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'''Birmingham-Southern Theatre''' was a performing arts program and the primary activity of [[Birmingham-Southern College]]'s Department of Theatre, comprised of undergraduate students enrolled in bachelor of arts programs in theatre arts and musical theatre, as well as students in other majors pursuing electives.
'''Birmingham-Southern Theatre''' was a performing arts program and the primary activity of [[Birmingham-Southern College]]'s Department of Theatre, comprised of undergraduate students enrolled in bachelor of arts programs in theatre arts and musical theatre, as well as students in other majors pursuing electives.


Before closing with the college in May [[2024]] the program usually staged four major productions and six student productions each year. BSC hosted a chapter of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society for theatre arts. The theatre benefitted from the [[BSC Arts Alliance]] support organization.
Before closing with the college in May [[2024]] the program usually staged four major productions and six student productions each year. BSC hosted a chapter of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society for theatre arts. The theatre benefitted from the [[BSC Arts Alliance]] support organization and competed in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region IV.


==Productions==
==Productions==
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* 1971–1972: ''Die Fledermaus'' (Johann Strauss II), ''A Cry of Players'' (William Gibson), ''The Homecoming'' (Harold Pinter), ''¡Cuba Si!'' (Terrence McNally), ''Othello'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Dance of Death'' (August Strindberg), ''The Madness of Lady Bright'' (Lanford Wilson)
* 1971–1972: ''Die Fledermaus'' (Johann Strauss II), ''A Cry of Players'' (William Gibson), ''The Homecoming'' (Harold Pinter), ''¡Cuba Si!'' (Terrence McNally), ''Othello'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Dance of Death'' (August Strindberg), ''The Madness of Lady Bright'' (Lanford Wilson)
* 1972–1973: ''Gianni Schicchi'' (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), ''Cop-Out'' (John Guare), ''Charlie'', ''The Death of Everymom'' (Arnold Powell), ''Marat/Sade'' (Peter Weiss)
* 1972–1973: ''Gianni Schicchi'' (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), ''Cop-Out'' (John Guare), ''Charlie'', ''The Death of Everymom'' (Arnold Powell), ''Marat/Sade'' (Peter Weiss)
* 1973–1974: ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'' (Douglas Moore & Stephen Vincent Benét), ''The Horse'', ''Of Mice and Men'' ( John Steinbeck), ''Woyzek'' (Georg Büchner), ''Readers' Concert Theatre Tour of Alabama'', ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself''/''The Flying Doctor'' (Molière)
* 1973–1974: ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'' (Douglas Moore & Stephen Vincent Benét), ''The Horse'', ''Of Mice and Men'' (John Steinbeck), ''Woyzek'' (Georg Büchner), ''Readers' Concert Theatre Tour of Alabama'', ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself''/''The Flying Doctor'' (Molière)
* 1974–1975: ''Hamlet'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (Wolfgang Mozart), ''The Rehearsal'' (George Villiers), ''The Playboy of the Western World'' (John Millington Synge)
* 1974–1975: ''Hamlet'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (Wolfgang Mozart), ''The Rehearsal'' (George Villiers), ''The Playboy of the Western World'' (John Millington Synge)
* 1975–1976: ''The Empire Builders'' (Boris Vian), ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (Eugene O'Neill), ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (Jacques Copeau & Jean Croue), ''The Bald Soprano'' (Eugène Ionesco), ''Candide'' (Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur)
* 1975–1976: ''The Empire Builders'' (Boris Vian), ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (Eugene O'Neill), ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (Jacques Copeau & Jean Croue), ''The Bald Soprano'' (Eugène Ionesco), ''Candide'' (Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur)
* 1976–1977: ''Jumpers'' (Tom Stoppard), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (William Shakespeare), ''La Ronde'' (Arthur Schnitzler)
* 1976–1977: ''Jumpers'' (Tom Stoppard), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (William Shakespeare), ''La Ronde'' (Arthur Schnitzler)
