Carleton College Theatrical Productions

1902/03 - 1925/26

1926/27 - 1949/50

1950/51 - 1959/60

1960/61 - 1969/70

1971/72 - 1979/80

1981/82 - 1989/90

1990/91 - 2001/02

2000/01 - 2001/02

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1970/71 to 1979/80

Title	Author	Academic Year	Producation Dates	Location	Troupe	Director
Boor, The	Anton Chekhov	1970/71		Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Anne Hendricks
Futz	Rochelle Owens	1970/71			Carleton Players Experimental
Soldiers of No Country, The	Lawrence Ferlingetti	1970/71?		Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	John Tischer
King Stag, The	Carlo Gozzi	1970/71	July 2, 3, 7	Arena Theater	UNCO	Judy Larson
Rimers of Eldritch, The	Lanford Wilson	1970/71	December 3, 4	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Steve Real
Little Murders	Jules Feiffer	1970/71	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Waiting for Godot	S. Beckett	1970/71	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	English 30 Class
Divorcons (Let’s Get a Divorce)	Victorien Sardou and Emile de Najac	1970/71	Fall; January 21	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Frank Loesser	1970/71	Winter	Sayles Hill	Co-op
Japanese Folk Tales	Kunio Yanagita	1970/71	Winter	Arena Theater	Story Theater
Serpent, The	Jean-Claude Van Itallie	1970/71	February	Carleton College Theatre (Arena Theater)	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Dutchman	Leroi Jones	1970/71	March 11	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ricky C. Penick
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A	William Shakespeare	1970/71	April	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Frank Morral
Of Sailing Ships and Sealing Wax	Charles Quimby ‘71	1970/71	May 22, 28, 29	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Fantastiks, The	Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt	1970/71	May 27-30	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Alce Mindrum
Fairy Queen, The	Henry Purcell	1970/71	May 6-8	Arena Theater	Co-op and Chamber Singers	Steve Real
Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch	James L. Rosenberg	1970/71	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	John Pieters
Drunkard, The	Anonymous	1970/71	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dick McDermott
Ladies’ Day	Aristophanes	1970/71	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Missouri Legend	E.P. Ginty	1970/71	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Veblen	Leonard Silk	1970/71	Summer	Arena Theater Theater Theater	UNCO	John Pieters
New Girl in Town	George Abbott and Bob Merrill	1971/72		Arena Theater	Co-op	Bruce Rathburn
Nonne’s Preeste’s Tale	Selection from "The Wnderer" "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Dunbar, and Chaucer	1971/72		Nourse Little Theater	Junior-Senior Arts Program Project of: Julia Miksch ‘73, Joan Burton ‘73, Kate Wilson ‘73.	Julia Miksh
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The	C.S. Lewis	1971/72	August 3, 4	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe	Ky Lowenhaupt
American Hurrah (Interview)	Jean Claude von Itallie	1971/72	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	David Flood
Right You Are--If You Think So	L. Pirandello	1971/72	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Ronde, La	Arthur Schnitzler	1971/72	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ky Lowenhaupt
Country Wife, The	William Wycherley	1971/72	Fall November 19, 27	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe	1971/72	January-February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Ubu Roi	Alfred Jarry	1971/72	January 6-8	Nourse Little Theater	Department of Modern Languages	Ruth Weiner
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown	Clark Gesner	1971/72	January 14-16	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	David Flood
Cox and Box	F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan	1971/72	February 24-26	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players and Chamber Singers	Music: Lynn Griebling, Book: Ed Sostek
Peter Pan	based on the book by J.M. Barrie	1971/72	March 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Ky Lowenhaupt
Balcony, The	Jean Genet	1971/72	Spring	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
East 127th Street	Gerald E. Lockhart	1971/72	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Black Drama Workshop	Gerald E. Lockhart
Picnic on the Battlefield	Fernando Arrabal	1971/72	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Jim Dean
And Puppy Dog Tails (scenes)	D. Gaard	1971/72	April	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	David Flood
Melodrama, A	Anonymous	1971/72	April 21	Nourse Little Theater	Women’s Caucus
Wino	Gerald Lockhart	1971/72	May 11-12	Nourse Little Theater	Black Theater Troup	Polly Simmon
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A	Stephen Sondheim, Larry Gelbhart and Burt Shevelove	1971/72	May 18-20		Co-op
Monkey’s Paw, The	W. W. Jacobs	1971/72	May 21	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Jim Wilson
Mutter, Die (The Mother)	Bertolt Brecht	1971/72	May 25, 26	Nourse Little Theater	20th Century German Drama	Anne Royal
Arms and the Man	George Bernard Shaw	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dick McDermott
Bat, The	Mary Roberts, Avery Hopwood	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	David Flood
