Current Production Season
Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
directed by Matthew Scott Campbell
September 27 - October 5, Center for the Performing Arts.
The Forever Waltz by Glyn Maxwell
directed by Leah Cassella
October 3 - 12, Centennial West 207.
Send the Light by Don Shandrow and Phil Shaw
directed by Connie de Veer and Michael Vetere
October 17 - 26, Westhoff Theatre.
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
directed by Lori Adams
November 1 - 9, Center for the Performing Arts.
Angels in America, Part Two by Tony Kushner
directed by David Ian Lee
November 7 - 16, Centennial West 207.
Fall Dance Concert
artistic director Darby Wilde
December 5 - 7, Center for the Performing Arts.
Stop Kiss by Diana Son
directed by Leah Cassella
February 20 - March 1, Westhoff Theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: an opera by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears,
adapted from the play by William Shakespeare
directed by Paul Dennhardt
February 21 - March 1, Center for the Performing Arts.
Exonerated by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
directed by Cyndee Brown
March 27 - April 5, Centennial West 207.
Outreach Week: March 15 - 20.
Mrs. Packard by Emily Mann
directed by Vanessa Stalling
April 4 - 12, Center for the Performing Arts.
Pericles by William Shakespeare
directed by David Ian Lee
April 17 - 26, Westhoff Theatre.
Spring Dance Concert
artistic director Sara Semonis
May 1 - 3, Center for the Performing Arts.
Past Theatre Productions
2012-2013
- Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka
- The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
- Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
- The Maids by Jean Genet
- Noises Off by Michael Frayn
- J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
- Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
- Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon
- The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
2011-2012
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
- Electra by Sophocles
- The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang
- A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
- Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl
- Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
- Picnic by William Inge
- La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
2010-2011
- The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
- Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
- How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert
- Bhopal by Rahul Varma
- Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
- Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
- The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
2009-2010
- Equus by Peter Shaffer
- A Perfect Wedding by Charles Mee
- In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
- Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- Don Juan Comes Back From the War by Ödön von Horvath
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
- Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
2008-2009
- The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry
- 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
- Dracula by Steven Dietz
- Yerma by Federico García Lorca
- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
- Breath, Boom by Kia Corthron
- Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
2007-2008
- The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff
- One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace
- Relatively Close by James Sherman
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements
- Spring's Awakening by Frank Wedekind
- Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
- Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár
- Tartuffe by Molière
2006-2007
- Ring 'Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Christopher Fry
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Bluebird by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Othello's Passion by Shozo Sato and Karen Sunde
- Hopeless Spinning by Margaret E. Iha
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
- Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden
- Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill
- West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
2005-2006
- All My Sons by Arthur Miller
- Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
- Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
- Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
- Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
- Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler
- Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
2004-2005
- Crowns by Regina Taylor
- Fair Maid of the West, by Thomas Heywood, adapted by Kevin Theis
- Phaedra by Jean Racine
- Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- Marisol by José Rivera
- Morning Star by Sylvia Regan
- A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
- The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon
- The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
2003/2004
- Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
- A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
- A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
- Pride's Crossing by Tina Howe
- Electra by Euripides
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
- Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
- The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott
- Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
2002/2003
- Ain't Misbehavin' by Murray Horwitz, Richard Maltby, Jr. and Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare (first production in the Center for the Performing Arts Theatre)
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Pentecost by David Edgar
- The Skriker by Caryl Churchill
- The Game of Love and Chance by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart
- Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
2001/2002
- The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
- The Cuchulain Cycle by W. B. Yeats
- The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- The Mandrake by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
- Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire
- Endgame by Samuel Beckett
- Big River by by Roger Miller and William Hauptman
- The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
2000/2001
- The Grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati
- Blood Eden by Dan Howell
- The Art of Dining by Tina Howe
- Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
- Picnic by William Inge
- Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
- A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- The Mikado by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
1999/2000
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses adapted by Christopher Hampton
- The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- Tartuffe by Molière
- Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
- Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
- The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
- The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
- Lydie Breeze by John Guare
- On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard
1998/1999
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
- Working by Stephen Schwartz, Nina Faso, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, James Taylor, and Susan Birkenhead
- Angels in America: The Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
- Flyin' West by Pearl Cleage
- The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Arkansaw Bear by Aurand Harris
1997/1998
- Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig
- Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
- Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore
- Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
- Pride and Prejudice by Christina Calvitt
- The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Scapin by Molière
- Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, and John Kander
- Blue Window by Craig Lucas
- The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht
1996/1997
- Shadowlands by William Nicholson
- The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
- The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Alice in Wonderland by Eva Le Gallianne
- Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman
- Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
- The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Kite's Book by Robert Caisley
1995/1996
- On the Verge by Eric Overmyer
- The Marriage by Nikolai Gogol
- Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
- Translations by Brian Friel
- Now Look What You Made Me Do by Marie Clements
- The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
- Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
- Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
1994/1995
- The Rover by Aphra Behn
- A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
- Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace
- Bloody Poetry by Howard Brenton
- The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti
- Noises Off by Michael Frayn
- Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson
1993/1994
- The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
- The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
- The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
- Orchids in the Moonlight by Carlos Fuentes
- The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
- Abingdon Square by Maria Irene Fornes
- Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
- The Macbeth Project adapted from William Shakespeare by John Sipes and the cast
- You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
1992/1993
- Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
- Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
- The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Robert Caisley
- Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert
1991/1992
- I Love You, I Love You Not by Wendy Kesselman
- A Scrap of Paper by Victorien Sardou
- Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
- Love for Love by William Congreve
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
- The Trojan Women by Euripides
- The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
1990/1991
- Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett
- Rough for Theatre I by Samuel Beckett
- What Where by Samuel Beckett
- Come and Go by Samuel Beckett
- Footfalls by Samuel Beckett
- Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett
- Pygmalian by George Bernard Shaw
- White Boned Demon by Leslie Mohn (KC/ACTF National Selection)
- B. Beaver Animation by Lee Breuer
- The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
- A Lesson from Aloes by Athol Fugard
- Cosi fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Third Richard by John Kirk
1989/1990
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
- Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart
- Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn
- An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
- We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay by Dario Fo
- A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
- The Thirteenth Thorn by Michael N. Robinson
1988/1989
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (KC/ACTF National Selection)
- A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill
- The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
- The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
- The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
- A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
- The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley
1987/1988
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Molière
- Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
- The Dragon
- Fen by Caryl Churchill
- Landscape of the Body by John Guare
- Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
- Two Subjects to Avoid Over Dinner by Glen Merzer
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
1986/1987
- As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- The Workroom by Jean Claude Grumberg
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
- The Balcony by Jean Genet
- Agamemnon by Aeschylus
- Ever After
- Chicago by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Bob Fosse
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton
1985/1986
- The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
- Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
- Parrish Meadows by Jo Vander Voort
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
- Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
- Phaedra by Jean Racine
- Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, and Neil Simon
- Mother Hicks by Susan Zeder
1984/1985
- The Adventure of Stanley Tomorrow by Alan Foster Friedman
- Hair by James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot
- The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
- Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
- A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau
- The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
