HISTORY

PRODUCTION HISTORY
ESTABLISHED IN 1910
2020-2025
2024-2025
- “What Happened to Brunch?” by Summer Film Camp 2024
- Twisted River of Temptation by Kyle & Stephanie Klapatauskas
- The One-Day Play 2024
- The Lightning Thief by Joe Tracz, music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki, adapted from the book by Rick Riordan
- The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
- The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis
2023-2024
- The One-Day Play 2023
- Ride the Cyclone (The Musical) by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
- Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
- 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Don Zolidis
2022-2023
- The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock and the novel by John Buchan
- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
- Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock
2021-2022
- The One-Day Play 2021
- 44th Annual DBQ One-Act Festival (co-produced with the Dubuque Fine Art Players)
“Lighted Fools” by Bridget Grace Sheaff
“A Lovely Day for a Boat Trip (and to Kill your Spouse)” by Lindsey Brown
“Grey” by Kristen Benjamin - Gremlins: An Unauthorized Audio Play adapted from the screenplay by Chris Columbus
- No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
2020-2021
- The One-Day (Digital) Play 2020
- The War of the Worlds adapted by Howard E. Koch, from the novel by H.G. Wells
- Miracle on 34th Street adapted by the Lux Radio Theater
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
2010-2020
2019-2020
- Loras College: The Musical by Kyle & Stephanie Klapatauskas
- The One-Day Play 2019
- Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- A Christmas Carol adapted by Joe Landry, from the novel by Charles Dickens
- She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (Cancelled for COVID-19)
2018-2019
- The One-Day Play 2018
- Around the World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown, from the novel by Jules Verne
- It’s a Wonderful Life adapted by Joe Landry from the film by Frank Capra
- No Mud, No Lotus adapted from the book by Thich Nhat Hahn
- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman
2017-2018
- 1440 Project
- The Illusion
- For A Blessed Christmas
- Darkness Visible
2016-2017
- Twisted River of Redemption
- One-Day Theatre Project
- A Flea in Her Ear
- Christmas Celebrations
- Public Dilemma
2015-2016
- 24-Hour Theatre Project
- Feiffer’s People
- For a Blessed Christmas
- Jesus, Shakespeare & Amelia Earhart Run into a Wall
- Blacklight Shakespeare
2014-2015
- Twisted River of Deception
- Sounds of Christmas
- R.U.R. (guest director Lenore Howard)
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2013-2014
- 24-Hour Theatre Project
- Christmas Joy
- Lend Me a Tenor
2012-2013
- Twisted River of Temptation
- 24-Hour Theatre Project
- Adding Machine
- ‘Tis the Season
- Murder by Insanity
- The Good Woman of Setzuan
- Blacklight Shakespeare
2011-2012
- 24-Hour Theatre Project
- Tales by Twain
- Magic of Christmas
- The Mousetrap
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2010-2011
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- For a Joyous Christmas
2000-2010
2009-2010
- Urinetown
- Scratch Play
- Noises Off
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2008-2009 (100-Year Anniversary)
- Hamlet (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
- The World Goes ‘Round (alumni showcase, guest director Erin Horst)
- Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2007-2008
- Shakespeare’s Voices
- Give Me Your Answer, Do
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
- Scratch Play: That’s Life
- Little Women
2006-2007
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- All About Jack
- J.B.
