Theatre Archives
Southwest Minnesota State University
Past Productions
1967-Present
Pinkalicious
Personal History
The Cherry Orchard
A Raisin in the Sun (National Players Touring Company)
2020-2021
Peter and the Starcatcher
An American House
2019-2020
Anne of Green Gables
The 1940s Radio Hour
2018-2019
Young Frankenstein
T.I.C. (Trenchcoat in Common)
Miss Electricity
Sense and Sensibility
2017-2018
How To Talk Minnesotan
Hamlet
One Man, Two Guvnors
Ken Davenport's The Awesome 80's Prom
2016-2017
44 Plays for 44 Presidents
You Can't Take it with You
Boeing Boeing
Into the Woods
2015-2016
The Crucible
We are Proud To Present (presented at the 48th Annual Region V Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival)
The Near-Sighted Knight and the Far-Sighted Dragon
The Tempest
(in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death)
2014-2015
Comedy of Errors
The Christmas Truce
James and the Giant Peach
Monty Python's Spamalot
2013-2014
The Triangle Factory Fire Project
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Love, Loss and What I Wore
The Heiress
2013-2014 Company
2012-2013
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Leaving Iowa
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
2012-2013 Company
2011-2012
Twelfth Night
The 13th of Paris
Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps"
2011-2012 Company
2010-2011
Pine Creek Parish
Doubt
Lucky Stiff
2010-2011 Company
Scholarship Recipients 2011-2012
2009-2010
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Greater Tuna
Blithe Spirit
2009-2010 Company
2008-2009
Fuddy Meers
No Exit
The Secret Garden
2007-2008
The Glass Menagerie (done in commemoration of SMSU’s 40th Anniversary)
Sky Girls
Six Pack (collection of one-acts)
Master Classes with Robert Westenberg
2006-2007
Bedroom Farce
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Fences (Staged Reading featuring SMSU Alumnus Isiah Whitlock '76)
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
2005-2006
Macbeth
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harvey
2004-2005
Dracula
Tartuffe: Born Again
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2003-2004
(Name changes to SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Proof
Antigone
Pippin
2002-2003
Pygmalion
Inspecting Carol
Steel Magnolias
The Stuff of Dreams (Guthrie Theatre Tour)
The Boys Next Door
2001-2002
Romeo and Juliet
A Christmas Carol
Of Mice and Men
Blood Brothers
2000-2001
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Christmas Carol
Godspell
Spring Festival of One-Act Plays
1999-2000
Bus Stop
A Christmas Carol
West Side Story
The Crucible
1998-1999
Arsenic and Old Lace
A Christmas Carol
The Heidi Chronicles
Much Ado About Nothing
1997-1998
She Stoops to Conquer
God's Favorite
Rope
1996-1997
Lost in Yonkers
Bad Blood
1995-1996
I Hate Hamlet
Lend Me A Tenor
Rashomon
1994-1995
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Dancing at Lughnasa
Marvin's Room
1993-1994
Dracula
The Foreigner
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1992-1993
House of Blue Leaves
Rumors
Hamlet
1991-1992
The Devil's Disciple
Noises Off
Servant of Two Masters
1990-1991
The Tempest
The Mousetrap
Light up the Sky
1989-1990
Twelfth Night
A Streetcar Named Desire
Kennedy's Children
1988-1989
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Ladies in Retirement
H.M.S. Pinafore
1987-1988
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Taking Steps
Crimes of the Heart
1986-1987
The Dining Room
Dudley Riggs Production (Traveling Troupe)
The Matchmaker
1985-1986
Look Homeward, Angel
The Pajama Game
As You Like It
1984-1985
Ten Little Indians
Geniuses
You Can't Take it with You
1983-1984
Loot
Inherit the Wind
Blithe Spirit
Summer 1983
On Golden Pond
Our Town
1982-1983
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off
1981-1982
The Sunshine Boys
Oklahoma!
The House of Bernarda Alba
1980-1981
Three Men on a Horse
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979-1980
The Real Inspector Hound
Little Mary Sunshine
Hedda Gabler
Summer 1979
The Good Doctor
Companion Pieces, including:
It's A Living
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
Out of Our Father's House
1978-1979
Once in a Lifetime
Vanities
Tartuffe
Summer 1978
Charley's Aunt
Everybody Loves Opal
1977-1978
Butley (nominated for participation at the regional festival for KC/ACTF)
Guys and Dolls
Picnic
Summer 1977
Hay Fever
The Mousetrap
1976-1977
The Caretaker (nominated for participation at the regional festival for KC/ACTF)
The Lark
The Importance of Being Earnest
1975-1976
(name changes to SOUTHWEST STATE UNIVERSITY)
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Summer and Smoke
She Stoops to Conquer
Summer 1975
Arsenic and Old Lace
Arms and the Man
Prisoner of Second Avenue
1974-1975
A Flea in Her Ear
Death of a Salesman
The Threepenny Opera
Summer 1974
Bus Stop
The Imaginary Invalid
Harvey
The Odd Couple
1973-1974
The Skin of Our Teeth
Vivat! Vivat! Regina
Pantagleize
Summer 1973
The Matchmaker
Night Must Fall
The Owl and the Pussycat
1972-1973
The Crucible
Sing Ho for a Prince
House of Blue Leaves
Spoon River Anthology
Summer 1972
The Drunkard
Thieves Carnival
A Thousand Clowns
The Princess and the Swineherd
1971-1972
The Miser
Lift Every Voice
Fables Here and Then (Guthrie Theatre)
The Unwicked Witch
Peter Pan
King Patch and Mr. Simpkins
Exit the King
Once Upon A Mattress
Summer 1971
You Can't Take it with You
Pygmalion
The Odd Couple
All About Dragons
1970-1971
The Scarecrow (participated in the National KC/ACTF in Washington D.C.)
J.B.
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat... (Marat/Sade)
Summer 1970
Our Town
The Fantasticks
The Dancing Donkey
Androcles and the Lion
Desperate Hours
1969-1970
The Twin Menaechmi
Don Juan in Hell
Endgame
Gallows Humor
The Devils
Hamlet
My Three Angels
Much Ado About Nothing
Summer 1969
The Rainmaker
Rose White Rose Red
The Time of Your Life
Hiawatha's Wedding
1968-1969
The Servant of Two Masters (first production done in the Mainstage Theatre)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
No Exit
West Side Story
Summer 1968-Heartland Productions
Scapin
The Devil's Disciple
The Hostage
1967-1968
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE
The Glass Menagerie
Dear Liar
Under Milkwood
If you have any additional posters or corrections about the above shows, please contact Professor Sheila Tabaka at Sheila.Tabaka@smsu.edu.
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