Billy the Kid	Walter Woods	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dick McDermott
Blue Monster, The	Magic Lantern Troupe	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe	Ky Lowenhaupt
Brown Pelican, The	George Sklar	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Moonrakers, The; The Emperor		1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe
Servant of Two Masters, The	Carlo Goldoni	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	John Pieters
Seven Keys to Baldgate	George M. Cohan	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	John Pieters
Skin of Our Teeth, The	Thornton Wilder	1971/72	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Better Chance, A	Mary Clark ‘74(?)	1972/73		Nourse Little Theater	Black Repertory
Wild Oats	Mike Boylan ‘74	1972/73?
Circus		1972/73	July 4, 5	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe
Wrinkle in Time, A	Madeline L’Engle	1972/73	July 31, August	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe
Journey of the Fifth Horse,	Ronald Ribman	1972/73	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Loot	Joe Orton	1972/73	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Night Must Fall	Emlyn Williams	1972/73	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Public Eye, The	Peter Shaffer	1972/73	November	M & D Gallery	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Day of Absence, A	Douglass Turner Ward	1972/73	November 24, 25	Arena Theater	Black Repertory	Dolly Simmons
Devil and Otis Redding (a.k.a.	Ben Caldwell	1972/73	November 24, 25	Arena Theater	Black Repertory	Michael Monroe
King of Soul	Ben Caldwell	1972/73	November 24, 25	Arena Theater	Black Repertory	Michael Monroe
Cat Among the Pigeons	Georges Feydeau	1972/73	Winter	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Cenacle	Mike Boylan ‘74 and Richard Newman	1972/73	January	Arena Theater	Co-op	Richard Newman
Bedtime Story	Sean O’Casey	1972/73	January-February	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Guys and Dolls	Frank Loesser	1972/73	February	Arena Theater	Co-op	Cathy Thompson
Revenger’s Tragedy, The	Tourneur	1972/73	March	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Maren Snider and Betsy Nelson
Night of the Iguana, The	Tennessee Williams	1972/73	March -April	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Te Juro, Juana, que Tengo Ga	Emilio Carballido	1972/73	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Co-Op and Modern Language Department	James Dean
There’s No End	Badal Sircar	1972/73	Spring	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The	Paul Zindel	1972/73	April	Nourse Little Theater	Women’s Caucus	David Flood
Glass Menagerie, The	Tennessee Williams	1972/73	April 6	Arena Theater	Grinnell College
Celebration		1972/73	May 17-19	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Dorothy Maffei
Next/Adaptation	Terrence McNally/Elaine May	1972/73	May 19, 20	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op (Carleton Musical Theater Board)	Mark Tiarks
Lysistrata	Aristophanes	1972/73	24-May	Greek Theater	Greek Literature
AC/DC	Heathcote Williams	1972/73	25-May	Sayles Hill	Co-op Musical Theatre Board	Patrick de Freitas
Woyzeck	Georg Buchner	1972/73	29-May	Nourse Little Theater	19th Century German Drama	Harriet Brandt
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little	Paul Zindel	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Blithe Spirit	Noel Coward	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Cocktail Party, The	T. S. Eliot	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Ron Greene
Love Rides the Rails (or Will the mail train run tonight?)	Morland Cary	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Maggie McNally
Shot in the Dark, A	Marcel Archard	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Kenneth Buckley
Thousand Clowns, A	Herbert Gardner	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dorothy Maffei
You Never Can Tell	George Bernard Shaw	1972/73	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Odd Couple, The	Neil Simon	1973/74	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Androcles and the Lion	G.B. Shaw	1973/74	November	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op
Apple Tree, The	Mark Twain	1973/74	November	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Mike Nichols
MIddle-Class Gentleman, The	Moliere	1973/74	November	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Raisin in the Sun, A	Lorraine Hansberry	1973/74	November	Arena Theater	Black Repertory	Kevin Brown
They Became Futile	Michael Boylan ‘74	1973/74	Winter	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Michael Boylan
Measure for Measure	William Shakespeare	1973/74	January	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Frank Morral
Lady’s Not for Burning, The	Christopher Fry	1973/74	February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	John R. Woodruff
Fiorello!	Frank Loesser	1973/74	February 28-March 3		Co-op
Belehrung und Unterhaltung: An Evening with Brecht	Bertolt Brecht and others	1973/74	March 7	Nourse Little Theater	20th Century German Drama Class
Anything Goes	Cole Porter	1973/74	Spring	Arena Theater	Co-op	Mark Tiarks
Circus of Dr. Lao, The	Elizabeth Rorschach from the book by Charles G. Finney	1973/74	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op/Carleton Players	Abigail Byman
