Reviews by Rochelle Arnold, Jeff Ashcraft, Patricia Baugh-Riechers, Audra Beals, Pamela Briggs, Dee Canfield, Madeline Dudziak, Kim Eastland, Emily Heninger, Heather Herkelman, Paula Jolly, Victoria Navarro, Roger Pavey Jr., Mark Ruebling, Mike Schulz, Joy Thompson, Oz Torres, Brent Tubbs, Jill Pearson Walsh, and Thom White.

 

Augustana College:

39 Steps, The (2022)

Arsonists, The (2012)

As You Like It (2015)

Bat Boy: The Musical (2012)

Big Funk, The (2009)

Black Comedy (2006)

Blood Wedding (2008)

Bock Eye, The (2013)

Crimes of the Heart (2017)

Crucible, The (2018)

Dead Man Walking (2007)

Dtavula, a feminist revenge fantasy (2023)

Drowsy Chaperone, The (2018)

Fantasticks, The (2008)

Figaro (2013)

Getting Out (2016)

How I Learned to Drive (2012)

How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (2019)

Importance of Being Earnest, The (2005)

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (2018)

Laramie Project, The (2005)

Learned Ladies, The (2009)

Macbeth (2021)

Machinal (2015)

Madwoman of Chaillot, The (2017)

Memo, The (2023)

Metamorphoses (2011)

Miser, The (2006)

Nickel & Dimed (2006)

Nine (2023)

Noises Off (2019)

Omniscience (2009)

Othello (2016)

Our Town (2011)

Passion of Dracula, The (2014)

Quilters (2004)

Rashomon (2003)

Real Girls Can't Win! (2011)

Real Inspector Hound, The (2006)

Romance Language (2008)

Seagull, The (2010)

Secret Garden, The (2010)

She Kills Monsters (2019)

Small Mouth Sounds (2023)

Something's Afoot (2014)

Stuff Happens (2007)

subUrbia (2013)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2016)

Taming of the Shrew, The (2007)

Tartuffe (2022)

Three Musketeers, The (2019)

Threepenny Opera, The (2022)

Titanic (2017)

Wrestling with Angels & Demons (2010)

 

Ballet Quad Cities:

Carmen (2014)

Cinderella (2013)

Dracula (2013)

Love Stories featuring Romeo & Juliet (2015)

Love Stories: Love on the Run (2012)

Love Stories: Love on the Run (2013)

Sleeping Beauty, The (2012)

Spring Is in the Air (2014)

 

Black Box Theatre:

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (2017)

39 Steps, The: A Live Radio Play (2020)

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (2022)

Assassins (2019)

Baby (2018)

Clue: The Musical (2018)

Company (2021)

Crowns: A Gospel Musical (2018)

Dick Tracy: A Live Radio Play (2021)

Guys, The (2021)

Hate Mail (2021)

Hello, Dolly! (2023)

Ho Ho Ho Show, The (2023)

I & You (2021)

I Love You Because (2017)

I Never Saw Another Butterfly (2020)

It Had to Be You (2018)

Jane Eyre (2024)

Jenny Lind Presents P.T. Barnum (2023)

La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas (2021)

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2019)

Last Five Years, The (2019)

Little Women: The Musical (2019)

Losers Bracket (2019)

Love, Loss, & What I Wore (2021)

Man with Bogart's Face, The (2019)

Motherhood: The Musical (2022)

Murder in Green Meadows (2021)

Murderers (2017)

Mystery of Irma Vep, The (2023)

Natural Shocks (2023)

Next to Normal (2018)

Revolutionists, The (2022)

Ride the Cyclone (2022)

Rock of Ages (2017)

Silent Sky (2019)

Sleuth (2018)

Suddenly Last Summer (2023)

Three Viewings (2020)

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story (2024)

Tin Woman, The (2017)

[title of show] (2023)

Turn of the Screw, The (2020)

Veronica's Room (2022)

Waiting for Godot (2020)

War of the Worlds: A Radio Play (2018)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2017)
 

