Mainstage and Studio

* Indicates Mildred and Albert Panowksi Playwriting Award winners
** Indicates a production of Alpha Psi Omega
*** Indicates a student-produced show
Indicates a North Coast Theatre Festival production

Note: This list is incomplete. If you have information about productions not included on this list, please send an email to nmutd@nmu.edu, and your addition will be made. Thank you!


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1958-59

  • Our Town
  • My Three Angels
  • The Rainmaker

1959-60

  • An Enemy of the People
  • Brigadoon
  • Visit to a Small Planet

1960-61

  • Look Homeward, Angel
  • Night of January 16th

1961-62

  • The Time of Your Life
  • South Pacific

1962-63

  • Guys and Dolls

1963-64

  • St. Joan
  • Carousel

1964-65

  • The Enchanted
  • The Music Man
  • Macbeth

1965-66

  • The Pajama Game
  • A View From the Bridge
  • Moony's Kids Don't Cry
  • The Strangest Kind of Romance
  • The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
  • The Long Goodbye
  • The Glass Menagerie

1966-67

  • How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

1967-68

  • Richard III
  • Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
  • Orestes
  • The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch
  • Bus Stop
  • Sister Angelica
  • Viet Rock
  • Lysistrata
  • Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
  • The Fantasticks
  • The Bald Soprano

1968-69

  • The Adding Machine
  • Bell, Book and Candle
  • The Land of the Dragon
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Marat/Sade
  • The Caretaker
  • Tea and Sympathy
  • Luv
  • The Medium
  • The Telephone
  • The World of Mad
  • Under Milkwood

1969-70

  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
  • In White America
  • Little Mary Sunshine
  • Summer and Smoke
  • The Bacchae

1970-71

  • Collision Course
  • The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
  • Three Sisters
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • The Fantasticks
  • A Flea In Her Ear
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Dark of the Moon
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Plaza Suite
  • The Frog Prince
  • Behind the Beyond
  • The Diary of Adam and Eve
  • The Tenor

1971-72

  • A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
  • Salome
  • The Threepenny Opera
  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  • No Place to be Somebody
  • The Old Maid and the Thief
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Little Murders
  • Twelfth Night

1972-73

  • Aesop's Fables
  • Happy Birthday, Wanda June
  • Hamlet
  • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
  • Where Are You Going, Hollis Jay?
  • Mama As She Became . . .
  • The World Tipped Over . . .
  • Summertree
  • Wenebojo
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors
  • Dark Lady of the Sonnets
  • The Feast
  • Thunder Rock
  • Butterflies Are Free
  • Chamber Music
  • The Maids
  • The Miser
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  • The Hide-And-Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple
  • Mountain Medley

1973-74

  • The Wonderful Tang
  • Riders To The Sea
  • The City Slicker And Our Nell
  • Blithe Spirit
  • Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Echoes
  • Botticelli
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Endgame
  • The Gloaming, Oh My Darling
  • Light & Sound Show
  • The Children's Hour
  • The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd
  • The Zoo Story
  • Deathwatch
  • Dylan
  • I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
  • The Mating of Alice May
  • The Fantasticks
  • The Owl and the Pussycat
  • The Gingerbread Lady
  • Prince Fairyfoot

1974-75

  • Spoon River Anthology
  • Charley's Aunt
  • The Hot L Baltimore
  • The House of Blue Leaves
  • Man of La Mancha
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Me Nobody Knows
  • Purlie Victorious
  • The Bald Soprano
  • Seahorse
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde
  • The Ugly Duckling
  • The Star-Spangled Girl
  • Godspell
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1975-76

  • Our Town
  • Tobacco Road
  • Home Free
  • Canterbury Tales
  • When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
  • Kiss Me, Kate
  • Collage (Dance Concert)
  • The Crucible
  • The Shock of Recognition
  • The Rope Dancers
  • I Do! I Do!
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical
  • What the Butler Saw
  • A Thousand Clowns
  • Taradiddle Tales
  • Sweet Charity
  • Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?

