OUR HISTORY
A Chattanooga Treasure Since 1923
Founded in 1923 as the Little Theatre of Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Theatre Centre is one of the oldest, largest, and busiest community theatres in the country. Having continued to operate during the Great Depression and World War II, we’re also the oldest continuously running community theatre in the nation.
Our Mainstage and Circle Theatre productions, seen by audiences of more than 30,000, are created by hundreds of talented volunteers and represent theatrical experiences of the highest caliber.
Our story is Chattanooga’s story . . .
The Story of Chattanooga’s Storyteller
As the Roaring Twenties sprang into action, so was the Little Theatre of Chattanooga breathed into life. A visionary Chattanoogan named Othneil Brown originated the idea of a non-profit community theatre and proposed it to his banker, E.Y. Chapin. According to the local newspaper, Chapin was “a country boy who just loved the theater.” Having been introduced to community theatre in New Orleans, he thought a little theatre might be just the thing to bring life to the cultural environment of Chattanooga.
The idea blossomed into a plan. More than 150 letters were sent to influential Chattanoogans soliciting their support, and the founders devoted the next six months to planning. On December 3, 1923, the fledgling Little Theatre was incorporated.
Rt. Rev. John D. Wing, Mrs. Marcus Schwartz, Miriam Hines Thatcher, John E. Gilbreath, and J.J. Mahoney were founding directors. Chapin was the first president, while Mahoney served as vice president, Gilbreath as secretary, and Lewis C. Leach as treasurer. “Assisting and promoting the study of drama and of dramatic literature and entertainment, the cultivation and development of dramatic talent and the organization and presentation of dramatic entertainments” defined their purpose.
A bust of founder E.Y. Chapin in our Mainstage lobby
On April 28, 1924, the Little Theatre premiered its first play, Dear Me, for a two-night run. While it was performed in the upstairs theatre of the War Memorial Auditorium, most of the subsequent performances took place at the Bijou Theater and Chattanooga High School.
The theatre’s devoted audience attended its performances without fail. In the first year, nearly 200 members saw the theatre’s performances, with Dear Me followed up by Boomerang and Grumpy. Season subscriptions sold for $10.
Dear Me, 1924
As its popularity increased, theatre founders decided they needed their own space to perform. The abandoned Fire Hall No. 4 on the corner of East 8th Street and Park Avenue became that location. It needed extensive renovation, but the group pulled together to make it happen. In October 1926, the curtain rose on the Little Theatre’s first performance in their own building.
With the end of the decade came the end of prosperity. The United States slumped into what would be known as the Great Depression. Business declined in Chattanooga and the rest of the country. However, the Little Theatre soldiered on. At first it suffered, but by 1935 it was producing more plays than ever before. From every direction, they received praise. The Chattanooga Times spared nothing in their affection for the theatre. In July 1932, the Times said:
“Even in the midst of an unusual concentration upon the problems of business . . . Chattanooga has not forgotten the less tangible but important needs of cherishing and developing the sources of art and culture. The Little Theater is a factor in the things that go to make and keep alive consciousness of being something more than cogs in a bewildering industrial machine.”
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1949
The Little Theatre not only weathered the tough times, it played a vital role during such difficult times. It provided carefree distraction, both for audiences and for those participating in the productions. As the Times put it, casts were comprised of “lawyers, doctors, clerks, stenographers, mechanics, salesmen, government employees, detectives, housewives” and more. Everyone who wanted could have a part in providing entertainment for Chattanooga.
The Depression and World War II did their best to break down morale, but they could not defeat the Little Theatre. During most of the war years, the theatre produced five and six plays a season. After the war, the theatre only continued to prosper.
Taming of the Shrew, 1966
Having continued to operate during the depression and the war, the theatre went on to become—and remains—the oldest continuously running community theatre in the nation. By 1962, the theatre was one of the “largest artistic organizations in the area,” and audiences exceeded 12,000 a year.
