Past Plays

Past Plays

Since 1926, Community Theatre of Terre Haute has given our community the opportunity to see and become a part of live theatre. Behind the scenes and on stage, a simple love of the theatre has generated our mission statement: The mission of Community Theatre of Terre Haute is to entertain, educate, and enrich the community through dramatic arts.

95th Season
2023-2024

#453 Boeing Boeing
#454 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Theatre for Young Audiences)
#455 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
#456 Present Laughter
Oakley Series
#31 Ordinary Days
#32 No Exit

94th Season
2022-2023
#449 Dial “M” for Murder
#450 Christmas Belles
#451 Ripcord
#452 She Loves Me
Oakley Series
#29 Charlotte’s Web (Theatre for Young Audiences)
#30 Three Tall Women

93rd Season
2021-2022

#444 Wait Until Dark
#445 The Cemetery Club
#446 Little Women
#447 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
#448 Shrek, The Musical
Oakley Series
#27 Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine (Theatre for Young Audiences)
#28 The Goldman Project
2020-2021 Canceled due to COVID – 19 quarantine

92nd Season

2019-2020
#441 Little Shop of Horrors
#442 Driving Miss Daisy
#443 The Drowsy Chaperone
Oakley Series
Greater Tuna
Murder Room (Canceled because of COVID-19)
Oakley Series – Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine (Canceled because of COVID-19)
Ripcord (Canceled because of COVID-19)

91st Season
2018-2019
On Golden Pond
#439 Holiday Show – 1940’s Radio Hour
#439 Mamma Mia!
#440 Rumors
#441 Last Gas
Oakley Series
Closer Than Ever
Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

90th Season
2017-2018
#433 To Kill a Mockingbird
#434 9 to 5
#435 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
#436 The Foreigner
#437 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Oakley Series
Mother’s Day

89th Season
2016-2017
It’s Only a Play
A Christmas Carol
Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth
Ragtime
A Murderer Among Us

88th Season
2015-2016
Barnum
Special Oakley Presentation (on the main stage) The Rocky Horror Show
It’s a Wonderful Life
Broke-ology
Close Ties
Don’t Dress for Dinner

87th Season
2014-2015
Harvey
Miracle on 34th Street
Enchanted April
The Wedding Singer
Fences

86th Season
2013-2014
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Babes in Toyland
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
God of Carnage
Taking My Turn
Oakley Series
Talley’s Folly

85th Season
2012-2013
Hairspray
Nuncrackers
The Constant Wife
The Red Velvet Cake War
Social Security
Oakley Series
8 the Play (presented on the Mainstage)

84th Season
2011-2012

The Mousetrap
A Lesson Before Dying
The Christmas Story
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Odd Couple (female version)
Oakley Series
An Evening of One Acts by Jason Miller
Circus Lady
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer

2010-2011
The Seven Year Itch
Doubt: A Parable
Grey Gardens
The Graduate
God’s Favorite
 Oakley Series
Yellowman

2009-2010
How the Other Half Loves
The Night of the Iguana
Late of this Address
Night Watch
Mame
Oakley Series
Rabbit Hole
Vanities

2008-2009
Arsenic and Old Lace
Dracula
Working
The Laramie Project
Love, Sex, and the IRS
Oakley Series
The Clean House
The Zoo Story

2007-2008
Noises Off
Bus Stop
Seascape
Something’s Afoot
Little Women
A Christmas Carol (Special Holiday Show)
Award’s Night Show, GOTH
Oakley Series
Spring 2008 – Painting Churches
Summer 2008 – Spoon River Anthology

2006-2007
Steel Magnolias
The Curious Savage
Hello, Dolly!
The Boys Next Door
Anne of Green Gables
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Special Christmas Show)
Oakley Series
The Exonerated (taken to the 2007 ICTL Festival, Terre Haute)
A Night of David Ives-One Act Comedies (taken to the 2008 ICTL Festival, South Bend)
Foreplay
Seven Menus
The Philadelphia
Variations on the Death of Trotsky

2005-2006
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Knife Trick
Classic Holiday Film Festival
The Complete History of America (abridged) (taken to the 2005 ICTL Festival, Muncie)
The Diary of Anne Frank
West Side Story
Classic Holiday Film Festival
Oakley Series
Summer 2005 The Gin Game
Fall 2005 Life x 3
Summer 2006 Haiku
A New Sunrise

2004-2005
Same Time Next Year
Blood Relations
Over the River & Through the Woods
The Pirates of Penzance
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Special Holiday Show – The Nutcracker Suite Ballet
Oakley Stage
What’s Wrong with this Picture?

2003-2004
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Rainmaker
Run for Your Wife
The Sound of Music
Special Holiday Presentation – The Snow Queen
Oakley Series
I’m Herbert
Boxes (taken to 2004 ICTL Festival)

2002-2003
Barefoot in the Park
Dinner With Friends
Nunsense
Deathtrap
They’re Playing Our Song
Oakley Series
Mere Mortals(taken to ICTL Festival)
Words, Words, Words

2001-2002
The Odd Couple
Lettice and Lovage
Oklahoma
The Bad Seed
The Girl in the Freudian Slip

2000-2001
Moon Over Buffalo
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Agatha Christie Made Me Do It
Fools

1999-2000
Blithe Spirit
Affairs of State
Bye, Bye Birdie
Inherit The Wind
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

1998-1999
Don’t Dress For Dinner – First show after remodel
Lost In Yonkers
South Pacific
Murder By Misadventure
Everybody Loves Opal

1997-1998
See How They Run
Picnic
Annie, Get Your Gun
Conversations With My Father
Norman, Is That You?

1996-1997
Do Black Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Dracula
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
I Hate Hamlet

1995-1996
Present Laughter
The Diviners
The Secret Garden
The Cemetery Club
Ten Little Indians

1994-1995
Charlie’s Aunt
Laura
Damn Yankees
Shadow Land
Catch Me If You Can

1993-1994
You Can’t Take It With You
Tea And Sympathy
Fiddler on The Roof
The Dining Room
Social Security

1992-1993
Rumors
Close Ties
Gypsy
Alone Together
Quilters

1991-1992
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Elephant Man
Into The Woods
Wait Until Dark
Everything In The Garden

1990-1991
Steel Magnolias
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oliver
George Washington Slept Here
Taking My Turn

1989-90
The Nerd
To Kill a Mockingbird
Kiss Me Kate
Artichoke
Send Me No Flowers

1988-1989
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Frankenstein
Annie
Tea In A China Cup
No Time For Sergeants

1987-1988
Noises Off
The Mousetrap
Camelot
Summer and Smoke
The Foreigner

1986-1987
Plaza Suite
All My Sons
The Music Man
Bus Stop
Auntie Mame

1985-1986
Chapter Two
Teahouse of the August Moon
Man of La Mancha
Foxfire
The Loud Red Patrick

1984-1985
Crimes of the Heart
The Runner Stumbles
The Mikado
On Golden Pond
How The Other Half Loves

1983-1984
Two by Two
Moon for the Misbegotten
Kismet
Mornings at Seven
Sly Fox

1982-1983
Death Trap
Romantic Comedy
Carnival
The Shadow Box
The Matchmaker

1981-1982
6 Rms Riv Vu
Gingerbread Lady
West Side Story
Anatomy of a Murder
Tribute

1980-1981
California Suite
The Glass Menagerie
Little Mary Sunshine
That Championship Season
The Rainmaker

1979-1980
Same Time, Next Year
Arsenic and Old Lace
Brigadoon
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
My Daughter, Your Son

1978-1979
Subject to Change
Equus
Four on a Garden
The Butler Did It
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1977-1978
My Three Angels
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
My Fair Lady
The Curious Savage
Forty Carats
The Fantastiks (Summer Dinner Theatre at Hulman Center)

1976-1977
I Remember Mama
Bell, Book and Candle
The King and I
Luv
Mr. Roberts
Whatever Happened to Daddy Darling? (Melodrama for Banks of the Wabash Festival)

1975-1976
Play it Again, Sam
Silent Night, Lonely Night
1776
Night Watch
Finishing Touches
The Widow’‘s Plight (Melodrama for Banks of the Wabash Festival)

1974-1975
Under Poppa’s Picture
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Anything Goes
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Norman, Is that You?
Unhand Me, Villain, or Dora the Beautiful Dishwasher (Melodrama for Banks of the Wabash Festival)

1973-1974
Ladies in Retirement
Once Upon a Mattress
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Curse You, Jack Dalton (Melodrama for Banks of the Wabash Festival)

1972-1973
I Never Sang For My Father
Fiddler on the Roof
A Shot in the Dark
Butterflies are Free

1971-1972
Harvey
A Doll’s House
Carousel
Love in E-Flat
Plaza Suite

1970-1971
Cactus Flower
Star Spangled Girl
The Sound of Music
Bad Seed
The Absence of a Cello

1969-1970
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Lion in Winter
The Marriage Go Round
Wait Until Dark
Black Comedy – White Liars

1968-1969
Guys and Dolls
Come Blow Your Horn
A Man For All Seasons
Sunday in New York
The Impossible Years

1967-1968
The Music Man
Period of Adjustment
Luv
The Good Woman of Setzuan
The Odd Couple

1966-1967
The Desk Set
South Pacific
Five Finger Exercise
Barefoot in the Park
A Case of Libel

1965-1966
Oklahoma
Nude With Violin
The Miracle Worker
A Thousand Clowns
The Desperate Hours

1964-1965
The Best Man
Take Her, She’s Mine
The King and I
The Crucible
Arms and the Man

1963-1964
A Majority of One
Ten Little Indians
The Little Foxes
Late Love
Auntie Mame

1962-1963
Li’l Abner
The Seven Year Itch
The Visit
The Time of Your Life
The Drunkard

1961-1962
The Pleasure of His Company
The Philadelphia Story
Look Homeward, Angel
Send Me No Flowers
The Moon is Blue

1960-1961
No Time For Sergeants
The Girls in 509
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Male Animal
Damn Yankees
A Streetcar Named Desire (Summer Workshop)

1959-1960
The Twelve-Pound Look (closing of the Grand Opera House)
Gigi
The Tender Trap
Death of a Salesman
Blithe Spirit
Romanoff and Juliet

1958-1959
Visit to a Small Planet
Janus
Inherit the Wind
The Mouse Trap
Plain and Fancy

1957-1958
Teahouse of the August Moon
Witness for the Prosecution
Our American Cousin
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Boy Friend

1956-1957
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
My Three Angels
The Rainmaker
Anastasia
Bus Stop

1955-1956
Sabrina Fair
The Curious Savage
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Dial “M” for Murder
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

1954-55
Ah, Wilderness
Stage Door
Time Out For Ginger
The Country Girl
Mister Roberts

1953-1954
Bell, Book and Candle
Stalag 17
The Shrike
Lo! And Behold

1952-1953
Arsenic and Old Lace
Angel in the Pawn Shop
Detective Story
Affairs of State

1951-1952
Born Yesterday
Command Decision
Angel Street
The Happy Time

1950-1951
The Silver Whistle
Our Town
Out of the Frying Pan
Laura
Harvey

1949-1950
An Inspector Calls
Michael Miller
Two Blind Mice
The Hasty Heart

1948-1949
Life With Father
Trial of Mary Dugan
Glass Menagerie
John Loves Mary

1947-1948
Chicken Every Sunday
Jean of Lorraine
State of the Union
I Remember Mama

1946-1947
You Can’t Take It With You
The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Desert Song
My Sister Eileen

1945-1946
Tomorrow the World
Candlelight
Ladies in Retirement
Blithe Spirit

1944-1945
Janie
For Her Ch-e-ild’s Sake
Letters to Lucerne
Over Twenty One
Kiss and Tell

1943-1944
Claudia
Personal Appearance
Whistling in the Dark
Junior Miss

1942-1943
Tonight We Dance
Another Language
Theatre
Minick

1941-1942
George Washington Slept Here
Skylark
Mr. and Mrs. North
Petticoat Fever

1940-1941
The Women
Brother Rat
The Late Christopher Bean
The Show Off

1939-1940
Let Us Be Gay
Kind Lady
Counselor at Law
What a Life

1938-1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Night Must Fall
Gold in the Hills
Our Town

1937-1938
First Lady
Libel
Leaning on Lettie
George and Margaret

1936-1937
The Solid South
The Night of January 16
Seen But Not Heard
Boy Meets Girl

1935-1936
The Bishop Misbehaves
Mrs. Moonlight
Death Takes A Holiday
Accent on Youth

1934-1935
Dover Road
Three Cornered Moon
The Circle
The Enchanted Cottage

1933-1934
As Husbands Go
Hedda Gabler
The First Mrs. Fraser
Ten Nights in a Barroom

1932-1933
The People’s Choice
Outward Bound
Hay Fever
Alice Sit by the Fire

1931-1932
Candida
The Royal Family
Skidding
Rebound
The Thing Called Love

1930-1931
The Queen’s Husband
The Silver Cord
Mr. Pim Passes By
The Woman’s Way

1929-1930
The Show Off
Mary the Third
The First Year
The Haunted House

1927-1928
The Patsy
Sun Up
Kempy
Tommy