His many theatre credits include As You Like It, Desire Under the Elms, Mourning Becomes Electra, Merrily We Roll Along, and Trelawny of the 'Wells'.
Desire Under the Elms | Desire | Wings of Desire | That Obscure Object of Desire | Henri Désiré Landru | Fear and Desire | Desire Under The Elms | Desire (TV series) | Désiré André | Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed | The Optimists of Nine Elms | Nine Elms | Laurent-Désiré Kabila | Désiré Charnay | Augustus Desiré Waller | The Land of Heart's Desire | ''Njörd's desire of the Sea'' (1908) by W. G. Collingwood | Nine Elms Locomotive Works | Joseph Hélie Désiré Perruquet de Montrichard | Joseph-Désiré Job | François-Désiré Froment-Meurice | Elms School | Duty and Desire | Desire Street | Desire (ship) | Desire Projects | Désiré Munyaneza | Désiré Mbonabucya | Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht | Desiré Ecaré |
He was also an acclaimed actor on the New York stage, acting in several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including the 1952 Broadway revival of Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill.
Since 2000 he has also directed several plays, including an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at the Schauspielhaus in Hanover, and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under The Elms at Volksbühne in Berlin.
Considered among the better presentations staged at the theater were: Princess Brambilla (1920), Phèdre and Giroflé-Girofla (1922), Desire Under the Elms (1926), Day and Night (1926), The Negro (1929), The Beggars' Opera (1930) and Vishnevsky's An Optimistic Tragedy (1933).