With this prosperity came the necessity of a new location, which the board tossed around as early as 1952. The seating capacity could not be increased. The building desperately needed major repairs, and the neighborhood surrounding the theatre had declined. It was time to move.
After months of consideration, it was decided to purchase the North Shore property at 400 River Street. A sum of $250,000 was raised and construction of the new building commenced in 1962. One newspaper article wistfully lamented, “The walls of old Firehall No. 4, that once resounded to the pounding hoofs and more recently to the dramatic declarations or humorous barb of actor and actress, will soon fall silent again.”
The CircleTheatre, 1971
In the fall of that year, the building was completed. An article described it thus: “On November 14, 1962, the lipstick red curtain in the new theatre appropriately ran up with ‘Light Up the Sky’. . .” Mrs. Alfred Thatcher and John Gilbreath, both founding members, cut the ribbon across the stage.
The theatre continued to grow. In 1971, the Circle Theatre was completed as an addition to the facility, providing a home for children’s productions. (It is now known as the Mildred C. Montague Circle Theatre and accommodates youth and adult shows.) Although for many years a children’s theatre had existed, it was not until 1983 that the Youth Theatre program was officially established. It grew rapidly. The youth not only benefited from drama and dance classes, but they were given opportunities to perform in plays, build sets, and help backstage. In 1990, the Youth Theatre represented the United States at the International Theatre Camp Festival in Moscow, Russia.
The Youth Theatre Production of Snow White in 1983
By 1990, the number of yearly volunteers at the theatre had exceeded 1,000 and the patrons 50,000. Once more the need arose to expand the current facility. After a massive fundraising project, the theatre raised more than $5 million to renovate and expand the building. The new 40,000-square-foot facility boasted a new scene shop, a costume shop, dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, and larger office spaces.
On September 17, 1996, the Little Theatre held its grand opening in its new playhouse and with a new name, the Chattanooga Theatre Centre.
Exterior of The Chattanooga Theatre Centre
The Theatre Centre was—and is—a center for all manner of opportunities for Chattanoogans to enjoy theatre. The theatre brings musicals, comedies, and dramas to its stage—some wildly entertaining, some deeply thought-provoking, such as our commitment to stage August Wilson’s entire American Century Cycle. Classes in dance and drama, summer camps for children, and partnerships with local schools are just a part of the theatre’s outreach. Hundreds of volunteers from all corners of the community take part in every aspect of productions, onstage and backstage.
Today, as it looks ahead to its 100th anniversary, the Chattanooga Theatre Centre remains one of the oldest and largest community theatres in the United States, and it continues to live out its mission—enriching the intellectual, emotional, and cultural development of people of all ages by providing high-quality theatrical experiences and creating opportunities to engage in them.
This history was written by Southern Adventist University student Kelly Gustrowsky in 2020.
