This theme of artistic sensibility to the original art work was also carried through in the sets by famed designer John Lee Beatty.

[8] MRC Founding Producing Artistic Director Sabra Jones brokered this deal and became Creative Consultant for the television production.

In 1984, John Elting Treat, a noted philanthropist and member of the U.S. National Security Council under Presidents Carter and Reagan, became Chair of The Mirror.

[12] The board at that time included Sam Spiegel—the producer of films On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia—Archie E. Albright, then President of the Foreign Policy Association, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, wife of actor Peter Lawford and sister to the late President John F. Kennedy, and Anna Sosenko, celebrated producer and songwriter.

Derek donated his prosthetic nose from the RSC production of Cyrano de Bergerac to be auctioned off at the Benefit, where it was purchased by acclaimed actor Jon Cryer.

[16] By this time, the company included actors Anthony Hopkins, Maxwell Caulfield, Julie Harris, Juliet Mills, Mason Adams, David Cryer, Matthew Cowles, and Tom Waites, as well as director Austin Pendleton.

Company designers were Ron Placzek (scenery), Heidi Hollman (costumes), Mal Sturchio (lighting), and Rob Gorton (sound).

The company's work on the revival of John Patrick’s The Hasty Heart received praise;[20] Rain, directed by John Strasberg, was noted primary for the leading role of “Sadie Thompson,” played by MRC's Artistic Director Sabra Jones, whom Mel Gussow termed “the only reason to see the production” and who usually played only minor roles in productions.

[16] Jones chose the season's plays,[21] aided by John Strasberg's memories of his father Lee telling him the history of the Group Theater.

For this season, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, and Al Pacino joined the Mirror as Major Donors in response to a matching grant from Laurance S.

and Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, alongside Booth Tarkington’s Clarence and Shakespeare's Richard II, which was to be directed by Ellis Rabb.

also featured Geraldine Page’s real life grandson Elijah William Burkhardt as the infant (and future King) “James”[24] The Madwoman of Chaillot also featured F. Murray Abraham, who joined MRC the week after winning his Oscar for Best Actor for his work in Amadeus because he wanted to work with Geraldine Page, Madeleine Sherwood, Carrie Nye, and Jane White.

Premiere of Maxim Gorky’s Children of the Sun, while Tovah Feldshuh, who spoke of the repertory experience as “the greatest work you can do as an actor,” joined to appear in a revival of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life directed by Peter Mark Schifter.

[25] After the death of Artist-in-Residence Geraldine Page in 1987 The Mirror Repertory Company continued with a focus on Arts-in-Education, including celebrated Shakespearean productions within the NYC schools.

The arts in education program was devised and taught by Co-Artistic Director John Strasberg,[28] and company member Thomas McAteer, under the guidance of Sabra Jones.

The company presented the first American production[29] of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuse, and Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man in Belfast, ME in 1987-88.

Apprentices from France, Italy, England, Canada, and the United States, came to Belfast and Bar Harbor, where they studied acting, directing, and stage design.

The program was attended by students from France, Italy, England, Canada, and the United States, where they studied acting, directing, and stage design.

The season consisted of Leon Powell's Do Not Go Gentle, based on the life of Dylan Thomas and starring MRC company member Geraint Wyn Davies; Lilia!

The production featured Pendleton, Lynn Redgrave, Lisa Pelikan, Geraint Wyn Davies, Sabra Jones, and Charles McAteer.

[42] The Young Mirror Company of the MRC presented a season in 2006 at the Theater at St. Clement's on W. 46th Street featuring The Contrast by Royall Tyler,[43] which was the first play produced in the United States by an American author in 1789. his was in repertory with a revival of John Spurling's MacRune's Guevara which was pronounced "goofily entertaining thanks in large part to the talented cast".

[55] MRC company member and Golden Globe nominee Tina Chen also presented her one-woman show, entitled “Legacy of my Chinese Family".

[56] The 2015 season also featured a lecture with RSC member and Olivier Award winner Brian Cox, who discussed his experiences performing and teaching Shakespeare.

About a woman who is condemned to be stoned to death for her affair, the production was said to be ultimately tender, beautiful, and deeply compelling due to the performances of the cast.

The play, Sinners, is by Joshua Sobel, a prominent Israeli playwright far better known in Europe and the Middle East then here, and the production in Boston was a United States Premiere.