119 Center for Performing Arts
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-3053
theatre@miamioh.edu
Our Previous Seasons
Season History
2022-2023 These Shining Lives |
2021-2022 Rossum's Universal Robots |
2020-2021 Blood Sisters |
2019-2020 When We Get Good Again |
2018-2019 Echoes of Miami |
2017-2018 The Flick |
2016-2017 Stupid F***ing Bird |
2015-2016 A Night of One Acts: The Last Cigarette and These Seven Sicknesses |
2014-2015 Emotional Creature |
2013-2014 Rent |
2012-2013 Dead and Buried |
2011-2012 The Glass Menagerie |
2010-2011 Game On |
2009-2010 Down in Mississippi |
2008-2009 Ohio State Murders |
2007-2008 The Trojan Women |
2006-2007 Rhinoceros |
2005-2006 Scapin |
Summer 2005 Seussical, The Musical |
2004-2005 In Quest of Love |
2003-2004 Playboy of the Western World |
Summer 2003 Green Gables |
2002-2003 Execution of Justice |
Summer 2002 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
2001-2002 A Doll House |
Summer 2001 Picnic |
2000-2001 The Triumph of Love |
Summer 2000 The Music Man |
1999-2000 Twelfth Night |
Summer 1999 Oliver! |
1998-1999 The Real Inspector Hound |
Summer 1998 I Hate Hamlet
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1997-98 Machinal
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Summer 1997 Scapino |
1996-97 The Glass Menagerie |
Summer 1996 The Secret Garden |
1995-96 The Imaginary Invalid |
Summer 1995 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
1994-95 Blithe Spirit |
Summer 1994 Absurd Person Singular |
1993-94 Burn This |
Summer 1993 Lips Together, Teeth Apart |
1992-93 Eccentricities of a Nightingale |
Summer 1992 Gypsy |
1991-92 Largo Desolato |
Summer 1991 Big River |
1990-91 School For Scandal |
Summer 1990 Babes in Arms |
1989-1990 Man and Superman |
Summer 1989 A Little Night Music |
1988-1989 Fifth of July |
Summer 1988 Annie |
1987-1988 Merry Wives of Windsor |
Summer 1987 Kiss Me Kate |
1986-1987 Of Mice and Men |
Summer 1986 Anything Goes |
1985-1986 A Flea In Her Ear |
Summer 1985 Romantic Comedy |
1984-1985 The Crucible |
Summer 1984 Grease |
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 |
Summer 1983 Damn Yankees |
1982-1983 The Rivals |
Summer 1982 Picnic |
1981-1982 A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Summer 1981 Hello, Dolly! |
1980-1981 Death of a Salesman |
Summer 1980 Charley's Aunt |
1979-1980 The Taming of the Shrew |
Summer 1979 The Curate/Shakespeare As You Like It
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1978-1979 Macbeth |
Summer 1978 How the Other Half Loves |
1977-1978 The Contractor
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Summer 1977 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum |
1976-1977 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
Summer 1976 Man of LaMancha
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1975-1976 The Skin of Our Teeth |
Summer 1975 Peter Pan |
1974-1975 Tom Paine
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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 |
1973-1974 After the Fall |
Summer 1973 The Amorous Flea |
1972-1973 Camino Real
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Summer 1972 The Matchmaker |
1971-1972 Indians |
Summer 1971 Gypsy
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1970-1971 Marat/Sade |
Summer 1970 The Boy Friend |
1969-1970 Dark of the Moon |
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 |
1968-1969 Tartuffe |
Summer 1968 The Fantasticks |
1967-1968 Insect Comedy |
Summer 1967 A Thurber Carnival |
1966-1967 Much Ado About Nothing |
Summer 1966 The Three Penny Opera
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1965-1966 The Inspector General |
1964-1965 Ah, Wilderness! |
1963-1964 Rhinoceros
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1962-1963 J.B. |
1961-1962 The Male Animal |
1960-1961 The Winslow Boy |
1960 Inherit the Wind |
1959 Liliom |
1958 As You Like It |
1957 The Crucible |
1956 The Caine Mutiny Court Martial |
1955 Death of a Salesman |
1954 The Lady's Not For Burning |
1953 Hands Across the Sea |
1952 A Night at the Inn |
1951 Goodbye My Fancy |
1950 The Tavern |
1949 Fire Sale
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1948 King Arthur's Socks |
1947 The Male Animal |
1946 The Cradle Song |
1945 All's Well That Ends Well |
1944 Ladies in Retirement |
1943 The Contrast |
1942 The Red Cap Revue |
1941 Goodnight Please |
1940 Twelfth Night |
1939 Another Language |
1938 Outward Bound |
1937 Accent on Youth |
1936 The Great Broxopp |
1935 The Late Christopher Bean |
1934 Caroline |
1933 The Truth About Blayds |
1932 The Importance of Being Earnest |
1931 Pygmalion |
1930 Cock Robin |
19100% The Quest of the Great Quezarre |
1928 The Dover Road |
1927 The Beggar on Horseback |
19100% If I Were King |
1925 Candida |
1924 John Ferguson |
1923 Like Falling Leaves |
1922 The Rivals |
1921 Tartuffe |
1920 His Majesty Bunker Bean |
1919 Lima Beans
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1918 It Pays to Advertise |
1917 You Never Can Tell |
1916 The Melting Pot |
1915 Bunty Pulls the Strings |
1914 The Servant in the House |
1913 Prunella |
1912 Quality Street |
1911 The Admirable Crichton |
1910 As You Like It
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1909 The Merchant of Venice |
1908 The Taming of the Shrew |
1907 The Comedy of Errors |
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.
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