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, 2021
CTC Shows by Decade
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1923-24
Dear Me
The Boomerang
1924-25
Grumpy
The First Year
Sam Davis/Window Screens
Vaudeville Entertainment
1925-26
Kindling
Minick
Leah Kleschna
1926-27
Grumpy Benefit
Arms and the Man
Dulcy
Arms and the Man
Beloved, It Is Morn
Bill of Divorcement
Little Theatre Follies of 1925
Suppressed Desires
Randall
Devil’s Disciple
1927-28
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
The Show-Off
Kempy
When We Were Twenty-one
Helga and the White Peacock
Mater
Sun-Up
1928-29
The Thirteenth Chair
Craig’s Wife
The Monkey’s Paw/Bumblepuppy
Tweedles
The West Portrait
1929-30
White Collars
Outward Bound
The Queen’s Husband
Captain Applejack
Alias the Deacon
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1930-31
Her Master’s Voice
Hedda Gabbler
The Bride
Bird in Hand
1931-32
Three Friends/The Knife/Dickey Bird
The Patsy
Behold the Dreamer
The Dummy
1932-33
Elmer the Great
Across the Border/Quare Medicine/Five Minutes from the Station
The Silver Cord
Hay Fever
The Perfect Alibi
Hamlet
1933-34
Bret Bracken
Holiday
Prisoners of Neptune
The Donovan Affair
1934-35
The Tavern
Murder in the Red Barn
See Naples and Die
The High Road
Ladies of the Jury
Escape
Hell Bent for Heaven
Oliver, Oliver
The Death of Tintagiles
1935-36
Post Road
The Taming of the Shrew
The Pizen Song
Whistling in the Dark
Seven Women/Old Clothes
1936-37
Meet the Wife
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Kind Lady
Whiteheaded Boy
Krazy Cat/ Old Clothes
Ceiling Zero
The Lady of Letters
1937-38
Cradle Song
Her Master’s Voice
Laburnum Grove
The Night of January 16th
Double Door
Broken Dishes
The Nut Farm
1938-39
Counsellor at Law
Squaring the Circle
Petrified Forest
First Lady
Burlesque
Accent on Youth
1939-40
Our Town
Three Men on a Horse
The Valiant/In the Net and Magnolia’s Men
Night Must Fall
Time is Dream
Pennywise
Susan and God
You Can’t Take It With You
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1940-41
Petticoat Fever
Another Language
Suspect
The Royal Family
Margin for Error
The Joyous Season
1941-42
Ladies in Retirement
The Male Animal
Liliom
Mr. and Mrs. North
George Washington Slept Here
Cuckoos on the Hearth
1942-43
Dangerous Corner
On Borrowed Time
Ring Around Elizabeth
Arsenic and Old Lace
Proposal/Back Home/The Pot Boiler
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1943-44
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Uncle Harry
The Fall Guy
1944-45
The Philadelphia Story
Guest in the House
Three’s a Family
Papa Is All
Junior Miss
Tomorrow the World (“Peruchi Night”)
1945-46
One Sunday Afternoon
Over Twenty-One
Blithe Spirit
St. Elmo
Ramshackle Inn
Angel Street
1946-47
I Remember Mama
Ten Little Indians
January Thaw
I Killed the Count
Death Takes a Holiday
My Sister Eileen
1947-48
Dear Ruth
The Late George Apley
The Bat
Kiss and Tell
Payment Deferred
No Time for Comedy
1948-49
Janie
Chicken Every Sunday
John Loves Mary
All My Sons
Life with Father
The Bad Man
1949-50
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Winslow Boy
Two Blind Mice
The Hasty Heart
Dulcy
The Silver Whistle
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1950-51
The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Traitor
Clarence
Goodbye My Fancy
Therese
Harvey
1951-52
Born Yesterday
Night of January 16th
Light Up the Sky
The Heiress
Claudia
Skylark
1952-53
Father of the Bride
The Great Big Door Step
Suspect
The Fatal Weakness
Idiot’s Delight
Room Service
The Happy Time
1953-54
Bell, Book and Candle
The Curious Savage
Duet for Two Hands
Affairs of State
Our Town
Stalag 17
1954-55
My Three Angels
The Moon is Blue
State of the Union
Edward My Son
Gramercy Ghost
Sabrina Fair
1955-56
Time Out for Ginger
Dial “M” for Murder
The Rainmaker
Lo and Behold
The Glass Menagerie
King of Hearts
1956-57
The Reclining Figure
Jenny Kissed Me
Someone Waiting
Mrs. McThing
The Tender Trap
