Shows to see before you die...
Antigone (442BC) - Sophicles
Everyman (15th Century) - Unknown
Medieval Miracle/Mystery Plays (10th to 16th Century) - Unknown 07/10 Chester Community, Chester Cathedral, England, 2013
The Comedy of Errors (1589) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 (1597) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry V (1598) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 (1590) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 (1590) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 3 (1590) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Richard II (1595) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Richard III (1592) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
King John (1596) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Henry VIII (1612) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus (1593) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew (1593) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (1594) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost (1594) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 08/10 Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon, 2005
The Merchant of Venice (1596) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (1598) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (1599) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 07/10 Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester, 2012; Theatre Clwyd, Mold, 2026
Julius Caesar (1599) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
As You Like It (1599) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 07/10 Northern Broadsides, The Lowry, Manchester, 2016
Hamlet (1600) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida (1601) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well (1602) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure (1604) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Othello (1604) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Macbeth (1605) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
King Lear (1605) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 09/10 Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2008
Antony and Cleopatra (1606) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Coriolanus (1607) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens (1607) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
Cymbeline (1609) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale (1610) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare
The Tempest (1611) (RSC Shakespeare Complete Works Hardback 2007) - William Shakespeare 05/10 The Lord Chamberlain's Men, Conwy Castle, Wales, 2010
Doctor Faustus (1604) - Christopher Marlowe
The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) - Thomas Dekker
The School for Scandal (1777) - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals (1775) - Richard Brinsley 04/10 Sheridan Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2006
The Marriage of Figaro (1786) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Swan Lake (1875) - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (1889) - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker (1892) - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) - Edmond Rostand 04/10 Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2016
The Pirates of Penzance (1879) - Arthur Sullivan and W S Gilbert
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) (Wordsworth Library Collection 2007 Hardback) - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance (1893) (Wordsworth Library Collection 2007 Hardback) - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband (1898) (Wordsworth Library Collection 2007 Hardback) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (1898) (Wordsworth Library Collection 2007 Hardback) - Oscar Wilde
The Seagull (1895) - Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (1904) - Anton Chekhov
Madame Butterfly (1904) - Giacomo Puccini
A Christmas Carol (1843) (Selected Illustrated Works of Charles Dickens Christmas Stories Hardback 2010) - Charles Dickens 09/10 One Man Show performed by Gerald Dickens at St George's Concert Hall, Liverpool, Christmas 2022
Pygmalian (1912) - George Bernard Shaw
The Threepenny Opera (1928) - Bertolt Brecht 04/10 Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2003
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) - Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) - Bertolt Brecht
Life of Galileo (1939) - Bertolt Brecht
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) - Bertolt Brecht
The Good Woman of Setzuan (1943) - Bertolt Brecht
The Caucasion Chalk Circle (1943) - Bertolt Brecht
Oklahoma (1943) - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Lynn Riggs
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello
The Iceman Cometh (1939) - Eugene O'Neill
Our Town (1938) - Thornton Wilder 06/10 Theatre Clwyd, Wales, 2026
Waiting for Godot (1949) - Samuel Beckett
Death of a Salesman (1949) - Arthur Miller
The Crucible (1953) (Paperback 2003 Purchased in Salem US in 2014) - Arthur Miller
