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Parkland Theatre

 

The Parkland College Theatre offers a variety of live theatre, music, and dance performances and serves as an academic lab for Theatre Arts students. This collection contains information on past productions and includes programs, photographs, and cast listings from 1987 to the present. More on Parkland Theatre's history can be found here.

2026/2027 Season
Sunday in the Park with George
Waiting for Godot
Dear Evan Hansen
Winnie the Pooh

2025/2026 Season
Romeo and Juliet
Anastasia the Musical
Out of Order
Moon Over Buffalo

2024/2025 Season
The Wedding Singer
The Miser
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
12 Angry Jurors

2023/2024 Season
Little Shop of Horrors
Silent Sky
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Prom
Mac Beth

2022/2023 Season
Sweeny Todd
The Good Doctor
Blithe Spirit
A Christmas Story
Comedy of Errors
The Story

2021/2022 Season
The Spongebob Musical
10 Out of 12
She Kills Monsters
Playing God

2020/2021 Season: THEATRE CLOSED

2019/2020 Season
Elephant's Graveyard
Peter and the Starcatcher
How I Learned to Drive
Chicago

2019/2020 Actors' Studio Series
Dear Brutus
A Chrismas Carol
Machinal

2018/2019 Season
The Servant of Two Masters
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Come Blow Your Horn
Young Frankenstein

2017/2018 Season
Memphis
Only You
Much Ado about Nothing
The Crucible

2016/2017 Season
Anything Goes 
Kazam!
A Charlie Brown Christmas
First Lady Suite

2015/2016 Season
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Noises Off!
Student Written One-Acts
The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It
Fiddler on the Roof

2014/2015 Season
Leading Ladies
Around the World in 80 Days
The Sparrow
An Evening of One-Acts
The Drowsy Chaperone

2013/2014 Season
How I Became a Pirate
Pride and Prejudice
Welcome to the Big Top
Wait Until Dark
Monty Python's Spamalot

2012/2013 Season
Steel Magnolias
Merely Players - Student Production
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
     and The Actor's Nightmare
You Can't Take It With You
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

2011/2012 Season
Tennessee at 100: One-Act Plays 
     by Tennessee Williams
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Get Smart
Frozen
Pinkalicious, The Musical
Murder by Natural Causes

2010/2011 Season
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
A Weekend Of One Act Plays
Nuncrackers!
Outside The Box
Once Upon a Mattress
The Little Prince

2009/2010 Season
Lend Me a Tenor
A Christmas Carol
Nunsense II: The Second Coming!
Father of the Bride
All Out

2008/2009 Season
The Pillowman
The Murder Room
A Christmas Carol
Flight of the Lawnchair Man
The Miracle Worker

2007/2008 Season
To Kill a Mockingbird 
Laughing Stock
A Christmas Carol
Five Kinds of Silence
Return the Forbidden Planet
Harvey

 

 

 

2006/2007 Season
Wonder of the World
Urinetown The Musical
A Christmas Story
Black Coffee
A Weekend of One Acts
Spoon River Anthology

2005/2006
The Exonerated
Bat Boy: The Musical
Play On!
That Takes Ovaries!
The Mousetrap
Angels in America Part I : 
     Millennium Approaches

2004/2005 Season
Sherlock's Last Case
Assassins
Rumors
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Miss Firecracker Contest
The Skin of Our Teeth

2003/2004 Season
The Laramie Project
Story Theatre
Out of Order
Sylvia
The Shakespeare Project
1776

2002/2003 Season
Nunsense
Jack and the Beanstalk
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Raisin in the Sun
Cabaret
The Ugly Duckling
Moon Over Buffalo

2001/2002 Season
Forever Plaid
Crimes of the Heart
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
The Piano Lesson
A Funny Thing Happened
     on the Way to the Forum
Dearly Departed

2000/2001 Season
Kennedy's Children
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
A Child's Christmas in Wales/
Kwanzaa- A Celebration!

Amber Waves
Sunday in the Park with George
Bone Chiller!

