Production History

2021-22 Season

Mainstage:

Clue
Fight Girl Battle World
The Giver
[title of show]

Readers Theatre Showcase:

The Outsider
On Golden Pond
Harvey
An Inspector Calls
The Heiress

Youth Production Classes:

Clue – High School Edition
The Giver 

2020-21 Season

Guess Who: A Costume Quest
Transition
– Produced in partnership with Maria C. Young
Listen to This: Stories on Screen – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

2019-20 Season

Mainstage:

The Wizard of Oz
Miracle on 34th Street
The Fantasticks
Little Women
– performed online

35below:

Truth Be Told – Produced in partnership with WinniesChild Productions
The God of Hell – Produced in partnership with Ellipsis Theater
The Santaland Diaries – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers and Josh Batenhorst
Brilliant Traces – Produced in partnership with Rough Play
Great Falls – Produced in partnership with Mockingbird Theater Company
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

Readers Theatre Showcase:

Einstein and the Polar Bear
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Chagall and Mrs. Belmont

Youth Production Classes:

The Addams Family – Young Performer’s Edition
Magic Tree House: The Knight at Dawn KIDS

2018-19 Season

Mainstage:

Avenue Q
Snowbound
Footloose
Alice in Wonderland
Hands on a Hardbody
Rabbit Hole

35below:

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress – Produced in partnership with UNC Asheville’s Alpha Psi Omega Drama Honors Society
The Man in the Bright Nightgown – Produced in partnership with Occasional Theatre
Left Behind – Reflection – Produced in partnership with WinniesChild Productions
The Santaland Diaries – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers and Josh Batenhorst
Nunsense-A-Men – Produced in partnership with Sarah Fowler
Lobby Hero – Produced in partnership with Ellipsis Theater
An Iliad – Produced in partnership with Rarely Theatre
Speech & Debate – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
Love, Linda – Produced in partnership with Misty Theisen
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

Readers Theatre Showcase:

The Wisdom of Eve
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Awake and Sing
The Constant Wife
Ancestral Voices
Arms and the Man

Youth Production Classes:

Junie B. Jones The Musical Jr.
Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon KIDS
Thirteen
A Year with Frog and Toad KIDS
Guys and Dolls Jr.

2017-18 Season

Mainstage:

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
9 to 5: The Musical
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Full Monty
The Groundling

35below:

St. Nicholas Produced in partnership with Waylon Wood
Red Produced in partnership with John Hall
The Santaland Diaries Produced in partnership with Bradshaw Call
A Turnpike Sunset Produced in partnership with Tom Godleski
Skylight – Produced in partnership with Andrew Gall/Trinity Smith-Keel/Scott Keel
Putting it Together Produced in partnership with Mark Jones
Mass Appeal Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
The Mercy Seat – Produced in partnership with Ellipsis Theater Company
Bloomsday – Produced in partnership with  Jason Williams
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

Readers Theatre Showcase:

Living Together
Pack of Lies
The Dresser
Broken Glass
The Perfect Murder
God’s Favorite

Youth Production Classes:

High School Musical Jr.
Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark KIDS
The Wind in the Willows
The Music Man Jr.

2016-17 Season

Mainstage:

Sweeney Todd
Snowbound
– World Premiere
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Producers

35below:

How I Learned to Drive – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
The Santaland Diaries – Produced in partnership with Bradshaw Call
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) – Produced in partnership with Misty Theisen
Almost, Maine – Produced in partnership with Reeni Lindblom Dowd
Songs for a New World – Produced in partnership with Mark Jones
This is Our Youth – Produced in partnership with Actor’s Theatre of Asheville
The Realistic Joneses – Produced in partnership with Ellipsis Theater
Constellations – Produced in partnership with Jason Williams
Gruesome Playground Injuries – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

Readers Theatre Showcase Series:

The Young Man From Atlanta
Bus Stop
Outlander
All Over
All My Sons

The Hollow

Youth Production Classes:

Anything Goes (Young Performers Edition)
Beauty and the Beast Jr.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Shrek Jr.

