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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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