Production History of the Theatre Arts Department
1916-present
2023
Jekyll, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Man of No Importance, book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
2022
Agnes of God by John Pielmeier
Festival of One-Act plays:
- Visitor from Forest Hills by Neil Simon | Directed by Will Baird
- Trifles by Susan Glaspell | Directed by Shae Chakraborty
- Blyth Spirit by John Hickman | Directed by Keane Harrison
- Words, Words, Words by David Ives | Directed by Rylan Nelson
- Eulogy by James G. Richardson | Directed by Lauren Cookson
- For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang | Directed by Audrey Zyks
Theatre of the Oppressed
2021
The Mad, Mad Love of Layla and Majnun, a live online multimedia performance, devised by USAO Theatre
The Girl from Andros by Terence, translated by Peter Brown and adapted for performance by Katie Davis, MFA
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2020
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco, translated by Tina Howe
Shakespeare’s Othello, adapted for online reading by Katie Davis, MFA
Desdemona’s Child (Blood Cry) by Caridad Svich (performed live, online)
2019
Songs for A New World by Jason Robert Brown
The School for Lies by Jeffrey Hatcher
2018
The Philadelphia Story
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
2017
Crow and Weasel By Jim Leonard, Jr., Barry Lopez, and John Luther Adams
Also presented in outreach performances for Grand Elementary Schools
“Riders of the Chisholm Trail” – devised outdoor drama in Chickasha
Hecuba by Marina Carr
2016
A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, trans. Mark Ravenhill
“Another Shrew Tamed,” a droll by Katie Davis for Chickasha Shakespeare in the Park
Frank Langella’s CYRANO, performed as a co-production with Oklahoma City Community College
2015
Guys and Dolls
The Servant of Two Masters
2014
Festival of One Acts
- Footfalls
- Naomi in the Living Room
- The Boundary
- Springtime
- Dasvadanya Mama
- Twisted Trees
Bedroom Farce
2013
The Toy Cart (The Little Clay Cart) in modern translation by P. Lal
MANKIND, adapted from the Medieval text by Katie Davis, MFA
2012
Uncle Vanya
KAISER, by Katie Davis, MFA: an expressionist adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
2011
H.M.S. Pinafore
Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches
2010
Far Away
The Matchmaker
2009
West Side Story
Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids (ARTScope)
Lysistrata
2008
Almost, Maine
Annie, Jr. (Co-production with Chickasha Community Theatre)
Twelfth Night
2007
Two Rooms
Honk! Jr. (Co-production with Chickasha Community Theatre)
Chamber Music (Student Directed)
Death of a Salesman
To Gillan on Her 37th Birthday (Reader’s Theatre)
Orange Flower Water (Reader’s Theatre)
The Complete Works (24 Hour Show)
Murder at the Class Reunion (Dinner Theatre)
2006
Pippin
All I really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten
TeAta (World Premiere)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Bug (Reader’s Theatre)
Frozen (Reader’s Theatre)
The Pillowman (Reader’s Theatre)
2005
Sing Me a Story
Some Americans Abroad
2004
The Real Inspector Hound
2003-2000
Unavailable
1999
Unavailable
1998
Arcadia
The Glass Menagerie
1997
Hamlet
Androcles & The Lion
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
1996
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Twilight of the Golds
1995
Much Ado About Nothing
On The Verge
1994
The Taming of the Shrew
Eleemosynary
1993
Twelfth Night
Lips Together, Teeth Apart
1992
The Tempest
Oklahoma!
1991-1990
Unavailable
1989-1987
Unavailable
1986
Once Upon a Mattress
Catch Me If You Can
A Street Car Named Desire
Natural Disasters
Zoo Story
1985
Oliver!
