Production History

Ghost Light 2023
Oct 13 - Oct 14, 2023
Conceived and Directed by:Stuart Carden
4th Annual Haunted Night of Songs and Stories from KC's Cultural Crossroads
Free frightful fun for the whole family!
A Christmas Carol 2020
Nov 1 - Dec 25, 2020
Written by:Charles Dickens
Directed by:Stuart Carden
Edited by:Brad Austin
In partnership with:Kansas City PBS
Noises Off!
Mar 27 - Apr 19, 2020
Written by:Michael Frayn
Directed by:José Zayas
Frankenstein: A Ghost Story
Mar 6 - Apr 5, 2020
Written by:Kyle Hatley
From the novel byMary Shelley
Directed by:Joanie Schultz
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Legacy Land
Mar 6 - Apr 5, 2020
Written by:Stacey Rose
Directed by:Logan Vaughn
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Fun Home
Jan 24 - Feb 16, 2020
Music by:Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by:Lisa Kron
Based on the graphic novel by:Alison Bechdel
Directed by:Lisa Rothe
Located at:Spencer Theatre
A Christmas Carol 2019
Nov 22 - Dec 29, 2019
Adapted by:Geoff Elliott
Based on the novel by:Charles Dickens
Directed by:Jason Chanos
Located at:Spencer Theatre
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Oct 18 - Nov 10, 2019
Written by:Ntozake Shange
Directed by:Khanisha Foster
Located at:Copaken Stage
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sep 6 - Sep 29, 2019
Written by:Tennessee Williams
Directed by:Lisa Rothe
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Unreliable
Apr 20 - May 19, 2019
Written by:Dipika Guha
Directed by:Ailin Conant
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Frida...a self portrait
Apr 19 - May 19, 2019
Written by:Vanessa Severo
Directed by:Joanie Schultz
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Pride & Prejudice
Mar 22 - Apr 20, 2019
Based on the novel by:Jane Austen
Written by:Kate Hamill
Directed by:Marissa Wolf
Located at:Spencer Theatre
School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play
Feb 22 - Mar 17, 2019
Written by:Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage
Indecent
Jan 20 - Feb 10, 2019
Written by:Paula Vogel
Directed by:Eric Rosen
A co-presentation with:Arena Stage and Baltimore Center Stage
Located at:Spencer Theatre
A Christmas Carol 2018
Nov 16 - Dec 30, 2018
Written by:Charles Dickens
Adapted by:Eric Rosen
Directed by:Marissa Wolf
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Of Mice and Men
Oct 19 - Nov 17, 2018
Written by:John Steinbeck
Directed by:Jason Chanos
Located at:Copaken Stage
Last Days of Summer
Sep 7 - Sep 30, 2018
Music by:Jason Howland
Book and Lyrics by:Steve Kluger
Based on the book by:Steve Kluger
Direction and Musical Staging by:Jeff Calhoun
By special arrangement with:Daryl Roth
Located at:Spencer Theatre
OriginKC: World Premiere
Welcome to Fear City
Apr 28 - May 27, 2018
Written by:Kara Lee Corthron
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Brother Toad
Apr 27 - May 27, 2018
Written by:Nathan Louis Jackson
Directed by:Melissa Crespo
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Sweeney Todd
Mar 23 - Apr 15, 2018
Music and Lyrics by:Stephen Sondheim
Books by:Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by:Christopher Bond
Directed by:Eric Rosen
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Sex with Strangers
Mar 2 - Mar 25, 2018
Written by:Laura Eason
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Jan 26 - Feb 18, 2018
Written by:Simon Stephens
Based on the novel by:Mark Haddon
Directed by:Marissa Wolf
Located at:Spencer Theatre
A Christmas Carol 2017
Nov 17 - Dec 24, 2017
Written by:Charles Dickens
Adapted and Directed by:Eric Rosen
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Fences
Oct 13 - Nov 5, 2017
Written by:August Wilson
Directed by:Ron OJ Parson
Located at:Copaken Stage
Between the Lines
Sep 8 - Oct 1, 2017
Music and Lyrics by:Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson
Book by:Timothy Allen McDonald
Based on the books by:Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
Orchestrations & Arrangements by:Greg Anthony Rassen
Directed by:Jeff Calhoun
Located at:Spencer Theatre
OriginKC: World Premiere

