH NIGHT - Albery Theatre. Shakespeare set in India. Autumn 2004.

TWELFTH NIGHT - Open Air Theatre. Shakespeare in the Park Summer 2005.

TWELFTH NIGHT - Novello Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford. January 2006

TWELFTH NIGHT - Old Vic Theatre. All-male Shakespeare, in rep with Taming of the Shrew. January-February 2007

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA - Open Air Theatre. Shakespeare in the Park, summer 2003.

THE UN INSPECTOR - Olivier Theatre. Updated adaptation of Gogol's satire of corrupt politicians. Summer-autumn 2005

UNDER THE DOCTOR - Comedy Theatre. Anton Rodgers and Peter Davison in bedroom farce.Spring 2001

UNSUSPECTING SUSAN - King's Head Theatre. Celia Imrie in one-woman comedy about a fading life in the Home Counties. Spring 2003

THE VEGEMITE TALES - Old Red Lion. Comedy of Aussie roommates in London. Spring 2003

VOLPONE - The Pit, Barbican. Royal Shakespeare Company in Ben Jonson's satire of greed. Autumn 1999

THE WALLS - Cottesloe Theatre. Walls literally disappear to expose domestic comedy by Colin Teevan at the National. Spring 2001

WE HAPPY FEW - Gielgud Theatre. Juliet Stevenson in Imogen Stubbs comedy of actresses in the 1940s. Summer 2004

WHIPPING IT UP - Political satire set in parliamentary whip's office. Bush Theatre Autumn 2006; Ambassadoirs Spring 2007

WHITE BAPTIST ABBA FAN - The Pit. Deborah Cheetham's story as an Aboriginal taken from her family to be raised by whites in Australia. Summer 2000.

THE WITCHES - Wyndham's Theatre. Staging of Roald Dahl story. Spring 2005

THE WOMAN HATER - Orange Tree Theatre. Rediscovered 18th-century comedy. Winter 2007-2008

THE WOMAN WHO COOKED HER HUSBAND - New Ambassadors Theatre. Alison Steadman as a first wife meeting the second. Autumn 2002

THE WONDER OF SEX - Lyttelton Theatre. The mock-heroic National Theatre of Brent visits its sister institution. Winter 2001-2002.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU - Southwark Playhouse. Classic screwball comedy of super-eccentric family. Autumn 2007

YOU NEVER CAN TELL - Garrick Theatre. Peter Hall directs Edward Fox in rarely-done Shaw. Winter 2005-2006.

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