Off-Broadway Shows History by Year - Opened in 1981

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• 2 by South - 10/14/81
  Theater at St. Clement's Church
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - 4/25/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• A Soldier's Play - 11/20/81
  Music Box Theatre
• A Tale Told - 6/11/81
  Circle Theatre
• Ah, Men - 5/11/81
  South Street Theatre
• American Buffalo - 6/3/81
  Circle in the Square Downtown
• An Evening with Joan Crawford - 1/28/81
  Orpheum Theatre New York
• Antigone - 10/30/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Behind the Broken Words - 12/4/81
  American Place Theatre
• Beyond Therapy - 1/1/81
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Black Elk Lives - 3/12/81
  Entermedia Theater
• Chantecler - 11/18/81
  47th Street Theatre
• Chekhov on the Lawn - 9/22/81
  Theater East
• Childe Byron - 2/26/81
  Circle Theatre
• Cloud 9 - 5/18/81
  Music Box Theatre
• Constance and the Musician - 6/10/81
  American Place Theatre
• Cotton Patch Gospel - 10/21/81
  Lamb's Theatre
• Cotton Patch Gospel - 10/21/81
  Lamb's Theatre
• Double Feature - 10/8/81
  Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest
• El Bravo! - 6/16/81
  Entermedia Theatre
• Entertaining Mr. Sloane - 6/12/81
  Cherry Lane Theatre
• Eternal Love - 9/30/81
  South Street Theatre
• Everybody's Gettin' Into the Act - 9/27/81
  Actors Playhouse
• Everybody's Gettin' into the Act - 9/27/81
  Actors' Playhouse
• Family Devotions - 10/18/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Fishing - 4/17/81
  Second Stage - Park Royal
• Forty-Deuce - 3/22/81
  Perry Street Theatre
• Francis - 12/22/81
  Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest
• Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) - 1/23/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Glasshouse - 3/22/81
  Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest
• Grace - 10/13/81
  American Place Theatre
• H.M.S. Pinafore - 12/31/69
  Eastside Playhouse
• Harry Ruby's Songs My Mother Never Sang - 6/9/81
  Stage 73
• Head Over Heels - 12/15/81
  Clurman Theater
• Hedda Gabler - 5/5/81
  Roundabout Stage I
• Henry IV Part I - 7/31/81
  Delacorte Theatre
• Home - 5/8/81
  Theatre Four
• How It All Began - 6/18/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria - 6/2/81
  Stage 73
• I Can't Keep Running in Place - 5/14/81
  Westside Arts Theatre
• I Can't Keep Running in Place - 5/14/81
  Westside Theatre Upstairs
• Il Campiello, a Venetian Comedy - 4/15/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• In an Upstate Motel - 4/4/81
  Theatre Four
• In Connecticut - 4/30/81
  Circle Theatre
• In Trousers - 3/22/81
  Second Stage Theatre
• Inadmissible Evidence - 2/23/81
  Roundabout Stage I
• It's Me, Sylvia - 4/13/81
  Playhouse Theatre
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - 11/18/81
  Entermedia Theatre
• Kaufman at Large - 12/25/81
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Key Exchange - 7/4/81
  Orpheum Theatre New York
• Leonce and Lena - 4/23/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Long Day's Journey Into Night - 3/18/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Maggie & Pierre - 9/17/81
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• March of the Falsettos - 4/1/81
  Playwrights Horizons
• March of the Falsettos - 5/20/81
  Playwrights Horizons
• March of the Falsettos - 10/13/81
  Westside Theatre Upstairs
• Marching to Georgia - 3/8/81
  Players Theatre
• Mary Stuart - 2/15/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• Meetings - 3/26/81
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• Memory of Whiteness - 1/13/81
  American Place Theatre
• Misalliance - 6/23/81
  Roundabout Stage I
• Miss Julie - 9/22/81
  Roundabout Stage II
• My Own Stranger - 10/13/81
  Provincetown Playhouse
• My Sister in this House - 11/18/81
  Second Stage - Park Royal
• No End of Blame - 12/15/81
  Stage 73
• Oedipus at Colonus - 10/23/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Oedipus Rex - 10/16/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Oh Me, Oh My, Oh Youmans - 1/14/81
  Wonderhorse Theatre
• Oscar Remembered - 6/23/81
  Provincetown Playhouse
• Particular Friendships - 9/30/81
  Astor Place Theatre
• Peer Gynt I - 11/8/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Peer Gynt II - 11/8/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Penguin Touquet - 2/1/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Pigjazz II - 11/16/81
  Actors' Playhouse
• Pigjazz, II - 11/16/81
  Actors Playhouse
• Playing with Fire - 9/22/81
  Roundabout Stage II
• Pump Boys and Dinettes - 10/13/81
  Colonnades Theatre Lab
• Pump Boys and Dinettes - 10/1/81
  Colonnades Theatre
• Real Life Funnies - 2/11/81
  Manhattan Theatre Club
• Sea Marks - 9/24/81
  Players Theatre
• Shay Duffin as Brendan Behan - 6/9/81
  Astor Place Theatre
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You/ The Actor's Nightmare - 10/21/81
  Westside Theatre Downstairs
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You/ The Actor's Nightmare - 10/16/81
  Playwrights Horizons
• Still Life - 2/10/81
  American Place Theatre
• Taken in Marriage - 11/1/81
  Clurman Theater
• The Amazin' Casey Stengel, or Can't Anybody Here Speak this Game? - 4/21/81
  American Place Theatre
• The Ballad of Dexter Creed - 10/6/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• The Beaver Coat - 1/11/81
  Circle Theatre
• The Broken Pitcher - 10/7/81
  Martinique Theatre
• The Buddy System - 3/22/81
  Circle in the Square Downtown
• The Butler Did It - 6/3/81
  Players Theatre
• The Captivity of Pixie Shedman - 1/29/81
  Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• The Dance and the Railroad - 7/16/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• The Diviners - 8/4/81
  Circle Theatre
• The Fuehrer Bunker - 5/26/81
  American Place Theatre
• The Haggadah, a Passover Cantata - 4/14/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• The Heebie Jeebies - 6/18/81
  Westside Arts Theatre
• The Heebie Jeebies - 6/18/81
  Westside Theatre Downstairs
• The Laundry Hour - 8/4/81
  Public Theater
• The Laundry Hour - 8/4/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater
• The Matinee Kids - 3/10/81
  