Further back…

2016 – 2017 Season

Evita
The Invisible Hand
A Christmas Carol
The Santaland Diaries
Side by Side by Sondheim
Constellations
A Raisin in the Sun
What Would Crazy Horse Do?
Man in Love

2015 – 2016 Season

Sunday in the Park with George
Blueprints to Freedom
A Christmas Carol
The Santaland Diaries
The Diary of Anne Frank
Roof of the World
The Fantasticks
Fire in Dreamland
Lot’s Wife

2014 – 2015 Season

Our Town
The Who & the What
A Christmas Carol
The Santaland Diaries
Sticky Traps
Hair
An Iliad
Angels in America

2013 – 2014 Season

The Tallest Tree in the Forest
The Foreigner
A Christmas Carol
The Santaland Diaries
When I Come to Die
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Romeo and Juliet
A Little More Alive

2012 – 2013 Season

Pippin
The Mystery of Irma Vep (A Penny Dreadful)
A Christmas Carol
Death of a Salesman
Carousel
American Buffalo

2011 – 2012 Season

August: Osage County
The History of Kisses
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Great Immensity
The Whipping Man
Little Shop of Horrors

2010 – 2011 Season

Saved
Harriet Jacobs
Another American: Asking & Telling
Circle Mirror Transformation
Cabaret
Peer Gynt

2009 – 2010 Season

Into the Woods
Palomino
A Christmas Story
The Musical Around the World in 80 Days
Broke-ology
Bus Stop
Venice

2008 – 2009 Season

Clay
Radio Golf
The Glass Menagerie
The Arabian Nights
Winesburg, Ohio
The Borderland
A Flea in Her Ear

2007 – 2008 Season

Bad Dates
Doubt
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Marvelous Party
Gee’s Bend
The Drawer Boy

2006 – 2007 Season

Jitney
King Lear
Love, Janis
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
The Syringa Tree
Under Midwestern Stars
2 Pianos, 4 Hands

2005 – 2006 Season

Man And Superman
Give ‘Em Hell, Harry
A Raisin in the Sun
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
The Trip to Bountiful
Room Service

2004 – 2005 Season

Pirates of Penzance
Two Trains Running
Little Women
A Young Lady From Rwanda
The Voysey Inheritance
Carter’s Way

2003 – 2004 Season

Front Page
Metamorphoses
It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues
Liliom
Living Out

2002 – 2003 Season

Incognito
Saint Joan
Guys and Dolls
The Triumph of Love
Indian Ink
2 Pianos, 4 Hands

2001 – 2002 Season

The Philadelphia Story
Morning Star
The Winter’s Tale
Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

2000 – 2001 Season

Major Barbara
Sisters Matsumoto
Machinal
Blood Wedding
Company

1999 – 2000 Season

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Inherit the Wind
Gross Indecency
The Sea Gull
Master Class

1998 – 1999 Season

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Miracle Worker
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
WMKS: Where Music Kills Sorrow
The Shorts Fest

1997 – 1998 Season

Blithe Spirit
Later Life
The Comedy of Errors
The Gospel at Colonus
Les Liaisons Dangereuses

1996 – 1997 Season

The Misanthrope
Oleanna
Three Tall Women
Oedipus the King
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

1995 – 1996 Season

A Delicate Balance
The Belle of Amherst
Almost September
Antigone
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1994 – 1995 Season

Dancing at Lughnasa
The Deputy
If We Are Women
The Imaginary Invalid
Paul Robeson Treasure Island

1993 – 1994 Season

M. Butterfly
La Vie, L’Amour: Piaf
The Foreigner
Julius Caesar
The Gin Game
Whisper in the Mind

1992-93 Season

Romeo and Juliet
Broadway Bound
A Christmas Carol
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Rough Crossing
Death of a Salesman
The Fantasticks
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1991-92 Season

King Lear
I’m Not Rappaport
A Christmas Carol
The Lady from Maxim’s
Lady Day at Emerson’s
Bar & Grill
A View from the Bridge
The Cocktail Hour

