Production History

2012 - 2013

  • The Book Club Play
  • The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Time Stands Still
  • The Last Romance

2011 - 2012

  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • The Moose In Me, The Moose In You
  • A Christmas Carol
  • The Language Archive
  • Red
  • On Golden Pond
  • Anansi, Spiderman of Africa!

2010 - 2011

  • Indoor/Outdoor by Kenny Finkle
  • The 3 Little Pigs by Kathy Menino; music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel
  • A Very Ida Christmas
  • Animals Out of Paper
  • Humble Boy
  • Beau Jest
  • Jabberwocky

2009 - 2010

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Jeffrey Hatcher; based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A Very Ida Christmas
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron
  • Magnetic North by William Donnelly
  • From Away
  • Southern Comforts by Kathleen Clark
  • A Morning Of Music And Storytelling

2008 - 2009

  • Secrets of a Soccer Mom by Kathleen Clark
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • A Solstice Celebration
  • Collected Stories by Donald Margulies
  • The 13th of Paris by Mat Smart
  • The Last Mass at St. Casimir's by Tom Dudzick
  • Little Red by Kathy Menino;
    original music & lyrics by Ellen Mandel

2007 - 2008

  • Almost, Maine by John Cariani
  • Spousal Deafness...and other bones of contention by Susan Poulin & Gordon Carlisle
  • A Homespun Holiday by Jennifer Armstrong
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
  • Well by Lisa Kron
  • Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Bruce Mason; based on the book by Judy Blume

2006 - 2007

  • The Nerd by Larry Shue
  • Ida's Havin' A Yard Sale by Gordon Carlisle & Susan Poulin
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • A Homespun Holiday by Jennifer Armstrong
  • The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood
  • Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
  • Enchanted April by Matthew Barber; based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Four Cinderellas by Jennifer Armstrong

2005 - 2006

  • Deathtrap by Ira Levin
  • In My Head I'm Thin by Gordon Carlisle & Susan Poulin
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • A Homespun Holiday by Jennifer Armstrong
  • Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck
  • From Away by Jennifer Armstrong
  • Fiction by Stephen Dietz
  • A Month of Sundays by Bob Larbey
  • Masque of Beauty & The Beast by Michael Elliot Brill

2004 - 2005

  • The Woman in Black by Susan Hill; adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
  • A Rooster in a Henhouse by John O'Hern
  • Celtic Christmas by Jennifer Armstrong
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Rounding Third by Richard Dresser
  • Moonshine by Jim Nolan
  • Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard
  • The Beanstalk Variations by Figures of Speech Theatre

2003 - 2004

  • Red Herring by Michael Hollinger
  • The Belle of Amherst by William Luce
  • The Wind in the Willows by K. Grahame; adapted by M. O'Brien & J. Mitchko & C. Schario
  • Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson
  • Orphans by Lyle Kessler
  • Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Private Lives by Noel Coward
  • Cupid & Psyche by Figures of Speech Theatre

2002 - 2003

  • Art by Yasmina Reza; translated by Christopher Hampton
  • Ida - Woman Who Runs With the Moose by Susan Poulin
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Festive Fiddling by Greg Boardman & Lissa Schneckenburger
  • Proof by David Auburn
  • Gun-Shy by Richard Dresser
  • Page to Stage by Michael O'Brien
  • An Infinite Ache by David Schulner
  • Stuart Little by E.B. White

2001 - 2002

  • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
  • Spousal Deafness...and other Bones of Contention by Susan Poulin & Gordon Carlisle
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • A Holiday Celebration by Jennifer Armstrong
  • Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
  • Page to Stage by Michael O'Brien
  • Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire
  • The Pavilion by Craig Wright
  • The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

2000 - 2001

  • Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
  • Things That Go Bump In The Night by Michael O'Brien
  • Manny's War by Martin Andrucki
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn
  • Sideman by Warren Leight
  • Rumors by Neil Simon
  • Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

1999 - 2000

  • Dracula by Balderston & Deane
  • Ida - Woman Who Runs with the Moose by Susan Poulin
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Italian American Reconciliation by J.P. Shanley
  • Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenburg
  • Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig
  • Freedom Train by Marvin Gordon

1998 - 1999

  • Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
  • Black Cats & Pumpkins by Jennifer Armstrong
  • WomanSong by Jennifer Armstrong
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Psychopathia Sexualis by John Patrick Shanley
  • Skylight by David Hare
  • Fallen Angels by Noel Coward
  • Earth Day Celebration by Jennifer Armstrong
  • The Belle of Amherst by William Luce

1997 - 1998

  • Indian in the Cupboard by Actor's Theatre of Maine
  • Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
  • The Magic of Halloween
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Business of Murder by Richard Harris
  • Terra Nova by Ted Tally
  • Educating Rita by Willy Russell

1996 - 1997

  • Hedda Gabler by Henrick Ibsen
  • Holiday Memories by Truman Capote
  • Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
  • Seascape by Edward Albee
  • Lost In Yonkers by Neil Simon
  • Poetry Monster by Actor's Theatre of Maine

1995 - 1996

  • Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel
  • All in the Timing by David Ives
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Betrayal by Harold Pinter
  • Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
  • The Foreigner by Larry Shue

1994 - 1995

  • Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
  • Festival Of Light by John & Carol Farrell
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally
  • Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
  • Prelude To A Kiss by Craig Lucas

1993 - 1994

  • I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick
  • Woman In A Suitcase by Julie Goell
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; adapted by Christopher Schario
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • Other People's Money by Jerry Sterner
  • Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrey

1992 - 1993

  • Scapin! by Moliere
  • The Road To Mecca by Athol Fugard
  • The Lion In Winter by James Goldman
  • Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson

1991 - 1992

  • That Championship Season by Jason Miller
  • Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

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