Black Hawk College:

Death in Character (2008)

Dinner Party, The (2009)

Galileo (2003)

Going Underground (2007)

Jack, Or the Submission (2008)

Laundry & Bourbon (2006)

Lone Star (2006)

Scottish Play, The: A Travesty! (2005)

Ugly Duckling, The (2007)

 

Center for Living Arts:

bare (2013)

Spring Awakening (2012)

Spring Awakening (2014)

 

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse:

8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s (2010)

Aesop's Dynamic Duo (2006)

Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2011)

All Shook Up (2011)

Almighty Bob (2003)

Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver (2007)

Always a Bridesmaid (2014)

Annie (2018)

Are We There Yet? (2008)

Beehive: The '60s Musical (2021)

Best of the Bootleggers, The (2019)

Big Nate: The Musical (2017)

Blame It on the Movies (2014)

Boeing-Boeing (2015)

Bridges of Madison County, The (2018)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2008)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2014)

Cats (2006)

Charlotte's Web (2007)

Christmas Carol, A (2007)

Christmas from the Heart (2005)

Christmas Story, A: The Musical (2013)

Christmas Story, A: The Musical (2023)

Church Basement Ladies (2007)

Church Basement Ladies (2009)

Church Basement Ladies (2024)

Church Basement Ladies in Rise Up, O Men!, The (2018)

Church Basement Ladies in The Last (Potluck) Supper, The (2015)

Church Basement Ladies in You Smell Barn, The (2021)

Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping (2010)

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2013)

Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, A (2010)

Clue: The Musical (2022)

Diamonds & Divas: A Murderous Fiasco (2019)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical (2024)

Diary of a Worm, a Spider, & a Fly (2012)

Disaster! (2022)

Discovering Elvis (2001)

Disenchanted! (2021)

Disney's Beauty & the Beast (2022)

Dixie Swim Club, The (2012)

Don't Dress for Dinner (2007)

Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" (2021)

Elf: The Musical (2017)

Elf: The Musical (2019)

Elves & the Shoemaker, The (2006)

Empty Nest (2008)

Escape to Margaritaville (2023)

Fairy Tale Christmas, A (2013)

Fancy Nancy: The Musical (2015)

Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas (2017)

Fiddler on the Roof (2014)

Freaky Friday (2018)

Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical (2012)

Frosty's Magic Hat (2009)

Full Monty, The (2008)

Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother (2014)

Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude (2023)

Getting Momma Married (2002)

Ghost: The Musical (2017)

Go, Dog. Go! (2010)

Goldilocks & the Three Bears (2007)

Grace for President (2022)

Grease (2006)

Grease (2012)

Grumpy Old Men: The Musical (2019)

Grumpy Old Men: The Musical (2023)

Hairspray (2011)

Hank Williams: Lost Highway (2013)

Happy Days: A New Musical (2011)

Hello, Dolly! (2004)

Holiday Inn (2019)

Holly Jolly Christmas (2009)

Holly Jolly Christmas (2016)

How I Became a Pirate (2013)

How I Became a Pirate (2015)

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (2011)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2006)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2007)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2014)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2022)

Jack Frost Saves Christmas (2010)

Jesus Chris Superstar (2001)

Jingle Arrgh the Way (2016)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2005)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2010)

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells (2011)

Junie B. Jones in a Little Monkey Business (2009)

Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (2019)

Junie B. Jones: The Musical (2016)

Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to School (2023)

Just Desserts (2022)

King & I, The (2005)

Kinky Boots (2020)

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical (2018)

Legally Blonde: The Musical (2012)

Les Miserables (2015)

Love, Lies, & the Lottery (2014)

Lovely Liebowitz Sisters, The (2006)

Lyle the Crocodile (2016)

Madagascar: A Musical Adventure (2018)

Madagascar: A Musical Adventure (2022)

Mama Won't Fly (2018)

Mamma Mia! (2018)

Mamma Mia! (2023)

Marvelous Wonderettes, The (2011)

Menopause: The Musical (2013)

