Student Productions

Each year, the Department of Theatre, Film, and Communication Arts produces up to four faculty directed productions in the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts.

Where Words Once Were by Finegan Kruckemeyer

Where Words Once Were is presented by special arrangement with the Playwright.

Venue: Robinson Theatre
Performances: October 5, 6, 7, 8, 2023

Set in a dystopian time where language is rationed, a sentence can get you sentenced and the silent are rising, our young hero Orhan discovers that a word can change the world.

All in the Timing by David Ives

All in the Timing is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Venue: Robinson Theatre
Performances: November 30, and December 1, 2, 3, 2023

Featuring six diverse but equally hysterical one-act comedies, David Ives’ All in the Timing is a witty, romantic, absurd, and existentially-minded evening of theatre.

Catch Me If You Can, the Musical; Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman; Book by Terrence McNally, based on the DreamWorks Motion Picture

Catch Me If You Can is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI

Venue: Robinson Theatre
Performances: April 4, 5, 6, 7, 2024

Based on the hit film and the incredible true story, Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying musical comedy about chasing your dreams and not getting caught. Nominated for four Tony awards, including Best Musical, this delightfully entertaining show was created by a Tony Award-winning "dream team," with a book by Terrence McNally (The Full MontyRagtime) and a swinging score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray). – MTI 

2022 - 2023

  • Detroit '67 by Dominique Morisseau
  • It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
  • She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen

2020 - 2022

  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • Eurydice by Sarah Rule
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

2019 - 2020

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

2018-2019

  • Frankenstein adapted by Dorothy Louise from Mary Shelley
  • Stupid F#%*ing Bird by Aaron Posner
  • Pippin, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Scwhartz and Book by Roger O. Hirson

2017-2018

  • Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
  • The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare

2016-2017

  • The Good Person of Sichuan by Bertolt Brecht
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
  • Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey

2015-2016

  • Dollhouse by Theresa Rebeck, adapted from the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Spring 2016)
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Spring 2016)
  • Big Love by Charles Mee (Fall 2015)

2014-2015

  • Love & Information by Caryl Churchill (Spring 2015)
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Spring 2015)
  • Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches by Tony Kushner (Fall 2014) 

2013-2014

  • Hairspray, the Musical; Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by  Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman; Book by Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan, based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters (Spring 2014)
  • The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Fall 2013)
  • The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Fall 2013)

2012-2013

  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Spring 2013)
  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin (Spring 2013)
  • The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (Fall 2012)

2011-2012

  • Dead Man's Cell Phone (Fall 2011)
  • Hedda Gabler (Fall 2011)
  • She Stoops to Conquer (Spring 2012)

2010-2011

  • Much Ado About Nothing (Fall 2010)
  • Rent, the Musical (Spring 2011)
  • Scapin (Spring 2011)

2009-2010

  • Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz (Spring 2010)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, adapted by Gil Gonzalez (Spring 2010)
  • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel (Fall 2009)
  • Iphigenia and Other Daughters by Ellen McLaughlin (Fall 2009)

2008-2009

  • Pride & Prejudice (Fall 2008)
  • Lorca in a Green Dress (Fall 2008)
  • Urinetown, the Musical (Spring 2009)
  • Wonder of the World (Spring 2009)

2007-2008

  • Twelfth Night (Fall 2007)
  • The Crucible (Spring 2008)
  • The Underpants (Spring 2008)

2006-2007

  • Tartuffe (Fall 2006)
  • Into the Woods (Spring 2007)
  • Stop Kiss (Spring 2007)

2005-2006

  • Othello (Fall 2005)
  • Beowulf adapted by Sean Morris (Spring 2006)
  • bobrauschenbergamerica (Spring 2006)

