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Productions with an (*) were jointly produced with the SIU School of Music.

"Journeys," listed as part of the SIU Dept. of Theater annual season were originally called "Journeys: Explorations in New Works," which are student-written, new one-act plays.

History of productions in reverse-chronological order

Past Seasons
Season Titles
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
Summer 1958
  • Picnic
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The Shepherd of the Hills
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • Beyond the Horizon
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