Menopause: The Musical (2016)

Meshuggah-Nuns! (2005)

Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical (2009)

Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement, A (2013)

Million Dollar Quartet (2016)

Miracle on 34th Street (2012)

Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage (2014)

Miss Nelson Has a Field Day (2010)

Miss Nelson Is Missing (2008)

Mr. Scrooge! A Musical Christmas Carol (2019)

Most Famous Reindeer of All, The (2015)

Music Man, The (2017)

Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, The (2012)

Murder on the Orient Express (2024)

Nana's Naughty Knickers (2011)

Newsies: The Musical (2019)

No Business Like Show Business (2017)

Nuncrackers (2011)

Oh Mama! No Papa! (2005)

Oklahoma! (2007)

On Golden Pond (2006)

Outsider, The (2023)

Peter Pan (2009)

Phantom (2016)

Pinkalicious (2009)

Pinocchio (2018)

Pippi Longstocking (2005)

Plaid Tidings (2010)

Play That Goes Wrong, The (2022)

Pump Boys & Dinettes (2005)

Ring of Fire (2009)

Ring of Fire (2017)

Route 66 (2015)

Santa Claus: The Musical (2022)

Saturday Night Fever (2021)

Savannah Sipping Society, The (2020)

Seussical (2021)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (2017)

Shear Madness (2016)

Shear Madness (2019)

Singin' in the Rain (2019)

Sister Act (2016)

Smoke on the Mountain (2000)

Smoke on the Mountain (2008)

Smokey Joe's Café (2004)

Smokey Joe's Café (2012)

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (2017)

Snow White (2008)

Snowderella (2008)

Sound of Music, The (2015)

Southern Crossroads (2012)

Southern Crossroads (2013)

Spreading It Around (2012)

Squabbles (2010)

Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story (2006)

State Fair (2000)

StinkyKids: The Musical (2014)

Stuart Little (2005)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (2014)

Things My Mother Taught Me (2013)

True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The (2019)

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (2014)

Ugly Duckling, The (2006)

Vaudeville (2008)

We Will Rock You (2023)

West Side Story (2007)

Whodunit … the Musical (2010)

Winnie the Pooh (2005)

Winter Wonderland (2000)

Winter Wonderland (2021)

Wizard of Oz, The (2003)

Wonderful Life, A (2008)

Wonderful Life, A (2015)

World Goes 'Round, The (2012)

Year with Frog & Toad, A (2017)

 

Circa '21 Speakeasy:

Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2018)

Rocky Horror Show, The (2016)

Rocky Horror Show, The (2017)

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story (2016)

 

Clinton Area Showboat Theatre:

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (2012)

Alice in Wonderland (2014)

All Shook Up (2021)

Altar Boyz (2011)

Always … Patsy Cline (2007)

Always ... Patsy Cline (2021)

Annie (2011)

Annie Get Your Gun (2014)

Anything Goes (2006)

Beauty & the Beast (2005)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The (2009)

Big River (2010)

Biloxi Blues (2009)

Blithe Spirit (2019)

Bye Bye Birdie (2012)

Cabaret (2006)

Cabaret (2018)

Cats (2015)

Chicago (2008)

Church Basement Ladies (2021)

Compleat Works of Wllm Shakspr [abridged], The (2008)

Constellations (2021)

Damn Yankees (2005)

Death Defying Acts (2009)

Don't Drink the Water (2005)

Dracula (2010)

Drowsy Chaperone, The (2011)

Evita (2011)

Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, A (2019)

Glass Menagerie, The (2016)

Grease (2016)

Guys & Dolls (2007)

High Fidelity (2011)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2007)

Incredible Sex (2006)

Into the Woods (2012)

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (2010)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2018)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2009)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2019)

King & I, The (2006)

Last Five Years, The (2009)

Lend Me a Tenor (2007)

Little Mermaid, The (2018)

Little Shop of Horrors (2012)

Mousetrap, The (2006)

Murder for Two (2023)

Music Man, The (2016)

My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra (2015)