1999/2000 Season
Ten 10 Minute Plays
A Christmas Memory
The Orphan Train
Little Shop of Horrors
The Runner Stumbles

1998/1999 Season
Ten 10 minute Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Boys Next Door
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Company

1997/1998 Season
10th Anniversary Season

10 Ten-Minute Plays
The Scamps of Scapin
Quilters
Man of La Mancha
The Shadow Box

1996/1997 Season
Quilt
Mrs. Coney
Merrily We Roll Along
Drop Dead!

1995/1996 Season
Stories Like Ours
Lucky Stiff
The Real Inspector Hound
Beyond Therapy
Labors of Love

1994/1995 Season
Sweeney Todd 
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Dancing at Lughnasa
Talk Radio

1993/1994 Season
Noises Off
Five Golden Rings
The Diary of Anne Frank
I Hate Hamlet

1992/1993 Season
Godspell 
Agnes of God
Count Dracula

1991/1992 Season
Play It Again Sam
The Fantastiks!

1990/1991 Season
Ten Little Indians
Something's Afoot

1989/1990 Season: THEATRE CLOSED

1988/1989 Season
The Nerd
A Christmas Memory
Painting Churches
Chicago

1987/1988 Season
Hamlet Revamped, Modernized
and Set to Music
Futures
The Diviners
Native Son
Cinderella

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream by Parkland College

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Parkland College

    By William Shakespeare

    Director: L. Grace Godwin
    Lighting Designer: Sean Murphy
    Costume Designer: Elisha Adelman
    Scenic Coordinator/Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    November 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8pm
    November 24 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2002

  • Jack and the Beanstalk by Parkland College

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Parkland College

    Director: Chris Guyotte
    Original Music By Tim Schirmer
    Scenic Coordinator: David G. Dillman
    Lighting Designer: Sean Murphy
    Costume Coordinator: Jeri Corso

    November 1, 2 at 7pm
    November 2, 3 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2002

  • Nunsense by Parkland College

    Nunsense

    Parkland College

    Book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin

    Director: J.W. Morrissette
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Scenic Designer: Tim Huff
    Lighting Designer: Thomas V. Korder
    Costume Designers: Lyn Leithliter and Laura Arwine
    Choreographer: Katherine Smart Hughes

    October 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at 8pm
    October 13 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2002

    Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

  • Dearly Departed by Parkland College

    Dearly Departed

    Parkland College

    By David Bottrell and Jessie Jones

    Co-Directors: Joe Sawyer and Morgan M. Dietkus
    Scenic Designer: Leo Hoggwalluppe
    Lighting Designer: Gibby Kirby
    Sound Designer: Jason McCain
    Costume Designer: Megg Principe

    April 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8pm
    April 13 and 14 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2002

    Produced by special permission from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Parkland College

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    Parkland College

    Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart

    Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
    Director: J.W. Morrissette
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Scenic Designer: Lee M. Boyer
    Lighting Designer: Sean Murphy
    Costume Designer: Barbara T. Schoenoff

    February 27 and March 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 at 8pm
    March 10 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2002

    Presented by special arrangement with and all authorized materials supplied by Music Theatre International

  • Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round by Parkland College

    Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round

    Parkland College

    Compiled by Kent Redmon

    Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Musical Director/Original Music: Tim Schirmer
    Scenic and Lighting Designer: Jeff Peltz
    Costume Designer: Jeri Corso
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    January 30, 31 and February 1, 2 at 8pm
    February 3 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2002

  • The Piano Lesson by Parkland College

    The Piano Lesson

    Parkland College

    By August Wilson

    Director: Robert Homer-Drummond
    Scenic and Lighting Designer: Jeff Peltz
    Costume Designer: Lyn Leithliter
    Music Coordinator: Philip J. Rogers, D.M.A.
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    January 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8pm
    January 20 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2002

    Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

  • Crimes of the Heart by Parkland College

    Crimes of the Heart

    Parkland College

    By Beth Henley

    Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Scenic Designer: Lee M. Boyer
    Lighting Designer: Shelley Crane
    Costume Designer: Nadine Farrell
    Original Music: Tim Schirmer
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    November 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 at 8pm
    November 11 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2001

    Produced by special permission from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

  • Forever Plaid by Parkland College

    Forever Plaid

    Parkland College

    By Stuart Ross with musical arrangements by James Raitt

    Director: Dallas Street
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Scenic Designer: David G. Dillman
    Lighting Designer: Shelley Crane
    Costume Designer: Jeri Corso

    September 26, 28, 29, October 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 at 8pm
    October 7 and 14 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2001

    Presented by special arrangement with and all authorized materials supplied by Music Theatre International

    To view images from this production, visit Forever Plaid (2001).