* 1977–1978: ''The Medium'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''The Misanthrope'' (Molière), ''Major Barbara'' (George Bernard Shaw)
* 1977–1978: ''The Medium'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''The Misanthrope'' (Molière), ''Major Barbara'' (George Bernard Shaw)
* 1978–1979: ''Orpheus in the Underworld'' (Jacques Offenbach), ''The Bald Soprano'' (Eugène Ionesco), ''Crawling Arnold'', ''Episode in the Life of an Author'' (Jean Anouilh), ''Cop-Out'' (John Guare), ''Chinamen'' (Michael Frayn), ''The Undertaker'', ''Fumed Oak'' (Noël Coward), ''What the Butler Saw'' (Joe Orton), ''Waiting for Godot'' (Samuel Beckett), ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (Molière)
* 1979–1980: ''Albert Herring'' (Benjamin Britten), ''The Stronger'' (August Strindberg), ''The Madness of Lady Bright'' (Lanford Wilson), ''Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down'' (Tom Eyen), ''Curse of the Starving Class'' (Sam Shepard), ''The Lady's Maid'' (Katherine Mansfield), ''Bringing it All Back Home'' (Terrence McNally), ''The Glass Menagerie'' (Tennessee Williams), ''Landscape'' (Harold Pinter), ''Out at Sea'' (Sławomir Mrożek), ''Stop the World – I Want to Get Off'' (Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse), ''Slices'', ''Birdbath'' (Leonard Melfi), ''Mrs Warren's Profession'' (George Bernard Shaw), ''The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year'' (John Guare), ''Thinking Aloud'', ''The American Dream'' (Edward Albee), ''A Thousand Clowns'' (Herb Gardner), ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (Molière)
* 1980–1981: ''Cosi fan Tutti'' (Wolfgang Mozart), ''A Slight Ache'' (Harold Pinter), ''Red Cross'' (Sam Shepard), ''Daylight/Nightlight'', ''Talley's Folly'' (Lanford Wilson), ''Postcard from Morocco'' (Dominick Argento & John Donahue), ''Pantaglieze'' (Michel de Ghelderode), ''Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris'' (Eric Blau & Mort Shuman), ''The Magic Flute'' (Wolfgang Mozart), ''The Day They Let the Lions Loose'' (Emilio Carballido), ''Wrong Number'', ''The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness'' (Robert Patrick), ''{{'}}dentity Crisis'' (Christopher Durang), ''The Lion in Winter'' (James Goldman)
* 1981–1982: ''27 Wagons Full of Cotton'' (Tennessee Williams), ''Krapp's Last Tape'' (Samuel Beckett), ''Candide'' (Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur), ''Side by Side by Sondheim'' (Stephen Sondheim), ''The Good Doctor'' (Neil Simon), ''Wait Until Dark'' (Frederick Knott), ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year'' (John Guare)
* 1982–1983: ''Confetti'', ''Gianni Schicchi''/''Suor Angelica'' (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), ''A Doll's House'' (Henrik Ibsen), ''Ladyhouse Blues'' (Kevin O'Morrison), ''The Apple Tree'' (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick), ''Berlin to Broadway'' (Gene Lerner & Kurt Weill), ''A Taste of Honey'' (Shelagh Delaney), ''Snoopy! The Musical'' (Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael Grace), ''The Knack'' (Ann Jellicoe)
* 1983–1984: ''Sganarelle and Co.'', ''Monday After the Miracle'' (William Gibson), ''Ernest in Love'' (Anne Croswell & Lee Pockriss), ''Rashomon'' (Fay & Michael Kanin), ''August, August, August'' (Pavel Kohout), ''The Blood Knot'' (Athol Fugard)
* 1984–1985: ''Alice in Wonderland'' (Henry Savile Clarke & Walter Slaughter), ''Crimes of the Heart'' (Beth Henley), ''Othello'' (William Shakespeare), ''Charlotte Sweet'' (Michael Colby & Gerald Jay Markoe), ''Bye Bye Miss American Pie'', ''Whose Life is it Anyway?'' (Brian Clark)
* 1985–1986: ''Godspell'' (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), ''Vinegar Tom'' (Caryl Churchill), ''Amelia Goes to the Ball'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''Signor Deluso'' (Thomas Pasatieri), ''Introductions and Goodbyes'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''Extremities'' (William Mastrosimone), ''{{'}}night, Mother'' (Marsha Norman), ''Mandragola'' (Niccolo Machiavelli)
* 1986–1987: ''Sand Mountain'' (Romulus Linney), ''Antigone'' (Sophocles), ''Confetti II Cabaret'', ''Ladyhouse Blues'' (Kevin O'Morrison)
* 1987–1988: ''The Fifth Sun'' (Nicholas Patricca), ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), ''The Telephone and the Consul'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''Children of a Lesser God'' (Mark Medoff)
