Open Admissions is a play in two acts by Shirley Lauro that premiered in 1982 at the
Long Wharf Theatre under the direction of
Arvin Brown. The play had its
Broadway debut on January 29, 1984 at the
Music Box Theatre where it ran for a total of 17 performances. The Broadway production starred
Calvin Levels as Calvin Jefferson, Marilyn Rockafellow as Ginny Carlsen, Nan-Lynn Nelson as Salina Jones,
Pam Potillo as Georgia Jones, and Sloane Shelton as Professor Clare Block. The play depicts the travails of a professor at a second-rate college, including an unsupportive husband. Levels won a
Theatre World Award and was nominated for both a
Tony Award and
Drama Desk Award for his performance. Rockafellow also received a Drama Desk Award nomination. On Broadway,
Open Admissions received a Theatre World Award, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award.