Mainstage and Studio
* Indicates Mildred and Albert Panowksi Playwriting Award winners
** Indicates a production of Alpha Psi Omega
*** Indicates a student-produced show
† Indicates a North Coast Theatre Festival production
Note: This list is incomplete. If you have information about productions not included on this list, please send an email to nmutd@nmu.edu, and your addition will be made. Thank you!
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1958-59
- Our Town
- My Three Angels
- The Rainmaker
1959-60
- An Enemy of the People
- Brigadoon
- Visit to a Small Planet
1960-61
- Look Homeward, Angel
- Night of January 16th
1961-62
- The Time of Your Life
- South Pacific
1962-63
- Guys and Dolls
1963-64
- St. Joan
- Carousel
1964-65
- The Enchanted
- The Music Man
- Macbeth
1965-66
- The Pajama Game
- A View From the Bridge
- Moony's Kids Don't Cry
- The Strangest Kind of Romance
- The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
- The Long Goodbye
- The Glass Menagerie
1966-67
- How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
1967-68
- Richard III
- Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
- Orestes
- The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch
- Bus Stop
- Sister Angelica
- Viet Rock
- Lysistrata
- Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
- The Fantasticks
- The Bald Soprano
1968-69
- The Adding Machine
- Bell, Book and Candle
- The Land of the Dragon
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Marat/Sade
- The Caretaker
- Tea and Sympathy
- Luv
- The Medium
- The Telephone
- The World of Mad
- Under Milkwood
1969-70
- She Stoops to Conquer
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
- In White America
- Little Mary Sunshine
- Summer and Smoke
- The Bacchae
1970-71
- Collision Course
- The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
- Three Sisters
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- The Fantasticks
- A Flea In Her Ear
- Alice in Wonderland
- Dark of the Moon
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Plaza Suite
- The Frog Prince
- Behind the Beyond
- The Diary of Adam and Eve
- The Tenor
1971-72
- A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
- Salome
- The Threepenny Opera
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
- No Place to be Somebody
- The Old Maid and the Thief
- Canterbury Tales
- Little Murders
- Twelfth Night
1972-73
- Aesop's Fables
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- Hamlet
- And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
- Where Are You Going, Hollis Jay?
- Mama As She Became . . .
- The World Tipped Over . . .
- Summertree
- Wenebojo
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- The Feast
- Thunder Rock
- Butterflies Are Free
- Chamber Music
- The Maids
- The Miser
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- The Hide-And-Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimple
- Mountain Medley
1973-74
- The Wonderful Tang
- Riders To The Sea
- The City Slicker And Our Nell
- Blithe Spirit
- Winnie-the-Pooh
- Echoes
- Botticelli
- Death of a Salesman
- Endgame
- The Gloaming, Oh My Darling
- Light & Sound Show
- The Children's Hour
- The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd
- The Zoo Story
- Deathwatch
- Dylan
- I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
- The Mating of Alice May
- The Fantasticks
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- The Gingerbread Lady
- Prince Fairyfoot
1974-75
- Spoon River Anthology
- Charley's Aunt
- The Hot L Baltimore
- The House of Blue Leaves
- Man of La Mancha
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Me Nobody Knows
- Purlie Victorious
- The Bald Soprano
- Seahorse
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Star-Spangled Girl
- Godspell
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975-76
- Our Town
- Tobacco Road
- Home Free
- Canterbury Tales
- When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Collage (Dance Concert)
- The Crucible
- The Shock of Recognition
- The Rope Dancers
- I Do! I Do!
- Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical
- What the Butler Saw
- A Thousand Clowns
- Taradiddle Tales
- Sweet Charity
- Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?
1976-77
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- The Good Doctor
- The Exception and the Rule
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- West Side Story
- The Mousetrap
- Peter Pan
1977-78
- Under Milkwood
- Death
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Cinderella
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Comedy Of Errors
- The Spirit of Happy Hollow*
- Sherlock Holmes
- Don't Drink the Water
- The Drunkard
- Guys and Dolls
- The Great Cross Country Race
1978-79
- Hellzapoppin'
- Tyger/Tyger
- Sorry, Wrong Number
- The Hot L Baltimore
- Twelfth Night
- The School for Scandal
- I'm Really Here
- Alice In Wonderland
- Chamber Music
- Images
- The King's Clown*
- Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer
- Spring Fever
- A Little Night Music
1979-80
- The Me Nobody Knows
- Impromptu
- Seascape
- The Magic Flute
- Will Success Spoil David Taylor?
