Birmingham-Southern Theatre

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.

Productions

• 1947–1948: 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)

Notable faculty

• Alan Litsey