Next to Normal (2015)

Noises Off (2010)

Nunsense (2011)

Odd Couple, The (2016)

Oliver! (2018)

Rent (2010)

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (2023)

Ruthless (2005)

Seussical (2015)

Shout! The Mod Musical (2019)

Show Boat (2010)

Singin' in the Rain (2009)

Smokey Joe's Cafe (2021)

Sound of Music, The (2005)

South Pacific (2016)

SpongeBob Musical, The (2023)

Steel Magnolias (2015)

Sunday in the Park with George (2010)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008)

Tafettas, The (2014)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2008)

Tuesdays with Morrie (2018)

Who's Tommy, The (2019)

Wizard of Oz, The (2014)

Wonderful Town (2014)

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (2011)

You Can't Take It with You (2007)

Young Frankenstein (2023)

 

Countryside Community Theatre:

Annie (2010)

Annie Get Your Gun (2009)

Big Fish (2015)

Children of Eden (2008)

Christmas Carol, A (2018)

Fantasticks, The (2007)

Footloose (2023)

Gypsy (2011)

Into the Woods (2023)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2015)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2022)

King & I, The (2012)

Les Misérables (2013)

Mamma Mia! (2019)

Marvelous Wonderettes, The (2016)

Music Man, The (2021)

Newsies: The Musical (2021)

Oklahoma! (2010)

Oliver! (2006)

Seussical (2007)

Shrek: The Musical (2014)

Singin' in the Rain (2012)

Sound of Music, The (2008)

South Pacific (2009)

Wizard of Oz, The (2000)

Wizard of Oz, The (2011)

 

Curtainbox Theatre Company:

'Art' (2010)

Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (2008)

Fool for Love (2010)

Glengarry Glen Ross (2009)

Hedda Gabler (2010)

Speed-the-Plow (2011)

Three Viewings (2008)

Time Stands Still (2011)

Wit (2010)

 

District Theatre (formerly Harrison Hilltop Theatre):

12 Angry Men (2013)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (2010)

Addams Family, The (2015)

Agony & Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, The (2013)

Almost, Maine (2008)

Altar Call (2012)

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (2014)

Angels in America: Perestroika (2015)

Avenue Q (2012)

Avenue Q (2013)

Behanding in Spokane, A (2016)

Best Man, The (2012)

Big Rock Candy Christmas (2015)

Big Rock Candy Mountain (2014)

Chicago (2011)

Chronicles of Lincoln & Grant, The (2012)

Christmas Carol, A (2012)

Christmas Carol, A (2013)

Company (2012)

Complete History of America [abridged], The (2010)

Dog Sees God (2010)

Doubt: A Parable (2013)

Few Good Men, A (2015)

Frost/Nixon (2011)

Graduate, The (2009)

Hair (2013)

High Fidelity (2015)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2011)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2011)

La Llorona (2009)

Last Five Years, The (2011)

Let's Face the Music: A New Musical Revue (2013)

Long Day's Journey into Night (2009)

Mono-Blogs: Suffering Fools (2008)

Monty Python's Spamalot (2014)

Moon Over Buffalo (2016)

Mousetrap, The (2015)

New Brain, A (2014)

Next to Normal (2012)

Odd Couple, The (2008)

Oedipus Rex (2009)

Of Mice & Men (2009)

Our Town (2014)

Parade (2012)

Pillowman, The (2012)

reasons to be pretty (2013)

Rent (2010)

Rent (2013)

Rocky Horror Show, The (2009)

Rocky Horror Show, The (2010)

Same Time, Next Year (2011)

Santaland Diaries, The (2008)

Scenery (2012)

Streetcar Named Desire, A (2008)

Sunday in the Park with George (2010)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2011)

Tempest, The (2013)

Thom Pain [based on nothing] (2009)

tick … tick … BOOM! (2009)

Tired American Dream (2010)

True West (2009)

Tuna Christmas, A (2011)

Waiting for Godot (2010)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2010)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2016)

Woman in Black, The (2008)

Xanadu (2012)

Zoo Story, The (2009)

 

Genesius Guild:

Acharnians, The (2013)

Ajax (2011)

Alcestis (2013)

Andromache (2010)

Antigone (2006)

Antigone (2016)

As You Like It (2007)

As You Like It (2018)

Bacchae, The (2019)

Birds, The (2006)

Birds, The (2016)

Clouds, The (2008)

Comedian, The (2006)

Comedy of Errors, The (2008)

Comedy of Errors, The (2017)

Coriolanus (2013)

Ecclesiazusae (2010)

Ecclesiazusae (2019)

Electra (2008)

Electra (2022)

Frogs, The (2007)

Frogs, The (2012)

Frogs, The (2022)

Hamlet (2019)

Hecuba (2009)

Henry V (2017)

Henry the Sixth: The Contention (2009)

Henry the Sixth: Richard, Duke of York (2009)

Hippolytus (2021)

Iphigenia in Aulis (2023)

King Lear (2011)

Knights, The (2005)

Macbeth (2002)

Macbeth (2015)

Measure for Measure (2012)

Measure for Measure (abridged) (2021)

Medea (2007)

Merchant of Venice, The (2018)

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2015)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2010)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2022)

Much Ado About Nothing (2005)

Much Ado About Nothing (2016)

Murder in the Cathedral (2017)

Oedipus Rex (2015)

Othello (2023)

Peace (2015)

Persians, The (2014)

Plutus (2003)

Plutus (2014)

Prometheus Bound (2018)

Richard III (2000)

Richard III (2010)

Romeo & Juliet (2008)

Romeo & Juliet (2022)

Seven Against Thebes (2006)

Seven Against Thebes (2016)

Shakespeare's Life in His Works (2021)

Suppliants, The (2014)

Taming of the Shrew, The (2011)

Tempest, The (2006)

Thesmophoriazusae (2009)

Thesmophoriazusae (2018)

Trojan Women, The (2017)

Twelfth Night (2014)

Two Gentlemen of Verona (2023)

Wasps, The (2011)

Wasps, The (2023)

Winter's Tale, The (2007)

 

Ghostlight Theatre, Inc.:

Children of Eden (2000)

Noises Off (2005)

Underpants, The (2004)

Will Rogers Follies, The (2005)

 

Green Room Theatre:

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (2008)

Angels in America: Perestroika (2008)

Assassins (2008)

Carousel (2007)

Doubt: A Parable (2009)

Eleemosynary (2008)

Fully Committed (2008)

Glass Menagerie, The (2007)

john & jen (2008)

Melville Boys, The (2008)

Songs for a New World (2009)

Steel Magnolias (2009)

 

Haus of Ruckus:

Are We There Yeti? (2023)

"Jacques"alope (2021)

"Pants" Labyrinth (2022)

Punk Rock Lobster (2024)

Random Access Morons (2022)

Spaceworms (2024)

Spooky Pete (2022)

 

Mississippi Bend Players:

Beginner's Luck (2018)

Big River (2018)

Biloxi Blues (2019)

Brighton Beach Memoirs (2017)

Dames at Sea (2019)

Glass Menagerie, The (2018)

Green River, A (2019)

Mary & Ethel: How I Learned to Sing (2021)

No Child ... (2021)

Red (2021)

Santaland Diaries, The (2019)

Wait Until Dark (2017)

Zombie Prom (2017)

 

The Mockingbird on Main

Anywhere but Here (2023)

Apples in Winter (2023)

Around the World in 80 Days (2022)

Big Rock Candy Mountain (2023)

Christmas Carol, A (2022)

Deck the Halls: A Holiday Musical (2021)

Driving Miss Daisy (2023)

Enemy of the People, An (2021)

Glass Menagerie, The (2023)

Mountaintop, The (2021)

Murder at Mistwell Mansion (2022)

Oak Tree, An (2021)

Their Town (2022)

Your Better Self (2022)

 

My Verona Productions:

Closer (2005)

Dingo Boogaloo 2: Taco's Revenge (2005)

Nonconformists Double Bill, The (2006)

Inside Out (2008)

Oleanna (2007)

Pillowman, The (2006)

This Is Our Youth (2005)

Santaland Diaries, The (2005)

Tuesdays with Morrie (2007)

 

New Ground Theatre:

100 Saints You Should Know (2010)

2014 Playwrights Festival (2014)

2015 Playwrights Festival (2015)

American La Ronde (2019)

And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson (2011)

Anton in Show Business (2012)

August: Osage County (2010)

Bad Dates (2007)

Bad Habits (2012)

Beauty Queen of Leenane, The (2012)

Boston Marriage (2005)

Boy Gets Girl (2006)

Closer Than Ever (2008)

Clybourne Park (2014)

Cowbird (2009)

Crimes of the Heart (2013)

Dinner with Friends (2002)

Dog's House, A (2019)

Drawer Boy, The (2005)

Elephant's Graveyard (2017)

Female Problems: A Musical (2004)

Gift of the Magi, The (2010)

God of Carnage (2011)

Going Back Naked: Two Plays by Local Playwrights (2009)

Handle with Care (2017)

Infinite Ache, An (2004)

Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol (2006)

Journey for a Reason (2003)

Living Here (2007)

Lobby Hero (2003)

Marjorie Prime (2018)

Mr. Marmalade (2012)

Nether, The (2018)

Next Fall (2014)

'night, Mother (2010)

Other Desert Cities (2013)

Scotland Road (2005)

Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins (2010)

Spinning into Butter (2002)

String Fever (2006)

Swimming in the Shallows (2009)

Talley's Folly (2004)

Things Being What They Are (2015)

This Side Up (2016)

Uncle (2016)

Under the Radar (2011)

Walk in the Woods, A (2013)

Water by the Spoonful (2017)

Way West, The (2015)

Whipping Man, The (2014)

Winning Streak, The (2006)

 

Opera @ Augustana:

Die Fledermaus (2014)

Gianna Schicchi (2015)

Godspell (2003)

Mikado, The (2006)

Patience (2007)

Pirates of Penzance, The (2005)

Selections from Menotti (2017)

Tender Land, The (2016)

 

Playcrafters Barn Theatre:

12 Angry Jurors (2022)

12 Angry Men (2008)

13th of Paris, The (2015)

39 Steps, The (2012)

4000 Miles (2019)

Almost, Maine (2023)

Altar Call (2005)

And Then There Were None (2017)

Anne of Avonlea (2012)

Anne of Green Gables (2008)

Any Number Can Die (2010)

Anybody for Murder? (2008)

Arsenic & Old Lace (2016)

Avenue Q (2019)

Barefoot in the Park (2023)

Barely Heirs (2015)

Bingo! The Winning Musical (2018)

Blues for an Alabama Sky (2013)

Born Yesterday (2004)

Boxcar Children, The (2020)

Catfish Moon (2007)

Children's Hour, The (2009)

Christmas Express, The (2012)

Christmas Letter Writing Club, The (2022)

Circle Mirror Transformation (2023)

Clybourne Park (2018)

Crimes of the Heart (2008)

Crucible, The (2019)

Deathtrap (2016)

Dickens' Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts (2000)

Dixie Swim Club, The (2017)

Dinner with Friends (2014)

Dog Sees God (2022)

Driving Miss Daisy (2015)

Enchanted April (2005)

Fences (2010)

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (2019)

Flaming Idiots (2007)

Fox on the Fairway, The (2013)

Game's Afoot, The (2015)

Ghost of a Chance (2013)

Hard to Believe (2010)

Harold & Maude (2002)

Harvey (2015)

Harvey (2024)

If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder (2012)

It's a Wonderful Life (2005)

Kindertransport (2004)

Laramie Project, The (2018)

Leaving Iowa (2011)

Lend Me a Tenor (2011)

Lesson Before Dying, A (2011)

Little Women (2023)

Love Letters (2003)

