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Past Productions

The School of Theatre produces works of artistic merit in a wide variety of genres and styles. Our goal is to foster the artistic development of our students and to present an excellent and varied theatrical season for the community at large.

Here are some plays we've presented in past years.

2007-2008

  • The Who's Tommy
  • One Flea Spare
  • Relatively Close
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Unnatural and Accidental Women
  • Spring's Awakening
  • Ghosts
  • Bury the Dead
  • Twelfth Night
  • The Merry Widow
  • Tartuffe

 

2006-2007

  • Ring 'Round the Moon
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Bluebird
  • Othello's Passion
  • Hopeless Spinning
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Nickel and Dimed
  • Vinegar Tom
  • West Side Story
  • Our Town

 

 

2005-2006

  • All My Sons
  • Anna in the Tropics
  • Servant of Two Masters
  • Marat/Sade
  • Arcadia
  • The Normal Heart
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • Necessary Targets
  • Die Fledermaus
  • As You Like It

2004-2005

  • Crowns
  • Fair Maid
  • Phaedra
  • Metamorphoses
  • Seagull
  • Marasol
  • Morning Star
  • Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Secret Garden
  • The House of Blue Leaves

2003/2004

  • Amadeus
  • Lie of the Mind
  • A View from the Bridge
  • Pride's Crossing
  • Electra
  • Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • Taking Steps
  • The Marriage of Figaro
  • Roosters
  • Arms and the Man

2002/2003

  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • The Crucible
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • The Tempest
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Pentecost
  • The Skriker
  • The Game of Love and Chance
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Three Days of Rain

2001/2002

  • The Laramie Project
  • The Cuchulain Cycle
  • The Visit
  • The Mandrake
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Fuddy Meers
  • Endgame
  • Big River
  • The Beaux Strategem
  • Macbeth
  • The Piano Lesson

2000/2001

  • Grapes of Wrath
  • Blood Eden
  • The Art of Dining
  • Lonesome West
  • Picnic
  • Death and the King's Horseman
  • A Flea in Her Ear
  • Lysistrata
  • The Mikado
  • Twelfth Night
  • Hedda Gabler

1999/2000

  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  • The Children's Hour
  • Diary of Anne Frank
  • Tartuffe
  • Company
  • Angels in America: Perestroika
  • The Importance of Being Ernest
  • Three Sisters
  • Lydie Breeze
  • On the Razzle

1998/1999

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Death and the Maiden
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • Working
  • Angels in America: The Millennium Approaches
  • Flyin' West
  • The Magic Flute
  • Dancing at Lughnasa
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Arkansaw Bear

1997/1998

  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • Assassins
  • Breaking the Code
  • Master Harold and the Boys
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • The Physicists
  • Scapin
  • Cabaret
  • Blue Window
  • The Good Person of Setzuan

1996/1997

  • Shadowlands
  • The Elephant Man
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • The Rivals
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Night of the Iguana
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Fledermaus
  • The Love of the Nightingale
  • Kite's Book

1995/1996

  • On the Verge
  • The Marriage
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Translations
  • Now Look What You Made Me Do
  • The Colored Museum
  • The Tempest
  • Heartbreak House
  • Kindertransport
  • Much Ado About Nothing

1994/1995

  • The Rover
  • A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Tales of the Lost Formicans
  • The Seagull
  • Slaughter City
  • Bloody Poetry
  • The School for Scandal
  • The Elixir of Love
  • Noises Off
  • Balm in Gilead

1993/1994

  • The Birthday Party
  • The Adding Machine
  • The Mystery of Irma Vep
  • Orchids in the Moonlight
  • The Imaginary Invalid
  • Abingdon Square
  • Sweeney Todd
  • The Macbeth Project
  • You Can't Take It With You

1992/1993

  • Summer and Smoke
  • Our Country's Good
  • The Heidi Chronicles
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Blithe Spirit
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Pirates of Penzance

1991/1992

  • I Love You, I Love You Not
  • Scrap of Paper
  • Cloud 9
  • Love for Love
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  • Trojan Women
  • The Threepenny Opera

1990/1991

  • Act Without Words
  • Rough for Theatre I
  • What Where
  • Come and Go
  • Footfalls
  • Ohio Impromptu
  • Pygmalian
  • White Blood Demon
  • B. Beaver Animation
  • Madwoman of Chaillot
  • A Lesson from Aloes
  • Cosi fan tutte
  • The Third Richard

1989/1990

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The House of Bernarda Alba
  • Light Up the Sky
  • Aunt Dan and Lemon
  • An Enemy of the People
  • We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay
  • A Little Night Music
  • The Twelfth Thorn

1988/1989

  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • A Touch of the Poet
  • Three Sisters
  • The Skin of Our Teeth
  • The Fantasticks
  • A Lie of the Mind
  • The School for Scandal
  • The Miss Firecracker Contest

1987/1988

  • The Doctor in Spite of Himself
  • Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • The Dragon
  • Fen
  • Landscape of the Body
  • Jacques Brel
  • Two Subjects to Avoid Over Dinner
  • Cyrano de Bergerac

1986/1987

  • As You Like It
  • The Workroom
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
  • The Balcony
  • Agememnon
  • Ever After
  • Chicago
  • Entertaining Mr. Sloane

1985/1986

  • Tooth of Crime
  • Peg O' My Heart
  • Parrish Meadows
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • Orpheus Descending
  • Phaedra
  • Sweet Charity
  • Mother Hicks

1984/1985

  • The Adventure of Stanley Tomorrow
  • Hair
  • Playboy of the Western World
  • Richard III
  • Top Girls
  • Moon for the Misbegotten
  • A Flea in Her Ear
  • The Time of Your Life