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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1980/81 to 1989/90

BDAG = Black Dramatic Arts Group
ETB = Experimental Theater Board
UNCO = Uninvited Company

Title	Author	Academic Year	Producation Dates	Location	Troupe	Director
Random Selection: A Musical Revue		1980/81?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Beth Stewart
Sea Horse, The	Edward J. Moore	1980/81?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Cathryne M. Chi
Shadow Box, The	Michael Cristofer	1980/81	October 24, 25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Woods, The	David Mamet	1980/81	October 25-26	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Tom Szentgyorgyi
Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen	1980/81	November 5-8	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Woyzeck	Georg Buchner	1980/81	February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder	Mark Medoff	1980/81	February 11-14	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
South Pacific	Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein	1980/81	April	Arena Theater	Co-op	Bruce Hutchins
Winter’s Tale, The	William Shakespeare	1980/81	Spring	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Frank Morral
Mikado, The	W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan	1980/81	May 14-16, June 12	Skinner Memorial Chapel	Chamber Singers	William Riel
Good Doctor, The	Neil Simon, based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov	1980/81	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Meg Meneghel
Royal Family, The	George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber	1980/81	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Christopher Soth
Taming of the Shrew, The	William Shakespeare	1980/81	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Tom Szentgyorgyi
Towards Zero	Agatha Christie	1980/81	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Shawn Brooks
Reunion	David Mamet	1981/82?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Tom Szentgyorgyi
Stronger, The	August Strindberg	1981/82?		WASS Production		Tom Szentgyorgyi
Troilus and Cressida	William Shakespeare	1981/82	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Brian Clark	1981/82	Fall	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
American Dream, The	E. Albee	1981/82	February 1	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Gap, The	Eugene Ionesco	1981/82	February 10-14	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Lover, The	Harold Pinter	1981/82	February 10-14	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Narrenschneiden, Das	H. Sachs	1981/82	February 19-20	Nourse Little Theater
Birds, The	Aristophanes tr. by William Arrowsmith	1981/82	February 24-28	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Echoes	I. Janean Miller	1981/82	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	I Janean Miller
Gentle Boy, The	Phillip Rhodes, Jane Rhodes	1981/82	April 2,3	Northfield Junior High School Auditorium	Carleton Chamber Orchestra and Chamber SIngers	Music: Jeremy Balmuth, Stage: Edward Sostek
Finnian’s Rainbow		1981/82	April 14-17?	Concert Hall	Co-op	Jo Johnson
Physicists, The	Friedrich Durrenmatt tr. by James Kirkup	1981/82	May	Nourse Little Theater	Carleton Players	Sean Michael Dowse
Patience or Bunthorne’s Bride	W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan	1981/82	May-June	Skinner Memorial Chapel	Carleton Chamber Singers	Bruce Hutchins
Spoon River Anthology	Edgar Lee Masters	1981/82	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO	Allen Crafton
Jewish Wife, The	Bertolt Brecht	1982/83?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	J. Scott Johnson
Private Ear, The	Peter Shaffer	1982/83?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Lisa Wilde
Tis Pity She’s A Whore	John Ford	1982/83?		Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Christopher Soth
Wait Until Dark	Frederick Knott	1982/83	October 20-23	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Uncommon Women and Others	Wendy Wasserstein	1982/83	November 3-6	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Flea in Her Ear, A	Georges Feydreau	1982/83	February 9-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Kimball’s Cymbals	J. T. Jacobs	1982/83	February 23-26	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Maids, The	Jean Genet	1982/83	March 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	J. Scott Johnson
Pippin	Steven Schwartz	1982/83	April 13-16	Arena Theater	Co-op
Gemini	Albert Innaurato	1982/83	May 4-7	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Sean Michael Dowse
