Production Photo Archive
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1999-2000 |
Summer 1999 Oliver! The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb |
| 1998-1999 The Real Inspector Hound A Lie of the Mind The Seagull Good Business Company Medea (A Noh Cycle, based on the Greek Myth) The Mirkwater |
Summer 1998 I Hate Hamlet Little Shop of Horrors Present Laughter |
| 1997-98 Machinal Our Country's Good Falsettoland Dancing at Lughnasa Dr. Hero Antigone (Anouilh) |
Summer 1997 Scapino She Loves Me Wonderful Tennessee |
| 1996-97 The Glass Menagerie Much Ado About Nothing Merrily We Roll Along Jack of Dover The Impostor On the Verge |
Summer 1996 The Secret Garden Rough Crossing Greater Tuna |
| 1995-96 The Imaginary Invalid West Side Story Barefoot Everywhere Caucasian Chalk Circle Julie Johnson The Colored Museum |
Summer 1995 |
| 1994-95 Blithe Spirit Cabaret Joined at the Head My Mother Said I Never Should Romeo and Juliet Approaching Zanzibar Marvin's Room |
Summer 1994 Absurd Person Singular Coastal Disturbances Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1993-94 Burn This Oh, What a Lovely War Breaking the Code The Bartered Bride The Parlor Room Tango |
Summer 1993 Lips Together, Teeth Apart Sweet Charity Lend Me a Tenor |
| 1992-93 Eccentricities of a Nightingale Assassins Vinegar Tom The Heidi Chronicles Love's Labours Lost Speed the Plow |
Summer 1992 Gypsy Talley's Folly Rumors |
| 1991-92 Largo Desolato A Taste of Honey Man of LaMancha So Far From China Steel Magnolias True West // Fool For Love The Servant of Two Masters |
Summer 1991 Big River Social Security Comedy of Errors |
| 1990-91 School For Scandal The Theban Plays of Sophocles A Delicate Balance The Majestic Kid Uncommon Women Into the Woods The Birthday Party |
Summer 1990 Babes in Arms Broadway Bound The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| 1989-1990 Man and Superman Inherit the Wind The Three Sisters Orinoco Letters From Bernice Pippin The Foreigner |
Summer 1989 A Little Night Music Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 The Philadelphia Story |
| 1988-1989 Fifth of July She Stoops to Conquer Suicide Prohibited in Springtime The Pajama Game The Hairy Ape Measure for Measure |
Summer 1988 Annie The Art of Dining Isn't It Romantic? The Thief Who Stole Music |
| 1987-1988 Merry Wives of Windsor A Lie of the Mind Noises Off! The Pirates of Penzance Terra Nova |
Summer 1987 Kiss Me Kate Is There Life After High School? Brighton Beach Memoirs King Charming |
| 1986-1987 Of Mice and Men Sganarelle Les Belles Soeurs Shenandoah A Dream Play |
Summer 1986 Anything Goes The Real Thing The 1940's Radio Hour And Jill Came Tumbling After |
| 1985-1986 A Flea In Her Ear Uncle Vanya Getting Out A Chorus Line The Good Woman of Setzuan |
Summer 1985 Romantic Comedy All The Way Home Joseph...Dreamcoat All About Jack |
| 1984-1985 The Crucible Crimes of the Heart The Front Page Oklahoma! Her Husband's Wife |
Summer 1984 Grease El Grande de Coca-Cola The Gingerbread Lady |
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The 1984-85 Season was the first for the new Department of Theatre, its own department in the School of Fine Arts. Previously theatre had been housed in the Department of Communication and Theatre. |
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| 1983-1984 Romeo and Juliet Private Lives Gas, Part 1 Company The Diviners |
Summer 1983 Damn Yankees Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Born Yesterday |
| 1982-1983 The Rivals Taken in Marriage Gideon Chicago The Cherry Orchard |
Summer 1982 Picnic Annie Get Your Gun The Fantasticks |
| 1981-1982 A Midsummer Night's Dream Friday's Child Buried Child West Side Story A Doll's House |
Summer 1981 Hello, Dolly! You Can't Take It With You Jacques Brel... |
| 1980-1981 Death of a Salesman The Visions of Simone Machard The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man In the Moon Marigolds Brigadoon Waiting For Godot |
Summer 1980 Charley's Aunt Joe Egg The Music Man |
| 1979-1980 The Taming of the Shrew Little Murders A Streetcar Named Desire My Fair Lady Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander |
Summer 1979 The Curate/Shakespeare As You Like It The Little Foxes Carousel |
| 1978-1979 Macbeth Sticks and Bones Tartuffe The Most Happy Fella The Miracle Worker |
Summer 1978 How the Other Half Loves Fiddler on the Roof Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde |
| 1977-1978 The Contractor Loot Ladyhouse Blues Cabaret Summer and Smoke Steambath |
1976-1977 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead A Delicate Balance Pygmalion The Threepenny Opera In Contempt |
