Past Seasons
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2022-2023
These Shining Lives
Angel's Trumpet
Miami Moves!
The Play That Goes Wrong
2021-2022
Rossum's Universal Robots
Miami Fringe 2021
The Thanksgiving Play
Head Over Heels
Blood Sisters
Digitial Fringe Festival
Digital Reading Series
Mother Earth's Gallery of Broken Things
2019-2020
When We Get Good Again
She Kills Monsters
The Wolves
The Comedy of Errors
2018-2019
Echoes of Miami
Good Kids
The Revolutionists
Bat Boy
2017-2018
The Flick
Gathering Blue
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915
Tartuffe
2016-2017
Stupid F***ing Bird
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Bliss
The Wild Party
2015-2016
A Night of One Acts: The Last Cigarette and These Seven Sicknesses
In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Dance Theatre
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Street Scene
The Long Christmas Ride Home
2014-2015
Emotional Creature
The Little Dog Laughed
Communicating Doors
Found a Peanut
Avenue Q
2013-2014
Rent
Macbeth
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Crumbs From the Table of Joy
Peter Pan
Albert Herring
2012-2013
Dead and Buried
Flipzoids
Angels In America, Part 1
9 Circles
Into the Woods
2011-2012
The Glass Menagerie
Better Living
As You Like It
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Our Town
2009-2010
Down in Mississippi
Hedda Gabler
Woyzeck
The Arabian Nights
2008-2009
Ohio State Murders
Double Take!
The Taming of the Shrew
Hotel Cassiopeia
Urinetown: The Musical
2007-2008
The Trojan Women
The Skriker
Cloud Tectonics
The Insanity of Mary Girard
An Evening of One Act Plays
2006-2007
Rhinoceros
The Shadow Box
All's Well That Ends Well
The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu
Candide
2005-2006
Scapin
In the Heart of America
A View From the Bridge
How I Learned to Drive
The Good Person of Setzuan
Summer 2005
Seussical, The Musical
2004-2005
In Quest of Love
Bourbon at the Border
Hair
The Memorandum
Pentecost
2003-2004
Playboy of the Western World
Two
Birds
The Genesis Project
The Soldier's Tale
The Devils
Summer 2003
Green Gables
The Fourth Wall
2002-2003
Execution of Justice
Anowa
Six Characters in Search of an Author
As Bees in Honey Drown
The Boys from Syracuse
Summer 2002
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Hay Fever
2001-2002
A Doll House
Marisol
Inspecting Carol
Venus
The Boys Next Door
Summer 2001
Picnic
State Fair
2000-2001
The Triumph of Love
Exit the King
Once On This Island
Top Girls
Naga Mandala
1999-2000
Twelfth Night
Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief
Two Thieves in a Trap
The Drinking Gourd
The House of Yes
Lady in the Dark
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
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Bedroom Farce
The Boy Friend
1994-95
Blithe Spirit
Cabaret
Joined at the Head
My Mother Said I Never Should
Romeo and Juliet
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
Approaching Zanzibar
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
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
The 1984-85 Season was the first for the new Department of Theatre, its own department in the School of Fine Arts (renamed the College of Creative Arts in 2013). Previously theatre had been housed in the Department of Communication and Theatre.
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
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
Summer 1977
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
Ten Little Indians
Black Comedy
1976-1977
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
A Delicate Balance
Pygmalion
The Threepenny Opera
In Contempt
Summer 1976
Man of LaMancha
The Imaginary Invalid
Ah, Wilderness
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1975-1976
The Skin of Our Teeth
A View From the Bridge
Godspell
The Father
The Country Wife
Summer 1975
Peter Pan
The Real Inspector Hound
A Thousand Clowns
1974-1975
Tom Paine
Lysistrata
Elephants Love Elephants
Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1975 marked the introduction of the first BA Degree in Theatre at Miami. This was the first time a student could major in Theatre rather than Speech.
Summer 1974
The Boys from Syracuse
The House of Blue Leaves
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Bugs!
1973-1974
After the Fall
Antigone
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Blithe Spirit
Exit the King
Summer 1973
The Amorous Flea
See How They Run
Guys and Dolls
The Adventures of Mr. Punch
1972-1973
Camino Real
And Things That Go Bump In the Night
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Burning Bright
Twelfth Night
Summer 1972
The Matchmaker
Oliver!
What the Butler Saw
Sleeping Beauty
1971-1972
Indians
The Promise
Camelot
The Killing of Sister George
The Man of Mode
Summer 1971
Gypsy
The Star Spangled Girl
The Deadly Game
Rumplestiltskin
Summer 1970
The Boy Friend
Summertree
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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, replacing Fisher Hall as the home of Miami University Theatre.
Summer 1969
Bye, Bye, Birdie
The Hostage
Ten Nights in a Barroom
The Cave Dwellers
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
Summer 1968
The Fantasticks
In White America
You Can't Take It With You
Oh! What a Lovely War
1967-1968
Insect Comedy
House at Pooh Corner
King John
Thieves' Carnival
The Night of the Iguana
Look Homeward Angel
Summer 1967
A Thurber Carnival
The Firebugs
The King Who Took Sunshine
The King and I
1966-1967
Much Ado About Nothing
Spoon River Anthology
Hippolytus
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Picnic
Ways and Means
The Dwarfs
Minne Field
Impromptu
Summer 1966
The Three Penny Opera
The Clown Who Ran Away
Arms and the Man
The Bat
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
Inherit the Wind
The Sea Gull
Helena's Husband
Hello Out There
Emperor's New Clothes
Fumed Oak
Hansel and Gretel
My Horn Book and My Top
My Three Angels
Rigoletto
Rumplestiltskin
The Committee
The Triumph of an Egg
The Will
Twelfth Night
1959
Liliom
Waiting for Lefty
The School for Scandal
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Ghosts
'Ille
Lady in a Cage
Our Town
Picnic
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Androcles and the Lion
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
1955
Death of a Salesman
Dark of the Moon
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Taming of the Shrew
The Romancers
Another Way Out
Step Lively
Hello Out There
The Young Hack and His Girl
The Dear Departed
The Boor
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
Hands Across the Sea
I Remember Mama
Blood Wedding
The Enchanted Cottage
Emperor Jones
Romeo and Juliet
The Romancers
'Ille
Suppressed Desires
The Hasty Heart
Minnie Field
Anatol's Wedding Morning
Aria Da Capo
A Kiss in Xanadu
The Browning Version
Hands Across the Sea
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
The Tavern
Arms and the Man
The Two Shepherds
Never No Third Degree
Out of the Rain
The King's Threshold
Many Moons
Thread o' Scarlet
Overruled
The Heart is Proud
I Like it Here
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 Unattainable
1944
Ladies in Retirement
Christmas Stars
The Women
The Stronger
Motherly Love
Simoon
Dark Eyes
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
1942
The Red Cap Revue
Oedipus Rex
The Taming of the Shrew
A Doll's House
The Drunkard
The Fall of the City
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Out of the Frying Pan
The Resurrection of Christ
Henry IV, Part 1
The Dark Tower
1941
Goodnight Please
Gallant Lady
Company House
The Warrior's Husband
Petrified Forest
Mary of Scotland
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
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
1926
If I Were King
Nothing But the Truth
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
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
1909
The Merchant of Venice
Tom Pinch
The Professor's Love Story
1908
The Taming of the Shrew
The Cricket on the Hearth
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)
Some History of KCACTF at Miami
Art was selected to be performed at the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in East Lansing, MI 2011
Bourbon at the Border was selected to be performed as a showcase production 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.
Romeo and Juliet was selected to be performed at the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Green Bay, WI 1995
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.