Past Shows
1915-16
Polyxena
A Killing Triangle
The Glittering Gate
The Scheming Lieutenant
Dad (1st Production)
A Christmas Miracle Play
The Pretty Sabine Women
Overtones
The Broken God
Dad (2nd Production)
At Steinberg’s
How He Lied to Her Husband
The Game of Chess
The Kisses of Marjorie
Dawn
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets Chicane
The Groove
A Shakespeare Revel
1916-17
A Civil War Pageant
Night with Indiana Authors
Polly of Pogue’s Run
Laughing Gas
The Lost Silk Hat
The Farce of Pierre Patelin
Duty
The Maker of Dreams
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lithuania
Supressed Desires
Cathleen Ni’Hoolihan
Spreading the News
The Rising of the Moon
1917-18
(No records survive)
1918-19
A Pageant of Sunshine and Shadow
The Murderer
(No other records survive)
1919-20
Bernice
Eugenically Speaking
Three Pills in a Bottle
Trespass
The Angel Intrudes
Trespass (2nd Production)
The Shepherd in the Distance
The Star of Bethlehem
Dierdre of the Sorrows
The Jackdaw
Bushido
A Woman’s Honor
Unspoken
Moonshine
Phoebe Louise
The Bank Robbery Mansions
The Dryad & the Deacon Underneath
Stingy
Rococo
1920-21
The Proposal
In Hospital
Behind a Watteau Picture
The Home of the Free
The Blind
The Medicine Show
Aria Da Capo
Mary Broome
The Star of Bethlehem (2nd Production)
The Mollusc
Mary’s Lamb
The Emperor Jones
The Beauty Editor
Sham
The Confession
The Lotion of Love
1921-22
Release
The Dragon
The Spring
A Nativity Play
The Constant Lover
Androcles & the Lion
The Forest Ring
Beyond the Horizon
Everyman
The Betrothal Cake
Disarmament
The Casino Gardens
Children of the Moon
Belinda
Not According to Hoyle
A Scrambled Romance
(silent film)
1922-23
The Trysting Place
The Price of Coal
The Turtle Dove
Brothers
Two Dollars, Please!
The Marriage Gown
Dad (3rd Production)
Sycamore Shadders
Nocturne
Treason
Where Do We Go From Here?
The Wish Fellow
Father and the Boys
My Lady Make-Believe
A Shakespeare Revel (2nd Production)
1923-24
March Hares
The Bountiful Lady
The Wren
The Doctor of Lonesome Folk
Why Marry?
Hidden Spirits (a.k.a. The Blue Bowl)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Alice in Wonderland
Twelfth Night
1924-25
The Torch Bearers
Mary the Third
Fashion
Ten Minutes by the Clock
The Box of Toys
Children of the Moon (2nd Production)
Everyman (2nd Production)
Candida
1925-26
Minick
The Whole Town’s Talking Christmas Shopping
E. and O. E.
Green Chartreuse
The Monkey’s Paw
*Treasure Island
Everyman (3rd Production)
Ariadne
*First play presented at new theatre
at 19th & Alabama.
1926-27
The Enchanted April
The Drums of Oude
The Horn of Plenty
Rossum’s Universal
Robots
Two Weeks Off
The Liar
The Stepmother
The Horn of Plenty
The Adding Machine
Seen in the Rue Morgue
Meet the Mrs.
Aren’t We All? (2nd Production)
Alice in Wonderland (2nd Production)
1927-28
The Enchanted Cottage
An Enemy of the People
Androcles and the Lion (2nd Production)
Judge Lynch
Right You Are (If You Think You Are)
John Ferguson
Children’s plays
1928-29
Hay Fever
The Queen’s Husband
At Mrs. Beam’s
The Wild Duck
The Mask & the Face
Beau Brummel
The Steadfast Tin Soldier Machinal
Pomander Walk
The Thirteenth Chair
CIVIC THEATRE OF INDIANAPOLIS
1929-30
The Lillies of the Field
Holy Night
A Sunny Morning
A Lady from Alfaqueque
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair
The Marquise
Ten Nights in a Barroom (or Manhood Shattered)
The Silver Cord
The Racket
Liliom
1930-31
The Royal Family
Spread Eagle
Chicago
Hotel Universe
Rope’s End
Holiday
Ned McCob’s Daughter
The Second Man
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1931-32
Let Us Be Gay
Robin Hood
The Love Match
The S. S. Tenacity
In a Garden
The Racketty Packetty House
The Camel Through the Needle’s Eye
I’ll Leave It to You
The Sacred Flame
Saint’s Paradise
Mrs. Partridge Presents
The Importance of Being Earnest (2nd Production)
1932-33
As Husbands Go
He Who Gets Slapped
The Vinegar Tree
Young Wooley
The Front Page
The First Mrs. Fraser
The Cradle Song
1933-34
Once In a Lifetime
Rebound
Hedda Gabler
June Moon
Magnolia
Brief Moment
Seventeen (2nd Production)
The Three-Cornered Moon
The Devil Passes
1934-35
A Church Mouse
Riddle Me This
Both Your Houses
Meet My Sister
Mary Tudor
The Late Christopher Bean
Her Master’s Voice
1935-36
The Bishop Misbehaves
The Faun
Louder, Please!
