Current Season: 2024-25
SOU Theatre is proud to offer a variety of plays annually for practical student experience as well as a creative outlet.
Musem
By Tina Howe
Directed by David Kelly
November 14 – 24, 2024
The Merry Wives of Windsor
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Michael J. Hume
February 20 – March 2, 2025
Blood Wedding
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Mildred Ruiz-Sapp
May 22 – June 1, 2025
To learn more about each performance, a list of dates, attendance protocols, and how to purchase tickets, please go to the OCA Box Office page here.
Past Productions
2023-2024
The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Domenique Lozano
November 11-19, 2023
Xanadu
Book by Douglass Carter Beane
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar
February 15 – 25, 2024
Pericles
By William Shakespeare
Directed by David McCandless
May 16 – 26, 2024
2022-2023
Fall Term
Hearts Like Fists
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by David McCandless
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jackie Apodaca
Winter Term
What Happened While Hero Was Dead
by Meghan Brown
Directed by: Holly Derr
The Lady’s Not for Burning
by Christopher Fry
Director: Michael Hume
Spring Term
Everybody
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Vaun Monroe
SOU Dance Concert
Directed by Suzanne Seiber
2021-2022
Fall Term
Words from a Cuban Father
Written and Performed by Alina Ceñal
Directed by James Donlon
Winter Term
A Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Steven Sapp
The Servant of Two Masters
By Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Brendan McMahon
Spring Term
Cancelled: Hearts Like Fists
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by David McCandless
Cancelled: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jackie Apodaca
2020-2021
Fall 2020 – Remote
The Government Inspector
By Nikolai Gogol
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Winter 2021 – Remote
Polaroid Stories
By Naomi Iizuka
Alcestis
By Euripedes
2019-2020
Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen – Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz
November 7-9 and 14-17, 2019
Angels in America: Perestroika
By Tony Kushner
November 14-16 and 21-24, 2019
If/Then
Musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
February 20-22, and February 27-March 1, 2020
A Vampire Story
By Moira Buffini
Pericles
By William Shakespeare
2018-2019
Small Mouth Sounds
By Bess Wohl
November 1-3 and 8-11, 2018
Into the Woods
Book by James Lapine, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
November 8-10 and 15-18, 2018
Electra
By Sophocles
February 21-23, 28 and March 1-3, 2019
Hay Fever
By Noel Coward
February 28-March 2 and March 7-10, 2019
Silkworms
By Isabel Nelson and Anne Bertram
May 16-18 and May 23-26, 2019
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
By Tony Kushner
May 23-25 and May 30-31 and June 1-2, 2019
2017-2018
Mr. Burns
By Anne Washburn
November 10-19, 2017
Arabian Nights
By Mary Zimmerman
November 11 – 19, 2017
She Kills Monsters
By Qui Nguyen
February 15-25, 2018
The Rover
By Aphra Behn
March 1-11, 2018
A Man of No Importance
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty, Book by Terence McNally
May 10-20, 2018
Dear Brutus
By J. M. Barrie
May 24-June 3, 2018
2016-2017
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
November 10-20,2016
Shakespeare’s Other Women
By Scott Kaiser
February 16-19, 2017
Spring Awakening
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater; Music by Duncan Sheik
March 9-12, 2017
The Summer People
By Maxim Gorky
May 11-14, 2017
Peter and the Starcatcher
By Rick Elice; Music by Wayne Barker
May 20-28, 2017
2015-2016
Caliban’s Dreams
By James Donlon
November 6−15, 2015
Seagull
By Anton Chekhov, Adapted by Libby Appel from the literal translation by Allison Horsley
November 12−22, 2015
SOU Young Playwrights Showcase
February 4−7, 2016
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
March 3−6, 2016
Secret Garden
Book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon
May 12−15, 2016
Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
May 27−29, 2016
2014-2015
The Drunken City
By Adam Bock
November 6-16, 2014
Red Noses
By Peter Barnes
November 13-23, 2014
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
February 19-March 1, 2015
She Stoops to Conquer
By Oliver Goldsmith
February 26-March 8, 2015
The Winter’s Tale
By William Shakespeare
May 21-31, 2015
2013-2014
The White Fugue
Devised and directed by James Donlon
November 7–17, 2013
Our Town
By Thornton Wilder
November 14–24, 2013
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By Richard R. George, based on Roald Dahl’s novel
February 21–March 9, 2014
Arms and the Man
By George Bernard Shaw
February 27–March 9, 2014
Little Shop of Horrors
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken
May 15–June 1, 2014
The Meta
By David McCandless
l Children
By Adam Rapp
May 22–June 1, 2014
2012-2013
Marisol
By José Rivera
November 1–11, 2012
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekov, adapted by Libbey Appel
November 8–18, 2012
The Cyrano Project
Adapted by Jo Roet from the Edmond Rostand play with additional material by Hilary Tate
February 22–March 10, 2013
Invisible Threads
February 28–March 10, 2013
Avenue Q
Book by Jeff Whitty Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
May 16–June 2, 2013
The Illusion
By Pierre Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner
May 23–June 2, 2013
2011-2012
Dog Sees God
By Bert V. Royal
November 3–13, 2011
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
November 10–20, 2011
Raccoon Earns His Stripes
By Brent Florendo
February 24–March 11, 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
March 1–11, 2012
La Terrasse
By Jean-Claude Carriére
May 10–20, 2012
Lucky Stiff
Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty
May 17–June 3, 2012
2010-2011
Taking Steps
By Alan Ayckbourn
November 4-14, 2010
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
