2023-2024 Production Season
With Two Wings
Bright Star
Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s
Puffs
Explore our past production seasons and the Department of Theatre's history and its ongoing commitment to excellence as reflected in its participation in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Please note that the history and past productions are listed with the most recent appearing first.
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.
With Two Wings
Bright Star
Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s
Puffs
These Shining Lives
Angel's Trumpet
Miami Moves!
The Play That Goes Wrong
Rossum's Universal Robots
Miami Fringe 2021
The Thanksgiving Play
Head Over Heels
Blood Sisters
Digital Fringe Festival
Digital Reading Series
Mother Earth's Gallery of Broken Things
When We Get Good Again
She Kills Monsters
The Wolves
The Comedy of Errors
Echoes of Miami
Good Kids
The Revolutionists
Bat Boy
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
Stupid F***ing Bird
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Bliss
The Wild Party
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
Emotional Creature
The Little Dog Laughed
Communicating Doors
Found a Peanut
Avenue Q
Rent
Macbeth
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Crumbs From the Table of Joy
Peter Pan
Albert Herring
Dead and Buried
Flipzoids
Angels In America, Part 1
9 Circles
Into the Woods
The Glass Menagerie
Better Living
As You Like It
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Our Town
Game On
A Song For Coretta
Art
Independence
The Wiz
Down in Mississippi
Hedda Gabler
Woyzeck
The Arabian Nights
Ohio State Murders
Double Take!
The Taming of the Shrew
Hotel Cassiopeia
Urinetown: The Musical
The Trojan Women
The Skriker
Cloud Tectonics
The Insanity of Mary Girard
An Evening of One Act Plays
Rhinoceros
The Shadow Box
All's Well That Ends Well
The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu
Candide
Scapin
In the Heart of America
A View From the Bridge
How I Learned to Drive
The Good Person of Setzuan
Seussical, The Musical
In Quest of Love
Bourbon at the Border
Hair
The Memorandum
Pentecost
Playboy of the Western World
Two
Birds
The Genesis Project
The Soldier's Tale
The Devils
Green Gables
The Fourth Wall
Execution of Justice
Anowa
Six Characters in Search of an Author
As Bees in Honey Drown
The Boys from Syracuse
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Hay Fever
A Doll House
Marisol
Inspecting Carol
Venus
The Boys Next Door
Picnic
State Fair
The Triumph of Love
Exit the King
Once On This Island
Top Girls
Naga Mandala
The Music Man
Lost in Yonkers
Woman in Mind
Twelfth Night
Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief
Two Thieves in a Trap
The Drinking Gourd
The House of Yes
Lady in the Dark
Oliver!
The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb
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
I Hate Hamlet
Little Shop of Horrors
Present Laughter
Machinal
Our Country's Good
Falsettoland
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dr. Hero
Antigone (Anouilh)
Scapino
She Loves Me
Wonderful Tennessee
The Glass Menagerie
Much Ado About Nothing
Merrily We Roll Along
Jack of Dover
The Impostor
On the Verge
The Secret Garden
Rough Crossing
Greater Tuna
The Imaginary Invalid
West Side Story
Barefoot Everywhere
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Julie Johnson
The Colored Museum
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Bedroom Farce
The Boy Friend
Blithe Spirit
Cabaret
Joined at the Head
My Mother Said I Never Should
Romeo and Juliet
Marvin's Room
Absurd Person Singular
Coastal Disturbances
Sunday in the Park with George
Burn This
Oh, What a Lovely War
Breaking the Code
The Bartered Bride
Approaching Zanzibar
The Parlor Room
Tango
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Sweet Charity
Lend Me a Tenor
Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Assassins
Vinegar Tom
The Heidi Chronicles
Love's Labours Lost
Speed the Plow
Gypsy
Talley's Folly
Rumors
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
Big River
Social Security
Comedy of Errors
School For Scandal
The Theban Plays of Sophocles
A Delicate Balance
The Majestic Kid
Uncommon Women
Into the Woods
The Birthday Party
Babes in Arms
Broadway Bound
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Man and Superman
Inherit the Wind
The Three Sisters
Orinoco
Letters From Bernice
Pippin
The Foreigner
A Little Night Music
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Fifth of July
She Stoops to Conquer
Suicide Prohibited in Springtime
The Pajama Game
The Hairy Ape
Measure for Measure
Annie
The Art of Dining
Isn't It Romantic?
The Thief Who Stole Music
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Lie of the Mind
Noises Off!
The Pirates of Penzance
Terra Nova
Kiss Me Kate
Is There Life After High School?
Brighton Beach Memoirs
King Charming
Of Mice and Men
Sganarelle
Les Belles Soeurs
Shenandoah
A Dream Play
Anything Goes
The Real Thing
The 1940's Radio Hour
And Jill Came Tumbling After
A Flea In Her Ear
Uncle Vanya
Getting Out
A Chorus Line
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Romantic Comedy
All The Way Home
Joseph...Dreamcoat
All About Jack
The Crucible
Crimes of the Heart
The Front Page
Oklahoma!
Her Husband's Wife
Grease
El Grande de Coca-Cola
The Gingerbread Lady
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.
Romeo and Juliet
Private Lives
Gas, Part 1
Company
The Diviners
Damn Yankees
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Born Yesterday
The Rivals
Taken in Marriage
Gideon
Chicago
The Cherry Orchard
Picnic
Annie Get Your Gun
The Fantasticks
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday's Child
Buried Child
West Side Story
A Doll's House
Hello, Dolly!
You Can't Take It With You
Jacques Brel...
