Past Seasons

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2024

• The Prom
• Dragons Love Tacos
• Hello, Dolly!

SIU Theater 2023-2024

• Ride the Cyclone
• Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White by Alice Childress
• The Black Paradox
• The Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Philoten and Her Pattern of Painful Adventures
• She Loves Me
• Criminal Genius

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2023

• The Bridges of Madison County
• Corduroy
• Footloose

SIU Theater 2022-2023

• Romeo and Juliet
• Little Women
• The Mousetrap
• The Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Murphy's Law of Pretenders
• Sondheim Tribute Review

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2022

• Godspell
• Grease (All Southern High School Production)

SIU Theater 2021-2022

• And the World Goes ‘Round
• Hay Fever
• Lucky Stiff
• The Big Muddy New Play Festival
• The Curious Case of Agatha Christie

SIU Theater 2020-2021

• Tuck Everlasting
• (Season during the COVID pandemic)

SIU Theater 2019-2020

• Evil Dead
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• The Musical of Musicals
• (Season shortened by the COVID pandemic)

SIU Theater 2017-2018

• Spring Awakening
• Boy Gets Girl
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Boys from Syracuse
• 800 Days of Solitude: A Conjuring
• Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Gem of the Ocean

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2017

• Pinkalicious
• Into the Woods
• Sister Act
• Singin' in the Rain

SIU Theater 2016-2017

• Children of Eden
• Vigils
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• A Nightingale for Dr. Dubois
• Torak the Inadequate
• Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Peter and the Starcatcher

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2016

• Pinocchio
• Rock of Ages
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Bring It On: The Musical

SIU Theater 2015-2016

• The Addams Family
• Beyond the Horizon
• Hansel and Gretel
• Wife/Worker/Whore
• Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Tartuffe*

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2015

• James and the Giant Peach
• Big River
• Hairspray
• Legally Blonde

SIU Theater 2014-2015

• Curtains*
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Clybourne Park
• Chamber Opera Double Bill:
  • Captain Lovelock*
  • The Music Shop*
• The Whipping Man
• Last Seen Alice
• Big Muddy New Play Festival
• The Children's Hour

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2014

• Charlotte's Web
• Oklahoma!
• Spamalot
• Anything Goes

SIU Theater 2013-2014

• Ragtime*
• Fool for Love
• Die Fledermaus
• Joan's Laughter
• Big Muddy New Play Festival
• Radio Golf

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2013

• Hair
• Annie
• Guys & Dolls

SIU Theater 2012-2013

• Rent*
• The Three Musketeers
• Three Seasons of Cora
• Cosi Fan Tutte*
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
• Playwright's Festival
• Reasons to be Pretty

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2012

• Steel Magnolias
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Chicago
• Cinderella

SIU Theater 2011-2012

• The Glass Menagerie
• Irving Berlin's White Christmas*
• Two One-Act Operas*
• Crave
• Billy Budd

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2011

• A Chorus Line
• The Sound of Music
• Peter Pan

SIU Theater 2010-2011

• Crazy For You*
• Bananapocalypse
• Everywhere You Look
• Alchemy of Desires/Dead Man's Blues
• Tartuffe*
• Macbeth

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2010

• Unnecessary Farce
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• The Wizard of Oz

SIU Theater 2009-2010

• Company
• Working Week
• Lysistrata
• The Marriage of Figaro
• Journeys 2010
• Intimate Apparel

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2009

• Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• MidLife: The Crisis Musical
• All Shook Up
• Into the Woods

SIU Theater 2008-2009

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Old Maid and the Thief & Scenes from Selected Operas*
• A Christmas Story
• A Raisin in the Sun
• The Secret Garden*
• Journeys 2009

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2008

• Almost Maine
• Always, Patsy Cline
• The Producers
• Little Women

SIU Theater 2007-2008

• Biloxi Blues
• Talking With...
• New Plays:
  • Verse Chorus Verse
  • Summer of the Wolf
• Journeys 2008
• Death and the King's Horseman
• Fastest Woman Alive
• The Full Monty*

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2007

• Nunsense
• The Complete History of America (abridged)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Aida

SIU Theater 2006-2007

• The Highwayman
• The Crucible
• Copernicus Rising
• Shakespeare's R&J
• Journeys 2007
• Topdog/Underdog
• One Fine Day
• Urinetown*

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2006

• I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
• Cats
• Beauty and the Beast

SIU Theater 2005-2006

• Our Town
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Journeys 2006
• Fences
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum*

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2005

• I Do! I Do!
• My Fair Lady
• New Plays in Development
• West Side Story

SIU Theater 2004-2005

• On the Verge
• The Green Bird
• Bat Boy: The Musical
• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Journeys 2005

Summer Playwright's Workshop 2004

• Three (Thom Miller)
• The Haunting of Three West (Vincent Rhomberg)

