- Caesar and Cleopatra Stratford Shakespeare Festival - Canada 2008.
- Inherit the Wind on Broadway March - July 2007
(Role: Henry Drummond based on Clarence Darrow, with Brian Dennehy as Matthew Harrison Brady based on William Jennings Bryan).
Awards: Tony Nomination Best Actor in a Play (2007); New York Drama Desk Nomination; Outer Critics Circle Nomination; The production received a Tony Nomination for Best Revival of a Play.
A Word or Two, Before You Go for the Westport Country Playhouse
75th Anniversary Season Re-opening Gala benefit June 3 & 5, 2005; and various theater benefits.
A Tribute to Archibald MacLeish for The Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y NYC May 27, 2004.
King Lear (Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center NYC Feb 11, 2004 - Apr 18, 2004, a limited run based on the Stratford Festival of Canada production; Stratford Festival of Canada Aug. 20 - Nov. 6, 2002.) (Both productions directed by Jonathan Miller)
Awards: Tony Nomination Best Actor in a Play (2004); New York Drama Desk Nomination; Drama League Honored Previous Recipient; The production received a Tony Nomination for Best Revival of a Play.
Barrymore (Broadway Mar 25, 1997 - Nov 2, 1997) (role: John Barrymore)
Awards: Tony Award Best Actor in a Play (1997); New York Drama Desk Award; Outer Critic's Circle Award; Ovation Award; numerous regional and other theater awards
No Man's Land (Broadway Jan 27, 1994 - Mar 20, 1994)(with Jason Robards) (role: Spooner)
Awards: Tony Nomination Best Actor in a Play (1994); New York Drama Desk Nomination; Outer Critics Circle Nomination
A Christmas Carol (New York December 10, 1990 Actors Fund benefit) (role: Narrator)
Macbeth (Broadway Apr 21, 1988 - Jun 26, 1988) (with Glenda Jackson as Lady Macbeth) (role: Macbeth)
Peccadillo (Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Palm Beach, FL Feb. 1985) (with Glynis Johns) (role: Vito De Angelis) World premiere of a comedy written and directed by Garson Kanin.
Othello (Broadway Feb 3, 1982 - May 23, 1982) (Directed by Peter Coe)(with James Earl Jones as Othello) (role: Iago)
Awards: Tony Nomination Best Actor in a Play (1982); New York Drama Desk Award; The production won the 1982 Tony Award for Best Reproduction of a Play or Musical.
Henry V (American Shakespeare Theater, Stratford, Connecticut 1981) (roles: Henry V and Chorus)
Drinks Before Dinner by E.L. Doctorow (New York, the Public Theater 1978) (directed by Mike Nichols)
Love and Master Will (Kennedy Center Washington D.C. September 11, 1973) Christopher Plummer and Zoe Caldwell performed a program of Shakespeare.
The Good Doctor (Broadway Nov 27, 1973 - May 25, 1974) (Written by Neil Simon; Adapted and suggested from stories by Anton Chekhov.)
Cyrano (musical) (Broadway May 13, 1973 - Jun 23, 1973) (Directed by Michael Kidd)(role: Cyrano) Recorded for LP.
Awards: Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical (1974); New York Drama Desk Award; Drama League Distinguished Performance Award; Outer Critic's Circle Award
Amphitryon 38 (National Theater, UK 1971) (directed by Laurence Olivier) (roles: Amphitryon and Jupiter)
Danton's Death (National Theater, UK 1971) (directed by Jonathan Miller) (role: Danton)
Award: UK Evening Standard Nomination Best Actor
The Life and Loves of Henry VIII (St. George's Elizabethan Theatre Company, Islington UK July 1970)
Antony and Cleopatra (Stratford Festival of Canada 1967) (with Zoe Caldwell as Cleopatra) (role: Marc Antony)
Royal Hunt of the Sun (Broadway Oct 26, 1965 - Jul 11, 1966) (role: Pizarro. In the movie he played Atahuallpa the Inca king.)
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Broadway Nov 11, 1963 - Nov 16, 1963) (Written by Bertolt Brecht; first USA production of Brecht's play; Directed by Tony Richardson; Incidental music by Jule Styne.)(role: Arturo Ui)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Stratford Festival of Canada 1962) (role: Cyrano)
Macbeth (Stratford Festival of Canada 1962) (role: Macbeth)
Richard III (Royal Shakespeare Company 1961) (role: Richard III)
Becket (Royal Shakespeare Company 1961) (directed by Peter Hall) (role: King Henry II)
Awards: UK Evening Standard Award Best Actor Becket won two Evening Standard Awards for Best Play of 1961 and Best Actor award for Plummer.
