Peter Shaffer story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri who, overcome with jealousy at hearing the "voice of God" coming from an "obscene child", sets out to destroy his rival. When the show moved to Broadway it won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and, like "Equus", ran for more than a thousand performances. After the success of "Amadeus", Shaffer wrote the play "Lettice and Lovage" specifically for Dame Maggie Smith in 1986, for which he was nominated for another Tony Award and Dame Maggie Smith eventually won the Tony Award for best actress after three nominations in
Classic Stage Company O'Hare, and Peter Sarsgaard, and "The Seagull" with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming; David Ives' "The Heir Apparent", "Venus in Fur" with Nina Arianda (Broadway transfer 2011/2012, Tony Award nom., Best Play), "The School for Lies" with Hamish Linklater, and "New Jerusalem" with Richard Easton; "Unnatural Acts", conceived by Tony Speciale; Anne Carson's "An Oresteia"; and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" with Peter Sarsgaard, "The Tempest" with Mandy Patinkin, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Bebe Neuwirth, and "Richard III", "Richard II", and "Hamlet" with Michael Cumpsty. Prominent artists who have worked at Classic Stage Company include F. Murray Abraham, Wes Bentley, Zoe Caldwell,