SIU Theater 2003-2004

• Measure for Measure
  • Guests Artists: Actors from the London Stage
• The Mystery of Irma Vep
• Lady from the Sea
• Parade
• In the Blood

Summer Playwright's Workshop 2003

• His Gal Hildy (Eric Pals)
• Callie's Calling (Constance Frank)

SIU Theater 2002-2003

• Blithe Spirit
• Marjorie Lawrence Opera Theater: A Magician's Rehearsal
• King Lear
• La Rondine
• Police Deaf Near Far
• Journeys 2003

Summer Playwright's Workshop 2002

• Virtual Roses
• Resurrection Men
• Guilt Comes After

SIU Theater 2001-2002

• Dracula
• The Consul
• All My Sons
• Cabaret
• The Beaux' Stratagem
• Journeys 2002

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2001

McLeod Theater Renovations—no MSP productions

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 2001

• Awake

SIU Theater 2000-2001

• You Can't Take it With You
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• H.M.S. Pinafore
• Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

McLeod Summer Playhouse 2000

• Always...Patsy Cline
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Summer Playwright's Workshop 2000

• Lullaby
• To Handle the Serpent
• Masterpiece

SIU Theater 1999-2000

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• What the Butler Saw
• Candide
• As You Like It
• Journeys 2000

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1999

• Once Upon a Mattress
• The Foreigner
• Meet Me in St. Louis

Summer Playwright's Workshop 1999

• Ladies of Fall River

SIU Theater 1998-1999

• Machinal
• Leander Stillwell
• The Magic Flute
• Baby with the Bathwater

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1998

• Forever Plaid
• The Most Happy Fella
• Annie Get Your Gun

Summer Playwright's Workshop 1998

• The Attic
• A Mother's Love
• Thunderstruck in Possum Grape

SIU Theater 1997-1998

• Arcadia
• An Evening with the Provincetown Players
• Little Footsteps
• Sweeney Todd

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1997

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Noises Off
• Man of La Mancha

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1997

• A Woman's Place
• Resurrection

SIU Theater 1996-1997

• Angels in America
• A Christmas Carol
• Romeo & Juliet
• Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1996

• Damn Yankees
• Love Letters
• Bedroom Farce
• Crazy for You

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1996

• Broke
• Woodhull
• An Evening with Ira Aldridge

SIU Theater 1995-1996

• Anglers
• A Christmas Carol
• Into the Woods
• The Merchant of Venice

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1995

• Annie
• Lost in Yonkers
• West Side Story

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1995

• The Snow Queen
• This House is Not a Home
• Ray & Sons

SIU Theater 1994-1995

• A Christmas Carol
• Dealers in Young Women
• Cosi Fan Tutte
• Langston
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Theater for Young Audiences)

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1994

• Sugar
• I Hate Hamlet
• A Chorus Line

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1994

• A Leading Woman
• Stages
• Father Lawrence's Solution
• Splitting Heirs

SIU Theater 1993-1994

• A Christmas Carol
• Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
• Tartuffe
• The Prince and the Pauper (Theater for Young Audiences)

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1993

• The Fantasticks
• Hello, Dolly!

Summer Playwright's Workshop 1993

• Hard Enough Jazz
• Nesting Dolls
• Dooms Chapel Dining Club

SIU Theater 1992-1993

• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
• Othello
• The Merry Widow
• The Heidi Chronicles
• How Reading Came Back to Nowhere (Theater for Young Audiences)

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1992

• Fiddler on the Roof
• Rumors

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1992

• Ten Acres of Land in Southern Illinois
• Thistle Blossoms
• Emily & Otto
• X-Y-Z

SIU Theater 1991-1992

• Grease
• Mirror, Mirror (Original)
• Pinocchio (Theater for Young Audiences)
• Equus

McLeod Summer Playhouse 1991

• Oklahoma!
• Lend Me a Tenor
• Drood

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1991

• Don't Bury Me Deep
• Bensonhurst
• Prison of our Own Desires

SIU Theater 1990-1991

• Women of Troy
• Adventures of Harlequin (Youth Theater)
• Cloud 9 (Lab)
• A Little Hotel on the Side
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Abduction from the Seraglio

Summer 1990

• Camelot
• The Odd Couple (Female Version)
• The Pajama Game

Summer Playwright's Workshop 1990

• Mitts On
• Dirty Harry Inferno
• Rehearsal for a Revolution
• Three Sisters

SIU Theater 1989-1990

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• The House at Pooh Corner (Lab)
• A Christmas Carol (Opera)
• Baby (Musical)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

Summer 1989

• South Pacific
• Double Bill:
  • The Actor's Nightmare
  • The Real Inspector Hound
•  Finian's Rainbow