A Streetcar named Desire (1947) - Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) - Tenessee Williams 03/10 Theatre Clwyd, Wales, 2004
The Birthday Party (1958) - Harold Pinter
Rape of the Fair Country (1959) - Alexander Cordell 06/10 Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2012
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) - Edward Albee
A Clockwork Orange (1962, 2012) - Anthony Burgess, Alexandra Spencer-Jones 06/10 Action to the Word, Edinburgh Festival, 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1963) - Dale Wasserman 07/10 Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2004
Equus (1973) - Peter Shaffer
Silence of the Lambs (1988) - Thomas Harris
The Woman in Black (1987) - Susan Hill, Stephan Mallatratt
The Haunting of Blaine Manor (1987) - Joe O'Byrne 06/10 Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2024
Our Country's Good (1988) - Timberlake Wertenbaker
Death and the Maiden (1990) - Ariel Dorfman
Festen (1998) - David Eldridge 09/10 Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company, Theatre Cymru, Wales, 2006
The 39 Steps (2005) - Patrick Barlow, John Buchan 07/10 Criterion Theatre, London, 2011
Warhorse (2007) - Michael Morpurgo, Nick Stafford 08/10 The Lowry, Manchester, 2013
Clarence Darrow (2007) - Michael Morpurgo, Nick Stafford 08/10 The Old Vic, London, 2015
Witness for the Prosecution (1925 short story 'Traitor's Hands') - Agatha Christie 08/10 County Hall, London, 2026
The Shawshank Redemption (1982) - Stephen King 09/10 Theatre Clwyd, Mold, 2026
2:22 A Ghost Story (2021) - Danny Robbins 07/10 Venue Cymru, Llandudno, 2026
West Side Story (1957) - Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents
My Fair Lady (1956) - Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw
The Music Man (1957) - Meredith Wilson, Franklin Lacey
The Sound of Music (1959) - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Oliver (1960) - Charles Dickens, Lionel Bart
Fiddler of the Roof (1964) - Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein
Cabaret (1966) - Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, John Kander
Sweet Charity (1966) - Neil Simon, Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1968) - Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jesus Christ Superstar (1969) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
Grease (1971) - Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
Rocky Horror Show (1973) - Richard O’Brien 09/10 Opera House, Manchester, 2016
A Chorus Line (1975) - James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban
Chicago (1975) - Bob Fosse, John Kander, Fred Ebb
Guys and Dolls (1950) - Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows 08/10 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool, 2016
Evita (1976) - Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Les Miserables (1980) - Victor Hugo, Claude-Michel Schonberg
Cats (1980) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Elliot, Trevor Nunn
Blood Brothers (1983) - Willy Russell 09/10 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool, 2008
Starlight Express (1984) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe
Phantom of the Opera (1986) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe, Gaston Leroux 08/10 The Venetian, Las Vegas, 2008
Love Never Dies (2010) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Glen Slater, Ben Elton
Miss Saigon (1989) - Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil, Giacomo Puccini
Buddy (1989) - Alan Janes
Tommy (1992) - Pete Townshend
Rent (1993) - Jonathon Larson
The Producers (2001) - Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan 09/10 Hippodrome, Birmingham, 2007
The Book of Mormon (2011) - Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone 06/10 Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 2026
Jersey Boys (2004) - Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe, Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice
We Will Rock You (2002) - Queen, Ben Elton
Hairspray (2002) - Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Thomas Meehan, John Waters
Wicked (2003) - Stephen Schwartz, Winnie Holzman
The Lion King (1997) - Disney 10/10 Lyceum Theatre, London, 2006
Matilda The Musical (2010) - Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin 06/10 Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York, 2014
Avenue Q (2003) - Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, Jeff Whitty 06/10 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool, 2016
Spamalot (2004) - Eric Idle 06/10 Palace Theatre, London, 2011
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show Live (2011) - Douglas Adams 08/10 Venue Cymru, 2012
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2012) - Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens 08/10 Venue Cymru, 2017
Stomp (1991) - Stomp 08/10 The Lowry, Manchester, 2008
Aurelia's Oratorio (2005) - Victoria Thierree Chaplin, Aurelia Thierree 08/10 The Lowry, Manchester, 2006
Totem (2011) - Cirque Du Soleil 08/10 Cirque Du Soleil, Royal Albert Hall, London, 20126
Cerebellium (2013) - Bangor University 09/10 Pontio, Bangor, 2012
Sleep No More (2011) - Punch Drunk 08/10 The KcKittrick Hotel, New York, 2014