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Beginning with the 1997-98 Season, all titles in red were full-scale productions. Additionally, all titles from that season and later are linked to their original website pages.
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Mid '00s

2004-05
The Belle of Amherst
Les Misérables: School Edition
Poe! Poe! Poe!
And Then They Came for Me
A Christmas Carol '04
Stephen Sondheim's Passion
The Vagina Monologues
Jack Tales
To Kill a Mockingbird
How to Eat Like a Child
Dirty Blonde

2003-04
"Art"
Poe! Poe! Poe!
A Christmas Carol
Sing Happy! Kander & Ebb
Aesop's Fables
The Vagina Monologues
Jesus Christ Superstar
And Then They Came For Me
James and the Giant Peach
The Belle of Amherst
Stage Door


Early '00s

2002-03
The Rocky Horror Show
The Music of the Beatles
A Christmas Carol
Jack and the Beanstalk
Medea
Bernstein Celebration
The Hobbit
The Miracle Worker
Tribute to Gilbert & Sullivan
School for Scandal

2001-02
Blood Brothers
An Evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein
A Christmas Carol
Sleeping Beauty
Whitechapel Diary
James Joyce's The Dead
The Music of the Movies
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
The Women
A Celebration of Cole Porter
Threepenny Opera In Concert

2000-01
Company
An Evening of Stephen Sondheim
A Christmas Carol
From Berlin to Broadway
Cinderella
The Glass Menagerie
An Evening of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Alice in Wonderland
The Imaginary Invalid
American Classics
Before the Rain


Late '90s

1999-2000
The Who's Tommy
A Christmas Carole
Arcadia
Neil Simon's Proposals

1998-99
Merrily We Roll Along
A Christmas Carol
The Scarlet Letter
Master Class

1997-98
The Crucible
A Christmas Carol
Six Degrees of Separation
My Favorite Year


Mid '90s

1996-97
Grand Hotel
A Christmas Carol
Angels in America
Noises Off

1995-96
Follies
A Christmas Carol
Death of a Salesman
The Sisters Rosensweig

1994-95
The Secret Garden
A Christmas Carol
The Film Society
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Falsettos

1993-94
Hair
A Christmas Carol
A Streetcar Named Desire
Marvin's Room
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe


Early '90s

1992-93
Is There Life After High School?
A Christmas Carol
The Grapes of Wrath
1776

1991-92
Rumors
A Christmas Carol
Our Town
To Whom It May Concern
The Normal Heart

1990-91
Steel Magnolias
Here's Love
Quilters
A Chorus Line


Late '80s

1989-90
Crimes of the Heart
A Christmas Carol
Godspell
The Nerd

1988-89
That Championship Season
The Wizard of Oz
Guys & Dolls
Plaza Suite

1987-88
Fame
Annie
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Angel Street


Mid '80s

1986-87
Play It Again, Sam
Mr. Scrooge
Fiddler on the Roof
The Odd Couple

1985-86
Sanctuary/Actor's Nightmare
Peter Pan
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Chapter Two

1984-85
The Miracle Worker
Babes in Toyland
Man of LaMancha
Oklahoma!

1983-84
A Streetcar Named Desire
Miracle on 9th Street
Forty Carats
West Side Story


Early '80s

1982-83
The Phantom of the Opera
A Christmas Carol
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Shenandoah

1981-82
Sly Fox
Side By Side By Sondheim
Whose Life Is It Anyway
Camelot

1980-81
The Miracle Worker
The Wizard of Oz
Come Blow Your Horn
Hello, Dolly!


Late '70s

1979-80
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Babes in Toyland
Harvey
Damn Yankees

1978-79
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Night Watch
How the Other Half Loves
Bye Bye Birdie

1977-78
Don't Drink the Water
Under the Yum Yum Tree
The Little Foxes
Two for the Seesaw
Little Mary Sunshine


Mid '70s

1976-77
Promenade All
God's Favorite
Play It Again, Sam
The Owl and the Pussycat
Promises, Promises

1975-76
Any Number Can Die
Never Too Late
Girls In 509
Sunshine Boys
1776

1974-75
The Seven Year Itch
The Odd Couple
6 Rms Riv Vu
Finishing Touches
George M

1973-74
Butterflies Are Free
Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Mrs. McThing
Wait Until Dark
Brigadoon


Early '70s

1972-73
Forty Carats
The Hostage
Catch Me If You Can
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Company

1971-72
Barefoot In The Park
The Glass Menagerie
The Lover-Birdbath-Next
Plaza Suite
Canterbury Tales

1970-71
Blithe Spirit
The Front Page
Cactus Flower
LUV
Guys & Dolls


Late '60s

1969-70
Don't Drink the Water
Julius Caesar
A Thousand Clowns
You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running
Camelot

1968-69
Impossible Years
Mousetrap
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Oliver

1967-68
Harvey
Waltz of the Toreadors
You Can't Take It With You
Subject Was Roses
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum


Mid '60s

1966-67
Sunday In New York
Beckett
Enter Laughing
Come Back Little Sheba
Plain & Fancy