* 1988–1989: ''Tracers'' (John DiFusco), ''Curtain Call'' (Keith Trezise), ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (William Shakespeare), ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice)
* 1989–1990: ''Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?'' (John R. Powers, James Quinn, Alaric Jans), ''...and the Rain Came to Mayfield'' (Jason Milligan), ''The Elixir of Love'' (Gaetano Donizetti & Felice Romani), ''Hedda Gabler'' (Henrik Ibsen), ''Our Town'' (Thornton Wilder)
* 1990–1991: ''A Shayna Maidel'' (Barbara Lebow), ''The Brazilian'' (Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halevy), ''MacBeth'' (William Shakespeare), ''Chicago'' (Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb)
* 1991–1992: ''[[Mill Fire]]'' ([[Sally Nemeth]]), ''Romance/Romance'' (Barry Harman & Keith Herrmann), ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (Frank Galati), ''Vital Signs'' (Jane Martin), ''The Tender Land'' (Aaron Copland & Horace Everett)
* 1992–1993: ''The Immigrant'', ''The Way We Live Now'', ''The Servant of Two Masters'', ''Pippin''
* 1993–1994: ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' (Brian Friel), ''Baby'' (Sybille Pearson, David Shire, Richard Maltby Jr), ''Cradles of Stone'', ''Gianni Schicchi''/''Suor Angelica'' (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), ''Our Country's Good'' (Timberlake Wertenbaker)
* 1994–1995: ''The Challenge'', ''Gifts'', ''As You Like It'' (William Shakespeare), ''The Crucible'' (Arthur Miller)
* 1995–1996: ''The White Rose'' (Lillian Garrett-Groag), ''Ruthless! The Musical'' (Marvin Laird & Joel Paley), ''La Bête'' (David Hirson), ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), ''The Glass Menagerie'' (Tennessee Williams), ''Albert Herring'' (Benjamin Britten)
* 1996–1997: ''The Fantasticks'' (Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones), ''Medea'' (Euripides), ''The Secret Garden'' (Marsha Norman), ''Snoopy! The Musical'' (Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael Grace)
* 1997–1998: ''Blood Brothers'' (Willy Russell), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (Edward Albee), ''Romeo and Juliet'' (William Shakespeare), ''Regina'' (Antonio Calvo & Álex Slucki)
* 1998–1999: ''Passion'' (Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine), ''Quilters'' (Molly Newman & Barbara Damashek), ''Sand Mountain'' (Romulus Linney), ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' (Christopher Hampton)
* 1999–2000: ''The Scarlet Letter'', ''Twelfth Night'' (William Shakespeare), ''Signor Deluso'' (Thomas Pasatieri), ''Daphne at Sea'' ([[Charles Norman Mason]]), ''Company'' (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim)
* 2000–2001: ''Sweeney Todd'' (Hugh Wheeler & Stephen Sondheim), ''Fallen Angels'' (Noël Coward), ''Godspell'' (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (Jill Santoriello)
* 2001–2002: ''Hamlet: The Musical'' (Alex Silverman, Timothy Knapman, Edward Jaspers), ''Marian Faustus Ph.D'' ([[Alan Litsey]]), ''Amadeus'' (Peter Shaffer), ''La Bohème'' (Giacomo Puccini)
* 2002–2003: ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (Oscar Wilde), ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' (Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim)
* 2003–2004: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (William Shakespeare), ''Myths & Hymns'' (Adam Guettel), ''Phaedra'' (Jean Racine), ''The Spitfire Grill'' (James Valcq & Fred Alley), ''The Turn of the Screw'' (Benjamin Britten)
* 2004–2005: ''Into the Woods'' (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), ''Agnes of God'' (John Pielmeier), ''All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten'' (Ernest Julia & David Caldwell), ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Wendy Kasselman)
* 2005–2006: ''Young Zombies in Love'' (Damian Hess & Gaby Alter), ''Xtremities'' (William Mastrosimone), ''Dollhouse'' (Henrik Ibsen & Rebecca Gilman), ''Hansel and Gretel'' (Engelbert Humperdinck), ''Marley, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'' (Trey Tatum)
* 2006–2007: ''Urinetown'' (Greek Kotis & Mark Hollman), ''As You Like It'' (William Shakespeare), ''Ah, Wilderness'' (Eugene O'Neill)