Shadow Box
Madrigal Dinner
Blithe Spirit
I’m Herbert
Patio
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
1984
Song for Sally
Sound of Music
Play it Again, Sam
Madrigal Dinner
Our Town
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Hansel and Gretel
1983
Ten Little Indians
Children of a Lesser God
Chapter Two
Vanities
Medea
Differcus
1982
God’s Favorite
All My Sons
The Second Shepherd’s Play
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Arms and The Man
Pirates of Penzance
1981
Antigone
Wait Until Dark
The Cave Dwellers
The Fantasticks
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
South Pacific
1980
Barefoot in the Park
Buried Child
Two by Two
Brigadoon
The Real Inspector Hound
1979
Godspell
Macbeth
Black Comedy
Harvey
Once Upon a Story
1978
The Rimers of Eldritch
Waiting for Godot
See How They Run
Little Marry Sunshine
The Golden Grotto
1977
The King and I
Our Town
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Charley’s Aunt
Picnic
The Me Nobody Knows
1976-1974
Unavailable
1973
South Pacific
Dancing Donkey
The Second Coming
The Miser
Arms and The Man
1972
Ah! Wilderness
A Phoenix Too Frequent
An Enemy of People
Waltz of the Toreadors
The Great Cross Country Race
Archy and Mehitabel
The Telephone
The Music Man
1971
Requiem for Rosebud
Medea
Dark of the Moon
The Glass Menagerie
1970
Blithe Spirit
Uncle Vanya
Winterset
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
The House of Bernada Alba
Elmira Gritch, The Funny Witch
1969
I Wasn’t Listening
Orphee
Two Pails of Water
The Fantasticks
1968
Tartuffe
Beat the Bunny
Taming of the Shrew
It’s Too Darn Hot
1967
Macbeth
From Morn Till Midnight (Premiere)
1966
Alice in Wonderland
1965
The Glass Menagerie
The Crucible
1964
Once in a Lifetime
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1963
The Book of Job
1962
Peter Pan
1961
As You Like It
The Young and Fair
1960
The Enchanted
1959
Time Remembered
Romeo and Juliet
1958
Julius Caesar
1957
A Woman of No Importance
1956
Life with Mother
The Yellow Jacket
1955
Amal and the Night Visitors
The Heiress
1954
Liliom
The Glass Menagerie
1953
First Lady
The Song of Norway
1952
Elizabeth, The Queen
1951
As You Like It
1950
Anna Christie
As You Like It
Goodbye My Fancy
Antigone
Dream Girl
1949
Joan of Lorraine
Show Biz Revue
The Old Maid
1948
The Firemen’s Flame
Candida
Comedy of Errors
1947
Tovarich
I Remember Mama
The Importance of Being Earnest
Our Town
1946
Quality Street
Twelfth Night
1945
Blithe Spirit
1944
Papa is All
Craig’s Wife
1943
Ladies of the Jury
Ladies in Retirement
The Rivals
The Vinegar Tree
1942
Letter to Lucerne
1941
Kind Lady
The King’s Henchman
Outward Bound
Playboy of the Western World
1940
Family Portrait
The World We Live In
Stage Door
1939
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
Flower of Yedda
Maker of Laws
Magic Tree
Our Town
The Silver Cord
1938
Chalk Dust
Nine Till Six
Androcles and the Lion
The Late Christopher Bean
Prunella
Men Folks
The Man in the Bowler Hat
The Romantic Age
Shakespearean Festival
1937
He Who Gets Slapped
Hay Fever
A Sunday Morning The Women Have Their Way
A Bill of Divorcement
All On a Summer’s Day
The Boy on the Meadow
Pierette’s Christmas
Sunny Morning
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1936
Trelawney of the Wells
The Emperor’s New Clothes
You and I
The Mollusc
1935
The Thunderbolt
The Circle
The Blue Bird
The Importance of Being Earnest
Peer Gynt
The Dumb Wife
Aye, Aye, Sir!
‘Op-O-My-Thumb
1934
Craig’s Wife
The Show-Off
War Brides
Princess Marries the Page
Columbine Madonna
Highness
Happy Go Lucky
1933
The Piper
The Ivory Door
Billeted
The Queen’s Husband
Checkmate
X-O
Trash
Sintram of Skagerac
Things if that-a-way
Dust of the Road
Washington Scene
Three Originals
Twelfth Night
The Cradle Song
1932
Cousin Kate
John Ferguson
Rosalind
The Florist Shop
The Birthday of the Infant
Scene from Washington
Fanny and the Servant Problem
1931
The Mouse
The Rivals
The Merchant of Venice
The Servant in the House
Aria Da Capo
Maker of Dreams
Mansions
Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Dream Scene from Man and Superman
Beauty and Beast (and) Three Pigs
As You Like It
The Lamp and the Bell
1930
The Great Adventure
The First Year
War Brides
The Book of Job
She Stoops to Conquer
The Admirable Crichton
Poor Madalene
Joint Owners in Spain
Box and Cox
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Twelve Pound Look
Will o’ the Wisp
A Sunny Morning
Leah Kleshna
1929
The Ivory Door
War Brides
Pygmalion
1928
Their Twilight
The Romancers
The Importance of Being Earnest
Twelfth Night
The Frogs
1927
The Taming of The Shrew
A Successful Calamity
Happy Go Lucky
Carmen
1926
The School for Scandal
The Man of Destiny
Mr. Pim Passes By
Boccacio’s Untold Tale
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Op-O-Me-Thumb
Rosalind
1925
Disraeli
The Trojan Women
Ermine
1924
The Clod
The Charm School
1923
The First Lady of the Land
The Harlequinade
Jeanne d’ Arc
Cousin Kate
A Slice of Life
French Without a Master
1922
Miss Nelly of N’Orleans
As You Like It
The Book of Job
The Neighbors
The Post Office
1921
Ceasar and Cleopatra
She Stoops to Conquer
Prunella
The Aristocrat
1920
Twelfth Night
The Rivals
The Servant in The House
The Medicine Show
Nevertheless
1919
The Book of Job
Sanctuary
The Maker of Dreams
Riders to the Sea
Pokey
The End of the Way
A Night at an Inn
1918
You Never Can Tell
Food
The Little King
1917
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
Pierrot the Prodigal
The Post Scriptum
Rosalind
The Workhouse Ward
The Minuet
A Fan and Two Candlesticks
1916
The Piper
Shakespeare’s Tercentennial Program
The Taming of The Shrew