Damsk Drum, The		1973/74	Spring
Dracula	Gary Westfahl	1973/74	Spring	Mai Fete Island	Carleton Players	Gary Westfahl
Local Stigmatic, The	H. Williams	1973/74	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Curt Sloan
Witnesses, The	T. Rosewicz	1973/74	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Curt Sloan
Delicate Balance, A	Edward Albee	1973/74	April	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
No Place to Be Somebody	Charles Bordone	1973/74	April 25-27	Nourse Little Theater	Black Repertory	Llew Smith
Gondoliers, The	W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan	1973/74	May	Concert Hall	Chamber Singers	Myrna Johnson and William Wells
Kanjincho, and Ayame Yukata,or an Evening of Kabuki	Namiki Gohei III ("Kanjincho")	1973/74	May	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Andrew T. Tsubaki
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men	Lonne Elder III	1973/74	May 3, 5	Arena Theater	Black Repertory
Casa de Bernarda Alba, La	Federico Garcia Lorca	1973/74	May 4, 5	Nourse Little Theater	Spanish Department	Tom Pscheidt
Angel Street (Gaslight)	Patrick Hamilton	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dorothy Maffei
Five Finger Exercise	Peter Shaffer	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
House of the Blue Leaves, The	John Guare	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	James Dean
Importance of Being Earnest, The	Oscar Wilde	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Laurie Holway
No Mother to Guide Her	Lillian Mortimer	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Real Inspector Hound, The	Tom Stoppard	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	James Dean
Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The	Liam O’Brien	1973/74	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Butley	Simon Gray	1974/75	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Charles Barbour
Tango	Slawomir Mrozek	1974/75	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
From Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill	Kurt Weill	1974/75	November	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op
Children’s Hour, The		1974/75	November 2, 3	Arena Theater	Magic Lantern Troupe
Homecoming, The	H. Pinter	1974/75	Winter	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Charles Barbour
Marat/Sade (the persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade)	Peter Weiss	1974/75	February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Historia de una Escalera	Antonio Buero Vallejo	1974/75	February 15-16	Nourse Little Theater	Spanish Department	Jose Sanchez
Of Thee I Sing	George & Ira Gershwin	1974/75	February 28-March 3	Arena Theater	Co-op	Steve Braun
Bus Stop	William Inge	1974/75	April	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Macbett	Eugene Ionesco	1974/75	May	Nourse Little Theater	Black Repertory	Llew Smith
Threepenny Opera, The	Bertolt Brecht/K.Weill	1974/75	May	Arena Theater	Co-op	Mark Tiarks
My Daughter Comes on Thursday	V. French	1974/75	May 1	Arena Theater	Carleton Players Experimental
Une Puce A L’oreille	Georges Feydeau	1974/75	May 2,3	Nourse Little Theater	The French Department	Ruth Weiner
Barefoot in the Park	Neil Simon	1974/75	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Birds, The	Aristophanes	1974/75	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Black Comedy	Peter Shaffer	1974/75	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Marriage of Figaro	Beaumarchais	1974/75	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Ten Nights in a Barroom		1974/75	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Purlie Victorious	Ossie Davis	1975/76	October	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Bacchae, The	Euripides	1975/76	Winter	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The	Bertolt Brecht	1975/76	March	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Fantastiks, The	Tom Jones	1975/76	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	Co-op	Harry Delugach
Pirates of Penzance, The -or- The Slave of Duty	W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan	1975/76	Spring	Skinner Memorial Chapel	Chamber Singers	Cathy Costen and William Wells
Tempest, The	William Shakespeare	1975/76	Spring	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Charles Barbour
Blacks, The	Jean Genet	1975/76	April 2, 3	Arena Theater	BDAG	Maud’Dib al Askari
On the Town	Leonard Bernstein, Betty Green, Arnold Comden	1975/76	April 8-10	Arena Theater	Co-op	Tom Pscheidt
Two One-Act Plays: Calm Down, Mother, and Chamber Music	Megan Terry and Arthur Kopit	1975/76	May 14-15	Nourse Little Theater	Women’s Theatre Ensemble	Marti Bauman
Untitled Comedy by Douglas L		1975/76	June 3, 5
Apple Tree, The	Mark Twain	1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Glass Menagerie, The	T. Williams	1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Lady or the Tiger		1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Passionella		1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Seven Year Itch, The		1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Thurber Carnival, A	James Thurber	1975/76	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Summer and Smoke	Tennessee Williams	1976/77	October	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Heartbreak House	George Bernard Shaw	1976/77	November	St. Olaf Kelsey Auditorium	Carleton/St. Olaf	Charles Barbour