2015-16 Season

Mainstage:

Young Frankenstein
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Seussical
The Man Who Came to Dinner
La Cage aux Folles
Crimes of the Heart

35below:

Art – Produced in partnership with The Actor’s Center of Asheville
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
The Santaland Diaries
– Produced in partnership with Bradshaw Call
Oleanna – Produced in partnership with Ellipsis Theater Company
Next to Normal – Produced in partnership with Bioflyer Productions
I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers – Produced in partnership with Waylon Wood
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers
Olde Virden’s Super Happy Trivia Challenge – Produced in partnership with Adam Arthur and Troy Burnette

Readers Theatre Showcase Series:

The Winslow Boy
Table Manners
My Name is Asher Lev
Good People
The Circle

Youth Production Classes:

Bye Bye Birdie Jr.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest
Aladdin Jr.
The Phantom Tollbooth

2014-15 Season

Mainstage:

The Addams Family
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Chorus Line
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Not Now, Darling

35below:

God of Carnage – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
The Santaland Diaries – Produced in partnership with Bradshaw Call
John & Jen – Produced in partnership with Mark Jones and Kelli Mullinax
Tape – Produced in partnership with Elliot Weiner
Letters and Notes Found on the Windshield at the Piggly Wiggly Parking Lot – Produced in partnership with Waylon Wood
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

Readers Theatre Showcase Series:

Other Desert Cities
Any Wednesday
Humble Boy
The Vanishing Point
Two One Acts: The Browning Version & Goodbye, Howard

2013-14 Season

Mainstage:

Annie Get Your Gun
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Santaland Diaries
Cabaret
Dearly Departed
Spamalot
Driving Miss Daisy

35below:

All in the Timing – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
LYLAS: Live Funny Girls – Produced in partnership with LYLAS
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – Produced in partnership with Jeff Catanese and Cary Nichols
[title of show] – Produced in partnership with Performing Arts Lab
Women and Wallace – Produced in partnership with Attic Salt Theatre Company
Listen to This: Stories on Stage – Produced in partnership with Tom Chalmers

2012-13 Season

Mainstage:

Hairspray
Inspecting Carol
The Santaland Diaries
BARK!
The Grapes of Wrath
Kiss Me, Kate
Steel Magnolias

35below:

Naughty but Nice – Produced in partnership with David Troy Francis
Neighbors – Produced in partnership with Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective
Jeffrey – Produced in partnership with Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective
Incongruence – Produced in partnership with Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective
Listen to This

2011-12 Season

Mainstage:

Guys and Dolls
Dashing Through the Snow
The Santaland Diaries
Chicago
To Kill A Mockingbird
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Odd Couple

35below:

‘Night, Mother
Hospitality Suite

Listen to This

2010-11 Season

Mainstage:

Oliver!
A Christmas Story
Rent
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Dixie Swim Club
Honky Tonk Angels

35below:

Listen to This

2009-10 Season

Mainstage:

Peter Pan
Return of an Angel (co-produced with Occasional Theatre)
The Hallelujah Girls
The Santaland Diaries
The Big Bang
The Boxcar Children
Little Shop of Horrors
Noises Off

35below:

I Am My Own Wife
Short Order Durang
Chipola

2008-09 Season

Mainstage:

The Best Man
Nuncrackers
The Santaland Diaries

Leading Ladies
Narnia
Enchanted April
‘Til Beth Do Us Part

35below:

Misery
The Little Dog Laughed
Eve-Olution

2007-08 Season

Mainstage:

Beauty and the Beast
Southern Hospitality
The Santaland Diaries

Wait Until Dark
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
The Philadelphia Story
I Hate Hamlet

35below:

Ruthless!
Match
Kimberly Akimbo

2006-07 Season

Mainstage:

Once Upon a Mattress
Christmas Belles – World Premiere
The Santaland Diaries

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Spitfire Grill
Cahoots

35below:

The Mystery Plays
Liz Aiello Cabaret
The Raindrop Waltz

2005-06 Season

Mainstage:

The Wizard of OZ
Dearly Beloved – World Premiere
The Santaland Diaries
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Bachelor Pad – World Premiere
Run For Your Wife

35below:

Miss Gulch Returns! – NC Premiere
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

2004-05 Season

Mainstage:

My Way
Seeing Stars in Dixie
Always … Patsy Cline
A Few Good Men
Nunsense
Moon Over Buffalo