Kind Lady
Hold Your Hats!
Post Road
Accent on Youth
1936-37
If This Be Treason
Fly Away Home
Libel
Biography
Speak of the Devil
Home Chat
Secret Service
The Torch Bearers (2nd Production)
1937-38
No More Ladies
The Night of January 16
Rain from Heaven
The First Legion
Lady Windemere’s Fan
Small Miracle
1938-39
High Tor
Tonight at 8:30
Double Door
Happy Journey
Up She Goes!
The Masque of Kings
Oliver, Oliver
1939-40
When Ladies Meet
Night Must Fall
Personal Appearance
Knickerbocker Holiday
What a Life!
The Gentle People
1940-41
Of Thee I Sing
See My Lawyer
Two on an Island
Love from a Stranger
Private Lives
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
1941-42
Burlesque
Flight to the West
The Women
Ladies in Retirement
Ah! Wilderness
The Gondoliers
The Guardsman
1942-43
Eve of St. Mark
Out of the Frying Pan
Skylark
Boy Meets Girl
Suspect
Jason
Ten-Minute Alibi
It Never Rains
1943-44
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Philadelphia Story
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Claudia
The Pirates of Penzance
Hamlet
Ladies in Waiting
1944-45
My Sister Eileen
The Little Foxes
Theatre
Distinguished Gathering
H.M.S. Pinafore
You Can’t Take It With You
On Borrowed Time
Junior Miss
1945-46
The Male Animal
A Bill of Divorcement
Kiss and Tell
Papa is All
Uncle Harry
Alice Adams
Blithe Spirit
Snafu
1946-47
Three Men on a Horse Outward Bound
Over Twenty-One
January Thaw
Angel Street
Foolish Notion
Laura
Three’s a Family
1947-48
The First Lady
In Pursuit of Happiness (1st Production)
Ten Little Indians
Joan of Lorraine
Guest in the House
Thunder Rock
Dear Ruth
I Like it Here
1948-49
State of the Union
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Brother Rat
All My Sons
Dream Girl
John Loves Mary
I Remember Mama
Room Service
1949-50
Command Decision
The Hasty Heart
The Village Green
Edward My Son
The Final Weakness
An Inspector Calls
Two Blind Mice
Joy to the World
1950-51
For Love or Money
Good Housekeeping
Goodbye, My Fancy
The Man
The Silver Whistle
The Heiress
Light Up the Sky
Love Me Along
1951-52
Seventeen (3rd Production)
Elizabeth the Queen
Mr. Barry’s Etchings
The Curious Savage
Mr. Angel
My Dear Children
Portrait in Black
Harvey
1952-53
The Happy Time
High Ground
The Play’s the Thing
Death of a Salesman
O Mistress Mine
The Mikado
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Ring Around Elizabeth
1953-54
Affairs of State
Strange Bedfellows
Detective Story
Jane
Bell, Book and Candle
Home at Seven
The Moon is Blue
Glad Tidings
1954-55
My Three Angels
Gently Does It
Late Love
Darkness at Noon
Sabrina Fair
Time Out for Ginger
Life with Father
Remains to Be Seen
1955-56
The Women (2nd Production)
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
Gigi
Dial “M” for Murder
The Fourposter
Reclining Figure
The Seven-Year Itch
The Rainmaker
1956-57
The First Lady
Pygmalion
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Tender Trap
The Desperate Hours
See How They Run
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Mr. Roberts
1957-58
Teahouse of the August Moon
Witness for the Prosecution
The Desk Set
Janus
The Lark
The Great Sebastians
The Magnificent Yankee
You Can’t Take It With You (2nd Production)
1958-59
Southern Exposure
The Traitor
Happy Birthday
Miranda
Inherit the Wind
The Happiest Millionaire
Born Yesterday
Visit to a Small Planet
1959-60
No Time for Sergeants
Picnic
King of Hearts
Tall Story
Ladies in Retirement (2nd Production)
Our Town
The Girls in 509
Life with Mother
1960-61
Julius Caesar
Third Best Sport
Years Ago
The Mousetrap
The Golden Fleece
Another Part of the Forest
The Late George Appley
Blithe Spirit (2nd Production)
1961-62
Three Men on a Horse (2nd Production)
The Captain’s Paradise
Speaking of Murder
A Majority of One
The Country Girl
The Pleasure of His Company
In Pursuit of Happiness (2nd Production)
The Marriage-Go-Round
1962-63
The Crucible
The Spider’s Web
James Thurber Carnival
Blood, Sweat & Stanley Poole
The Miracle Worker
Waltz of the Toreadors
The Patriots
Critic’s Choice
1963-64
Rhinoceros
Two Blind Mice (2nd Production)
I Remember Mama (2nd Production)
Oh Men! Oh Women!