Mr. Roberts
1957-58
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Witness for the Prosecution
Bus Stop
Anniversary Waltz
The Little Foxes
Fireman’s Flame
1958-59
The Desperate Hours
Parlor Story
No Time for Sergeants
Inherit the Wind
A Roomful of Roses
The Seven Year Itch
1959-60
Damn Yankees
Night Must Fall
The Girls in 509
The Kids
Picnic
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Matchmaker
The Clown Who Ran Away
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1960-61
Auntie Mame
The Country Girl
Jack and the Beanstalk
Third Best Sport
Indian Captive
The Ponder Heart
Golden Fleecing
Land of Dragon
The Gazebo
1961-62
The Diary of Anne Frank
Send Me No Flowers
The Deadly Game
Sleeping Beauty
The White Sheep of the Family
The Detective Story
The Happiest Millionaire
1962-63
Light Up the Sky
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Time Remembered
Laura
See How They Run
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Rumplestiltskin
1963-64
Visit to a Small Planet
All the Way Home
Janus
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
The Twelve-Pound Look
The Best Man
Champagne Complex
Once More, With Feeling
Outward Bound
1964-65
The Pleasure of His Company
The Mouse Trap
Sunday in New York
The Crucible
Calculated Risk
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
The Fantasticks
1965-66
The Marriage-Go-Round
The Lady’s Not for Burning
Three Spinners
Monique
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Absence of a Cello
Blithe Spirit
1966-67
Mary, Mary
Of Mice and Men
The Private Ear and The Public Eye
Dark at the Top of the Stairs
The Taming of the Shrew
The Best Laid Plans
Dumb Waiter and the Collection
Little Red Riding Hood
1967-68
A Streetcar Named Desire
Any Wednesday
Bell, Book and Candle
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Room Service
Everybody Loves Opal
Golden Goose
1968-69
Impossible Years
Dark of the Moon
The Innocents
Everybody’s Girl
Waiting for Godot
The Brides of March
Flibbertygibbet
The Beautiful People
1969-70
The Rose Tattoo
Don’t Drink the Water
Scandal Point
Hedda Gabler
Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Catch Me If You Can
Summertree
The Whole Darn Shooting Match
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1970-71
The Girl in the Freudian Slip
Summer and Smoke
The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie
Never Too Late
One Bright Day
A Barrel Full of Pennies
The Dancing Donkey
The Pirates of Penzance
The Harlequins
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1971-72
The Sound of Murder
Antique Fables and Fairy Toys
The Seven Year Itch
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
A Thousand Clowns
The Mikado
Best of Friends
You Can’t Take It With You
Man With a Load of Mischief
The Rhinocerous
An Evening of One-Act Plays
1972-73
The Great Cross Country Race
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Punch and Judy
Butterflies are Free
The Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
Catch-22
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
HMS Pinafore
The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple
How the Other Half Loves
South Pacific
An Evening of Social Exploration
1973-74
Life With Father
Antigone
Annie Get Your Gun
Holiday Happening
See How They Run
Harvey
Home Free/Gnadiges Fraulein
The Tunnel of Love
Brigadoon
In White America
World of Shakespeare
The Subject Was Roses
Kiss or Make Up
No Exit
1974-75
Angel Street
A Thurber Carnival
Accommodations
Gingerbread Lady
Veronica’s Room
Finishing Touches
Blood Knot
The Boy Friend
Old Times
Wind in the Willows
1776
1975-76
Willowsong
Perfect Pitch
6 Rms Riv Vu
The Hobbit
An Evening with the Other Sex
Sleeping Beauty
Night Watch
Opal’s Baby
Inherit the Wind
The Night Thoreau Went to Jail
Opal’s Husband
Inherit the Wind
Three One-Act Plays
1976-77
Carousel
Jack and the Beanstalk
M Fat Friend
The Princess and the Swineherd
A Bad Year for Tomatoes
The Glass Menagerie