* 2007–2008: ''Miss Julie'' (August Strindberg & [[Alan Litsey]]), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (William Shakespeare), ''Marry Me A Little'' (Craig Lucas, Norman Rene, Stephen Sondheim), ''Our Town'' (Thornton Wilder), ''The Consul and the Telephone'' (Gian Carlo Menotti), ''Merrily We Roll Along'' (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim)
* 2008–2009: ''West Side Story'' (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim), ''Dead Man Walking'' (Tim Robbins), ''You Can't Take it With You'' (George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart)
* 2009–2010: ''The Laramie Project'' (Moisés Kaufman), ''Striking 12'' (Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda, Rachel Sheinkin), ''Hamlet'' (William Shakespeare), ''Hair'' (Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot)
* 2010–2011:
* 2011–2012: ''Crimes of the Heart'' (Beth Henley), ''Spring Awakening'' (Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater), ''The Good Doctor'' (Neil Simon), ''Rent'' (Jonathan Larson)
* 2012–2013: ''Richard III''' (William Shakespeare), ''Next to Normal'' (Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey), ''The Who's Tommy'' (Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff), ''Die Fledermaus'' (Johann Straus II)
* 2013–2014: ''Re-Entry'' (Emily Ackerman & K. J. Sanchez), ''Company'' (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim), ''The Liar'' (David Ives), ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' (Andrew LLoyd Weber & Tim Rice)
* 2014–2015: ''Carrie: The Musical'' (Michael Gore & Dean Pitchford), ''Four by Tenn'' (Tennessee Williams), ''Godspell'' (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), ''Riders to the Sea'' (Ralph Vaughan Williams), ''The Mother'' (Stanley Hollingsworth)
* 2015–2016: ''Proof'' (David Auburn), ''Into The Woods'' (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), ''Probably'' (Owen Davis)
* 2016–2017: ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick), ''Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World'' (Eve Ensler), ''Noises Off'' (Michael Prayn), ''The Trojan Women'' (Euripedes)
* 2017–2018: ''[title of show]'' (Jeff Bowen & [[Hunter Houston Bell|Hunter Bell]]), '"The Tempest'' (William Shakespeare), ''Never Have I Ever'' (Jan Rosenberg), ''Pippin'' (Stephen Schwartz & Roger Hirson)
* 2018–2019: ''Tick, Tick...Boom!''' (Jonathan Larson), ''Top Girls'' (Caryl Churchill), ''Sunday in the Park with George'' (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), ''These Shining Lives'' (Melanie Marnich)
* 2019–2020: ''Falsettos'' (William Finn & James Lapine), ''Silet Sky'' (Lauren Gunderson), ''35 MM'' (Ryan Scott Oliver)
* 2020–2021: ''Made in America'', ''Lizzie'' (Tim Maner, Steven Cheslik-Demeyer, Alan Stevens Hewitt), ''A Bone to Pick with Fate'' (William Shakespeare)
* 2021–2022: ''Head Over Heels'' (Jeff Whitty & James Magruder), ''We Are Pussy Riot or Everything is P.R.'' (Barbara Hammond), ''The Spitfire Grill'' (Fred Alley & James Valcq)
* 2022–2023: ''The Last Five Years'' (Jason Robert Brown), ''Milking Christmas'' (Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, Seth Macchi, Ryan McCall), ''The Wolves'' (Sarah DeLappe), ''This Is Our Youth'' (Kenneth Lonergan), ''Ordinary Days'' (Adam Gwon)
* 2023–2024: ''The Fantasticks''  (Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones)


==Notable faculty==
==Notable faculty==
* [[Pat Anderson-Flowers]]
* [[Aubrey Berg]]
* [[Terrell Finney]]
* [[Michael Flowers]]
* [[Karen Drews Hanlon]]
* [[Alan Litsey]]
* [[Alan Litsey]]
* [[Patti Manning]]
* [[Matthew Mielke]]
* [[Judy Pandelis]]
* [[Arnold Powell]]
* [[Mandy Thomas]]


==Notable alumni==
==Notable alumni==
* [[Barry Austin]]
* [[Katie Holmes]]
* [[Jim Newman]]
* [[Dane Peterson]]
* [[Kristi Tingle Higginbotham]]
* [[Kym Williams]]


==References==
==References==
* Eastwood, Jon (July 6, 2019) "Popular Birmingham director Michael Flowers brings Roald Dahl’s beloved Matilda the Musical to life, opening on July 12." {{BNow}}
* Logan, Michelle (February 11, 2021) "[https://www.cbs42.com/entertainment/shakespeare-production-at-birmingham-southern-college-brings-back-theater-in-a-safe-way/ Shakespeare production at Birmingham Southern College brings theater back in a safe way]." CBS42.com