Kiss Me Kate	Cole Porter	1976/77	November	Sayles-Hill	Co-op	Cathy Costen
Maids, The	Jean Genet	1976/77	November		Carleton Players
Man’s a Man, A	Bertolt Brecht	1976/77	January	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Three Sisters, The	Anton Chekhov	1976/77	February 18, 19, 24, 25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Charles Barbour
Visit, The	Friedrich Durrenmatt	1976/77	April		Carleton Players
Bell, Book, and Candle	John Van Druten	1976/77	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Spencer Beckwith
Butterflies are Free	Loenard Gershe	1976/77	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Flea in her Ear, A	George Feydeau	1976/77	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Story Theater	Paul Sills	1976/77	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Rob Alexander
Two for the Seesaw	William Gibson	1976/77	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Mary Klotz
Childhood	Thornton Wilder	1977/78	October 28 - 30	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	George Voskovec
Man for All Season, A	R obert Bolt	1977/78	November	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	1977/78	January-February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Charles Barbour
Twelfth Night	William Shakespeare	1977/78	February 17, 18, 24, 25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Frank Morral
You Can’t Take It With You	George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart	1977/78	April-May	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Little Night Music, A	Stephen Sondheim and George Furth	1977/78	May 11-13	Arena Theater	Co-op	Joe Bates
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A	W. Shakespeare	1977/78	May 17-20	Mai Fete Island	ETB
Prince David	J. Slocum	1977/78	May 4-6	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	J. Slocum
Crucible, The	Arthur Miller	1978/79	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Skin of Our Teeth, The	Thornton Wilder	1978/79	Fall	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Belle of Amherst, The	William Luce	1978/79	September 29, 30, October 6, 7	Arena Theater	ETB	Kathy Lurth and Terry Moore
Cabaret	Kander, Ebb and Masteroff	1978/79	January-February	Arena Theater	Co-op	William Riel
Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare	1978/79	February 9, 10, 16, 17	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Frank Morral
Vanities	Jack Heifner	1978/79	Spring	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Zoo Story, The	Edward Albee	1978/79	April	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	William Real
Arms and the Man	George Bernard Shaw	1978/79	May	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Rehearsal, The	George Villiers (The Most Noble George Duke Marquess & Earle of Buckingham, Earle of Coventry, Viscount Villiers, Baron of Whaddon & Knight of ye Most Noble Order of the Garter) assited in writing by Thomas Sprat, Martin Clifford, Samuel Bu	1978/79	May	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Jack El-Hai
Hay fever	Noel Coward	1978/79	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dave Ericksen
Jack and the Beanstalk	adapted by Maura B. O’Connor	1978/79	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Maura B. O’Connor
Long Day’s Journey Into Night	Eugene O’Neill	1978/79	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	William Riel
Mr. Pim Passes By	A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne	1978/79	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Jack El-Hai
World of Sholom Aleichem, The	Arnold Perl	1978/79	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Bruce Morrison
School for Scandal, The	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	1979/80	October	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Picnic	William Inge	1979/80	November	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Sexual Perversity In Chicago	David Mamet	1979/80	Winter	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Tom Szentgyorgyi
Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The	Bertolt Brecht	1979/80	February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad	Arthur Kopit	1979/80	February-March	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Scott M. Rubsam
Contribution	Ted Shine	1979/80	February 29	Nourse Little Theater	BDAG	Terry L. Johnson-Caldwell
Day of Absence	Douglas Turner Ward	1979/80	February 29	Nourse Little Theater	BDAG	Terry L. Johnson-Caldwell
By George!	Kevin McIntosh	1979/80	April	Arena Theater	Co-op	Kevin McIntosh
Hostage, The	Brendan Behan	1979/80	May 7-10	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Ah, Wilderness!	Eugene O’Neill	1979/80	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Paul Hager, Johanna Johnson, Dave Ericksen, Simon Niedenthal, Sue Walden, Lars Fjelstad, Shawn Brooks, Wendy McCormick, Dave Neiman, Rhonda Gilbraith, Mike Connelly, Carol Van Zoeren, Annika Fjelstad, Chris Soth, Jack El-Hai
Angel Street	Patrick Hamilton	1979/80	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Simon Niedenthal
Blithe Spirit	Noel Coward	1979/80	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Dave Ericksen
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown	Clark Gesner	1979/80	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Sue Walden

Last Updated on 2/19/02