  • Bone Chiller! by Parkland College

    Bone Chiller!

    Parkland College

    By Monk Ferris

    Director: Jimmy Brazelton
    Set Designer: Dave Weisiger
    Lighting Designer: Paul Cameron
    Audio Designer: Mike Ingram
    Technical Director: Jake Freeman

    April 27, 28 and May 3, 4 at 8pm
    April 28 at 5pm
    April 29 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2001

    Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

    To view images from this production, visit Bone Chiller! (2001).

  • Sunday in the Park with George by Parkland College

    Sunday in the Park with George

    Parkland College

    Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
    Book by James Lapine

    Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Scenic Designer: Lee Boyer
    Lighting Designer: Shelley Crane
    Costume Designer/Coordinator: Barbara T. Schoenoff
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    March 28, 30, 31 at 8pm
    April 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 8pm
    April 8 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2001

    Presented by special arrangement with and all authorized materials supplied by Music Theatre International

    To view images from this production, visit Sunday in the Park with George (2001).

  • Amber Waves by Parkland College

    Amber Waves

    Parkland College

    By James Still

    Director: Tom Mitchell
    Scenic Designer: Nathan G. Stuffel
    Lighting Designer: Thomas V. Korder
    Technical Director: David Dillman

    January 31, February 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10 at 8pm
    February 4 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2001

    Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

  • Kwanzaa: A Celebration and A Child's Christmas in Wales by Parkland College

    Kwanzaa: A Celebration and A Child's Christmas in Wales

    Parkland College

    By Dylan Thomas

    Musical Direction: Tim Schirmer and Philip J. Rogers
    Kwanzaa Production Director: Mwansa Mandela
    Technical Director: David Dillman
    Lighting Designer: Sean Murphy
    Projection Designer: Jeff Peltz

    December 7, 8, 9 at 8pm
    December 9, 10 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre 2000

  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Parkland College

    You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

    Parkland College

    Book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner
    Based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

    Director: Dallas Street
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Technical Director: David Dillman
    Set Designer: Nathan G. Stuffel
    Lighting Designer: Shelley Crane
    Costume Designer: Dallas Street

    October 25, 27, 28 and November 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 at 8pm
    November 5 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2000

    Produced by special arrangement with, and the music and dialogue material furnished by Tams-Witmark, Music Library Inc.

    To view images from this production, visit You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (2000).

  • Kennedy's Children by Parkland College

    Kennedy's Children

    Parkland College

    Portrait of America in the post-Camelot era

    By Robert Patrick

    Director: George Dakis
    Assistant Director/Dramaturg: Omar Benton Ricks
    Scenic Designer and Technical Director: David Dillman
    Lighting Designer: Tim Huff

    September 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 at 8pm
    September 24 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2000

    Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

    To view images from this production, visit Kennedy's Children (2000).

  • The Runner Stumbles by Parkland College

    The Runner Stumbles

    Parkland College

    By Milan Stitt

    Director: Mark Alan Hudson
    Assistant Director: Damon Jacob*
    Stage Manager: Marcie Stout*
    Technical Director: Jerrod Montgomery
    Lighting Designer: Joe Hodge
    Audio Designer: Jamie Spring*

    April 26, 28, 29, and May 4, 5, 6 at 8pm
    April 30 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2000

    Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

    To view images from this production, visit The Runner Stumbles (2000).