1976-77

  • Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
  • The Good Doctor
  • The Exception and the Rule
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • West Side Story
  • The Mousetrap
  • Peter Pan

1977-78

  • Under Milkwood
  • Death
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author
  • Cinderella
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • The Comedy Of Errors
  • The Spirit of Happy Hollow*
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Don't Drink the Water
  • The Drunkard
  • Guys and Dolls
  • The Great Cross Country Race

1978-79

  • Hellzapoppin'
  • Tyger/Tyger
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
  • The Hot L Baltimore
  • Twelfth Night
  • The School for Scandal
  • I'm Really Here
  • Alice In Wonderland
  • Chamber Music
  • Images
  • The King's Clown*
  • Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer
  • Spring Fever
  • A Little Night Music

1979-80

  • The Me Nobody Knows
  • Impromptu
  • Seascape
  • The Magic Flute
  • Will Success Spoil David Taylor?
  • The Shadow Box
  • The Ripper*
  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

1980-81

  • The Apple Tree
  • Landscape
  • Live Spelled Backwards
  • The Runner Stumbles
  • The King and I
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Red Cross
  • The White Whore and the Bit Player
  • Fragments of an August Night*
  • Free To Be You And Me

1981-82

  • The Bear
  • Sex and Violence
  • No Exit
  • A Thurber Carnival
  • Bonjour, La Bonjour
  • Dark of the Moon
  • The Medium
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster
  • The Sandbox
  • Actors
  • Slam the Door Softly
  • The Night of the Iguana
  • High Road, Low Bridge*
  • The Happy Prince

1982-83

  • The Excitable Gift
  • Mother Courage
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Line
  • Good Neighbors
  • The Oozing Intellectuals
  • Damn Yankees
  • Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer
  • Happy Endings
  • Suppressed Desires
  • Forgotten Verdict*
  • Bronson's Wife (Staged Reading)
  • Step on a Crack
  • Good Evening

1983-84

  • Side By Side By Sondheim
  • The Real Inspector Hound
  • The Bacchae
  • Hills Like White Elephants
  • Scrooge!
  • Picnic On The Battlefield
  • Over There
  • Cabaret
  • Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
  • The Exception and the Rule
  • Burial Customs*
  • Laundry and Bourbon
  • Bus Riley's Back In Town
  • An Enchanted Evening with Rogers and Hammerstein

1984-85

  • The Fantasticks
  • The Elephant Man
  • Fool For Love
  • The School For Wives
  • Scrooge!
  • Lone Star
  • Present Tense
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Bad Bad Jo-Jo
  • The King Has Gone To Tenebrae*
  • In This Fallen City (Staged Reading)
  • Let's Misbehave With Cole Porter

1985-86

  • Dracula
  • White Liars
  • Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise
  • Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
  • Scrooge!
  • Mass Appeal
  • Picnic
  • Please, No Flowers
  • Impromptu
  • Twelfth Night

1986-87

  • Noises Off
  • The Maker of Dreams
  • Cain
  • Miss Julie
  • Father Mosley*
  • Scrooge!
  • Baby
  • The Actor's Nightmare
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
  • Winners
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Broadway Melodies of Irving Berlin

1987-88

  • The Imaginary Invalid
  • The Zoo Story
  • The Gnadiges Fraulein
  • The Queen's Knight*
  • Scrooge!
  • How I Got That Story
  • Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
  • Anything Goes
  • Everyman
  • The Adding Machine

1988-89

  • The Cat and the Canary
  • Home Free
  • Franz and Dora*
  • Scrooge!
  • Monica
  • Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
  • Man of La Mancha
  • A Need for Brussels Sprouts
  • The Lover
  • A Life in the Theatre
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

1989-90

  • Pippin
  • The Sea Horse
  • The Devil and All His Works*
  • Scrooge!
  • The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
  • Cowboy Mouth
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • 'Dentity Crisis
  • This Property Is Condemned
  • The Madwoman of Chaillot

1990-91

  • The Rainmaker
  • Dark Lady of the Sonnets
  • The Next Contestant
  • The Diary of Adam and Eve
  • Bravado*
  • Scrooge!
  • Chicago
  • Into the Woods
  • Purgatory
  • for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
  • Macbeth

1991-92

  • Baby with the Bathwater
  • Hello Out There
  • Present Tense
  • Beast*
  • Scrooge!
  • The Great American Cheese Sandwich
  • The Sound of a Voice
  • Ariel Bright
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • The Bear
  • The Stonewater Rapture
  • Falsettoland (Scenes)
  • She Stoops to Conquer