2005 Othello
2005 Lysistrata
2005 Boxes
2004 Cabaret
2004 Candida
2004 Our Town
2003 Brecht on Brecht
2003 Travesties
2003 A Midsummer Night's Dream
2003 It Is So! (If You Think So)
2002 Cloud 9
2002 Crimes of The Heart
2002 The Last Night of Ballyhoo
2002 Division Street
2001 How the Other Half Loves
2001 Julius Caesar
2001 Ravenscroft
2001 Berlin To Broadway
2000 Largo Desolato
2000 Laughter on the 23rd Floor
2000 Abducted
2000 Laronde
1999 Antigone
1999 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1999 Re-Imaginings: In The Laboratory
1999 The Maderati
1998 Speed-The-Plow
1998 Much Ado About Nothing
1998 Night of The Iguana
1998 Carnival
1997 The Real Thing 
1997 One Flea Spare
1997 Angels Fall
1997 Romeo and Juliet
1996 The Playboy of the Western World
1996 The Miser
1996 The Beggar's Opera
1996 Eleemosynary
1995 The Three Sisters
1995 Rumors
1995 Lydie Breeze
1995 Blue Window
1994 Dancing at Lughnasa
1994 Italian American Reconciliation
1994 The Art of Dining
1994 Virtual Mystery
1993 Cousins
1993 Romantic Comedy
1993 Good
1993 As You Like It
1992 Closer than Ever
1992 Abundance
1992 Noises Off
1992 The Country Wife
1991 A Doll's House
1991 The Trojan Women
1991 The Scarlet Letter
1991 The Taming of the Shrew
1990 Bus Stop
1990 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1990 On the Verge
1990 Scapin
1989 The Good Woman of Setzuan
1989 Baby with the Bathwater
1989 Bleacher Bums
1989 Getting Out
1988 The Bacchae
1988 Company
1988 Rehearsal for Murder
1988 Of Mice and Men
1987 Auntie Mame
1987 Little Murders
1987 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1986 The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
1986 Tomfoolery
1986 Angel Street
1986 The Real Inspector Hound
1985 The Mound Builders
1985 The Glass of Water
1985 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1985 Present Laughter
1984 A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
1984 Tintypes
1984 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little 
1984 Lady Windermere's Fan
1983 The Wake of Jamey Foster
1983 Nemesis 
1983 Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
1983 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
1982 The House of Blue Leaves
1982 Uncommon Women and Others
1982 Arms and the Man
1982 Something's Afoot
1981 The Mousetrap
1981 Friends
1981 Blithe Spirit
1981 Working
1980 Uncle Vanya
1980 The Learned Ladies
1980 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1980 Babes in Arms
1979 Everything in the Garden
1979 The Shadow Box
1979 The Hot L Baltimore
1979 Side by Side by Sondheim
1978 The Good Doctor
1978 House of Cowards
1978 The Waltz of the Toreadors
1978 The Boy Friend
1977 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1977 The Lady's Not for Burning
1977 A Voyage Round My Father
1977 Where's Charlie?
1976 Dark of the Moon
1976 Abelard and Heloise
1976 When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1976 Philemon
1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 Harvey
1975 Picnic
1975 The Me Nobody Knows
1974 Enter a Free Man
1974 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds
1974 Godspell
1974 Something Different
1973 Monique
1973 Tea and Sympathy
1973 The Rimers of Eldritch
1973 Jacque Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
1972 Thanatos
1972 The Memorandum
1972 The Importance of Being Earnest
1972 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
1971 The Night of the Iguana
1971 The Adding Machine
1971 Quest
1971 Cabaret
1970 Shelley
1970 See How They Run
1970 The Chinese Wall
1970 The Rose Tattoo
1969 Celebration
1969 Hotel Paradiso
1969 Blood Wedding
1969 Oklahoma!
1968 Live Like Pigs
1968 Woyzeck
1968 The Brothers Karamazov
1968 Brigadoon 
1967 A Servant of Two Masters
1967 J.B.
1967 Death of a Salesman
1967 The Cave Dwellers
1966 Once Upon a Mattress
1966 Clerambard
1966 Playboy of the Western World
1966 The Pajama Game
1965 The House of Bernarda Alba
1965 Ah, Wilderness!