Murder Among Friends
The Deadly Game
The Torch Bearers
A Thurber Carnival
Tom Sawyer
The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
1977-78
Absurd Person Singular
Guys and Dolls
The Oldest Living Graduate
Two for the Seesaw
Barefoot in the Park
Huckleberry Finn
Plaza Suite
Follies
The Red Shoes
1978-79
Count Dracula
Celebration
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
The Wizard of Oz
Rodgers and Hart
Evening of One Act Plays
Bus Stop
The Panda and the Spy
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Sleeping Beauty
Little Mary Sunshine
Travesties
The Red Shoes
Rip Van Winkle
Runner Stumbles
1979-80
The Pajama Game
Heidi
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Littlest Angel
Same Time, Next Year
Cabaret
Cactus Flower
Canterville Ghost
Dames at Sea
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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1980-81
Chapter Two
Step on a Crack
Man of La Mancha
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s
Candida
Company
Tribute
Chicago
Classic Scenes
Mame
1981-82
On Golden Pond
Pippin
The Purple Princess
Winnie the Pooh
Broken Up
The Three Penny Opera
Hamlet
Buried Child
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Star-Spangled Girl
Romantic Comedy
Hansel and Gretel
1982-83
The Elephant Man
No, No Nanette
Private Lives
The Diary of Anne Frank
John Brown’s Body
Alice in Wonderland
Fiddler on the Roof
Deathtrap
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Imagination and Aesop
Kiss Me Kate
1983-84
Of Thee I Sing
Dracula, The Vampire Play
The Glass Menagerie
Snow White
Born Yesterday
No Time for Sergeants
Barnyard Capers
A Man for All Seasons
Annie
The Trial of Tom Sawyer
1984-85
Don’t Drink the Water
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Grease
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Coat
Mass Appeal
Beyond Therapy
Ice Wolf
Lion In Winter
Peter Pan
Tom Stoppard’s the Real Inspector Hound
Children of a Lesser God
Bleacher Bums
Turmoil in Tennessee
The Outlaw Robin Hood
Blue Horses
1985-86
A Chorus Line
Pinnochio
Foxfire
A Christmas Carol
Agnes of God
Painting Churches
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tennessee and Me
You/re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Anything Goes
The Mousetrap
Striking Out
Remus Tales
1986-87
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Noises Off
Wiley and the Hairy Man
Aladdin
A Christmas Carol
Otherwise Engaged
Wait Until Dark
Really Rosie
Death of a Salesman
Dreams
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder
Little Shop of Horrors
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Ransom of Red Chief
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
‘Night Mother
Colonel Tom’s Marvelous Medicine Show
5th of July
1987-88
My Fair Lady
Ozma of Oz
Inherit the Wind
A Christmas Carol
Woolgather
Crimes of the Heart
Charlotte’s Web
Amadeus
A Toby Show
Starting Here, Starting Now
Fables
The Wiz
Dreamgirls
The Odd Couple
Don’t Count Your Chickens Until They Cry Wolf
Pump Boys and Dinettes
The Fantasticks
Rumplestiltskin
1988-89
Hello Dolly
Arsenic and Old Lace
Masque of Beauty and the Beast
A Christmas Carol
Fool of the World
Home Again, Home Again
Stepping Out
Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Miracle Worker
Mother Hicks
Dreamgirls
Steel Magnolias
Old Silent Movie
Doubles
1989-90
Damn Yankees
Winnie the Pooh
You Can’t Take It With You
A Christmas Carol
Latchhkey
Orphans
I’m Not Rappaport
The Wonderful Wizard of Ox
Cyrano De Bergerac
Bamboozled
42nd Street
Broadway Bound
Mother Goose on the Loose
Nunsense
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1990-91
Sound of Music
Treasure Island
Driving Miss Daisy
Hugo 10/90
Songs of Innocence
Peter the Postman
A Christmas Carol
Whose Life Is It, Anyway
Puss In Boots
Witness for the Prosecution
Sweet Charity
Robin Goodfellow
The Boys Next Door
No Sex Please, We’re British
How Things Happen in Three
1991-92
Oliver!