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1989

• Currents
• Mother Six
• Thirty
• The Scarlet Pimpernel

SIU Theater 1988-1989

• Picnic
• Margaret Fleming (Lab)
• She Stoops to Conquer
• The Gypsy Baron

Summer 1988

• Anything Goes
• The Sound of Music
• Children of a Lesser God

SIU Theater 1987-1988

• Little Shop of Horrors
• Romeo and Juliet
• Don Giovanni
• A Streetcar Named Desire

Summer 1987

• Mame
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• 110 in the Shade
• Life with Father

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1987

• Overbury
• Monasteries
• Everyday Rebellions

SIU Theater 1986-1987

• Godspell
• Agnes of God (Lab)
• Our Town
• Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi
• Haymarket (Lab)
• Pygmalion

Summer 1986

• Amadeus
• George M!
• Chapter Two
• Carousel

SIU Theater 1985-1986

• The Threepenny Opera
• Grimaldi: King of the Clowns
• The Taming of the Shrew
• True West
• The Marriage of Figaro
• Rashomon

Summer 1985

• Night Must Fall
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• How the Other Half Loves
• Brigadoon

SIU Theater 1984-1985

• Lysistrata
• The Reception
• The Pirates of Penzance
• The Member of the Wedding
• The Barber of Seville
• The Importance of Being Earnest

Summer 1984

• The Hollow
• Annie
• California Suite
• A Little Night Music

SIU Theater 1983-1984

• Much Ado About Nothing
• Fifth of July
• Hans Christian Andersen
• A Moon for the Misbegotten
• Die Fledermaus
• Blithe Spirit

Summer 1983

• Harvey
• Oliver!
• Deathtrap
• Guys & Dolls

SIU Theater 1982-1983

• Twelfth Night
• Quilt Pieces
• Cinderella
• Tartuffe
• Carmen
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Summer 1982

• The Male Animal
• Gypsy
• I Ought to be in Pictures
• The Music Man

SIU Theater 1981-1982

• Death of a Salesman
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Mikado
• Brecht on Brecht

Summer 1981

• The Time of Your Life
• The Boy Friend
• Barefoot in the Park
• West Side Story

SIU Theater 1980-1981

• The Madwoman of Chaillot
• Diana or: The Spartan Comedy
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Uncle Vanya

Summer 1980

• The Passion of Dracula
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• LUV
• Oklahoma!

Summer Playwrights' Workshop 1980

• In a Foreign Land
• Diana (or: 'The Spartan Comedy')
• Heaven's Losing its Marbles (Youth Musical)

SIU Theater 1979-1980

• What the Butler Saw
• The Shadow Box
• A Christmas Carol
• The Country Wife

Summer 1979

• A Flea in Her Ear
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Ten Little Indians
• Kiss Me, Kate

SIU Theater 1978-1979

• You Can't Take It With You
• Incident at Vichy
• Antigone
• Blues for Mister Charlie

Summer 1978

• Come Blow Your Horn
• Anything Goes
• The Unexpected Guest
• Man of La Mancha

SIU Theater 1977-1978

• Last of the Red Hot Lovers
• The Room Upstairs
• La Ronde
• Spring Dance Concert
• Macbeth

Summer 1977

• The Mousetrap
• Carnival!
• Scapino
• My Fair Lady

SIU Theater 1976-1977

• Godspell
• Storyville
• Crime on Goat Island
• Spring Dance Concert
• Once Upon a Mattress

Summer 1976

• Little Mary Sunshine
• Cavalcade of American Musical Films: A week of classic film screenings
  
  • "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933)
  • "Footlight Parade" (1933)
  • "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)
  • "An American in Paris" (1951)
  • "On the Town" (1949)
• The Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria (Children's Play)

SIU Theater 1975-1976

• King Ubu (Ubu Roi)
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Young Bucks
• River Journal
• The Third President

Summer 1975

• The Solid Gold Cadillac
• The King and I
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Sugar

SIU Theater 1974-1975

• Frankenstein
• The Tommy Allen Show
• Old Soldiers
• One-Act Double Bill:
  • The Private Ear
  • This is the Rill Speaking
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Spring Dance Concert
• Baltic Theater:
  • Five Posts in a Market Place

Summer 1974

• Dark of the Moon
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Ah, Wilderness!
• Cabaret

SIU Theater 1973-1974

• Hay Fever
• Tartuffe
• All's Well That Ends Well
• Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Dances from the Beasts (Dance Concert)

Summer 1973

• Wait Until Dark
• Oliver!
• The Tavern
• Promises, Promises

SIU Theater 1972-1973

• The Duchess of Malfi
• See How They Run
• The Balcony
• Purlie
• Annual Dance Presentation

Summer 1972

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• The Girls in 509
• Wonderful Town
• Anastasia
• Hello, Dolly!
• You Never Can Tell

SIU Theater 1971-1972

• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• The American Dame
• Rhinoceros
• Brothers
• Riddotoes (Dance Concert)