Advise and Consent
Once More with Feeling
Roman Candle
A Shot in the Dark
1964-65
Clarence
Harvey (2nd Production)
Life with Father (2nd Production)
The Moon is Blue (2nd Production)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (2nd Production)
The Women (3rd Production)
Strange Bedfellows (2nd Production)
You Can’t Take It With You (3rd Production)
1965-66
Never Too Late
The Sound of Murder
Send Me No Flowers
Sunday in New York
A Man for All Seasons
Take Her, She’s Mine
The Silver Whistle (2nd Production)
Calculated Risk
1966-67
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
A Streetcar Named Desire
Dear Me, the Sky is Falling
Mary, Mary (1st Production)
All the King’s Men
A Thousand Clowns
Jane
Absence of a Cello
1967-68
The Rainmaker
Any Wednesday
A Case of Libel
Barefoot in the Park
Wake Up, Darling
The Odd Couple
The First Lady (2nd Production)
The Festival
1968-69
The Seven-Year Itch (2nd Production)
The Gazebo
The Visit
Generations
The Rape of the Belt
Love in E-flat
Goodbye, Charlie
The Bat
1969-70
Star-Spangled Girl
The Chalk Garden
My Three Angels
Luv
Cactus Flower
Halfway Up the Tree
Wait Until Dark
You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running
1970-71
Dream Girl (2nd Production)
I Never Sang for My Father
Don’t Drink the Water
The Little Foxes (2nd Production)
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (2nd Production)
Sabrina Fair (2nd Production)
The Price
My Sister Eileen (2nd Production)
1971-72
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Black Comedy/White Liars
Sheep on the Runway
Plaza Suite
The Deadly Game
Catch Me If You Can
On Borrowed Time (2nd Production)
Spofford
1972-73
Bus Stop
Anniversary Waltz
Post Road (2nd Production)
Death of a Salesman (2nd Production)
The Marriage-Go-Round (2nd Production)
Arsenic and Old Lace (2nd Production)
Affairs of State (2nd Production)
The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers
1973-74
Jabberwock
Paris is Out
Butterflies are Free
Dial “M” for Murder (2nd Production)
Mary, Mary (2nd Production)
The Miracle Worker (2nd Production)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
You Can’t Take It With You (4th Production)
1974-75
The Pleasure of His Company (2nd Production)
Summer and Smoke
The Sound of Murder (2nd Production)
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Four in a Garden
Three Men on a Horse (3rd Production)
Finishing Touches
The Front Page (2nd Production)
1975-76
George Washington Slept Here
The Desperate Hours (2nd Production)
Life with Father (3rd Production)
Avanti!