1992-93

  • The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
  • Slam!
  • The Toothache
  • The Crony Club
  • The Black Pope*
  • Scrooge!
  • Women and Wallace
  • The Respectful Prostitute
  • Chess
  • The Open Meeting
  • All That Fall
  • As You Like It

1993-94

  • Biloxi Blues
  • The Lesson
  • 'night, Mother
  • The Night The War Came Home*
  • Scrooge!
  • My Fair Lady
  • I’m Not Stupid
  • Reckless
  • Pigeons
  • Vivien
  • Amadeus

1994-95

  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • The Flying Doctor
  • Lurker
  • On the Open Road
  • Haywire
  • Scrooge!
  • Haywire
  • Haywire (ACTF Regional)
  • Graceland
  • Haiku
  • Medusa’s Tale
  • Brilliant Traces
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • The Diary of Adam and Eve
  • The Cave
  • Slam the Door Softly
  • Hamlet
  • Haywire (ACTF National)

1995-96

  • I Hate Hamlet
  • Sightings
  • Bridal Terrorism
  • Doin’ Time at the Alamo*
  • Scrooge!
  • High Tide
  • Power Lunch
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Line
  • The Actor’s Nightmare
  • The Crucible
  • The Plague of Innocence
  • Haywire (Concert Version)

1996-97

  • Deathtrap
  • The Stronger
  • The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
  • Edgar*
  • Scrooge!
  • Mud
  • Down the Road
  • Godspell
  • Patriarch
  • Cowboys #2
  • Chalky White Substance
  • Arms and the Man

1997-98

  • All in the Timing
  • Fifth Of July
  • Scrooge!
  • Fiddler On The Roof
  • Much Ado About Nothing

1998-99

  • Top Girls
  • Jeffrey
  • Windings
  • The One-Eyed Man Is King*
  • Scrooge!
  • Springtime
  • West Side Story
  • Misreadings
  • Passionella
  • The Good Woman Of Setzuan

1999-2000

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • The Valentine Fairy
  • Sonny DeRee’s Life Flashes Before His Eyes
  • Dracula
  • Scrooge!
  • Dutchman
  • The Well of Horniness
  • A Chorus Line
  • Angels In America: Millenium Approaches (Staged Reading)
  • Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room
  • A Piece Of My Heart
  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses

2000-01

  • The Seventh Monarch*
  • Kindertransport (Staged Reading)
  • The Lottery
  • Who Will Carry the Word?
  • Holdin’ Our Own
  • Scrooge!
  • Split
  • Finding The Sun
  • Just the Two of Us
  • Assassins
  • Hello Out There
  • Vassar Boys
  • Who?
  • Lysistrata

2001-02

  • M*A*S*H
  • The Diary of Adam and Eve
  • The Proposal
  • Ghosts*
  • Unprogrammed
  • 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
  • Bus Riley’s Back In Town
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Triple Play: All’s Well That Ends Well
  • Tender Offer
  • Sorry, Wrong Number
  • Three Sisters
  • The Pirates of Penzance

2002-03

  • The Laramie Project
  • Everything’s Relative*
  • Scrooge!
  • The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus
  • Does This Woman Have a Name?
  • Oklahoma!
  • Elegy For A Lady
  • The Devil And Daniel Webster
  • Romeo and Juliet

2003-04

  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile
  • The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets
  • Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
  • Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
  • A Rembrandt’s Eyes*
  • Scrooge!
  • Moony’s Kids Don’t Cry
  • The Man Who Turned Into a Stick
  • Interview With F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • W.A.S.P.
  • Company
  • Babe’s In Arms
  • Face the Wolf
  • For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
  • Our Town
  • HMS Pinafore

2004-05

  • The Good Doctor
  • The Fantasticks
  • The Jack Tales
  • Legwork
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling
  • Burning Mona Lisa In The Reptile House*
  • Scrooge!
  • Beauty And The Beast
  • The Case Of The Crushed Petunias
  • Savage/Love
  • The Open Meeting
  • Tartuffe
  • The Mikado

2005-06

  • All My Sons
  • The Duck Variations
  • The Baddest Of Boys
  • As Is
  • Ebenezer Scrooge
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest; A Mixed Bag
  • Running The Courses
  • Closer Than Ever
  • Look Who’s Playing God
  • Find Your Way Home
  • Hot Line
  • Pendragon
  • Patience
  • Snoopy!

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23