Off-Broadway Shows History by Year - Opened in 1979

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• A Month in the Country - 12/11/79
  Roundabout Stage I
• A Season to Unravel - 1/24/79
  St. Mark's Playhouse
• A Woman Without a Man is... - 5/9/79
  Theater East
• After the Rise - 9/10/79
  Astor Place Theatre
• Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian - 4/23/79
  Players Theatre
• Awake and Sing! - 4/19/79
  Roundabout Stage I
• Babes in Toyland - 11/28/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Big and Little - 3/27/79
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Big Bad Burlesque - 8/14/79
  Orpheum Theatre New York
• Biography: A Game - 4/5/79
  Westside Theatre Upstairs
• Boo Hoo - 9/29/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Breaking and Entering - 1/24/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Buried Child - 6/20/79
  Circle Theatre
• Class Enemy - 11/18/79
  Theatre Four
• Class Enemy - 11/19/79
  Players Theatre
• Coriolanus - 6/22/79
  Delacorte Theatre
• Coriolanus - 3/14/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Dispatches - 4/19/79
  Cabaret Theatre [Public Theatre]
• Dispatches - 4/18/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Doctor Faustus - 12/16/79
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Don Juan Comes Back from the War - 4/3/79
  Stage 73
• Don't Tell Me Everything - 4/22/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Family Business - 5/29/79
  Roundabout Stage I
• Festival - 5/16/79
  City Center Downstairs
• Flying Blind - 11/15/79
  Clurman Theater
• Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein - 6/24/79
  Circle Theatre
• Getting Out - 5/15/79
  Music Box Theatre
• God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - 10/14/79
  Entermedia Theater
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - 10/14/79
  Entermedia Theatre
• H.M.S. Pinafore - 7/4/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• H.M.S. Pinafore - 10/3/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Happy Days - 6/1/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Holy Places - 12/6/79
  American Place Theatre
• Home - 12/14/79
  St. Mark's Playhouse
• Hosanna - 11/7/79
  Playhouse 46
• In Trousers - 2/21/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• In Trousers - 12/8/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Iolanthe - 8/15/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Iolanthe - 10/24/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Julius Caesar - 1/25/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Justice - 10/24/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• King of Schnorrers - 10/4/79
  Clurman Theater
• King of Schnorrers - 10/9/79
  Clurman Theater
• Ladyhouse Blues - 10/17/79
  York Theatre Company
• Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe - 5/16/79
  Theatre Four
• Later - 1/11/79
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Letters Home - 10/12/79
  American Place Theatre
• Little Eyolf - 6/28/79
  Roundabout Stage II
• Lone Star and Pvt. Wars - 6/7/79
  Century Center for the Performing Arts
• Losing Time - 9/11/79
  Stage 73
• Mary Stuart - 12/12/79
  Circle Theatre
• Mercier & Camier - 10/25/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Miss Julie - 4/5/79
  
• Mlle. Modiste - 7/18/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Modigliani - 11/11/79
  Astor Place Theatre
• My Old Friends - 1/12/79
  Orpheum Theatre New York
• Not Tonight, Benvenuto! - 6/5/79
  Carter Theatre
• Oh, Johnny - 12/6/79
  