* Harvey, Alec (April 16, 2024) "[https://byalecharvey.com/try-to-remember-as-birmingham-southern-college-prepares-to-close-alumni-and-faculty-recall-the-theater-program-through-the-decades/ ‘Try to Remember’: As Birmingham-Southern College prepares to close, alumni and faculty recall the theater program through the decades]." ''By Alec Harvey'' - accessed April 17, 2024
* Harvey, Alec (April 16, 2024) "[https://byalecharvey.com/try-to-remember-as-birmingham-southern-college-prepares-to-close-alumni-and-faculty-recall-the-theater-program-through-the-decades/ ‘Try to Remember’: As Birmingham-Southern College prepares to close, alumni and faculty recall the theater program through the decades]." ''By Alec Harvey'' - accessed April 17, 2024


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Latest revision as of 15:43, 23 April 2024

Birmingham-Southern Theatre was a performing arts program and the primary activity of Birmingham-Southern College's Department of Theatre, comprised of undergraduate students enrolled in bachelor of arts programs in theatre arts and musical theatre, as well as students in other majors pursuing electives.

Before closing with the college in May 2024 the program usually staged four major productions and six student productions each year. BSC hosted a chapter of the Alpha Psi Omega honor society for theatre arts. The theatre benefitted from the BSC Arts Alliance support organization and competed in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region IV.

Productions

  • 1947–1948: The Playboy of the Western World (John Millington Synge), Knight of the Burning Pestle (Francis Beaumont)
  • 1948–1949: Alice in Wonderland (Henry Savile Clarke & Walter Slaughter), H.M.S. Pinafore(William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan), The Rivals (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
  • 1949–1950: Ladies in Retirement (Reginald Denham & Edward Percy), Down in the Valley (Kurt Weill & Arnold Sundgaard)
  • 1950–1951: Years Ago (Ruth Gordon), Family Portrait (Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowen), Pray for the Moon, The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Frank Mandel), Chocolate Soldier (Oscar Straus)
  • 1951–1952
  • 1952–1953: Liliom (Ferenc Molnár)
  • 1953–1954: Amahl & the Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti), Arsenic & Old Lace (Joseph Kesselring), Simple Simon (Guy Bolton, Ed Wynn, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers), The Enchanted Cottage (Arthur Wing Pinero)
  • 1954–1955: The Corn is Green (Emlyn Williams), Queens of France (Thornton Wilder), The Indian Captive (Charlotte Chorpenning), King of Hearts (Joseph Stein, Jacob Brackman, Peter Link)
  • 1955–1956: My Three Angels (Samuel & Bella Spewack), Dial M for Murder (Frederick Knott)
  • 1956–1957:
  • 1957–1958: See the Jaguar (N. Richard Nash), Brigadoon (Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe), The Chalk Garden (Enid Bagnold)
  • 1958–1959: The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov), The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson), A Visit to a Small Planet (Gore Vidal)
  • 1959–1960: A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Caught Dead, Rashomon (Fay & Michael Kanin)
  • 1960–1961: Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), The Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones)
  • 1961–1962: Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare)
  • 1962–1963: Crawling Arnold (Jules Feiffer), The Visit (Friedrich Dürrenmatt), The Imaginary Invalid (Molière), Ernest in Love (Anne Croswell & Lee Pockriss)
  • 1963–1964: The Truth Syrup (Howard Cruse), A Pageant for Dermuche, One Way Pendulum (N. F. Simpson), Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare), Peer?, Bastien and Bastienne (Wolfgang Mozart), The Tragedy of Tragedies (Henry Fielding)
  • 1964–1965: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello), The Caretaker (Harold Pinter)
  • 1965–1966:
  • 1966–1967: Women of Trachis (Sophocles), Blood Wedding (Federico García Lorca), Endgame (Samuel Beckett)
  • 1967–1968: The Sixth Story
  • 1968–1969: Caucasian Chalk Circle (Bertolt Brecht), Opus I
  • 1969–1970: The Land of Heart's Desire (William Yeats), The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter), Sing to Me through Open Windows (Arthur Kopit), Deathwatch (Jean Genet), Johnny America Comes Home, The Strangler, Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas), The New Tenant (Eugène Ionesco), Escurial (Michel de Ghelderode), Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov), Opus II, The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Molière)