A Streetcar Named Desire
Rumpelstiltskin
Christmas Carol
Lend Me a Tenor
The Velveteen Rabbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Dear Earth
Dracula
Greater Tuna
How to Eat Like a Child
Wind in the Willows
1992-93
Big River
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Social Security
A Few Good Men
The Trial of Goldilocks/The Shaggy Dog Murder Trial
A Woman Called Truth
The Taffetas
Ten Little Indians
Love Letters
Wind of a Thousand Tales
Westward Ho
1993-94
Evita
The Secret Garden
Lettice and Lovage
A Christmas Carol
Rapunzel
A Holiday Happening
My Children, My Africa
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Macbeth
Into the Woods
The Arkansaw Bear
13 Rue de L’Armour
Nunsense II
Jack Tales
1994-95
Guys and Dolls
The Prince and the Pauper
Blithe Spirit
The Princess and the Pea
Tartuffe
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit
Dancing at Lughnasa
OPQRS
Ain’t Misbehavin’
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Front Page
Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Dearly Departed
Just So
In One Basket (Youth)
1995-96
Peter Pan
Web
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Christmas Carol
A Cinderella Christmas
Don’t Dress for Dinner
Steal Away Home
Romeo and Juliet
Aladdin
A Little Night Music
The Foreigner
1996-97
Show Boat
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Prelude to a Kiss
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A Delicate Balance
Jack and the Wonder Beans
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
T-Bone N Weasel
The Secret Garden
The Magician’s Nephew
Uncommon Women and Others
Musical Comedy of Murders of 1940
Nuptials
Young Black Beauty
The Little Mermaid
1997-98
Crazy for You
Masque of Beauty and the Beast
Sylvia
Dining Room
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Miracle on 34th Street
Death and the Maiden
Shadowlands
House on Pooh Corner
The Importance of Being Earnest
Durang in the Evening: The Actor’s Nightmare/Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All
Sweeney Todd
Bridge to Terabithia
After-Play
Bus Stop
Smoke on the Mountain
1998-99
Annie
Bamboozled
Driving Miss Daisy
Joined at the Head
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Miracle on 34th Street
Cinderella: A Toby Story
Names of the Dead
Lend Me a Tenor
The Reluctant Dragon
The Glass Menagerie
Little Shop of Horrors
Wiley and the Hairy Man
How I Learned to Drive
On Golden Pond
Amber Waves
Barefoot in the Park
Fences
1999-2000
Fiddler on the Roof
Road to Nirvana
Bunnicula
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
A Sanders Family Christmas
The Little Princess
The Cherry Orchard
The Baltimore Waltz
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Robber Bridegroom
Reckless
Robin Goodfellow
John Brown’s Body
Deathtrap
SubUrbia
The All Night Strut
Rumplestiltskin/The Six Dancing Princesses
The Little Princess
Aesop’s Fables
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2000-01
Gypsy
An Ideal Husband
The Jungal Book
Misery
The Bad Children
Six Degrees of Separation
The Exact Center of the Universe
Babe, the Sheep Pig
Once Upon a Mattress
The Old Settler
Blues for an Alabama Sky
Androcles and the Lion
Moon Over Buffalo
Five Guys Named Moe
Celebration
Baby with the Bath Water
2001-2002
Talking with….