Puntilla and Matti		1982/83	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams	1983/84	October 19-22	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Comedy of Errors	William Shakespeare	1983/84	November 2-5	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Tartuffe	Moliere	1983/84	February 15-18	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Equus	Peter Shaffer	1983/84	February 22-25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Lewis Whitlock
Anything Goes	Cole Porter	1983/84	April 4-7	Arena Theater	Co-op	Jay Keil
Threepenny Opera, The	Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill	1983/84	May 9-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	David Knauf
Idiot’s Delight	Robert E. Sherwood	1984/85	October 17-20	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Belles Soeurs, Les	Michel Temblay	1984/85	October 31-November	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Changeling, The	Thomas Middleton and William Rowley	1984/85	February 20-23	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	David W. Simmons
Old Times	Harold Pinter	1984/85	February 27-March	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Guys and Dolls	Frank Loesser	1984/85	April 3-6	Arena Theater	Co-op	Doug Lincoln
Man and Superman	George Bernard Shaw	1984/85	May 8-12, 15-18	Arena Theater Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
True West	Sam Shepard	1985/86	October 23-26	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Joan Churchill
All’s Well That Ends Well	William Shakespeare	1985/86	November	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Rashomon	Fay & Michael Kanin based on stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa	1985/86	February 19-22	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Michael Roberts McElya
You Were So Nice When You Were So Young	Jean Anouilh	1985/86	February 26 - March 1	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
No, No, Nanette		1985/86	April	Arena Theater	Co-op	John Winemiller
Beaux Strategem, The	G. Farquhar	1985/86	April 30-May 3	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Streetcar Named Desire, A	Tennessee Williams	1986/87	October 22-25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Getting Out	Marsha Norman	1986/87	November 5-8	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Museum	Tina Howe	1986/87	February 18-21	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Lesson from Aloes, A	Athol Fugard	1986/87	February 25-28	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Michael Roberts McElya
Mikado, The	Gilbert & Sullivan	1986/87	Spring	Skinner Memorial Chapel	Chamber Singers
Pajama Game	Richard Adler and Jerry Ross	1986/87	April 8-11	Arena Theater	ETB/Co-op
Pink ‘59 Thunderbird: Two Plays by Jame McLure	James McLure	1986/87	May 13-16	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Greater Tuna		1986/87	Summer	Arena Theater	UNCO
Eleemosynary	Lee Blessing	1987/88	October 21-24	Arena Theater Theater	Carleton Players	Edward Sostek
Noises Off	Michael Frayn	1987/88	November 4-7	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Terry Edward Moore
Oh, What a Lovely War	Joan Littlewood et al	1987/88	February 17-20	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Fool for Love	Sam Shepard	1987/88	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Catherine Podeszwa
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The	Bertolt Brecht	1987/88	May 4, 6 and 7	Arena Theater	ETB	Cathy Podeszwa
Trojan Women	Euripides	1987/88	May 11-14	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Bain Boehlke
HMS Pinafore	Gilbert & Sullivan	1987/88	May 19-21	Chapel	Chamber Singers	Jim Peck ‘86
Chamber Music	Daniel Messe	1987/88	May 26-28	Nourse Little Theater	ETB
Diary	David Diehl, Anthony Along	1987/88	May 26-28	Nourse Little Theater	ETB
Rape	Tim Mennel	1987/88	May 26-28	Nourse Little Theater	ETB
Top Girls	Caryl Churchill	1988/89	October 19-22	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Merry Wives of Windsor, The	William Shakespeare	1988/89	November 2-5	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Terry Edward Moore
Little Foxes, The	Lillian Hellman	1988/89	February	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Poe’s Masque	Ben Kreilkamp	1988/89	February 22-25	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ben Kreilkamp
Fragments	Clifford Blizzard	1988/89	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Nemura Pencyla
Godspell	Steven Schwartz	1988/89	Spring	Arena Theater	ETB Spring Musical	Brian Evans
Letters	Rob Boatright	1988/89	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Steven Wright
