The department has an extensive history of productions dating back to before 1950. See our extensive archive below.
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2019-20
- Bowling for Beginners - Diana Grisanti
- Authorial Intent - Itamar Moses
- Temping - Itamar Moses
- Chemistry Read - Itamar Moses
- Unfinished Business: A Series of Works in Progress
- Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekov, a New Version by Annie Baker
- We Are Proud To Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 – 1915 - Jackie Sibblies Drury
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2015-16
- Metamorphoses - Mary Zimmerman
- City of Songs - Brian Granger, Fred Coe Artist in Residence & VUTheatre Ensemble
- How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes - Michael Rohd in collab w Sojourn Theatre
- Grief: Five Stages, Three Days & Wonderful Thoughts - Nick Mecikalski
- The 24 Hour Production
- This is An Experiment - Nick Mecikalski
- The Misanthrope - Moliere
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2014-15
- William One Acts - Tennessee Williams
- Piece of Work - Annie Bloemer
- Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
- Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
- The Beaux Strategem - George Farquar (Adapted by Thorton Wilder and Ken Ludwig
- A Night of One Act Plays - Tennessee Williams
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2013-14
- The Whole Truth - Vicki Boyle
- Cement Hands - Thorton Wilder
- The Still Alarm - George S. Kaufman
- Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
- The Cradle Will Rock - Marc Blitzstein
- The Winslow Boy - Terence Rattigan
- How to Build a Forest - Pearl Damour + Shawn Hall
- The 2nd Annual 24-Hour Production
- Cabaret Vanderbilt
- S**t We Don't Say
- Nothing Bad Is Going To Happen
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2012-13
- Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl
- The Red Coat - John Patrick Shanley
- Finger Food - Nina Shengold
- An Ongoing Examination of the True Meaning of Life - S. W. Senek
- The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
- The Good Person Setzuan - Bertolt Brecht
- Wit - Margaret Edson
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2011-12
- Sad Song - Anna Ziegler
- Spotlight - Buddy Thomas
- Am I Blue? - Beth Henley
- 5:15 Greyhound - Le Wilhelm
- Cover - Jeffery Sweet
- Noontimes "Am I Blue" and "Spotlight" - Beth Henley and Buddy Thomas
- The Green Bird - Carlo Gozzi
- The Children's Hour - Lillian Hellman
- The Liar - David Ives (from the play by Pierre Corneille)
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2010-11
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Butterflies are Free - Leornard Gershe
- The Servant of Two Masters - Carlo Goldoni
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Steve Martin
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2008-09
- Our Town - Thorton Wilder
- RolePlay - Alan Ayckbourn
- The Country Wife - William Wycherley
- Brighton Beach Memoirs - Neil Simon
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2004-05
- Iphigenia - Euripides
- Company - Stephen Sondheim & George Furth
- The Barber of Seville - Beaumarchais
- Handing Down the Names - Steven Dietz
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2003-04
- As You Like It - Shakespeare
- Bedroom Farce - Alan Ayuckbourn
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Bertolt Brecht
- Hay Fever - Noel Coward
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1996-97
- The Love of the Nightingale - Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Eleemosynary - Lee Blessing
- The Skin of Our Teeth - Thorton Wilder
- The Marriage of Figaro - Beaumarchais
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1995-96
- Reckless - Craig Lucas
- The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
- All's Well that Ends Well - Shakespeare
- What the Butler Saw - Joe Orton
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1994-95
- The King's Stag - Carlo Gozzi
- The Fantasticks - Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
- Lips Together, Teeth Apart - Terrence McNally
- The Man of Mode - Sir George Etherege
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1993-94
- Buried Child - Sam Shepard
- Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare
- Summer and Smoke - Tennessee Williams
- Henceforward... - Alan Ayckbourn