  • 1970–1971: Dracula (Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston), The Rainy Afternoon (William Inge), The Man with the Flower in his Mouth (Luigi Pirandello), Maid to Marry (Eugène Ionesco), Aoi no Ue (Zeami Motokiyo), The Collection (Harold Pinter), The Changeling (Thomas Middleton & William Rowley), Thieves Carnival (Jean Anouilh), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
  • 1971–1972: Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II), A Cry of Players (William Gibson), The Homecoming (Harold Pinter), ¡Cuba Si! (Terrence McNally), Othello (William Shakespeare), The Dance of Death (August Strindberg), The Madness of Lady Bright (Lanford Wilson)
  • 1972–1973: Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), Cop-Out (John Guare), Charlie, The Death of Everymom (Arnold Powell), Marat/Sade (Peter Weiss)
  • 1973–1974: The Devil and Daniel Webster (Douglas Moore & Stephen Vincent Benét), The Horse, Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), Woyzek (Georg Büchner), Readers' Concert Theatre Tour of Alabama, The Doctor in Spite of Himself/The Flying Doctor (Molière)
  • 1974–1975: Hamlet (William Shakespeare), The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart), The Rehearsal (George Villiers), The Playboy of the Western World (John Millington Synge)
  • 1975–1976: The Empire Builders (Boris Vian), Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O'Neill), The Brothers Karamazov (Jacques Copeau & Jean Croue), The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco), Candide (Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur)
  • 1976–1977: Jumpers (Tom Stoppard), The Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare), La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler)
  • 1977–1978: The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti), The Misanthrope (Molière), Major Barbara (George Bernard Shaw)
  • 1978–1979: Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach), The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco), Crawling Arnold, Episode in the Life of an Author (Jean Anouilh), Cop-Out (John Guare), Chinamen (Michael Frayn), The Undertaker, Fumed Oak (Noël Coward), What the Butler Saw (Joe Orton), Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Molière)
  • 1979–1980: Albert Herring (Benjamin Britten), The Stronger (August Strindberg), The Madness of Lady Bright (Lanford Wilson), Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down (Tom Eyen), Curse of the Starving Class (Sam Shepard), The Lady's Maid (Katherine Mansfield), Bringing it All Back Home (Terrence McNally), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Landscape (Harold Pinter), Out at Sea (Sławomir Mrożek), Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse), Slices, Birdbath (Leonard Melfi), Mrs Warren's Profession (George Bernard Shaw), The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year (John Guare), Thinking Aloud, The American Dream (Edward Albee), A Thousand Clowns (Herb Gardner), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Molière)
  • 1980–1981: Cosi fan Tutti (Wolfgang Mozart), A Slight Ache (Harold Pinter), Red Cross (Sam Shepard), Daylight/Nightlight, Talley's Folly (Lanford Wilson), Postcard from Morocco (Dominick Argento & John Donahue), Pantaglieze (Michel de Ghelderode), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Eric Blau & Mort Shuman), The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart), The Day They Let the Lions Loose (Emilio Carballido), Wrong Number, The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness (Robert Patrick), 'dentity Crisis (Christopher Durang), The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)
  • 1981–1982: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Tennessee Williams), Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett), Candide (Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur), Side by Side by Sondheim (Stephen Sondheim), The Good Doctor (Neil Simon), Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare), The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year (John Guare)