35below:

Parallel Lives
The Santaland Diaries
Limonade Tous Les Jours
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Backyard Fruit – Stoneleaf Festival

2003-04 Season

Mainstage:

The Sound of Music
Rumors
Walking Across Egypt
Radio Gals
Deathtrap
The Importance of Being Earnest

35below:

Backyard Fruit – NC Premiere
The Santaland Diaries
The Gimmick
The Food Chain

2002-03 Season

Mainstage:

Fiddler on the Roof
Over the River and Through the Woods
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Don’t Dress for Dinner
Falsettos
Crossing Delancey
Sylvia

35below:

The Santaland Diaries
Betrayal

2001-02 Season

Mainstage:

Wit
Annie
The Exact Center of the Universe
The Old Settler
Death of a Salesman
The Taffetas
Perfect Wedding

2000-01 Season

Mainstage:

Look Homeward, Angel
Twelve Angry Jurors
The Lion in Winter
Three Tall Women
Grace and Glory
The Robber Bridegroom
California Suite
Born Yesterday
Master Class
Harvey

1999-2000 Season

Mainstage:

Blythe Spirit
Dames at Sea
The Immigrant
Bermuda Avenue Triangle
The Music Man
Proposals

1998-99 Season

Mainstage:

A Tuna Christmas
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Crucible
Damaged Goods
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Sweet Charity

1997-98 Season

Mainstage:

The Foreigner
The 1940’s Radio Hour
The Miracle Worker
The Fantasticks
Beau Jest
Alice in Wonderland

1996-97 Season

Mainstage:

Done to Death
Two by Two
The Diary of Anne Frank
Anything Goes
Social Security
A Flea in Her Ear

1995-96 (50th Anniversary Season)

Mainstage:

My Fair Lady
Greetings!
Miss Evers’ Boys
Little Shop of Horrors
Betty the Yeti
Dark of the Moon

1994-95 Season

I’m Not Rappaport
Oliver!
All My Sons
Marvin’s Room
Closer than Ever
Dearly Departed

1993-94 Season

Gypsy
On Golden Pond
My Three Angels
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lend Me a Tenor
Bye, Bye Birdie

1992-93 Season

Camelot
The Boys Next Door
You Can’t Take it With You
Fences
Rumors
Nunsense

1991-92 Season

Noises Off
Broadway Bound
The King and I
The Elephant Man
The Glass Menagerie
Ain’t Misbehavin’

1990-91 Season

Steel Magnolias
The Rainmaker
Fiddler on the Roof
Driving Miss Daisy
Ten Little Indians
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Greater Tuna

1989-90 Season

The Nerd
Shadowbox
The Sound of Music
Raisin in the Sun
Quilters
Look Homeward, Angel

1988-89 Season

South Pacific
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Christmas Special
Morning’s at Seven
Company
Bedroom Farce
Barefoot in the Park

1987-88 Season

Cabaret
Pack of Lies
The Foreigner
Count Dracula
Tribute
Of Thee I Sing
Starting Here, Starting Now

1986-87 Season

Annie
Inherit the Wind
Spider’s Web
The Women
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

1985-86 Season

Mame
Stage Struck
The Philadelphia Story
Educating Rita
The 1940’s Radio Hour

1984-85 Season

Brigadoon
Foxfire
Crimes of the Heart
Uncle Harry
The Robber Bridegroom

1983-84 Season

HMS Pinafore
Night Watch
Pool’s Paradise
The Physicists
Harvey
I do! I do!

1982-83 Season

Something’s Afoot
Absurd Person Singular
The Lion in Winter
A Life
Deathtrap
Grease

1981-82 Season

Damn Yankees
Wait Until Dark
Promenade, All
Give ‘Em Hell, Harry
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Chapter Two

1980-81 Season

Scapino
A Murder is Announced
The Price
Hello, Dolly
The Sunshine Boys

1979-80 Season

A Bed Full of Foreigners
Man of La Mancha
Not in the Book
Seascape
Light Up The Sky
Enter Laughing

1978-79 Season

Paint Your Wagon
Blithe Spirit
I Never Sang For My Father
Picnic
The Drunkard

1977-78 Season

Applause
Beginner’s Luck
The Unexpected Guest
A Doll’s House
Finishing Touches
Vanities