Summer 1971

• Tobacco Road
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Crucible
• Street Scene
• You Can't Take It With You
• Guys & Dolls
• Dracula
• Camelot

SIU Theater 1970-1971

• The Great White Hope
• Spoon River Anthology
• A Flea in Her Ear
• The Dybbuk
• Esbats '71 (Dance Concert)

Summer 1970

• Loot
• The Time of Your Life
• The Storyteller
• The Killing of Sister George
• As You Like It

SIU Theater 1969-1970

• Oh, What a Lovely War!
• The Comic Parade—A Scene Revue, including:
  
  •  Ah, Wilderness!
  • She Stoops to Conquer
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • Man and Superman
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
• Double-Billed One-Act Plays:
  • The Indian Wants the Bronx
  • It's Called the Sugar Plum
• Volpone
• Gandhi
• Rebuses '70 (Dance Concert)

Summer 1969

• Black Comedy
• The Alchemist
• Under the Gaslight
• The Glass Menagerie

SIU Theater 1968-69

• The Odd Couple
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Measure for Measure
• Mr. Highpockets
• Synoptics '69 (Dance Concert)

Summer 1968

• Sweet Bird of Youth
• The Streets of New York
• Mr. Highpockets
• Barefoot in the Park

SIU Theater 1967-1968

• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
• The Visit
• The Man Who Lost the River
• The Little Foxes
• Of Thee I Sing

Summer 1967

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Drunkard
• Mary, Mary

SIU Theater 1966-1967

• Arms and the Man
• Rainbow Terrace
• Peter Pan
• Come Blow Your Horn
• Three Sisters

Summer 1966

• Summer and Smoke
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Our American Cousin
• The Mask and the Face

SIU Theater 1965-1966

• The Madwoman of Chaillot
• The Fantasticks
• Lysistrata
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Juno and the Paycock

Summer 1965

• Period of Adjustment
• John Brown's Body
• Inherit the Wind
• The Miracle Worker

SIU Theater 1964-1965

• The Boy Friend
• The Rivalry
• God in the Haw Thicket
• King Lear
• The Firebugs
• The Trojan Women

Summer 1964

• The Mouse Trap
• Look Back in Anger
• The Millionairess
• Where's Charley?
• The Night of the Iguana

SIU Theater 1963-1964

• The Teahouse of the August Moon
• The Would-Be Gentleman
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• The Birthday Party
• Richard III

Summer 1963

• The Guardsman
• The Great God Brown
• The Servant of Two Masters
• Rosmersholm
• Rashomon

SIU Theater 1962-1963

• Marseilles
• The Shepherd of the Hills
• Right You Are
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Look Homeward, Angel

Summer 1962

• The Pursuit of Happiness
• The Silver Tassie
• The Enchanted
• The Imaginary Invalid
• Pygmalion
• Show Boat (Co-produced with the Summer Opera Workshop)

SIU Theater 1961-1962

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Born Yesterday
• The House of Bernarda Alba
• Banners of Steel

Summer 1961

• Ghosts
• Summertime
• A Touch of the Poet
• Candida
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• The Pajama Game (Co-produced with the Summer Opera Workshop)

SIU Theater 1960-1961

• Our Town
• Laura
• The Wingless Victory
• Thieves' Carnival
• Hamlet

Summer 1960

• Ten Little Indians
• Death of a Salesman
• The Cocktail Party
• Desire under the Elms
• South Pacific (Co-produced with the Summer Opera Workshop)

SIU Theater 1959-1960

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Bus Stop
• The Lady from the Sea
• The Silver Whistle
• Die Fledermaus

Summer 1959

• Private Lives
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Copperhead
• Morning's at Seven
• The Most Happy Fella (Co-produced with the Summer Opera Workshop)

SIU Theater 1958-1959

• Major Barbara
• Charley's Aunt
• Macbeth
• Harvey
• The Rainmaker

SIU Theater 1957-1958

• Lady in the Dark
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Picnic
• Playboy of the Western World
• Dark of the Moon

Summer 1957

• George Washington Slept Here
• Our American Cousin
• The Shepherd of the Hills
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Skin of our Teeth
• A Midsummer Night's Dream

SIU Theater 1956-1957

• Night Must Fall
• Arms and the Man
• Romeo and Juliet
• A Streetcare Named Desire

Summer 1956

• The Shepherd of the Hills
• The Tender Trap
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Papa is All
• All Wilderness!

SIU Theater 1955-1956

• My Three Angels
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Twelfth Night
• Papa is All

Summer 1955

• The Cat and the Canary
• Village Green
• Blithe Spirit
• My Three Angels
• The Shepherd of the Hills
• Our Town

SIU Theater 1954-1955

• Bell, Book and Candle
• Heidi
• The Crucible