Past Productions of the USI Theatre
Spring 2009
Master Harold and the Boys
by Athol Fugard
Meet Me in St. Louis
Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Fall 2008
Waiting for Lefty
by Clifford Odets
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Spring 2008
12 Angry Jurors
by Reginald Rose
The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill
Fall 2007
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
Spring 2007
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Music by Jacques Brel with additional material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman
Fall 2006
Eleemosynary
by Lee Blessing
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
Spring 2006
The Exonerated
by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Quilters
by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek
Fall 2005
The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
The Metamorphoses
by Mary Zimmerman
based on the Greek myths told by Ovid
Spring 2005
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh based on Sophocles
Little Shop of Horrors
book and lyrics by Howard Ashman,
music by Alan Menken
Fall 2004
The Laramie Project
by Moises Kaufman
and the members of the Tectonic Theatre
Playboy of the Western World
by J.M. Synge
Spring 2004
Charley's Aunt
by Brandon Thomas
Loot
by Joe Orton
Fall 2003
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
A...My Name Is Alice
by Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd
Spring 2003
Tartuffe
by Moliere
American Dreams
by Studs Terkel
Fall 2002
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
by David Mamet
Spring 2002
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
by Neil Simon
In the Boom Boom Room
by David Rabe
Fall 2001
Oedipus
by Sophocles
Spring 2001
Extremities
by William Masterismone
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard based on Hamlet
Fall 2000
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
by Clark Gesner
based on Charles Schultz' comic strip
Sea Plays
by Eugene O'Neill
Spring 2000
The Dining Room
by A. R. Gurney
The Vanities
by Jack Heifner
One acts:
Passing Red Dodges
by Kevin Lottes
Split
by Mac Welle
Fall 1999
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Spring 1999
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
by John Bishop
Fall 1998
When You Coming Back, Red Ryder?
by Mark Medoff
Christmas Show of two one-acts:
Long Christmas Dinner
by Thornton Wilder
Gift of Magi
by O. Henry
Spring 1998
Baby Dance
by Jane Anderson
Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
Fall 1997
Bedroom Farce
by Alan Ayckbourn
Everysoul
by Rick Hobbs
A Christmas Carol
based on Charles Dickens' story
Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Spring 1997
Canterbury Tales
based on Chaucer's stories
Blue Window
by Craig Lucas
Fall 1996
School for Husbands
by Moliere
A Christmas Carol
based on Charles Dickens' story
Spring 1996
Baby with the Bath Water
by Christopher Durang
Candida
by George Bernard Shaw
Fall 1995
Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley
A Christmas Carol
based on Charles Dickens' story
Spring 1995
Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
The Chairs
by Eugene Ionesco
Fall 1994
On the Verge
Eric Overmeyer
Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Spring 1994
Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Mad Forest
by Caryl Churchhill
Fall 1993
Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
Robber Bridegroom
by Alfred Uhry
Spring 1993
North Shore Fish
by Israel Horowitz
Endgame
by Samuel Beckett
Fall 1992
More Fun Than Bowling
by Steven Dietz
Buried Child
by Sam Shephard
Spring 1992
Reckless
by Craig Lucas
12th Night
by William Shakespeare
Fall 1991
Cry of Players
by William Gibson
Spring 1991
Antigone
by Sophocles
One acts: by students
The Hungry
by Lisa Hairston
Brother's War
by Bill Hairston
Mending Wall
by Randy Smith
Isn't Life Ironic
by Dave Angle
Fall 1990
Two Rooms
by Craig Luca
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by Edward Albee
based on a story by Carson McCullers
Spring 1990
The Sandbox
by Edward Albee
Striptease
by Slawomir Mrozek
The Imaginary Invalid
by Moliere
Fall 1989
Dark of the Moon
Howard Richardson
Spring 1989
Playboy of the Western World
by J. M. Synge
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
Fall 1988
The Diviners
by Jim Leonard
Spring 1988
Bus Stop
by William Inge
Fall 1987
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Spring 1987
Dangerous Corner
by Moliere
Six Of Calais
Original opera by Phil Hageman
based on Bernard Shaw's play
Fall 1986
The Good-bye People
by Herb Gardner
Spring 1986
Original opera/ballet/choral by John Chiardi
Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward
Fall 1985
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
by James Horner
Spring 1985
The Floating Light Bulb
by Woody Allen
Top Girls
by Caryl Churchhill
Fall 1984
One acts:
Sermon
by David Mamet
Chinese Restaurant Syndrome
by Corinne Jacker
Rupert's Birthday
by Ken Jenkins
The Actor's Nightmare
by Christopher Durang
The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
by John Guare
Spring 1984
Bury the Dead
by Irwin Shaw
Fall 1983
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
by Neil Simon
Hot-L Baltimore
by Lanford Wilson
Patio
by Jack Heifner
Private Wars
by James McLure
Spring 1983
A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur
by Tennessee Williams
Student Improvisational Acting
Original One Act Plays
Fall 1982
Great Nebula in Orion
by Lanford Wilson
Lone Star
by James McLure
Little Murders
by Jules Feiffer
Spring 1982
Black Comedy
by Peter Shaffer
Original Student One Acts
Fall 1981
One Acts:
A Day for Surprises
by John Guare
Boy's Life
by Dale Wilson
Where Are You Going Hollis Jay?
by Benjamin Bradford
Big Boys Don't Cry
by Greg Wagner
I'm, Herbert
by Robert Anderson
Papp
by Kenneth Cameron
Spring 1981
Once Upon A Mattress
by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller
Fall 1980
Say Goodnight, Gracie
by Ralph Pape
Spring 1980
American Buffalo
by David Mamet
Readers' Theatre
Spring 1979
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
by Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim
Fall 1978
Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
No Exit
by Jean Paul Sartre
Lion in Winter
by James Goldman
Fall 1977
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
by Jean Shephard
Spring 1976
George Washington Slept Here
by George S. Kaufman
Summer 1975
Ring Around the Moon
by Jean Anouilh
Spring 1975
The Emporer's New Clothes
based on the Hans Christian Andersen story
Your Own Thing
by Peter Ustinov
Amphitryon 38
Amphitryon 38
Fall 1974
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by Edward Albee
based on the novel by Carson McCullers
Look Homeward Angel
by Kitty Frings
based on Thomas Wolfe's novel
Summer 1974
Boys in the Band
by Mart Crowley
Spring 1974
Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt
by Charlotte B. Chorpenning
Veronica's Room
by Ira Levin
Fall 1973
Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow
by Joseph Golden
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
by Dale Wasserman
based on a novel by Ken Kesey
Summer 1973
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?
Terrence McNally
Spring 1973
The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
Original One Acts
by F. Hendricks
Fall 1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by George S. Kaufman
A Christmas Carol
based on Charles Dickens' story
Spring 1972
Big Klaus
by Hans Christian Andersen
Mary Stuart
by Friedrich von Schiller
Fall 1971
Halfway Up The Tree
by Peter Ustinov
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
based on a play by Sophocles
Lion in Winter
by James Goldman
Fall 1970
I Do! I Do!
by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
based on Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter
