Past Productions
Past Productions
View the Birmingham-Southern College Department of Theatre past productions below.
Last Season
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
by Jason Robert Brown | September 29, 30, & October 01 & 02 | The Underground
A young ambitious couple who've entered into a whirlwind relationship find it eventually ends in disaster. Both characters explain their side of the story non-chronologically ... one starts at the beginning of the relationship; the other from the end ... both seeking to understand the time they've spent together for the last five years.
MILKING CHRISTMAS
by Brian Huther, Ben Auxier, Seth Macchi, Ryan McCall | November 17, 18, 19, & 20 | The Underground
It’s always been Swans-a-Swimming, Lords-a-Leaping, and Naughty and Nice lists in sweet, sleepy Christmastown. But this holiday season, something just doesn’t seem right, and Macey Maid-a-Milking is on the case in this regional premiere of a new musical comedy. This wacky Christmas mystery is a fun-filled farce celebrating the importance of cultivating community, asking questions, and clapping for Calling-Birds.
THE WOLVES
by Sarah DeLappe | February 09, 10, 11, & 12 | The Underground
An honest and thought-provoking look into young women’s lives, The Wolves follows a team of young women as they navigate the pressures of young adulthood, grapple with the reality of inter-personal and global politics, and seek to answer questions of identity and belonging as they warm-up for their soccer games. The Wolves contains adult themes and is for mature audiences only.
THIS IS OUR YOUTH
by Kenneth Lonergan | March 09, 10, 11 & 12 | The Underground
Set in 1982, a young man steals thousands of dollars from his wealthy father and brings it to the apartment of his domineering, drug-slinging friend. Together the boys use the money to make discoveries about women, status, mortality, and materialism while simultaneously feeling their way into the adult world.
Ordinary Days
by Adam Gwon | April 20, 21, 22 & 23 | The Underground
From the bustling streets to the quiet rooftops, Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives are unexpectedly interconnected by circumstance. The series of funny and fortuitous events in this intimate, fast-paced musical proves that ordinary days can be simply extraordinary.
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Past Productions
2021-2022
Head Over Heels
Songs by The Go-Go’sAdapted by James Magruder
Based upon The Arcadia by Sir Phillip Sydney
Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty| November 18, 19, 20, & 21 | College Theatre | Mainstage
Head Over Heels is a whimsical adaptation of Sir Phillip Sydney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia featuring music by the Go-go's and a book of witty, irreverent verse by Jeff Whitty and James Magruder. In this pastoral romp, loves are won, battles are lost, and the kingdom of Arcadia learns that weathering the risk of releasing old ways makes room for truer and more beautiful ways of being in the world...and a really sick Beat!
We Are Pussy Riot or Everything is P.R.
by Barbara Hammond | February 10, 11, 12, & 13 | College Theatre | Underground
Brave activists labeled an enemy of the church and state design a protest that becomes the greatest piece of performance art in Russian history.
The Spitfire Grill
Book by Fred Alley, James Valcq
Music by James Valcq
Lyrics by Fred Alley
| April 28, 29, & 30 | May 1 | College Theatre | MainstageIn a town that seems to have stopped, recently paroled Percy comes seeking a new start. Based on a 1996 movie, James Valcq and Fred Alley's folk musical The Spitfire Grill is the story of an ember of hope that brings a whole community back into the light.
Student-Directed One Act Plays
| May 9 & 10 | College Theatre | MainstageAn uproarious and often unpredictable evening of drama and comedy, as presented by first-time student directors as a part of the requirements for Tha403, Directing and Stage Management.
2020-2021
2019-2020
Falsettos
by William Finn | November 14, 15, 16, & 17 | College Theatre | Mainstage
How will a loving, non-traditional family cope with their challenges, personal flaws, and the impending tragedy of an international health crisis?
*Please be advised that "Falsettos" contains adult language and situations. It is recommended for mature audiences.
Silent Sky
by Lauren Gunderson | January 23, 24, 25, & 26 | College Theatre | The Underground
Silent Sky is the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, who navigates a world of bold scientific discovery and harsh limitations. Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers pioneered change in the way we understand the heavens, Earth, and human equality.
35MM
by Ryan Scott Oliver | March 12, 13, 14 & 15 | College Theatre | The Underground
In 35mm, each photo creates a unique song, extraordinary moments frozen in time. Experience an exciting new concept of musical theatre and storytelling based on the photographs of Matthew Murphy.
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
Production Photos by Stewart Edmonds
Production Photos by Stewart Edmonds
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2009-2010
Additional slideshows of Hair photos are available here, and here.
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
- Hamlet: The Musical (American College Theatre Festival (ACTF)-Regional Festival Selection)
- Marian Faustus, Ph.D.
- Amadeus
- La Boheme
2000-2001
- Sweeney Todd
- Fallen Angels
- Godspell
- A Tale of Two Cities
1999-2000
- The Scarlet Letter (ACTF-State Festival Participant)
- Twelfth Night
- signor deluso and Daphne at Sea
- Company
1998-1999
- Passion (ACTF-Regional Festival Selection)
- Quilters
- Sand Mountain
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1997-1998
- Blood Brothers
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Romeo & Juliet
- Regina
1996-1997
The Fantasticks
- Medea
- The Secret Garden
- Snoopy
1995-1996
- The White Rose (ACTF-State Festival Participant)
- Ruthless! The Musical
- La Bete (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Glass Menagerie
- Albert Herring
1994-1995
- The Challenge (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- Gifts (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- As You Like It (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- The Crucible (ACTF-Associate Entry)
1993-1994
- Dancing at Lughnasa (ACTF-Associate Entry [scene selected for participation in Regional Festival])
- Baby
- Cradles of Stone
- Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica
- Our Country's Good
1992-1993
- The Immigrant (ACTF-Regional Festival Selection)
- The Way We Live Now
- The Servant of Two Masters (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- Pippin
1991-1992
- Mill Fire (ACTF-State Festival Participant)
- Romance/Romance
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Vital Signs
- The Tender Land
1990-1991
- A Shaynel Maidel (ACTF-Associate Entry)
- The Brazilian
- Macbeth
- Chicago
1989-1990
- Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
- ...and the Rain Came to Mayfield
- Elixir of Love
- Hedda Gabler
- Our Town
1988-1989
- Tracers
- Curtain Call
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Jesus Christ Superstar
1987-1988
- The Fifth Sun
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Telephone and The Consul
- Children of a Lesser God
1986-1987
- Sand Mountain
- Antigone
- Confetti II
Cabaret - Ladyhouse Blues
1985-1986
- Godspell
- Vinegar Tom
- Amelia Goes to the Ball
- Senor Deluso
- Introductions and Goodbyes
- Extremities
- 'night Mother
- Mandragola
1984-1985
- Alice in Wonderland
- Crimes of the Heart
- Othello
- Charlotte Sweet
- Bye Bye Miss American Pie
- Whose Life is it Anyway?
1983-1984
- Sganarelle and Co.
- Monday After the Miracle
- Ernest in Love
- Rashomon
- August, August, August
- The Blood Knot
1982-1983
- Confetti
- Gianni Schicchi and Sister Angelica
- A Doll's House
- Ladyhouse Blues
- The Apple Tree
- Berlin to Broadway
- A Taste of Honey
- Snoopy!
- The Knack
1981-1982
- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- Krapp's Last Tape
- Candide
- Side by Side by Sondheim
- The Good Doctor
- Wait Until Dark
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- GALA VI - The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
1980-1981
- Cosi fan Tutti
- A Slight Ache
- Red Cross
- Daylight/Nightlight
- Talley’s Folly
- Postcard from Morocco
- Pantaglieze
- Jacques Brel is...
- The Magic Flute
- The Day They Let the Lions Loose
- Wrong Number
- The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness
- 'Dentity Crisis
- The Lion in Winter
1979-1980
- Albert Herring
- The Stronger
- The Madness of Lady Bright
- Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down
- Curse of the Starving Class
- The Lady's Maid)
- Bringing it All Back Home
- The Glass Menagerie
- Landscape
- Out at Sea
- Stop the World...
- Slices
- Birdbath
- Mrs. Warren's Profession
- The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
- Thinking Aloud
- The American Dream
- A Thousand Clowns
- GALA V - The Doctor in Spite of Himself
1978-1979
- Orpheus in the Underworld
- The Bald Soprano
- Crawling Arnold
- Episode in the Life of an Author
- Cop-Out
- Chinamen
- The Undertaker
- Fumed Oak
- What the Butler Saw
- Waiting for Godot
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself
1977-1978
- The Medium
- The Misanthrope
- Major Barbara
1976-1977
- Jumpers
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- La Ronde
1975-1976
- Empire Builders
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Bald Soprano
- Candide
1974-1975
- Hamlet
- The Marriage of Figaro
- The Rehearsal
- The Playboy of the Western World
1973-1974
- The Devil and Daniel Webster
- The Horse
- Of Mice and Men
- Woyzeck
- Readers' Concert Theatre Tour of Alabama
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Flying Doctor
1972-1973
1971-1972
- Die Fledermaus
- A Cry of Players
- The Homecoming
- Cuba Si
- Othello
- The Dance of Death
- The Madness of Lady Bright
1970-1971
Dracula
- The Rainy Afternoon
- The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
- Maid to Marry
- Avi No Uye
- The Collection
- The Changeling
- Thieves Carnival
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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1969-1970
- The Land Of Heart's Desire
- The Dumbwaiter
- Sing To Me Through Open Windows
- Deathwatch
- Johnny America Comes Home
- The Strangler
- Under Milkwood
- The New Tenant
- Escurial
- Uncle Vanya
- Opus II
- The Doctor In Spite Of Himself
1968-1969
- Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Opus I
1967-1968
- The Sixth Story
1966-1967
1965-1966
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1964-1965
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- The Caretaker
1963-1964
- The Truth Syrup
- A Pageant for Dermuche
- One Way Pendulum
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Peer?
- Bastien and Bastienne
- The Tragedy of Tragedies or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
1962-1963
- Crawling Arnold
- The Visit
- The Imaginary Invalid
- Ernest in Love
1961-1962
- Troilus and Cressida
- (Several one-act plays)
1960-1961
- Twelfth Night
- Fantasticks
1959-1960
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Caught Dead
- Rashomon
1958-1959
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Boyfriend
- A Visit to a Small Planet
1957-1958
- See the Jaguar
- Brigadoon
- The Chalk Garden
1956-1957
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1955-1956
- My Three Angels
- Dial M for Murder
1954-1955
- The Corn is Green
- Queens of France
- The Indian Captive
- King of Hearts
1953-1954
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Simple Simon
- The Enchanted Cottage
1952-1953
- Liliom
1951-1952
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1950-1951
Years Ago
- Family Portrait
- Pray for the Moon
- The Desert Song
- Chocolate Soldier
1949-1950
- Ladies in Retirement
- Down in the Valley
1948-1949
- Alice in Wonderland
- H.M.S. Pinafore
- The Rivals
1947-1948
- Playboy of the Western World
- Knight of the Burning Pestle