- The Shadow Box
- The Ripper*
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1980-81
- The Apple Tree
- Landscape
- Live Spelled Backwards
- The Runner Stumbles
- The King and I
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Red Cross
- The White Whore and the Bit Player
- Fragments of an August Night*
- Free To Be You And Me
1981-82
- The Bear
- Sex and Violence
- No Exit
- A Thurber Carnival
- Bonjour, La Bonjour
- Dark of the Moon
- The Medium
- The Devil and Daniel Webster
- The Sandbox
- Actors
- Slam the Door Softly
- The Night of the Iguana
- High Road, Low Bridge*
- The Happy Prince
1982-83
- The Excitable Gift
- Mother Courage
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Line
- Good Neighbors
- The Oozing Intellectuals
- Damn Yankees
- Lou Gehrig Did Not Die Of Cancer
- Happy Endings
- Suppressed Desires
- Forgotten Verdict*
- Bronson's Wife (Staged Reading)
- Step on a Crack
- Good Evening
1983-84
- Side By Side By Sondheim
- The Real Inspector Hound
- The Bacchae
- Hills Like White Elephants
- Scrooge!
- Picnic On The Battlefield
- Over There
- Cabaret
- Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
- The Exception and the Rule
- Burial Customs*
- Laundry and Bourbon
- Bus Riley's Back In Town
- An Enchanted Evening with Rogers and Hammerstein
1984-85
- The Fantasticks
- The Elephant Man
- Fool For Love
- The School For Wives
- Scrooge!
- Lone Star
- Present Tense
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Bad Bad Jo-Jo
- The King Has Gone To Tenebrae*
- In This Fallen City (Staged Reading)
- Let's Misbehave With Cole Porter
1985-86
- Dracula
- White Liars
- Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise
- Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
- Scrooge!
- Mass Appeal
- Picnic
- Please, No Flowers
- Impromptu
- Twelfth Night
1986-87
- Noises Off
- The Maker of Dreams
- Cain
- Miss Julie
- Father Mosley*
- Scrooge!
- Baby
- The Actor's Nightmare
- Sorry, Wrong Number
- Winners
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Broadway Melodies of Irving Berlin
1987-88
- The Imaginary Invalid
- The Zoo Story
- The Gnadiges Fraulein
- The Queen's Knight*
- Scrooge!
- How I Got That Story
- Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
- Anything Goes
- Everyman
- The Adding Machine
1988-89
- The Cat and the Canary
- Home Free
- Franz and Dora*
- Scrooge!
- Monica
- Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
- Man of La Mancha
- A Need for Brussels Sprouts
- The Lover
- A Life in the Theatre
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
1989-90
- Pippin
- The Sea Horse
- The Devil and All His Works*
- Scrooge!
- The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
- Cowboy Mouth
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- 'Dentity Crisis
- This Property Is Condemned
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
1990-91
- The Rainmaker
- Dark Lady of the Sonnets
- The Next Contestant
- The Diary of Adam and Eve
- Bravado*
- Scrooge!
- Chicago
- Into the Woods
- Purgatory
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
- Macbeth
1991-92
- Baby with the Bathwater
- Hello Out There
- Present Tense
- Beast*
- Scrooge!
- The Great American Cheese Sandwich
- The Sound of a Voice
- Ariel Bright
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- The Bear
- The Stonewater Rapture
- Falsettoland (Scenes)
- She Stoops to Conquer
1992-93
- The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
- Slam!
- The Toothache
- The Crony Club
- The Black Pope*
- Scrooge!
- Women and Wallace
- The Respectful Prostitute
- Chess
- The Open Meeting
- All That Fall
- As You Like It
1993-94
- Biloxi Blues
- The Lesson
- 'night, Mother
- The Night The War Came Home*
- Scrooge!