The Glass Menagerie
The Time of Your Life
Bell, Book and Candle (2nd Production)
George M! (1st Production)
1976-77
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
A Raisin in the Sun
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Play It Again, Sam
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Except for Susie Finkle
The Sunshine Boys
Damn Yankees
1977-78
Forty Carats
The Innocents
Little Mary Sunshine
Member of the Wedding
The Petrified Forest
The Fantasticks
6 Rms Riv Vu
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1978-79
Auntie Mame
Strange Bedfellows (3rd Production)
The Boy Friend
Dark of the Moon
Blithe Spirit (3rd Production)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Guys and Dolls (1st Production)
1979-80
Cabaret (1st Production)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The Norman Conquests
Carnival
Imaginary Invalid
Anything Goes (1st Production)
Water Engine ©
Home ©
Streamers ©
1980-81
The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue
Pippin
The Wizard of Oz (1st Production)
The Lion in Winter
Harvey (3rd Production)
My Fair Lady
Carnival of Life Without Intermission ©
Joe Egg ©
Small Craft Warnings ©
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf ©
Loose Ends ©
1981-82
Kiss Me, Kate
First Monday in October
Cinderella
The Philadelphia Story (2nd Production)
Sly Fox
Camelot
Ceremonies of Dark Old Men
The Gin Game ©
Getting Out ©
Faith Healers ©
1982-83
Raisin
Arsenic and Old Lace (3rd Production)
The Music Man (1st Production)
A Streetcar Named Desire (2nd Production)
The Country Wife
Annie Get Your Gun
Veronica’s Room ©
Miss Moffat (C on Mainstage. starring Ginger Rogers)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ©
The Au Pair Man ©
1983-84
Grease
Deathtrap (1st Production)
The Wizard of Oz (2nd Production)
All the King’s Men (2nd Production)
Tons of Money
Talley’s Folly
Brigadoon
The Woolgatherer ©
My Sister in this House ©
The Effect of Gamma Rays ©
Buckle Up a New Shoe ©
The Dining Room ©
1984-85
Can-Can
Charley’s Aunt
Peter Pan (1st Production)
On Golden Pond
Barefoot in the Park (2nd Production)
Oklahoma!
Le Cafe Concert ©
Come Back Little Sheba ©
The Boys in the Band ©
Bubbling Brown Sugar ©
Extremities ©
1985-86
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
See How They Run (2nd Production)
Annie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2nd Production)
Cole
Same Time Next Year
Guys and Dolls (black) (2nd Production)
K2 ©
The Wake of Jamey Foster ©
Zooman and the Sign ©
Hooker’s Night Off ©
Requiem in G ©
1986-87
Huck and Jim
Born Yesterday (2nd Production)
The Music Man (2nd Production)
The Little Foxes (3rd Production)
1776
Alone Together
Barnum
The Legacy ©
Audition for the Company ©
The Dining Room © (2nd Production)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ ©
1987-88
South Pacific
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Wizard of Oz (3rd Production)
Picnic (2nd Production)
The Fantasticks (2nd Production)
Noises Off!
No, No, Nanette
The Velveteen Rabbit (JC)
Home ©
The Nest ©
Vanities ©
Candida © (2nd Production)
Look Back in Anger ©
1988-89
My Fair Lady (2nd Production)
The Foreigner
Peter Pan (2nd Production)
Our Town (2nd Production)
Pump Boys & Dinettes
Harvey (4th Production)
George M! (2nd Production)
Babes in Toyland (JC)
Nobody Needs to Know ©
Pippin © (2nd Production)
1989-90
Hello, Dolly!
The Miracle Worker (3rd Production)
Cinderella (2nd Production)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (3rd Production)
The 1940’s Radio Hour
Broadway Bound
The Pirates of Penzance
Alice in Wonderland (JC)
1990-91
Little Abner
Diary of Anne Frank
Cinderella (3rd Production)
The Women
Godspell
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
42nd Street
Really Rosie (JC)
A Chorus Line (YA)
1991-92
West Side Story
Of Mice and Men
The Wizard of Oz (4th Production)
The Male Animal (2nd Production)
Nunsense
Not Now, Darling!