Death of a Salesman
The Visions of Simone Machard
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man In the Moon Marigolds
Brigadoon
Waiting For Godot
Charley's Aunt
Joe Egg
The Music Man
The Taming of the Shrew
Little Murders
A Streetcar Named Desire
My Fair Lady
Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander
The Curate/Shakespeare As You Like It
The Little Foxes
Carousel
Macbeth
Sticks and Bones
Tartuffe
The Most Happy Fella
The Miracle Worker
How the Other Half Loves
Fiddler on the Roof
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
The Contractor
Loot
Ladyhouse Blues
Cabaret
Summer and Smoke
Steambath
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
Ten Little Indians
Black Comedy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
A Delicate Balance
Pygmalion
The Threepenny Opera
In Contempt
Man of LaMancha
The Imaginary Invalid
Ah, Wilderness
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Skin of Our Teeth
A View From the Bridge
Godspell
The Father
The Country Wife
Peter Pan
The Real Inspector Hound
A Thousand Clowns
Tom Paine
Lysistrata
Elephants Love Elephants
Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The 1969-70 season marked the opening of the Center for Performing Arts, replacing Fisher Hall as the home of Miami University Theatre.
The Boys from Syracuse
The House of Blue Leaves
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Bugs!
After the Fall
Antigone
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Blithe Spirit
Exit the King
The Amorous Flea
See How They Run
Guys and Dolls
The Adventures of Mr. Punch
Camino Real
And Things That Go Bump In the Night
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Burning Bright
Twelfth Night
The Matchmaker
Oliver!
What the Butler Saw
Sleeping Beauty
Indians
The Promise
Camelot
The Killing of Sister George
The Man of Mode
Gypsy
The Star Spangled Girl
The Deadly Game
Rumplestiltskin
Marat/Sade
A Flea In Her Ear
As You Like It
Johnny Johnson
The Boy Friend
Summertree
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Dark of the Moon
The Birthday Party
The Devils
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Once Upon a Mattress
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)
Bye, Bye, Birdie
The Hostage
Ten Nights in a Barroom
The Cave Dwellers
Tartuffe
The Crucible
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Breave Little Taylor
Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
My Sweet Charlie
The Fantasticks
In White America
You Can't Take It With You
Oh! What a Lovely War
Insect Comedy
House at Pooh Corner
King John
Thieves' Carnival
The Night of the Iguana
Look Homeward Angel
A Thurber Carnival
The Firebugs
The King Who Took Sunshine
The King and I
Much Ado About Nothing
Spoon River Anthology
Hippolytus
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Picnic
Ways and Means
The Dwarfs
Minne Field
Impromptu
The Three Penny Opera
The Clown Who Ran Away
Arms and the Man
The Bat
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
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?
Rhinoceros
The Tempest
The Boyfriend
Bell, Book and Candle
The January Quints
Makeshifts
Escurial
The Stronger
Medea
Tickless Time
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
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
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
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
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
The Crucible
Macbeth
Tartuffe
Born Yesterday
A Requiem for a Practical Man
Selection
The Telephone and The Medium
The Play's the Thing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Male Animal
He Who Gets Slapped
Brideship
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Othello
Angel Street
The Glittering Gate
From Morn 'Til Midnight
The Cradle Song
Miss Julie
Blithe Spirit
Hedda Gabler
All's Well That Ends Well
Candida
The Damask Cheek
The Unattainable
Ladies in Retirement
Christmas Stars
The Women
The Stronger
Motherly Love
Simoon
Dark Eyes
The Contrast
The Eve of St. Mark
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Murder on Good Friday
Our American Cousin
Letters to Lucerne
Spring Again
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
Goodnight Please
Gallant Lady
Company House
The Warrior's Husband
Petrified Forest
Mary of Scotland
Twelfth Night
Death Takes a Holiday
Out of the Frying Pan
Hay Fever
Another Language
Campus Varieties
Biography
Outward Bound
Hamlet
Accent on Youth
Kind Lady
The Dover Road
The Great Broxopp
If I Were King
The Homecoming Frolic
Lady Poverty
McGuffey Miniatures
The Late Christopher Bean
The Merchant of Venice
The Tavern
Caroline
The Taming of the Shrew
The Circle
The Truth About Blayds
Romeo and Juliet
Berkley Square
The Showoff
The Importance of Being Earnest
Caponsacchi
The First Mrs. Fraser
Pygmalion
The Torchbearers
The Showoff
Aren't We All
Cock Robin
Beyond the Horizon
Hay Fever
The Quest of the Great Quezarre
The Valiant
The Robbery
Good Medicine
Gas, Air and the Earl
The Knave of Hearts
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
The Beggar on Horseback
Arms and the Man
If I Were King
Nothing But the Truth
Candida
Yeh Ying, a Light Opera
Grumpy
Spotlights
John Ferguson
Kempy
Like Falling Leaves
The Rivals
Tartuffe
Fanny's First Play
His Majesty Bunker Bean
Her Husband's Wife
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Lima Beans
Embers
At Night All Cats Are Grey
It Pays to Advertise
You Never Can Tell
Pillars of Society
Hyphens
The Family Foot
The Host
The Melting Pot
Bunty Pulls the Strings
Alice Sit-By-the-Fire
Joy
The Devil's Disciple
The Servant in the House
Herod
The Mollusc
Prunella
Justice
Quality Street
Sister Beatrice
Richelieu
Romeo and Juliet
The Admirable Crichton
As You Like It
Pride and Prejudice
The Private Secretary
The Merchant of Venice
Tom Pinch
The Professor's Love Story
The Taming of the Shrew
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Comedy of Errors
The Quest of the Quezarre
Below is a sampling of the performances and award winners at KCACTF from the Department of Theatre.
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.
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