1990 – 91 Season

Our Town
A Moon for the
Misbegotten
A Christmas Carol
Billy Bishop Goes to War
Fences
Richard III
The Boys Next Door

1989 – 90 Season

Jekyll!
Absent Friends
Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Love Letters
A Christmas Carol
Born Yesterday
Of Mice and Men
Amadeus

1988 – 89 Season

The Great Sebastians
The Emperor Jones
The Immigrant
A Christmas Carol
Tons of Money
The Road to Mecca
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream

1987 – 88 Season

Dracula
Educating Rita
End of the World
A Christmas Carol
All My Sons
The House of Blue Leaves
The Curious Adventures of Alice

1986 – 87 Season

Brighton Beach Memoirs
Equus
Fool for Love
A Christmas Carol
A Class “C” Trial in Yokohama
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
The Glass Menagerie

1985 – 86 Season

Agamemnon
Foxfire
Side by Side by Sondheim
A Christmas Carol
Fallen Angels
Master Harold…and the Boys
Othello

1984 – 85 Season

Strider
True West
Come Back, Little Sheba
Fifteen Strings of Cash
A Christmas Carol
Romeo and Juliet
Crimes of the Heart
Masters of the Sea
Peter Pan

1983 – 84 Season

Sea Marks
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Dresser
The Speckled Band
A Christmas Carol
Life with Father Retro
Trio
The Taming of the Shrew

1982 – 83 Season

Antony and Cleopatra
Hay Fever
The Magnificent Yankee
Terra Nova
A Christmas Carol
The Innocents
Translations
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1981 – 82 Season

The Three Sisters
Talley’s Folly
Picnic
The Good Person of Szechwan
A Christmas Carol
The Royal Family
Loose Ends
Crown of Thorns
Macbeth

1980 – 81 Season

Medea
What Every Woman Knows
The Learned Ladies
Catsplay
Lady Audley’s Secret
The Night of the Iguana
Wings
A Perfect Gentleman

1979 – 80 Season

Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The New York Idea
The Chalk Garden
Oh Coward!
The Visit
Twelfth Night
Look Homeward, Angel

1978 – 79 Season

Julius Caesar
Light Up the Sky
The Shadow Box
The Sea Gull
Rashomon
The Happy Hunter
Bus Stop
The Little Foxes

1977 Season

The Glass Menagerie
The Orphans
The Misanthrope
Old Times
Mary Stuart
The Hostage
The Morning Star
Purlie Victorious
The Imaginary Invalid
All My Sons

1976 Season

The Rainmaker
The Morgan Yard
The Drunkard
Don Juan of Flatbush
The Great White Hope
The Heiress
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Once in a Lifetime

1975 Season

Born Yesterday
The Cherry Orchard
Much Ado about Nothing
The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
A Streetcar Named Desire
Well of the House
Dear Liar
I Am Black

1974 Season

The Rivals
Peg o’ My Heart
That Championship Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Peer Gynt

1973 Season

Straight Up
Pygmalion
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Othello
Hedda Gabler
Jabberwock
Charley’s Aunt
The Fourposter

1972 Season

Murder in the Cathedral
Cat Among the Pigeons
Barefoot in the Park
Long Day’s Journey into Night
The House of Blue Leaves
Borstal Boy
Angel Street
Tartuffe

1971 Season

Measure for Measure
The Subject was Roses
Waltz of the Toreadors
The Night Thoreau
Spent in Jail
The School for Wives
An Enemy of the People
See How They Run

1970 Season

The Skin of our Teeth
Harvey
Indians
Exit the King
The Tempest
Arms and the Man
Spoon River Anthology

1969 Season

The Father
Our Town
A Flea in Her Ear
Look Back in Anger
The Taming of the Shrew
J.B.
Blithe Spirit

1968 Season

Oedipus Rex
The Miser
Aegina
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The Glass Menagerie
The White House

1967 Season

The Physicists
You Can’t Take It with You
The Importance of Being Earnest
Richard III

1966 Season

Marat/Sade
She Stoops to Conquer
Crime on Goat Island
Camille

1965 Season

Twelfth Night
Tartuffe
Candida
The Lady’s Not for Burning

1964 Season

The Corn is Green
Private Lives

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