  • Little Shop of Horrors by Parkland College

    Little Shop of Horrors

    Parkland College

    Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
    Music by Alan Menken
    Based on the film by Roger Corman
    Screenplay by Charles Griffith

    Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Choreographer/Assistant Director: Dallas Street
    Scenic Design: Mike Carnahan
    Costume Design: Jeri Corso
    Properties Design: Sue Kraybill
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Lighting Design: Heather Mabley
    Specialty Costume Design: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Conductor: Mary E. Myers
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    March 29, 31 and April 1, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 8pm
    April 9 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2000

  • The Orphan Train by Parkland College

    The Orphan Train

    Parkland College

    By Aurand Harris

    Director: Jennifer L. Goran
    Costume Designer: Caryl Henkle
    Assistant Director: D. Ross
    Lighting Designer: Chad William Carpenter
    Technical Director: David G. Dillman

    January 26, 29 and February 3, 4, 5 at 7pm
    January 29, 30 and February 5 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    2000

    Produced by special arrangement with The Anchorage Press of New Orleans, Louisiana

    To view images from this production, visit The Orphan Train (2000).

  • A Christmas Memory by Parkland College

    A Christmas Memory

    Parkland College

    By Truman Capote and Eleanor Perrry

    John Eby, Director
    David Bohn, Musical Director
    David G. Dillman, Scenic Designer and Technical Director
    Heather Mabry, Lighting Designer
    Jeri A. Corso, Costume Designer

    December 1, 3, 4, 9, 10 at 7pm
    December 4, 5, 11 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    1999

  • Ten 10 Minute Plays by Parkland College

    Ten 10 Minute Plays

    Parkland College

    Directors:
    Andrew B. Carter
    George Dakis
    Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Mark Alan Hudson
    Brian LaDuca
    Michael David Mohr
    M. Elizabeth Peters
    Amy Schuster
    Chris Weiher

    Artistic Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Lighting Designer: Thomas V. Korder
    Technical Director and Scenic Coordinator: David G. Dillman

    Preview performance September 15 at 8pm
    September 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at 8pm
    September 19 at 3pm
    1999

  • Company by Parkland College

    Company

    Parkland College

    Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
    Book by George Furth

    Director: Randi Jennifer Collins Hard
    Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
    Choreographer: Marlana Hope Klenke
    Scenic and Co-Costume Design: Martin Marchitto
    Co-Costume Design: Amy Walker
    Lighting Design: Daniel J. Anteau
    Technical Director: Martin M. Bluestein

    April 21, 23, 24, 30, May 1, 6, 7, 8, at 8pm
    May 2 at 3pm
    Parkland College Library
    1999

    Presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Music Theatre International

  • Brighton Beach Memoirs by Parkland College

    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Parkland College

    by Neil Simon

    Director: Jeffrey Ullom
    Scenic Designer and Technical Director: Martin M. Bluestein
    Lighting Designer: Chad Carpenter
    Costume Designer: Nicole Faurant

    February 10, 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 8pm
    February 21 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    1999

  • The Boys Next Door by Parkland College

    The Boys Next Door

    Parkland College

    by Tom Griffin

    Director: Buck Zachary
    Scenic Designer: Dori Phelps
    Lighting Designer and Technical Director: Joe Hodge
    Costume Designer: Jinny Largent
    Sound Designer: Tessa Besina Auza

    December 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 at 8pm
    December 6 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    1998

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Parkland College

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Parkland College

    By Oscar Wilde

    Director: Chad Eric Bergman
    Costume Designer: Nicole Faurant
    Lighting Designer: Logan Shunmugam
    Scenic Designer and Technical Director: Darren Cloud

    October 28, 30, 31 at 8pm
    November 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 8pm
    November 8 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    1998

  • 10 Ten Minute Plays 1998 by Parkland College

    10 Ten Minute Plays 1998

    Parkland College

    Directors:
    Megan Alban
    Sean Aquino
    Tessa Besina Auza
    Betsy Capes
    George Dakis
    John Eby
    Mark Alan Hudson
    Ellen Bean Larabee
    Rita Marie Nibasa
    Aaron Matthew Polk

    Artistic Director:
    Randi Jennifer Collins Hard

    Lighting Designer and Technical Director:
    David G. Dillman

    September 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8pm
    September 20 at 3pm
    Parkland College Theatre
    1998

 
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