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2005-2006
- Company
- The Miser
- The Jeweler’s Shop
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2004-2005
- Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille
- Captain Rounding and the Ring Raiders
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Tom Foolery
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2003-2004
- The Dead
- Lysistrata
- Waiting for Godot
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2002-2003
- The Cotton Patch Gospel
- Nick Tickle: Fairy Tale Detective
- Spring into Easter
- Bullshot Cummond
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
2001-2002
- Forever Plaid
- Conversations with an Absurdist
“A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot”
“Letters From Me to You & P. S. Thanks for Coming”
“Interview”
“The Zoo Story”
“The Attack of the Moral Fuzzies” - Quilters
2000-2001
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- Clue (The Musical)
- Christmas Classics on the Air
- Fabulous Fable Factory
- I Never Saw Another Butterfly
- Way Off-Broadway on Loras
“Embryo”
“The Brink of Silence”
“The First Time Club”
“Narcissus and Echo”
“Triplet”
“Hello out There”
1990-2000
1999-2000
- Mark
- Romeo and Juliet
- Half-Past Wednesday
1998-1999
- Where’s Charley
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Alice in Wonderland
1997-1998
- One Upon a Mattress
- Of Mice and Men
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
1996-1997
- The Apple Tree
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Wheels
1995-1996
- Camelot
- Inherit the Wind
- Cinderella
1994-1995
- Damn Yankees
- Our Town
- Storybook Magic
1993-1994
- Oklahoma
- Scrooge. Marley and Company
- You Can’t Take it With You
- Magical Gifts and Dragons
1992-1993
- Guys and Dolls
- The Skin of Our Teeth
- Pinocchio
1991-1992
- Grease
- Shrapnel in the Heart
- The House at Pooh Corner
1990-1991
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- All My Sons
- The Inside Pitch
1980-1990
1989-1990
- Lil’ Abner
- The Silver Whistle
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
1988-1989
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Blithe Spirit
- Little Lulu
1987-1988
- Mark
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up
1986-1987
- Bells are Ringing
- Theatre Muses
- Wheels
1985-1986
- The Gin Game
- Man of La Mancha
- Scrooge
- Servant of Two Masters
- Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
1984-1985
- Cindy
- Spoon River Anthology
- Jack and the Beanstalk
1983-1984
- Annie
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Beauty and the Beast
1982-1983
- The Pirates of Penzance
- No More … No Less
- The Miracle Worker
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
1981-1982
- Babes in Arms
- Night of January 16th
- Alice in Wonderland
1980-1981
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- Where’s Charley
- Dinny and the Witches
- A Potpourri
1970-1980
1979-1980
- Something’s Afoot
- Wait Until Dark
- Night Must Fall
- Cinderella
1978-1979
- The Apple Tree
- The Little Foxes
- Count Dracula
1977-1978
- Shenandoah
- The Glass Menagerie
- Harvey
- Rapunzel and the Witch
1976-1977
- The King and I
- Catch Me if You Can
- Thurber Carnival
- Dr. Gray Matter’s Dilemma
1975-1976
- Once Upon a Mattress
- 3 by Three + One
- The Twin Menaechmi
- Half-Past Wednesday
- I am an American
1974-1975
- Death of a Salesman
- Spoon River Anthology
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
- Little Mary Sunshine
1973-1974
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Guys and Dolls
- The Taming of the Shrew
1972-1973
- Of Thee I Sing
- John Brown’s Body
- Winnie the Pooh
- Butterflies are Free
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1971-1972
- Biedermann and the Firebugs
- Young Abe Lincoln
- 1776
1970-1971
- Don’t Drink the Water
- Under The Gaslight
- Man of La Mancha
1960-1970
1969-1970 – Missing
1968-1969
- Luv
- The Fantasticks
1967-1968
- The Odd Couple
- She Loves Me
- The Pajama Game
1966-1967
- Much Ado About Nothing
- West Side Story
1965-1966
- A Man For All Seasons
- You Can’t Take it With You
- Oliver!
1964-1965
- Carousel
1963-1964
- Koutev: Bulgarian National Ensemble
- A Thurber Carnival
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- My Fair Lady
1962-1963
- Everybody Loves Opal
- The Music Man
1961-1962
- The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
- Twelfth Night
- Take Me Along
1960-1961
- On Borrowed Time
- Romeo & Juliet
- Oklahoma
1950-1960
1959-1960
- Twelve Angry Men
- The Tragedy of King Richard II