Machismo	Martin Kaste	1988/89	Spring	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Steve Halligan
Jasager, Der, und Der Neinsager	Bertolt Brecht	1988/89	April 20-21	Nourse Little Theater	Das Carleton Brecht-Ensemble	Julie Klassen
Ghost Sonata	August Strindberg	1988/89	May 10-13	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Of Thee I Sing	George and Ira Gershwin	1988/89	May 26-27	Arena Theater	Chamber Singers	Ed Sostek
Year of the Dragon		1989/90	October 12-14	Nourse Little Theater
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	1989/90	October 18-21	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Blood Wedding	Fredrico Garcia Lorca	1989/90	October 25-28	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	David Atkinson
Painting Churches	Tina Howe	1989/90	November 1-4	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Under Milkwood	Dylan Thomas	1989/90	November 11-13	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Nemura Peneyla
Unfinished Women Cry in No Man’s Land		1989/90	November 4-5	Nourse Little Theater	BDAG	Stacy Burnside
Sexual Perversity in Chicago	David Mamet	1989/90	January 25-27	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Eric Mortensen
Barefoot in the Park	Neil Simon	1989/90	February 8-10	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Tom Coleman
Lower Depths, The	Maxim Gorky	1989/90	February 14-17	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ed Sostek
Sound of a Voice, The	David Henry Huang	1989/90	February 15-17	Nourse Little Theater	ASIA	Andrew Kim
Translations	Brian Friel	1989/90	Febraury 21-24	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Ruth Weiner
Krapp’s Last Tale	Samuel Beckett	1989/90	February 22-24	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Robert Boatright, Mark Frein
Rockaby	Samuel Beckett	1989/90	February 22-24	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Robert Boatright, Mark Frein
Outskirts, The	Dan Messe ‘90	1989/90	March 1-3	Arena Theater	ETB	Christina Battle
We Speak: Remembering the Shadows		1989/90	March 1-3	Nourse Little Theater	BDAG	Andrew Gordon
Little Shop of Horrors	Howard Ashman	1989/90	April 5-7	Arena Theater	ETB Spring Musical	Brian Evans
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You	Christopher Durang	1989/90	April 12-14	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Peter Gwinn
El Salvador	Rafael Lima	1989/90	April 19-21	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Nemura Pencyla
It Could Be About Sex	various	1989/90	April 19-21	Mudd Ampitheater	The Ensemble	The Ensemble
Lipstick Doll, The	Christina Battle	1989/90	April 26-28	Nourse Little Theater	SMASH	Christina Battle
One-Act Winners	various (see below)	1989/90	May 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	various (see below)
One-Act Winners: Eddie Wakes Up	Martin Kaste	1989/90	May 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	David Burrow
One-Act Winners: Master	Robert Boatright	1989/90	May 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Mark Frein, Emily Brackett
One-Act Winners: Mount Kailas	David Atkinson	1989/90	May 3-5	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Michael Saucedo
Colored Museum, The	George C. Wolfe	1989/90	May 10-12	Carleton Art Gallery	BDAG	Brian Evans
Orchards	various (see below)	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: Drowning	Marie Irene Fornes	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: Eve of the Trial	Samm-Art Williams	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: Man in a Case	Wendy Wasserstein	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: A Dopey Fairy Tale	Michael Feller	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: Rivkala’s Ring	Spalding Gray	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Orchards: Talking Dog	John Guare	1989/90	May 10-12	Arena Theater	Carleton Players	Pamela Nice
Some Things You Need to Know before the World Ends (A Final evening with the Illuminati	Larry Larson, Levi Lee	1989/90	May 10-12	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Joanna Arnold, Joan Howard
Harappa Becomes the Society	Clifford Blizard	1989/90	May 17-19	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Clifford Blizard, Elizabeth Wright
Levels	Clifford Blizard	1989/90	May 17-19	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Clifford Blizard, Elizabeth Wright
Dybbuk, The	S. Anski	1989/90	May 24-26	Nourse Little Theater	ETB	Regina Guggenheim
Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse	Gilbert & Sullivan	1989/90	May 24-26	Arena Theater	Chamber Singers	Lyman Smith, William Wells

Last Updated on 2/19/02