• The One Act Play Festival - 3/5/81
  Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• The Red Mill - 10/28/81
  Eastside Playhouse
• The Tempest - 6/26/81
  Delacorte Theatre
• The Winslow Boy - 3/24/81
  Music Box Theatre
• Threads - 10/25/81
  Circle Theatre
• Tomfoolery - 12/14/81
  Top of the Gate
• Tomfoolery - 12/14/81
  Village Gate Upstairs
• Toulouse - 9/14/81
  Ukranian Hall
• Translations - 4/7/81
  Stage 73
• Twelve Dreams - 12/22/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall
• Veronica's Room - 3/8/81
  Provincetown Playhouse
• Waiting for Godot - 4/22/81
  Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Weep Not for Me - 1/27/81
  Theatre Four
• What the Butler Saw - 7/3/81
  Westside Theatre Downstairs
• Whistler - 12/6/81
  Provincetown Playhouse
• Woyzeck - 4/23/81
  East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Zooman and the Sign - 6/20/81
  Theatre Four

Off- Broadway Theatres in 1981

• 47th Street Theatre
• Actors Playhouse
• Actors' Playhouse
• American Place Theatre
• Astor Place Theatre
• Chelsea Westside Arts Theatre
• Cherry Lane Theatre
• Circle in the Square (Downtown)
• Circle Theatre
• Clurman Theater
• Colonnades Theatre
• Colonnades Theatre Lab
• Delacorte Theatre
• East 13th Street/CSC Theatre
• Eastside Playhouse
• Entermedia Theater
• Entermedia Theatre
• Ford's Theatre
• Joseph Papp Public Theater
• Joseph Papp Public Theater [Newman Theater]
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/LuEsther Hall
• Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall
• Lamb's Theatre
• Manhattan Theatre Club
• Martinique Theatre
• Marymount Manhattan Theatre
• McGinn-Cazale Theatre
• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre
• Music Box Theatre (Broadway)
• Orpheum Theatre New York
• Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest
• Perry Street Theatre
• Players Theatre
• Playhouse Theatre
• Playwrights Horizons
• Provincetown Playhouse
• Public Theater
• Roundabout Stage I
• Roundabout Stage II
• Second Stage - Park Royal
• Second Stage Theatre
• South Street Theatre
• Stage 73
• Theater at St. Clement's Church
• Theater East
• Theatre Four
• Top of the Gate
• Ukranian Hall
• Village Gate (Upstairs)
• Westside Arts Theatre
• Westside Theatre (Downstairs)
• Westside Theatre (Upstairs)
• Wonderhorse Theatre