| 1975-1976 The Skin of Our Teeth A View From the Bridge Godspell The Father The Country Wife |
1974-1975 Tom Paine Lysistrata Elephants Love Elephants Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical) The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui |
| 1975 marked the introduction of the first BA in Theatre Degree at Miami. This was the first time a student could major in Theatre rather than Speech. | |
| 1973-1974 After the Fall Antigone How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying Blithe Spirit Exit the King |
1972-1973 Camino Real And Things That Go Bump In the Night Stop the World, I Want to Get Off Burning Bright Twelfth Night |
| 1971-1972 Indians The Promise Camelot The Killing of Sister George The Man of Mode |
1970-1971 Marat/Sade A Flea In Her Ear As You Like It Johnny Johnson |
| 1969-1970 Dark of the Moon The Birthday Party The Devils Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Once Upon a Mattress The 1969-70 season marked the opening of the Center for Performing Arts |
1968-1969 Tartuffe The Crucible A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum The Breave Little Taylor Sergeant Musgrave's Dance My Sweet Charlie |
| 1967-1968 Insect Comedy House at Pooh Corner King John Kismet Thieves' Carnival The Night of the Iguana Look Homeward Angel |
1966-1967 Much Ado About Nothing Spoon River Anthology Hippolytus The Good Woman of Setzuan Picnic The Clown Who Ran Away Ways and Means The Dwarfs Minne Field Impromptu |
| 1965-1966 The Inspector General Too Close Middleman's Lesson The Visit Overruled Let There Be Farce The Glass Menagerie Present Laughter The Merchant of Venice The Curious Savage Eliza and the Lexicon Cox and Box Confessional The Lesson |
1964-1965 Ah, Wilderness! Mother Courage and Her Children Richard III Foursome Maid to Marry Portrait of Madonna The Case of the Crushed Petunias This Property Condemned Another Way Out The Man With the Flower in his Mouth A Ticket to the City The Sandbox The Letters A Touch of Marble The Man in the Stalls Who Tied the Snake's Tongue? |
| 1963-1964 Rhinoceros The Tempest The Boyfriend Bell, Book and Candle The January Quints Makeshifts Escurial The Stronger Medea Tickless Time |
1962-1963 J.B. Measure for Measure Life With Father A Message The Madwoman of Chaillot The Still Alarm A Christmas Present The Merry Death A Village Wooing |
| 1961-1962 The Male Animal Oedipus, King of Thebes The Skin of Our Teeth Bedtime Story The Cowcatcher On the Caboose The Long Christmas Dinner The Maker of Dreams Twentieth Century Lullaby |
1960-1961 The Winslow Boy The Importance of Being Earnest Julius Caesar The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved The Impressario Down in the Valley A Trap is a Small Place A Well Remembered Voice Nude Washing Machine The Lovely Miracle |
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| 1958 As You Like It Blithe Spirit Cavalleria Rusticana Come Back Little Sheba Faust Jubilee Minnie Field Mooney's Kid Don't Cry Noah The Dark Lady of the Sonnets The Happy Journey The Intruder |
1957 The Crucible Macbeth Tartuffe Born Yesterday A Requiem for a Practical Man Selection The Telephone and The Medium The Play's the Thing |
| 1956 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial A Midsummer Night's Dream Ten Nights in a Barroom The Lady of the Dawn The Cat's Mouth Luxury in a Mauseleum The Bronze Lady and the Crystal Gentleman Don Juan in Hell |
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| 1954 The Lady's Not For Burning Medea Twelve Pound Look The Valiant Still Life Two Gentlemen of Verona The Man Who Came to Dinner The Importance of Being Earnest We Were Dancing The Hasty Heart |
1953 |
| 1952 A Night at the Inn Electra Harvey Intermezzo Much Ado About Nothing Sicilian Limes The Dear Departed Homecoming Variety Show The Rising of the Moon The Clod Overtones I Remember Mama |
1951 Goodbye My Fancy The Guardsmen King Richard III Judge Lynch The Will Fumed Oak The Infernal Machine The Eldest Six Characters in Search of an Author Antigone And So Ad Infinitum Man in the Stalls |
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1949 Fire Sale Julius Caesar A Wandering Scholar from Paradise Gammer Gurton's Needle Trifles Ways and Means The Hungerers Johnny Johnson The Game of Chess Everyman Sister Beatrice Hello Out There Post Road The Eve of St. Mark |
| 1948 King Arthur's Socks Riders to the Sea The Merchant of Venice A Scrap of Paper The Fourth Mrs. Phillips The Father The Green Pastures Tristram Papa Is All The Death of Tintagiles |
1947 The Male Animal He Who Gets Slapped Brideship The Old Lady Shows Her Medals Othello Angel Street The Glittering Gate From Morn 'Til Midnight |