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1992-93
- Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
- Fuenteovejuna - Lope deVega
- The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman
- Our Country's Good - Timberlake Wertenbaker
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1982-83
- The Learned Ladies - Motliere
- Something Unspoken and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion - Tennessee Williams
- Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare
- The Leader and the Lesson - Eugene Ionesco
- The Secret Affairs of Myldred Wild - Paul Zindel
- Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
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1975-76
- Picnic on the Battlefield and Guernica - Fernando Arrabal
- The Show-Off - George Kelly
- Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
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1963-64
- Waltz of the Toreadors - Jean Anouilh
- The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol
- The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
- Next Time I'll Sing to You - James Saunders
- Lysistrata - Aristophanes
- The Advocate - Robert Noah
- Calculated Risk - Joseph Hayes
- Chips With Everything - Arnold Wesker
- Do You Know the Milky Way? - Karl Wittlinger
- Take Her, She's Mine - Phoebe and Henry Ephron
- A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Richard Morris, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson
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1961-62
- The Male Animal - James Thurber
- Founders Capers - Babbitt
- Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Frances Goodrich & Frank Hackett
- The Bible Salesman - Jay Thompson
- The Oldest Trick in the World - Jay Thompson
- All the Way Home - Tad Mosel
- Big Fish, Little Fish - Hugh Wheeler
- A Far Country - Henry Denker
- Gypsy - Arthur Laurents, music Julie Styne, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
- The Hostage - Brendan Behan
- Pantagleize - Michael DeGhelderode
- A Passage to India - Santha Rama Rau
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1960-61
- I Choose to Die - Cheney
- The Heiress - Augustus Goetz
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Ring Around the Moon - Jean Anouilh
- The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg and Harvey Breit
- J. B. - Archibald Macleish
- The Pleasure of His Company - Samuel Taylor
- The Rope Dancers - Morton Wishengrad
- USA - John Dees Passos and Paul Skyre
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1959-60
- Androcles and the Lion - George Bernard Shaw
- Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
- The Teahouse of the August Moon - John Patrick
- Bury the Dead - George Bernard Shaw
- Bells Are Ringing - Betty Camden & Adolf Green, music by Julie Styne
- Boris Godunov - Modest Mussorgsky, text by John Gutman
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - William Inge
- Make A Million - Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore
- Romanoff and Juliet - Peter Ustino
- Royal Gambit - Herman Gressieker, adapted/translated by George White
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll - Ray Lawler
- Sunrise at Campobello - Dore Schary
- Time Remebered - Jean Anouilh
- The Visit - Friederich Duerrenmatt
- West Side Story - Arthur Laurents, music: Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
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1958-59
- Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey
- The Silver Cord - Sidney Howard
- R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) - Karel Capek
- The Love of Four Colonies - Ustinov
- Auntie Mame - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
- The Chairs - Eugene Ionesco
- Clerambard - Marcel Ayme
- The Matchmaker - Thorton Wilder
- The Most Happy Fella - Frank Loesser
- Orpheus Descending - Tennessee Williams
- The Potting Shed - Graham Greene
- Seperate Tables - Terrence Rattigan
- Small War on Murray Hill - Robert E. Sherwood
- Susannah - Carlisle Floyd
- Visit to a Small Planet - Gore Vidal
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1857-58
- Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring
- The House of Bernarda Alba - Frederico Garcia Lorca
- The Playboy of the Western World - J. M. Synge
- The Miser - Moliere
- The Great Sebastians - Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
- Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence
- Janus - Carolyn Green
- The Sleeping Prince - Terence Rattigan
- The Waltz of the Toreadors - Jean Anouilh
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1956-57
- The Tragedy of King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Plain and Fancy - Joseph Stein, Will Glickman, Arnold B. Horwitt, and Albert Hague
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- A View From the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays - Arthur Miller
- Bus Stop - William Inge
- Damn Yankees - George Abbott and Douglass Wallop
- A Hatful of Rain - Michael Vincente Gazzo
- Arabella - Richard Strauss
- Madam. Will You Walk - Sidney Howard
- The Lark - Jean Anoulih
- Time Limit! - Henry Denker & Ralph Berkey
- The Reluctant Debutante - William Douglas Home
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
- Career - James Lee
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1955-56
- Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekov
- King of Hearts - Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke
- All Summer Long - Robert Anderson
- The Pajama Game - George Abbott & Richard Bissell
- Porgy - Dubose & Dorothy Heyward
- The Perfect Gentlemen - W. Somerset Maugham
- Bad Seed - Maxwell Anderson
- Cosi' Fan Tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Tender Trap - Max Shulman & Robert Paul Smith
- The Rainmaker - N. Richard Nash
- The Solid Gold Cadillac - Howard Teichmann & George S. Kaufman
- Anasstasia - Marcelle Maurette
- The Reclining Figure - Harry Kuurnitz
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1954-55
- Camino Real - Tennessee Williams
- Tea and Sympathy - Robert Anderson
- The Little Hut - Andre Roussin & Nacy Mitforct
- Sabrina Fair - Samuel Taylor
- Online - Jean Giraudoux & Maurice Valency
- Anniversary Waltz - Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields
- Dial "M" for Murder - Frederick Knott
- The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker - Liam O'Brien
- The Rose Tattoo - Tennessee Williams
- The Teahouse of the August Moon - John Patrick
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1953-54
- The Deep Blue Sea - Terrance Rattigan
- See the Jaguar - N. Richard Nash
- Misalliance - G. Bernard Shaw
- The Crucible - Arthur Miller
- The Time of the Cuckoo - Arthur Laurents
- La Boheme - Giacomo
- Bernardine - Mary Chase
- Picnic - William Inge
- The Cimate of Eden - Moss Hart
- The Seven Year Itch - George Axelrod
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1952-53
- Strangers in this World - Brainerd Chaney
- The Moon is Blue - F. Hugh Herbert
- Gigi - Anita Loose and Colette
- Brigadoon - Alan Jay Lerner
- The Grass Harp - Truman Capote
- Barefoot in Athens - Maxwell Anderson
- Stalag 17 - Donald Bevon & Edmond Trzcinski
- Point of No Return - Paul Osborn
- Darkness at Noon - Sydney Kingsley
- The Children's Hour - Lillian Hellman
- My Darlin' Aida - Charles Friedman
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1951-52
- See How They Run - Philip King
- The Autumn Garden - Lillian Hellman
- Billy Budd - Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman
- The House of Bernarda Alba - Frederico Garcia Lorca
- Don Juan in Hell - George Bernard Shaw
- The Country Girl - Clifford Octets
- Bell, Book, & Candle - John Van Druten
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1950-51
- Don Juan in Hell - Bernard Shaw
- The Mikado or The Town of Titipu - W.S.Gilbert or Arthur Sullivan
- Deirdre of the Sorrows - J. M. Synge
- The Leading Lady - Ruth Gordon
- Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Elaine Ryan
- Caesar and Cleopatra - Bernard Shaw
- The Enchanted - Jean Giractoux
- Come Back, Little Sheba - William Inge
- Lost in the Stars - Maxwell Anderson
- The Innocents - William Archibald
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1949-50
- Present Laughter - Noel Coward
- Edward, My Son - Robert Morley, Noel Langley
- Light Up the Sky - Moss Hart
- The Madwoman of Chaillot - Jean Giradoux & Maurice Valency
- Two Blind Mice - Samuel Spewack
- The Biggest Thief in Town - Dalton Trumbo
- Yes M'Lord - William Douglas Home
- The Closing Door - Alexander Knox
- That Lady - Kate O'Brien
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1948-49
- Season Pamphlet
- The Play's the Thing - Ferenc Molnar & P.G. Wodehouse
- An Inspector Calls - J.B Priestley
- The Young and Fair - N. Richard Nash
- Anne of the Thousand Days - Maxwell Anderson