• 1990: THE OPEN BOOK moves to the Amsterdam Room, 171 West 85th Street, and receives New York State Arts Council funding for Six Women in Search of Liberation. In the same year, the company establishes the Jean Paiva Memorial Fund for new writers, in memory of its late PR director. The
company remains at the Amsterdam Room for eight years, producing approximately fifty Equity showcases in that time.
• 1994: THE OPEN BOOK establishes a separate educational outreach division and curriculum, Growing A Story: A Theatrical Exploration of Imagination for Literacy Enrichment at P. S. 128, Manhattan, with funding from The Astor Foundation, the J&L Dreyfus Foundation, and the NYC Board of Education.
• 1994: THE OPEN BOOK begins an annual national playwriting competition cosponsored by Doubleday's Stage & Screen Book Club. The Stage & Screen Book Club publishes the winning scripts in anthologies edited by Marvin Kaye. THE OPEN BOOK produces the first winning scripts at the Amsterdam Room and at The Miranda Theatre, by invitation of sponsor Mario Fratti, playwright and owner of the Miranda. Contest judges include Carol Higgins Clark, Prof. Louis Fantasia, John Jakes, Marvin Kaye, Rex Robbins, Mary Stuart and Prof. Judy E. Yordon.
• 1996: THE OPEN BOOK begins a series of national readers theatre workshop/conferences at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford,
Connecticut, with the sponsorship of George C. White, founder and president of the O'Neill Center.
• 1998: THE OPEN BOOK appears for seventeen weeks at the Jan Hus Playhouse, producing two off-Broadway shows, CHARLATAN, A Memoir of Sergei Diaghilev written by and starring four-time Tony nominee Tony Tanner, and The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, an a cappella musical based on the book by author and National Public Radio personality Daniel Pinkwater.
• 1999: THE OPEN BOOK produces new plays at The Producers Club and the 78th Street Theatre Lab, as well as a staged reading of a new Sherlock Holmes musical.
• 2001: THE OPEN BOOK continues producing national competition winners at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, and enters negotiations to produce several off-Broadway shows in 2003.
• 2004: THE OPEN BOOK begins its annual Christmas show, The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, which is favorably reviewed by The New York Times. The show runs for fifteen years on an annual basis).
• 2005: Wildside Press, publisher of The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, commissions The Open Book to record the show as a CD album, currently available from the Wildside Press website, Amazon and Ebay.
• 2012: THE OPEN BOOK presents off-Broadway a new interactive comedy, Mister Jack on a double bill with Edmond Rostand’s final play, Don Juan’s Final Night.
• 2015: THE OPEN BOOK produces an Off-Broadway production of Carole Buggé’s Strings starring Keir Dullea. Critic John Simon says it is the best show in New York, including Broadway and off-Broadway.
• 2018: THE OPEN BOOK presents Ray Bradbury’s unpublished comedy, A Clear View of an Irish Mist.
• 2019: THE OPEN BOOK presents both The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge and A Confused Hanukkah simultaneously Off-Broadway.
• 2020: THE OPEN BOOK presents A Confused Hanukkah at the Black Box Performing Arts Center in Englewood, NJ.
• 2020: THE OPEN BOOK releases an audio-drama of short science fiction stories performed by The Open Book cast members called Take My Planet, Please! It is available from Audible.
• 2021: THE OPEN BOOK production of A Confused Hanukkah runs again in NJ at the BBPAC.