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Kiss Me, Kate
1958-1959
- The Mousetrap
- Time Remembered
- Down in the Valley
- Music in the Air
1957-1958
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Julius Caesar
- Show Boat
1956-1957
- Dial “M” for Murder
- The Teahouse of the August Moon
- Brigadoon
1955-1956
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Gianni Schicchi
- The History of King Henry IV, Part I
- The Prisoner
- Annie Get Your Gun
1954-1955
- The Lady’s Not for Burning
- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- The Strong Are Lonely
- Finian’s Rainbow
1953-1954
- Pygmalion
- Take Away the Lady
- Hamlet
- His Eminence of England
- The Gypsy Baron
1952-1953
- Jenny Kissed Me
- The Cocktail Party
- The Curious Savage
- The Zeal of Thy House
1951-1952
- Bonaventure
- Harvey
- The Tempest
- The Righteous Are Bold
1950-1951
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- The Far-Off Hills
- The Traitor
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- The Comedy of Errors
- Thor, with Angels
1940-1950
1949-1950
- The Glass Menagerie
- Emma
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Life with Mother
- The City of Kings
1948-1949
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- Lute Song
- The Winslow Boy
- The Tidings Brought to Mary
1947-1948
- Macbeth
- Ten Little Indians
- Years Ago
- The Comedian
1946-1947
- The Bishop Misbehaves
- The Glory of Columbia
- Oedipus Rex
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Noah
1945-1946
- The Hasty Heart
- Angel Street
- Ramshackle Inn
- Richard III
- Queen Esther
1944-1945
- The Wranglers
- The Skin of Our Teeth
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Traitor’s Gate
1943-1944
- Kind Lady
- Dear Brutus
- Junior Miss
- A Saint in a Hurry
- Janie
1942-1943
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Wookey
- Tobias and the Angel
1941-1942
- Ladies in Retirement
- Mary of Scotland
- Murder in the Cathedral
- Mr. and Mrs. North
1940-1941
- Father Malachy’s Miracle
- The Royal Family
1930-1940
1939-1940
- Ten Minute Alibi
- The Baby Cyclone
- The First Legion
1938-1939
- The Family Upstairs
1937-1938
- The Mountain
- Berkeley Square
- Hid Battlements
1936-1937
- The Mission Units (The Little Father of The Wilderness & Dust of the Road)
- Captain Applejack
1935-1936
- The Perfect Alibi
- The Sign of the Cross
- Within These Walls
“The Harlequinade”
“Callista”
“The Spanish Armada”
1934-1935
- Days Without End
- The Late Christopher Bean
- Old Lady 31
1933-1934
- The Nervous Wreck
- The Ivory Door
- Your Neighbors & Mine
- The Family Upstairs
1932-1933
- Joseph the Dreamer
- The Man of the Hour
1931-1932
- So This Is London
- Journey’s End
1930-1931
- Blow Your Own Horn
- Treasure Island
- Sun-Up
1920-1930
1929-1930
- Oliver Twist
1928-1929
- Number Seventeen
- Everyman
- The Confession
1927-1928
- Pals First
1926-1927
- The Monkey’s Paw
- Gracie
- Let’s Be Fashionable
1925-1926
- Magic
1924-1925
- The Aviator
1923-1924
- Captain Applejack
1922-1923
- The Man of the Hour
1921-1922
- The Yellow Jacket
1920-1921
- Stop Thief
1876-1920
1919-1920
- Seven Keys to Baldpate
- The Private Secretary
1918-1919
- A Successful Calamity
- Stop Thief!
1917-1918
- If I Were King
- It Pays to Advertise
1916-1917
- Under Cover
- A Pair of Sixes
- Officer 666
1915-1916
- Ready Money
- What the Public Wants
- Twelfth Night
- Seven Keys to Baldpate
1914-1915
- Stop Thief
1913-1914
- The Merchant of Venice
- Officer 666
1912-1913
- The Maid of France
1911-1912
- If I Were King
- Everyman
- The Dictator
1910-1911
- The Sign of the Cross
- Facing the Music
1909-1910
- My Friend from India
- First Production – 1876
- The Merchant of Venice
DIRECTORS
Ryan M. Decker, M.F.A., 2018-
Ryan M. Decker, M.F.A., 2018-
associate professor of theatre
Doug Donald, M.F.A., 2000-2018
Doug Donald, M.F.A., 2000-2018
associate professor of communication arts
Don & Lauretta Stribling, M.A. & M.A., 1970-2000
Don & Lauretta Stribling, M.A. & M.A., 1970-2000
professor of speech communication
chair of communication and fine arts division;
instructor of speech communication
Rev. “King” Karl G. Schroeder, A.M., 1939-1968
Rev. “King” Karl G. Schroeder, A.M., 1939-1968
emeritus professor of English
chair of English department
Rev. George Stemm, A.M., 1931-1939
Rev. George Stemm, A.M., 1931-1939
business manager and treasurer
professor of speech
Rev. Edward O’Hagen, A.B., 1926-1931
Rev. Edward O’Hagen, A.B., 1926-1931
professor of speech
Rev. Isidore J. Semper, Litt.D., 1910-1926
Rev. Isidore J. Semper, Litt.D., 1910-1926
professor of English
chair of English deptartment