| 1946 The Cradle Song Miss Julie Blithe Spirit Hedda Gabler |
1945 All's Well That Ends Well Candida The Damask Cheek The Unatainable |
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1944 |
1943 The Contrast The Eve of St. Mark Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick Murder on Good Friday Our American Cousin Letters to Lucerne Spring Again |
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1942 |
1941 Goodnight Please Gallant Lady Company House The Warrior's Husband Petrified Forest Mary of Scotland |
| 1940 Twelfth Night Death Takes a Holiday Out of the Frying Pan Hay Fever |
1939 Another Language Campus Varieties Biography |
| 1938 Outward Bound Hamlet |
1937 Accent on Youth Kind Lady The Dover Road |
| 1936 The Great Broxopp If I Were King The Homecoming Frolic Lady Poverty McGuffey Miniatures |
1935 The Late Christopher Bean The Merchant of Venice The Tavern |
| 1934 Caroline The Taming of the Shrew The Circle |
1933 The Truth About Blayds Romeo and Juliet Berkley Square The Showoff |
| 1932 The Importance of Being Earnest Caponsacchi The First Mrs. Fraser |
1931 Pygmalion The Torchbearers The Showoff Aren't We All |
| 1930 Cock Robin Beyond the Horizon Hay Fever |
1929 The Quest of the Great Quezarre The Valiant The Robbery Good Medicine Gas, Air and the Earl The Knave of Hearts |
| 1928 The Dover Road The Clock Shop The Man in the Bowler Hat The Enemy White Elephants The Twelve Pound Look Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil |
1927 The Beggar on Horseback Arms and the Man |
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1926 |
1925 Candida Yeh Ying, a Light Opera Grumpy Spotlights |
| 1924 John Ferguson Kempy |
1923 Like Falling Leaves |
| 1922 The Rivals |
1921 Tartuffe Fanny's First Play |
| 1920 His Majesty Bunker Bean Her Husband's Wife The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
1919 Lima Beans Embers At Night All Cats Are Grey |
| 1918 It Pays to Advertise |
1917 You Never Can Tell Pillars of Society Hyphens The Family Foot The Host |
| 1916 The Melting Pot |
1915 Bunty Pulls the Strings Alice Sit-By-the-Fire Joy The Devil's Disciple |
| 1914 The Servant in the House Herod The Mollusc |
1913 Prunella Justice |
| 1912 Quality Street Sister Beatrice Richelieu Romeo and Juliet |
1911 The Admirable Crichton |
| 1910 As You Like It Pride and Prejudice The Private Secretary |
1909 The Merchant of Venice Tom Pinch The Professor's Love Story |
| 1908 The Taming of the Shrew The Cricket on the Hearth |
1907 The Comedy of Errors The Quest of the Quezarre |
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Loren Gates became the first director of the theatre program at Miami, part of the Department of Speech in 1905. The shows listed in the first three quarters of the twentieth century include those produced as Commencement Plays, Senior Class Plays, Homecoming Plays, and plays produced by Ye Merrie Players (the producing organization for the Department of Speech) |
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Some History of KCACTF at Miami
Bourbon at the Border was selected to be performed at the Region III Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in Normal, Il 2005
As the first place winner of the ACTF Regional Playwriting Competition, Two Thieves in a Trap, an original one-act play by student Tom Gannon, was produced at the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Region III, in January 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As the first place winner of the ACTF Regional Playwriting Competition, Good Business, an original one-act play by student Tom Gannon, was produced at the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Region III, in January 1999, Indianapolis, IN
Student costume and scenic designs for Miami University's production of The Impostor won first place in the Region III National Design Competition. Student costume designs for The Impostor won first place in the 1997 Barbizon National Design Competition in Washington, D.C.
Jack of Dover won first place in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival National Playwriting competition, Washington, D.C.
**Student performer Gretchen Cleevely, nominated for the Irene Ryan Acting competition for her performance as Juliet, went on to win the National Irene Ryan award for the 1995 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C.
If you are interested in the history of the MU Theatre Department in general, you might check out the History of the Department link.We invite you to check back regularly as new pictures are added.