1976-77 Season

The Girls in 509
The Fantasticks
How the Other Half Loves
The Show-Off
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Arsenic and Old Lace

1975-76 Season

1776
6 Rms Riv Vu
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Waltz of the Toreadors
Janus

1974-75 Season

Pajama Game
Family Portrait
Born Yesterday
No Sex Please, We’re British
Prisoner of Second Avenue

1973-74 Season

Forty Carats
High-Button Shoes
The Mousetrap
Arms and the Man
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Teahouse of the August Moon

1972-73 Season

Camelot
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Butterflies are Free
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sunday in New York
You Can’t Take it With You
Promises, Promises

1971-72 Season

Fiddler on the Roof
Play it Again, Sam
A Cry of Players
Plaza Suite
The Impossible Years

1970-71 Season

The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Ladies in Retirement
The Lark
Feiffer’s People/Black Comedy
Bus Stop
Cactus Flower

1969-70 Season

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Deadly Game
Don’t Drink the Water
The Amorous Flea
Harvey
Make a Million

1968-69 Season

Guys & Dolls
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Star Spangled Girl
Philadelphia, Here I Come
Dear Me, The Sky is Falling
Any Wednesday

1967-1968 Season

Little Mary Sunshine
The Absence of a Cello
General Seeger
The Man in the Dog Suit
The Odd Couple

1966-67 Season

Ah, Wilderness!
Present Laughter
The Three-Penny Opera
Catch Me if You Can
Look Homeward, Angel

1965-66 Season

Never Too Late
A Shot in the Dark
The Devil’s Disciple
The Pleasure of His Company
The King and I

1964-65 Season

Take Her, She’s Mine
Summer and Smoke
See How They Run
The Chalk Garden
Oklahoma

1963-64 Season

Critics’ Choice
Monique
Mister Roberts
Send Me No Flowers
Anastasia

1962-63 Season

Roman Candle
The Miracle Worker
The Great Sebastians
The Potting Shed
Annie Get Your Gun

1961-62 Season

Farewell, Farewell, Eugene
The Crucible
Majority of One
The Time of the Cuckoo
South Pacific

1960-61 Season

The Gang’s All Here
George Washington Slept Here
Come Back, Little Sheba
One More, With Feeling
Three Men on a Horse

1959-60 Season

The Diary of Anne Frank
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
Inherit the Wind
Third Best Sport
The Silver Whistle

1958-59 Season

Life With Father
Separate Tables
Mary Stuart
Speaking of Murder
The Wayward Saint

1957-58 Season

King of Hearts
Witness for the Prosecution
Bell, Book, and Candle
Death of a Salesman
Picnic

1956-57 Season

The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
Jason
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Desperate Hours
Harvey

1955-56 Season

The Fifth Season
Pygmalion
Dial M for Murder
The Rainmaker
The Heiress
The Seven Year Itch

1954-55 Season

For Love or Money
Winterset
Meet the Wife
The Little Foxes
Time Out for Ginger
Sabrina Faire

1953-54 Season

The Moon is Blue
Laburnam Grove
The Vinegar Tree
Idiot’s Delight
Night Must Fall
Lo and Behold

1952-53 Season

Remains to be Seen
As Husbands Go
Elizabeth the Queen
Sun Up
Dear Brutus
Affairs of State

1951-52 Season

The Clutterbuck
September Tide
The Man
Twentieth Century
The Curious Savage
There’s Always Juliet

1950-51 Season

Born Yesterday
The Telephone/Secret of Suzanne/Trial by Jury
Blind Alley
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Goodbye, My Fancy
Two Blind Mice

1949-50 Season

Happy Birthday
Blithe Spirit
Medea
The Torchbearers
An Inspector Calls
Light Up the Sky

1948-49 Season

Of Thee I Sing
Ask Me No Questions
School for Scandal
Command Decision
Angel Street
The Women

1947-48 Season

Years Ago
Dangerous Corner
Twelfth Night
Dream Girl

1946-47 Season

Dark of the Moon
The Damask Cheek
The Male Animal
Guest in the House
State of the Union
Kiss and Tell
Out of the Frying Pan
The Glass Menagerie

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