1965-66
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With
My Three Angels
Chalk Garden
Mary, Mary
Gypsy

1964-65
Take Her, She's Mine
Picnic
The King of Hearts
Angel Street
Pal Joey

1963-64
Come Blow Your Horn
Everybody Loves Opal
Taming of the Shrew
The Moon Is Blue
Fiorello


Early '60s

1962-63
Sailors Beware
Write Me a Murder
Under the Yum Yum Tree
A Far Country
Brigadoon

1961-62
See How They Run
A Majority of One
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Time of the Cuckoo
The Bells Are Ringing

1960-61
Once More With Feeling
12 Angry Men
Girls in 509
The Visit
Say Darling


Late '50s

1959-60
Tunnel of Love
Diary of Ann Frank
Third Best Sport
Death of a Salesman
Auntie Mame

1958-59
Tea House of the August Moon
Middle of the Night
Tender Trap
Monique
Papa Is All

1957-58
Janus
Witness for the Prosecution
Desk Set
Inherit the Wind


Mid '50s

1956-57
The Desperate Hours
Anniversary Waltz
Anastasia
Room Full of Roses

1955-56
The Fifth Season
Dial M For Murder
The Rainmaker
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1954-55
Affairs of State
My Three Angels
Sabrina Fair
The Happy Time

1953-54
Stalag 17
Accent on Youth
The Bat
Bell Book and Candle


Early '50s

1952-53
I Like It Here
Kiss and Tell
Aaron Slick from Pumpkin Crick
Strange Bedfellows

1951-52
Erstwhile Susan
Stepping Sisters
A Touch of Scandal
The Silver Whistle

1950-51
Light up the Sky
Ten Little Indians
Two Blind Mice
Goodby, My Fancy


Late '40s

1949-50
The Late Christopher Bean
Three's Family
The Hasty Heart
Voice of the Turtle
Payment Deferred

1948-49
Strike a New Note
This Thing Called Love
Laff That Off
An Inspector Calls
Wallflower
Candlelight

1947-48
Years Ago
Joan of Lorraine
Parlor Story
Goodbye Again
The Terrible Meek
Foolish Notion


Mid '40s

1946-47
The Late George Apley
Out of the Frying Pan
The Barker
Ring Around Elizabeth
Ah, Wilderness
He Came Seeing
Papa Is All

1945-46
The Bellamy Trial
Snafu
Blythe Spirit
Cry Havoc
The Vinegar Tree
The Seamless Robe
Chicken Every Sunday

1944-45
The Warrior's Husband
Invitation to a Murder
Papa Is All
Tomorrow the World
Over Twenty-One

1943-44
The Philadelphia Story
The Little Foxes
Strictly Dishonorable
Separate Rooms
Thunder Rock


Early '40s

1942-43
The Women
Night Must Fall
The Devil's Disciple
Invitation to a Murder
Arsenic and Old Lace
Watch on the Rhine

1941-42
George Washington Slept Here
Old Acquaintances
Release
No Blush of Modesty
Days to Remember
Hamlet
Mrs. O'Brien Entertains
Ladies in Retirement

1940-41
Taming of the Shrew
The Shite Steed
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
And The Rockets Red Glare
Three Live Ghosts
Margin for Error
Simon, the Leper
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Wuthering Heights


Late '30s

1939-40
Merchant of Venice
Spread the News
Shadow and Substance
Our Town
Night of January 16th
The Betrayal of Judas Iscariot

1938-39
Listen My Children
Ghost Train
Passing of The Third Floor Back
The Silver Cord
Accent on Youth
Laburnum Grove

1937-38
The First Mrs. Fraser
Jane Eyre
Candelight
Perchance to Dream
Alabaster Box
Not Herbert


Mid '30s

1936-37
Apron Strings
A Murder Has Been Arranged
Personal Appearance
Nothing But The Truth
The Things That Are Caesars
The Distaff Side

1935-36
Her Master's Voice
Caprice
The Torch Bearers
One Hundred Years Old
Dangerous Corner
Shining Hour
Into Thy Kingdom

1934-35
Hedda Gabler
Return of Peter Grim
Green Stockings
The Terrible Meek
The Streets of New York

1933-34
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Doll's House
Cock Robin
Murray Hill
Broadway
Kaleidescope
The Second Mrs. Tangueray


Early '30s

1932-33
A Successful Calamity
The Road to Yesterday
The Butter and Egg Man
Outward Bound
Bramble Paths
So This Is Love
The Dover Road
This Thing Called Love

1931-32
It Won't be Long Now
The Haunted House
The Silver Cord
A Christmas Carol
Pigs
Lady Windemere's Fan

1930-31
The Man Upstairs
The Girl
Die Jungfrau
Seven Women
Will o' The Wisp
Daisy Mayme
Minnie


Late '20s

1929-30
Pretense
Sweethearts
Heartbalm
Hop o' My Thumb
The Fatal Hour
These Married Men

1928
The Patsy

1927
Suppressed Desire