November 11-21, 2010
Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass
Adapted by Craig Jessen
February 11-27, 2011
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
February 17-27, 2011
The Shape of Things
By Neil LaBute
May 12-22, 2011
You Can’t Take It With You
By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
May 19-29, 2011
2009-2010
Blithe Spirit
By Noël Coward
November 12-22, 2009
Anton in Show Business
By Jane Martin
November 5-15, 2009
Johnny Johnson (The Biography of a Common Man)
Book and Lyrics by Paul Green, Music by Kurt Weill
February 11-28, 2010
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
By Gale Childs Daly
February 12-28, 2010
Wild Oats
By John O’Keeffe
May 13-23, 2010
Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
May 13-23, 2010
2008-2009
Ring Round the Moon
By Jean Anouilh
November 13-23, 2008 in the Center Stage Theatre
An Enemy of the People
By Henrik Ibsen
November 6-16, 2008 in the Center Square Theatre
Anna in the Tropics
By Nilo Cruz
February 19-March 1, 2009 in the Center Stage Theatre
Dick Whittington and His Amazing Cat
By Pat Hume
February 13-March 1, 2009 in the Center Square Theatre
Love’s Labor’s Lost
By William Shakespeare
May 21-31, 2009 in the Center Stage Theatre
Icarus
By Edwin Sánchez
May 14-24, 2009 in the Center Square Theatre
2007-2008
Women of War
Adaptation by Hilary Tate of Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women by Euripides
November 1-11, 2007 in the Center Square Theatre
Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
November 8-18, 2007 in the Center Stage Theatre
Many Moons
By James Thurber; Adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning
February 15-March 2, 2008 in the Center Square Theatre
Urinetown
By Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis
February 21-March 9, 2008 in the Center Stage Theatre
Hunting Cockroaches
By Janusz Glowacki, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka
May 15-25, 2008 in the Center Square Theatre
Metamorphoses
By Mary Zimmerman
May 22-June 1, 2008 in the Center Stage Theatre
2006-2007
The White Plague
By Karel Capek
November 2-12, 2006
The Philadelphia Story
By Philip Barr
November 9-19, 2006
The Phantom Tollbooth
Adapted by Susan Nanus from Norton Juster’s novel
February 16-March 4, 2007
Hotel Paradiso
By Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres, translated by Peter Glenville
March 1-11, 2007
Swimming in the Shallows
By Adam Bock
May 17-27, 2007
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
May 24-June 3, 2007
2005-2006
Who’s Happy Now?
By Oliver Hailey
November 3-12, 2005
Big Love
By Charles L. Mee
November 10-19, 2005
The Jungle Book
By Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Monica Flory
February 24-March 5, 2006
Entertaining Strangers
By David Edgar, music by Bo Leyden
March 2-12, 2006
Ghosts
By Henrik Ibsen translated by Lanford Wilson
May 11-21, 2006
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
By Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim
May 18-June 4, 2006
2004-2005
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
November 11-21, 2004
The Threepenny Opera
Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein
February 3-19, 2005
Fable Tales
Adapted from Aesop by Maggie McClellan
February 25-March 6, 2005
The Water Engine
By David Mamet
May 5-15, 2005
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
May 12-28, 2005
2003-2004
Quilters
By Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek
November 6-23, 2003
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
By Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence
November 13-23, 2003
Toad of Toadhall
By A.A. Milne, adapted by Grahame Kenneth
February 19-March 7, 2004
Phedra
By Jean Racine; Translated by Paul Schmidt
February 26-March 7, 2004
Comic Potential
By Alan Ayckbourn
May 6-16, 2004
The Matchmaker
By Thornton Wilder
May 13-30, 2004
2002-2003
Parallel Lives
By Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy
November 7-10, 2002
The Oresteia
By Aeschylus; Translated by Ted Hughes
November 14-24, 2002
Winnie the Pooh
By A.A. Milne; Adapted by Steven C. Anderson
February 20-March 2, 2003
The House of Blue Leaves
By John Guare
February 27-March 9, 2003
Dream of a Common Language
By Heather McDonald
May 8-18, 2003
The Man With a Load of Mischief
By Ben Tarver, music by John Clifton, lyrics by Ben Tarver and John Clifton
May 15-June 1, 2003
2001-2002
Raised in Captivity
By Nicky Silver
November 1-4, 2001
The Laramie Project
By Moises Kaufmann
November 8-18, 2001
Measure for Measure
By William Shakespeare
February 14-24, 2002
Scapin!
By Moliere; Adapted by Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnell
February 21-March 10, 2002
Keely and Du
By Jane Martin
May 9-12, 2002
Cabaret
By Joe Masteroff; Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb
May 16-June 2, 2002
2000-2001
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
November 2-5, 2000
Dracula
By Steven Diet; Based on Bram Stoker’s novel
November 9-19, 2000
Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett
February 15-18, 2001
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
By John Bishop
February 22-March 11, 2001
Zastrozzi
By George F. Walker
May 17-20, 2001
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
May 24-June 3, 2001
1999-2000
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By Tony Kushner
November 11-21, 1999
BORN Yesterday
By Garson Kanin
February 17-March 5, 2000
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
By Tom Stoppard
May 18-28, 2000
The Medea
By Euripides, adapted by Robinson Jeffers
November 4-7, 1999
‘night Mother
By Marsha Norman
January 19-21, 2000
Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner, translated by Dr. Dale Luciano and Ruth Rush
February 10-13, 2000
On the Verge
By Eric Overmyer
May 11-14, 2000
Contact the Theatre Program
SOU Theatre Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6346
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