Much Ado About Nothing (Royal Shakespeare Company 1961) (role: Benedick)
King John (Stratford Festival of Canada 1960) (role: Bastard)
Romeo and Juliet (Stratford Festival of Canada 1960) (role: Mercutio)
J.B. (Broadway Dec 11, 1958 - Oct 24, 1959) (Written by Archibald MacLeish; Directed by Elia Kazan)(role: Nickles) Recorded for LP.
Awards: Tony Nomination Best Actor in a Play (1959) The production won the 1959 Tony Award for Best Play; Archibald MacLeish won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Henry IV, Part 1 (Stratford Festival of Canada 1958) (role: Bardolph)
Much Ado About Nothing (Stratford Festival of Canada 1958) (role: Benedick)
The Winter's Tale (Stratford Festival of Canada 1958) (role: Leontes)
Twelfth Night (Stratford Festival of Canada 1957) (role: Sir Andrew Aguecheek)
Hamlet (Stratford Festival of Canada 1957) (role: Hamlet)
Night of the Auk (Broadway Dec 3, 1956 - Dec 8, 1956)
L'Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky (New York City Opera 1956) (role: narrator)
Henry V (Stratford Festival of Canada; Edinburg Festival 1956)(role: Henry V)
The Lark (Broadway Nov 17, 1955 - Jun 2, 1956) (role: Warwick)(Starred Julie Harris as Joan of Ark; Written by Jean Anouilh; Book adapted by Lillian Hellman.)
Medea (Sarah Bernhardt Theater, Paris 1955) (with Judith Anderson as Medea) (role: Jason)
The Tempest (American Shakespeare Theater 1955) (role: Ferdinand)
Julius Caesar (1955) (American Shakespeare Theater's inaugural production, Stratford, Connecticut) (with a cast that included Jack Palance, Roddy McDowell, Fritz Weaver, Raymond Masey and Jerry Stiller ) (role: Marc Antony)
The Dark Is Light Enough (Broadway Feb 23, 1955 - Apr 23, 1955) (role: Count Peter Zichy, with Katherine Cornell, Tyrone Power)
Awards: 1955 Theatre World Award
Home Is the Hero (Broadway Sep 22, 1954 - Oct 16, 1954; also at Westport Playhouse)
The Starcross Story (Broadway Jan 13, 1954 - Jan 13, 1954; also at Westport Playhouse) (Broadway debut with Eva LeGallienne, Mary Astor)
What About Maisie? (Westport Country Playhouse, July 1953)
Jupiter Theatre (Toronto 1952 - 53) several roles; Lead role as Thomas Mendip in The Lady's Not For Burning
Nina (tour 1952) with Edward Everett Horton
Bermudiana Theatre (1952 numerous roles)
Montreal: Performed in plays in late 1940's - 1950 for Montreal Repertory Theatre; The Open Air Playhouse; Mountain Playhouse; Brae Manor Theatre. Lead role as Oedipus in The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau for Montreal Repertory Theatre Nov. 1950. Played Posthumus in Shakespeare's Cymbeline for Open Air Playhouse July 1950.
Canadian Repertory Theatre Ottowa (1948-1950 numerous roles) (known as The Stage Society until Sept. 1949)
Pride and Prejudice (mid-1940's) (high school production)(role: D'arcy)
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CONCERTS:
- Orchestra London Ontario Canada, Oct. 20, 2005 concert of Shakespeare's words and music.
- 'Shakespeare with Music' for The Shakespeare Society NYC June 3, 2004. At this event he performed excerpts from Shakespeare and he was awarded the Shakespeare Society Medal in "recognition of his distinguished contribution to the world of William Shakespeare."
- Henry V (music: William Walton, text: Shakespeare) (Recorded for CD; live broadcast on public radio). He has performed this many times since the late 1980's, most recently May 5 & 6, 2004 with the Toronto Symphony.
- Peer Gynt (music: Edvard Grieg, text: Henrik Ibsen) (live broadcast on public radio) Several concerts in the 1990's.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (music: Mendelssohn, text: Shakespeare) (live broadcast on public radio) Most recent performance was Aug. 22, 2003 with the Boston Symphony.
- Ivan the Terrible (narration of a Prokofiev film score) (Recorded for CD; live broadcast on public radio). Several concerts in the 1990's.
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