  • 1982–1983: Confetti, Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen), Ladyhouse Blues (Kevin O'Morrison), The Apple Tree (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick), Berlin to Broadway (Gene Lerner & Kurt Weill), A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney), Snoopy! The Musical (Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael Grace), The Knack (Ann Jellicoe)
  • 1983–1984: Sganarelle and Co., Monday After the Miracle (William Gibson), Ernest in Love (Anne Croswell & Lee Pockriss), Rashomon (Fay & Michael Kanin), August, August, August (Pavel Kohout), The Blood Knot (Athol Fugard)
  • 1984–1985: Alice in Wonderland (Henry Savile Clarke & Walter Slaughter), Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley), Othello (William Shakespeare), Charlotte Sweet (Michael Colby & Gerald Jay Markoe), Bye Bye Miss American Pie, Whose Life is it Anyway? (Brian Clark)
  • 1985–1986: Godspell (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), Vinegar Tom (Caryl Churchill), Amelia Goes to the Ball (Gian Carlo Menotti), Signor Deluso (Thomas Pasatieri), Introductions and Goodbyes (Gian Carlo Menotti), Extremities (William Mastrosimone), 'night, Mother (Marsha Norman), Mandragola (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  • 1986–1987: Sand Mountain (Romulus Linney), Antigone (Sophocles), Confetti II Cabaret, Ladyhouse Blues (Kevin O'Morrison)
  • 1987–1988: The Fifth Sun (Nicholas Patricca), Little Shop of Horrors (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), The Telephone and the Consul (Gian Carlo Menotti), Children of a Lesser God (Mark Medoff)
  • 1988–1989: Tracers (John DiFusco), Curtain Call (Keith Trezise), A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice)
  • 1989–1990: Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (John R. Powers, James Quinn, Alaric Jans), ...and the Rain Came to Mayfield (Jason Milligan), The Elixir of Love (Gaetano Donizetti & Felice Romani), Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen), Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
  • 1990–1991: A Shayna Maidel (Barbara Lebow), The Brazilian (Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halevy), MacBeth (William Shakespeare), Chicago (Bob Fosse & Fred Ebb)
  • 1991–1992: Mill Fire (Sally Nemeth), Romance/Romance (Barry Harman & Keith Herrmann), The Grapes of Wrath (Frank Galati), Vital Signs (Jane Martin), The Tender Land (Aaron Copland & Horace Everett)
  • 1992–1993: The Immigrant, The Way We Live Now, The Servant of Two Masters, Pippin
  • 1993–1994: Dancing at Lughnasa (Brian Friel), Baby (Sybille Pearson, David Shire, Richard Maltby Jr), Cradles of Stone, Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica (Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano), Our Country's Good (Timberlake Wertenbaker)
  • 1994–1995: The Challenge, Gifts, As You Like It (William Shakespeare), The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
  • 1995–1996: The White Rose (Lillian Garrett-Groag), Ruthless! The Musical (Marvin Laird & Joel Paley), La Bête (David Hirson), Little Shop of Horrors (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Albert Herring (Benjamin Britten)
  • 1996–1997: The Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones), Medea (Euripides), The Secret Garden (Marsha Norman), Snoopy! The Musical (Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady, Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, Michael Grace)
  • 1997–1998: Blood Brothers (Willy Russell), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee), Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), Regina (Antonio Calvo & Álex Slucki)
  • 1998–1999: Passion (Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine), Quilters (Molly Newman & Barbara Damashek), Sand Mountain (Romulus Linney), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton)
  • 1999–2000: The Scarlet Letter, Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare), Signor Deluso (Thomas Pasatieri), Daphne at Sea (Charles Norman Mason), Company (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim)
  • 2000–2001: Sweeney Todd (Hugh Wheeler & Stephen Sondheim), Fallen Angels (Noël Coward), Godspell (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), A Tale of Two Cities (Jill Santoriello)
  • 2001–2002: Hamlet: The Musical (Alex Silverman, Timothy Knapman, Edward Jaspers), Marian Faustus Ph.D (Alan Litsey), Amadeus (Peter Shaffer), La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
