season, the Levine Theatre hosted The Days in the Trees, The Night of the Iguana, Romeo and Juliet, and The Importance of Being Earnest. The 1977–1978 season also saw revivals of four plays: Tartuffe, Saint Joan, 13 Rue de l'Amour, and Once in a Lifetime. The first two plays of the following season were revivals of The Inspector General and Man and Superman. During the second half of the season, the Circle presented two new plays: Spokesong by Stewart Parker and Loose Ends by Michael Weller. 1980s Due to recurring financial issues that nearly prompted the theater company to declare bankruptcy, the Circle delayed the start of its 1979–1980 season to February 1980, extending the run of Loose Ends to cover the gap. Consequently, the season was planned to have three plays, the first two of which were Major Barbara and Past Tense. The final play in the season, The Makropulos Affair, was replaced with The Man Who Came to Dinner on relatively short notice. For the 1980–1981 season, the Circle returned to presenting four plays: The Bacchae, John Gabriel Borkman, The Father, and Scenes and Revelations. During that season, the Circle had originally planned to stage Hamlet, which was replaced with Borkman due to scheduling conflicts. The theater next hosted Candida in late 1981, followed by Macbeth, Eminent Domain, and Present Laughter in 1982. The theater hosted other events during the 1980s, including tributes to playwrights Eugene O'Neill and William Saroyan. Libin began selling annual subscriptions via telemarketing around 1983, amid increasing difficulties in obtaining subscribers. The Circle hosted three plays in 1983: The Misanthrope, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and Heartbreak House. A revival of The Iceman Cometh was canceled during that year because of budget overruns. The Circle also hosted revivals of the plays Awake and Sing and Design for Living in 1984. The next year, the theater hosted the plays The Loves of Anatol, Arms and the Man, and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as Robert Klein's comedy series The Robert Klein Show!. The Circle also hosted three plays in 1986: the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's revival of The Caretaker, the original production of The Boys in Autumn, and a revival of You Never Can Tell. In 1987, the Circle hosted Second Stage Theater's revival of the play Coastal Disturbances, which featured Annette Bening and Timothy Daly and ran for ten months. This was followed the next