- My Fair Lady
- I’m Not Stupid
- Reckless
- Pigeons
- Vivien
- Amadeus
1994-95
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Flying Doctor
- Lurker
- On the Open Road
- Haywire
- Scrooge!
- Haywire
- Haywire (ACTF Regional)
- Graceland
- Haiku
- Medusa’s Tale
- Brilliant Traces
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Diary of Adam and Eve
- The Cave
- Slam the Door Softly
- Hamlet
- Haywire (ACTF National)
1995-96
- I Hate Hamlet
- Sightings
- Bridal Terrorism
- Doin’ Time at the Alamo*
- Scrooge!
- High Tide
- Power Lunch
- Guys and Dolls
- Line
- The Actor’s Nightmare
- The Crucible
- The Plague of Innocence
- Haywire (Concert Version)
1996-97
- Deathtrap
- The Stronger
- The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
- Edgar*
- Scrooge!
- Mud
- Down the Road
- Godspell
- Patriarch
- Cowboys #2
- Chalky White Substance
- Arms and the Man
1997-98
- All in the Timing
- Fifth Of July
- Scrooge!
- Fiddler On The Roof
- Much Ado About Nothing
1998-99
- Top Girls
- Jeffrey
- Windings
- The One-Eyed Man Is King*
- Scrooge!
- Springtime
- West Side Story
- Misreadings
- Passionella
- The Good Woman Of Setzuan
1999-2000
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Valentine Fairy
- Sonny DeRee’s Life Flashes Before His Eyes
- Dracula
- Scrooge!
- Dutchman
- The Well of Horniness
- A Chorus Line
- Angels In America: Millenium Approaches (Staged Reading)
- Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room
- A Piece Of My Heart
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2000-01
- The Seventh Monarch*
- Kindertransport (Staged Reading)
- The Lottery
- Who Will Carry the Word?
- Holdin’ Our Own
- Scrooge!
- Split
- Finding The Sun
- Just the Two of Us
- Assassins
- Hello Out There
- Vassar Boys
- Who?
- Lysistrata
2001-02
- M*A*S*H
- The Diary of Adam and Eve
- The Proposal
- Ghosts*
- Unprogrammed
- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- Bus Riley’s Back In Town
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Triple Play: All’s Well That Ends Well
- Tender Offer
- Sorry, Wrong Number
- Three Sisters
- The Pirates of Penzance
2002-03
- The Laramie Project
- Everything’s Relative*
- Scrooge!
- The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus
- Does This Woman Have a Name?
- Oklahoma!
- Elegy For A Lady
- The Devil And Daniel Webster
- Romeo and Juliet
2003-04
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- The Dark Lady Of The Sonnets
- Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
- Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
- A Rembrandt’s Eyes*
- Scrooge!
- Moony’s Kids Don’t Cry
- The Man Who Turned Into a Stick
- Interview With F. Scott Fitzgerald
- W.A.S.P.
- Company
- Babe’s In Arms
- Face the Wolf
- For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
- Our Town
- HMS Pinafore
2004-05
- The Good Doctor
- The Fantasticks
- The Jack Tales
- Legwork
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling
- Burning Mona Lisa In The Reptile House*
- Scrooge!
- Beauty And The Beast
- The Case Of The Crushed Petunias
- Savage/Love
- The Open Meeting
- Tartuffe
- The Mikado
2005-06
- All My Sons
- The Duck Variations
- The Baddest Of Boys
- As Is
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- The Importance Of Being Earnest; A Mixed Bag
- Running The Courses
- Closer Than Ever
- Look Who’s Playing God
- Find Your Way Home
- Hot Line
- Pendragon
- Patience
- Snoopy!
2006-07
- Aria Da Capo
- Epic Proportions
- Fall Lab Shows: Curtains, The Shock of Recognition, and Key Exchange
- Tell-Tale*
- Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Hello, Dolly!
- Winter Lab Shows: ‘dentity Crisis, I’m Herbert, and Rabbit Hole
- Green Eyes
- Wanda’s Visit
- Guards! Guards!
- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
- Iolanthe
2007-08
- Harvey
- The Green Hill
- No Sex Please, We’re British
- Swan Song
- Warrior
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- The Tiger
- The Most Massive Woman Wins
- Women and Wallace
- The Full Monty
- Home Free
- Beyond Therapy
- Closer
- Sleeping Beauty or Coma
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Gondoliers
- No Sex Please, We're British
2008-09
- The Foreigner
- Caught In The Act
- Tracks in the Snow
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Boston Marriage
- The Glass Menagerie
- Boeing, Boeing
- Cinderella
- Check, Please
- Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All
- The Tempest
2009-10
2010-11
- A Flea in Her Ear
- Of Mice and Men
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Peter Pan
- Cupid's Bow
- The Marriage Proposal
2011-12
- Compleat Female Stage Beauty
- Fall Lab Shows: Sure Thing, The Crown Diamond: An Evening with Sherlock Holmes, Under the Balcony, and Boise, Idaho
- A Year with Frog and Toad
- The Near East
- Winter Lab Shows: Naomi in the Living Room, Nina in the Morning, The Snow Queen and the Goblin
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- How I Became a Pirate
2012-13
- 1776
- Bears*
- 10 Minute Play Festival
- Santaland Diaries
- Fallujah
- Winter Lab Shows: Sorry, Wrong Number and How He Lied to Her Husband
- Legally Blonde
- Michigan History Follies (Touring Children's Show)
- Midsummer Night's Dream (Touring Children's Show)
- Broadway and Beyond
- Commedia Pinocchio: A Musical
2013-14
- Second City: Goes to College and Happily Ever Laughter
- A Kind of Alaska
- Haunted Theatre
- Les Miserables
- The 12 Dates of Christmas
- Santaland Diaries
- An American in Paris
- Barrymore's Ghost
- Comedy of Errors
- She Kills Monsters
- NMU Dance Concert
2014-15
- A Paper Tiger in the Rain*
- Haunted Theatre
- Chicago
- 10 Minute Play Festival
- Tribes
- A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
- Little Shop of Horrors
- NMU Dance Concert
2015-16
- California Suite
- A Gaggle of Saints
- Haunted Theatre
- Into the Woods
- The Colored Museum
- Twelfth Night**
- The Fringe Festival: International Stud, Love Notes, Soul Truth, The Colored Museum
- Call Me William
- NMU Dance Concert
- The Secret Garden
2016-17
- Where a Certain Future
- Haunted Theatre
- The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon**
- Scrooge!
- The Fringe Festival: Proof, Painted Rain, The Myths and Bricks Project, In a Mason Jar
- Building Madness*
- NMU Dance Concert
- The Addams Family
- Battle of the Bands
2017-18
- Noises Off
- Rock the FRT
- Haunted Theatre
- Constellations
- The Bold, the Young, and the Murdered**
- Scrooge!
- The Fringe Festival: The Valentine Fairy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Antigone
- NMU Dance Concert
- Tarzan
2018-19
- Fringe Festival - Fighting for the Arts: Doubt, Beaute, Jule, Twelfth Night
- Sweeney Todd
- Scrooge!
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon
- Spotlight Variety Show
- Medieval Dinner Theatre
- Nightfall With Edgar Allan Poe***
- Beauty and the Beast
- Collection†
- Mamma Mia!†
- Legally Blonde Jr.†
- What a Glorious Feeling!†
2019-20
- Buffett Bash
- The Full Monty
- What We Leave Behind: Addressing Climate Change Through Dance
- Holiday Cabaret
- A Christmas Story
- Significant Other
2020-21
- War of the Worlds
- North x North Coast
- A Christmas Carol
- an/(one's) ivory tower
- Spotlight Variety Show
- North Coast Dance Festival
- Workshop Readings: A Complicated Hope*†
- Who Fears Not Death (2021)†
- Romeo and Juliet
- Twelfth Night†
2021-22
- Spotlight Variety Show
- CO/LAB COLLECTIVE
- Above the Timberline
- Elf the Musical
- Next to Normal
- The Wolves
- The Producers
- A Complicated Hope*†
- Footloose†
- Buffett Bash†
- A Chorus Line†
- North Coast Dance Festival†