• Old Phantoms - 2/7/79
  St. Mark's Playhouse
• One Mo' Time - 10/22/79
  Village Gate 52nd St.
• One Mo' Time - 10/22/79
  Village Gate Downstairs
• Othello - 6/27/79
  Delacorte Theatre
• Paris Was Yesterday - 12/19/79
  Clurman Theater
• People in Show Business Make Long Goodbyes - 5/2/79
  Orpheum Theatre New York
• Plays from Africa - 1/10/79
  St. Mark's Playhouse
• Potholes - 10/9/79
  Cherry Lane Theatre
• Potholes - 10/9/79
  Cherry Lane Theatre
• Princess Ida - 10/17/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Reunion - 10/18/79
  Circle Theatre
• Ruddigore - 9/19/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Ruddigore - 10/31/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• Saints Alive! - 5/30/79
  Actors' Playhouse
• Sancocho - 3/28/79
  Public Theater [Luesther Hall]
• Sancocho - 3/28/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• Says I, Says He - 2/15/79
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Scrambled Feet - 6/11/79
  Village Gate Upstairs
• Scrambled Feet - 6/11/79
  Village Gate Upstairs
• Seduced - 2/2/79
  American Place Theatre
• Shout Across the River - 12/27/79
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You - 11/12/79
  Ensemble Studio Theatre
• Sky High - 6/28/79
  Players Theatre
• Sky High - 6/28/79
  Players Theatre
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 10/18/79
  Radio City Music Hall
• Sorrows of Stephen - 12/11/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Spell # 7 - 7/15/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Sterling Silver - 3/7/79
  Village Gate Downstairs
• Street Songs - 1/23/79
  Roundabout Stage I
• Strider: The Story of a Horse - 5/31/79
  Westside Theatre Upstairs
• Sweet Main Street - 5/17/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Table Settings - 3/21/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• Taken in Marriage - 2/22/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Talley's Folly - 5/1/79
  Circle Theatre
• Telecast - 2/8/79
  St. Bart's Playhouse
• The All Night Strut! - 10/4/79
  Theatre Four
• The All Night Strut! - 10/4/79
  Theatre Four
• The Art of Dining - 12/6/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• The Babes in Toyland - 12/21/79
  Felt Forum
• The Cavern - 10/28/79
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - 11/29/79
  Roundabout Stage II
• The Days Between - 6/6/79
  Park Royal Theatre
• The Elephant Man - 1/14/79
  York Theatre Company
• The Elocution of Benjamin - 3/20/79
  Theatre Four
• The Enchanted Pig - 4/23/79
  Charles Ludlam Theatre
• The Haggadah - 3/31/80
  
• The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs - 11/6/79
  Stage 73
• The Marquis of Keith - 2/18/79
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• The Merry Widow - 8/22/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• The Michigan - 11/16/79
  St. Mark's Playhouse
• The Mikado - 7/11/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• The Mikado - 10/10/79
  Eastside Playhouse
• The Office Murders - 9/18/79
  Quaigh Theater
• The Pirates of Penzance - 11/7/79
  
• The Price - 4/19/79
  Clurman Theater
• The Runner Stumbles - 1/14/79
  Circle Theatre
• The Songs of Jonathan Tunick - 4/3/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• The Terrorists - 4/19/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 2/1/79
  Public Theater [Martinson Theater]
• The Vienna Notes - 1/18/79
  Playwrights Horizons
• The Winter Dancers - 10/18/79
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• The Woods - 4/25/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Tintypes - 4/17/79
  York Theatre Company
• Tongues - 11/15/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Tunnel Fever, or The Sheep is Out - 4/22/79
  American Place Theatre
• Umabatha - 4/9/79
  Entermedia Theatre
• Wake Up, It's Time to Go to Bed - 5/16/79
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• Warriors from a Long Childhood - 5/17/79
  American Place Theatre
• Wild Oats - 1/7/79
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Wine Untouched - 6/18/79
  Clurman Theater
• Winter Signs - 3/4/79
  Circle Theatre
• Woody Guthrie - 11/26/79
  Cherry Lane Theatre

Off- Broadway Theatres in 1979

• 22 Steps
• Actors' Playhouse
• American Place Theatre
• Astor Place Theatre
• Cabaret Theatre [Public Theatre]
• Carter Theatre
• Century Center for the Performing Arts
• Charles Ludlam Theatre
• Cherry Lane Theatre
• Circle Theatre
• City Center Downstairs
• Clurman Theater
• Delacorte Theatre
• East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Eastside Playhouse
• Ensemble Studio Theatre
• Entermedia Theater
• Entermedia Theatre
• Felt Forum
• Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Music Box Theatre (Broadway)
• Orpheum Theatre New York
• Park Royal Theatre
• Players Theatre
• Playhouse 46
• Playwrights Horizons
• Public Theater [Luesther Hall]
• Public Theater [Martinson Theater]
• Quaigh Theater
• Radio City Music Hall
• Roundabout Stage I
• Roundabout Stage II
• St. Bart's Playhouse
• St. Mark's Playhouse
• Stage 73
• Theater East
• Theatre Four
• Village Gate (Downstairs)
• Village Gate (Upstairs)
• Village Gate 52nd St.
• Westside Theatre (Upstairs)
• York Theatre Company