The Man Who Came to Dinner
A Taffeta Christmas
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Visiting Mr. Green
No Strings
Rumors
Flying West
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
All My Sons
Always…Patsy Cline
When It Rains
2002-2003
The People vs. Mona
Three Tall Women
The Homecoming
Travels with My Aunt
Dinner with Friends
Bells are Ringing
I Hate Hamlet
The Day They Shot John Lennon
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Promises, Promises
Fuddy Meers
The Nerd
Kismet
2003-2004
Oklahoma
Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune
Proof
The Gifts of the Magi
Jar the Floor
Spinning Into Butter
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Post Mortem
Keeping Up with the Joneses
The Honky Tonk Angels
2004-2005
Sordid Lives
Bye Bye Birdie
Crimes of the Heart
Swingin’ Christmas with the Shani Hedden Group
A Christmas Story
Fool for Love
Lost in Yonkers
a.m. Sunday
Keely and Du
Children of Eden
A Lesson Before Dying
God’s Man In Texas
Arsenic and Old Lace
2005-2006
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia
Over the River and Through the Woods
A Christmas Story
The Santaland Diaries
Wait Until Dark
The Story
Twentieth Century
The Night Reginald Filbert Called It Quits
The Underpants
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Electricity
A Raisin in the Sun
2006-2007
The Wizard of Oz
Thief River
It’s a Wonderful Life
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Steel Magnolias
The Graduate
Am I Blue
Urinetown, the Musical
Intimate Apparel
Moonlight and Magnolias
Kimberly Akimbo
2007-2008
The Music Man
See Rock City
The Dead Guy
Holiday Homecoming
Stop Kiss
The Best Man
Haint Blue
Acting Lesson
The Letter
Song of Abraham
Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Leading Ladies
Bourbon at the Border
Wonder of the World
2008-2009
High School Musical
A Christmas Carol
Doubt
Epic Proportions
Company
Rabbit Hole
A Streetcar Named Desire
Southern Connections
Ring Around the Moon
Psycho Beach Party
Noises Off
Almost, Maine
2009-2010
Beauty and the Beast
A Christmas Carol
Regrets Only
The Little Dog Laughed
Pig Farm
Book of Liz
Our Town
Holes
The Crucible
Madeline’s Christmas
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Enchanted April
The Producers
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2010-2011
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Blues for Mr. Charlie
Hairspray
Fantasticks
A Christmas Story
Times Square Angel
The Women
Songs for a New World
Rent
Hamlet
A Year with Frog and Toad
The Diary of Anne Frank
Bridge to Terabithia
2011-2012
Dark of the Moon
Mr. and Mrs. M
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Mousetrap
I Wasn’t No Hero
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Seussical
Stellaluna
Gross Indecency
The Importance of Being Earnest
Anything Goes
2012-2013
Cabaret
The 39 Steps
Bunnicula
God of Carnage
Santaland Diaries
Annie
The Red Badge of Courage
A Doll’s House
How I Became a Pirate
The Children’s Hour
The Divine Sister
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Legally Blond
2013-2014
Blithe Spirit
A Christmas Story
The Odd Couple
The Taming of the Shrew
Pump Boys and Dinettes
And Then There Were None
Les Miserables
Xanadu
2014-2015
Into the Woods
Of Mice and Men
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Christmas Story
Miss Nelson Is Missing
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
9 to 5
2015-2016
Sister Act
33 Variations
Edgar
Harvey
A Christmas Story
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Paddington
The Royal Family
Sordid Lives
Really Rosie
Dividing the Estate
Camelot
Spamalot
2016-2017
Fiddler on the Roof
The Jungle Book
The Library
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Miracle on 34th Street
The Snow Queen
Love/Sick
Festival of New Plays
The BFG
A Midsummer Night’s Disco
Peter and the Starcatcher
2017-2018
The Wiz
Charlotte’s Web
Beauty and the Beast
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The House at Pooh Corner
The Glass Menagerie
A Year with Frog and Toad
A Room with a View
Boeing, Boeing
Hello, Dolly!
2018-2019
Newsies
The Last Five Years
A Wrinkle in Time
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Civil War Christmas
Once on This Island, Jr.
Fences
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Avenue Q
Murder on the Nile
Little Shop of Horrors
2019-2020
Matilda
The Lion King, Jr.
Mary Poppins
The Amen Corner
Gem of the Ocean
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
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2020-2021
Having Our Say
Lobby Hero
It’s a Wonderful Life
Almost, Maine
The Wind in the Willows
Vintage Hitchcock
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Working: A Musical
2021-2022
Barefoot in the Park
The Hollow
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Alabama Story
Aladdin, Jr.
Little Women
The Velveteen Rabbit
Joe Turner’s Come & Gone
Giant Steps
2022-2023
The Sound of Music
August: Osage County
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Pride & Prejudice
The Color Purple, The Musical
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
The Cake
Miss Nelson is Missing!
The Piano Lesson
Something Rotten, The Musical