  • 2002–2003: Little Shop of Horrors (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman), The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim)
  • 2003–2004: A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare), Myths & Hymns (Adam Guettel), Phaedra (Jean Racine), The Spitfire Grill (James Valcq & Fred Alley), The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
  • 2004–2005: Into the Woods (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), Agnes of God (John Pielmeier), All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Ernest Julia & David Caldwell), The Diary of Anne Frank (Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Wendy Kasselman)
  • 2005–2006: Young Zombies in Love (Damian Hess & Gaby Alter), Xtremities (William Mastrosimone), Dollhouse (Henrik Ibsen & Rebecca Gilman), Hansel and Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck), Marley, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (Trey Tatum)
  • 2006–2007: Urinetown (Greek Kotis & Mark Hollman), As You Like It (William Shakespeare), Ah, Wilderness (Eugene O'Neill)
  • 2007–2008: Miss Julie (August Strindberg & Alan Litsey), The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare), Marry Me A Little (Craig Lucas, Norman Rene, Stephen Sondheim), Our Town (Thornton Wilder), The Consul and the Telephone (Gian Carlo Menotti), Merrily We Roll Along (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim)
  • 2008–2009: West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), You Can't Take it With You (George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart)
  • 2009–2010: The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman), Striking 12 (Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda, Rachel Sheinkin), Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Hair (Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot)
  • 2010–2011:
  • 2011–2012: Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley), Spring Awakening (Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater), The Good Doctor (Neil Simon), Rent (Jonathan Larson)
  • 2012–2013: Richard III' (William Shakespeare), Next to Normal (Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey), The Who's Tommy (Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff), Die Fledermaus (Johann Straus II)
  • 2013–2014: Re-Entry (Emily Ackerman & K. J. Sanchez), Company (George Furth & Stephen Sondheim), The Liar (David Ives), Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew LLoyd Weber & Tim Rice)
  • 2014–2015: Carrie: The Musical (Michael Gore & Dean Pitchford), Four by Tenn (Tennessee Williams), Godspell (Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak), Riders to the Sea (Ralph Vaughan Williams), The Mother (Stanley Hollingsworth)
  • 2015–2016: Proof (David Auburn), Into The Woods (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), Probably (Owen Davis)
  • 2016–2017: Fiddler on the Roof (Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick), Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (Eve Ensler), Noises Off (Michael Prayn), The Trojan Women (Euripedes)
  • 2017–2018: [title of show] (Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell), '"The Tempest (William Shakespeare), Never Have I Ever (Jan Rosenberg), Pippin (Stephen Schwartz & Roger Hirson)
  • 2018–2019: Tick, Tick...Boom!' (Jonathan Larson), Top Girls (Caryl Churchill), Sunday in the Park with George (James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim), These Shining Lives (Melanie Marnich)
  • 2019–2020: Falsettos (William Finn & James Lapine), Silet Sky (Lauren Gunderson), 35 MM (Ryan Scott Oliver)
  • 2020–2021: Made in America, Lizzie (Tim Maner, Steven Cheslik-Demeyer, Alan Stevens Hewitt), A Bone to Pick with Fate (William Shakespeare)
  • 2021–2022: Head Over Heels (Jeff Whitty & James Magruder), We Are Pussy Riot or Everything is P.R. (Barbara Hammond), The Spitfire Grill (Fred Alley & James Valcq)
  • 2022–2023: The Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown), Milking Christmas (Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, Seth Macchi, Ryan McCall), The Wolves (Sarah DeLappe), This Is Our Youth (Kenneth Lonergan), Ordinary Days (Adam Gwon)
  • 2023–2024: The Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones)

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

References

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