Me and My Girl
Pinnochio (Picnic Playhouse)
Grease (YA)
The Melting Pot ©
Willie Wonka (JC)
1992-93
The King and I
The Crucible (2nd Production)
Peter Pan (3rd Production)
A Few Good Men
HMS Pinafore (2nd Production)
Lend Me A Tenor (1st Production)
A Chorus Line (1st Production)
Alice in Wonderland (PP)
Dames at Sea (YA)
1993-94
Anything Goes
To Kill A Mockingbird
Cinderella
Amadeus (1st Production)
The All-Nite Strut
Social Security
La Cage Aux Folles
Mountain Molly (PP)
Into the Woods (YA)
1994-95
The Pajama Game
Flowers for Algernon
The Wizard of Oz (5th Production)
The Glass Menagerie (2nd Production)
Forever Plaid
Run For Your Wife
Show Boat
James and The Giant Peach (JC)
The Secret Garden (YA)
1995-96
Dreamgirls
Inherit the Wind (2nd Production)
Peter Pan (4th Production)
Murder on the Nile
1776 (2nd Production)
Rumors
Into the Woods (2nd Production)
The Hobbit (JC)
1996-97
Sophisticated Ladies
Driving Miss Daisey
Babes in Toyland
Miracle Worker (4th Production)
I Hate Hamlet
Crazy for You
Lost in Yonkers
How to Eat Like a Child (JC)
Sweeney Todd (YA)
1997-98
The Will Rogers Follies
The Crucifer of Blood
The Crucible (3rd Production)
The Wizard of Oz (6th Production)
Fiddler on the Roof
You Can’t Take it With You
Charlotte’s Web (JC)
Bye Bye Birdie (YA)
1998-99
Oklahoma! (2nd Production)
The Member of the Wedding (2nd Production)
Peter Pan (5th Production)
The Cemetery Club
Singin’ in the Rain
Deathtrap (2nd Production)
The Who’s Tommy (YA)
1999-2000
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2nd Production)
The Diary of Anne Frank (3rd Production)
The Wizard of Oz (7th Production)
Wait Until Dark (2nd Production)
Meet Me In St Louis
Moon Over Buffalo
The Velveteen Rabbit (JC)
Pippin (YA) (2nd Production)
2000-01
City of Angels
Our Town (3rd Production)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1st Production)
Crossing Delancey
Guys & Dolls (3rd Production)
The Nerd
Rumpelstiltskin (JC)
Damn Yankees (YA)
2001-02
Sweet Charity
To Kill A Mockingbird (2nd Production)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2nd Production)
The Man Who Came To Dinner (4th Production)
Anything Goes (3rd Production)
Sunshine Boys (2nd Production)
The Trial of Goldilocks (JC)
Grease (YA) (3rd Production)
2002-03
1776 (3rd Production)
Death of A Salesman
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (3rd Production)
Steel Magnolias
Kiss Me, Kate
Lend Me A Tenor (2nd Production)
The Curious Quest for the Sandman’s Sand (JC)
The Secret Garden (YA)
2003-04
Big River
The Diary of Anne Frank (SM)
Master Class
The Wizard of Oz (8th Production)
Swing!
The King and I
Noises Off
Once Upon A Shoe (JC)
Hair (YA)
2004-05
Barnum
The Miracle Worker (SM) (5th Production)
Terra Nova
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (4th Production)
Smokey Joe’s Café
Damn Yankees
The Foreigner
Twelve Dancing Princesses (JC)
Working (YA)
2005-06
Annie Get Your Gun (2nd Production)
The Crucible
Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (1st Production)
The 1940s Radio Hour (2nd Production)
Ragtime
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Rumplestiltskin (JC)
2006-07
Little Women
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (2nd Production)
Nunsense (2nd Production)
42nd Street (2nd Production)
Always…Patsy Cline
Charlotte’s Web (JC)
2007-08
Aida
Of Mice and Men (SM)
On Golden Pond
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (5th Production)
My Way
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Leading Ladies
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (JC)
2008-09
Little Shop of Horrors
Golda’s Balcony
The Wizard of Oz (9th Production)
Enchanted April
West Side Story
Twentieth Century
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (JC)
2009-10
Evita
The Elephant Man
The Wizard of Oz (10th Production)
Bus Stop (2nd Production)
Carousel
A Flea in Her Ear
Velveteen Rabbit (JC) (2nd Production)
Schoolhouse Rock (Children’s Theatre)
Pump Boys and Dinettes (Summer show) (2nd Production)
Camelot (Concert)
My Fair Lady (Concert)
BOOTH TARKINGTON CIVIC THEATRE
2010-11
Annie (2nd Production)
The Belle of Amherst
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (6th Production)
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Cabaret
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (2nd Production)
Schoolhouse Rock (Children’s Theatre) (2nd Production)
Rent (Summer Concert)
Miss Saigon (Concert)
Beanstalk! The Musical! (JC)
2011-2012
The Drowsy Chaperone
Amadeus (2nd Production)
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka
Lend Me A Tenor (3rd Production)
Guys and Dolls (4th Production)
Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Children’s Theatre) (3rd Production)
Once Upon a Shoe (JC) (2nd Production)
Broadway-Palooza (YAP)
2012-2013
A Chorus Line (2nd Production)
The Woman in Black
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (7th Production)
The Fox on the Fairway
Into the Woods
Beanstalk! The Musical! (JC) (2nd Production)