Theatre Archives

Southwest Minnesota State University
Past Productions
1967-Present

2024-2025

• Frost/Nixon
• 46 Plays for America's First Ladies
• Touring Show
• Shout! The Mod Musical

2023-2024

• Amal from Afar: Tonight I Am Not Alone
  
• Muyehpen (Exposed Brick Theatre)
• Little Women
• Man Cave (Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre)
• An Inspector Calls

2022-2023

• The Taming
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Silent Night: The (Mostly) True Story of the World's Most Beloved Carol (Reader's Theatre)
• The Enchanted Bookshop
  

2021-2022

• 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 2017
• 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 (2016 - 2017 Performance)
• Boeing Boeing
• Into the Woods

2015-2016

• The Crucible (2015 - 2016 Performance)
• 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 (2015 - 2016 Performance)
  (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 (2011 - 2012 Performance)
• The 13th of Paris
• Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps"
• 2011-2012 Company

2010-2011

• Pine Creek Parish
• Doubt
• Lucky Stiff
• 2010-2011 Company

2009-2010

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2009 - 2010 Performance)
• Greater Tuna
• Blithe Spirit (2009 - 2010 Performance)

2008-2009

• Fuddy Meers
• No Exit
• The Secret Garden

2007-2008

• The Glass Menagerie (2007 - 2008 Performance) (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 (2004 - 2005 Performance)
• 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 (2001 - 2002 Performance)
• Of Mice and Men
• Blood Brothers

2000-2001

• The Importance of Being Earnest (2000 - 2001 Performance)
• A Christmas Carol (2000 - 2001 Performance)
• Godspell
• Spring Festival of One-Act Plays

1999-2000

• Bus Stop
• A Christmas Carol (1999 - 2000 Performance)
• West Side Story (1999 - 2000 Performance)
• The Crucible (1999 - 2000 Performance)

1998-1999

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• A Christmas Carol (1998 - 1999 Performance)
• The Heidi Chronicles
• Much Ado About Nothing (1998 - 1999 Performance)

1997-1998

• She Stoops to Conquer (1997-1998 Performance)
• 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 (1993 - 1994 Performance)
• The Foreigner
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1992-1993

• House of Blue Leaves
• Rumors
• Hamlet (1992-1993 Performance)

1991-1992

• The Devil's Disciple
• Noises Off
• Servant of Two Masters

1990-1991

• The Tempest (1990 - 1991 Performance)
• The Mousetrap
• Light up the Sky

1989-1990

• Twelfth Night (1989 - 1990 Performance)
• 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 (1984 - 1985 Performance)

1983-1984

• Loot
• Inherit the Wind
• Blithe Spirit (1983 - 1984 Performance)

Summer 1983

• On Golden Pond
• Our Town

1982-1983

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982 - 1983 Performance)
• 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 (1976 - 1977 Performance)

1975-1976

(name changes to SOUTHWEST STATE UNIVERSITY)

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Summer and Smoke
• She Stoops to Conquer (1975-1976 Performance)

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 (1972 - 1973 Performance)
• 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 (Summer 1971 Performance)
• 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 (1969-1970 Performance)
• My Three Angels
• Much Ado About Nothing (1969 - 1970 Performance)

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 (1968 - 1969 Performance)

Summer 1968-Heartland Productions

• Scapin
• The Devil's Disciple
• The Hostage

1967-1968

SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE

• The Glass Menagerie (1967 - 1968 Performance)
• Dear Liar
• Under Milkwood

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If you have any additional posters or corrections about the above shows, please contact Professor Sheila Tabaka at Sheila.Tabaka@smsu.edu.