M*A*S*H (2017)

Make Me a Cowboy (2011)

Mama Won't Fly (2016)

Marie & Rosetta (2019)

Marrying Terry (2014)

Miracle on 34th Street (2017)

Miracle Worker, The (2013)

Moon Over Buffalo (2010)

Mousetrap, The (2009)

Moving (2012)

Murder at the Howard Johnson's (2009)

Murder Is Announced, A (2022)

The Nerd (2005)

O'Conner Girls, The (2010)

Odd Couple, The (2022)

Of Mice & Men (2014)

On Golden Pond (2016)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2006)

Our Town (2006)

Out of Sight … Out of Murder (2006)

Over the River & Through the Woods (2006)

Paint Night (2024)

Papa's Angels (2009)

Piano Lesson, The (2021)

Prescription: Murder (2019)

Princeton's Rage (2021)

Promises, Promises (2008)

Proof (2013)

Proposals (2018)

Rabbit Hole (2022)

Raisin in the Sun, A (2009)

Raisin in the Sun, A (2022)

Red Velvet Cake War, The (2015)

Rehearsal for Murder (2011)

Rounding Third (2006)

Rumors (2017)

Second Samuel (2014)

Secret Garden, The (2014)

See How They Run (2009)

Sense & Sensibility (2023)

She Kills Monsters (2019)

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2021)

Skeleton Crew (2023)

Some Girl(s) (2018)

Something Intangible (2019)

Speech & Debate (2018)

Steel Magnolias (2017)

Stocking Stuffers (2016)

Stop Kiss (2023)

Strangers on a Train (2007)

Stupid F---ing Bird (2019)

Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen (2006)

Swinging on a Star (2007)

Sylvia (2007)

Sylvia (2022)

Their Town (2020)

Titanic Aftermath (2012)

Treasure Island (2010)

Trip to Bountiful, The (2008)

Trouble with Cats, The (2013)

Tuesdays with Morrie (2018)

Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas (2007)

Visiting Mr. Green (2011)

Whistleblower's Dilemma, The (2021)

Witnes for the Prosecution (2023)

Wolves, The (2019)

Woman Called Truth, A (2016)

Woman in Black, The (2004)

Woman in Black, The (2018)

(work in progress, a) (2019)

Wrinkle in Time, A (2018)

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (2014)

 

Prenzie Players:

All's Well That Ends Well (2017)

Antigone (2013)

Antony & Cleopatra (2015)

As You Like It (2016)

Bear Girl (2013)

Caesar (2015)

Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (2017)

Comedy of Errors, The (2019)

Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged], The (2012)

Coriolanus (2017)

Cyrano de Bergerac (2010)

Doctor Faustus (2014)

Henry VIII: All Is True (2018)

King Henry the Fifth (2007)

King Henry the Fourth (2007)

King John (2018)

King Richard the Second (2006)

Lear (2014)

Life's a Dream (2008)

Love's Labour's Lost (2016)

Macbeth (2019)

Merchant of Venice, The (2008)

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2019)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2006)

Much Ado About Nothing (2009)

Much Ado About Nothing (2023)

Othello (2007)

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2010)

Revenger's Tragedy, The (2016)

Romeo & Juliet (2011)

Rover, The (2012)

Taming of the Shrew, The (2008)

Tartuffe (2011)

Timon of Athens (2015)

Titus Andronicus (2012)

Troilus & Cressida (2010)

Trojan Women (2009)

Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (2005)

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (2013)

Winter's Tale, The (2009)

 

QC Theatre Workshop:

Almost, Maine (2017)

'Art' (2014)

Bat Boy: The Musical (2014)

Bible, The: The Complete Word of God [abridged] (2016)

Big Meal, The (2016)

boom (2013)

Broken (2017)

Buried Child (2016)

Dead Man's Cell Phone (2018)

Doll's House, Part 2, A (2019)

Goat, The: or, Who Is Sylvia? (2019)

Green River, A (2013)

Gruesome Playground Injuries (2019)

How I Learned to Drive (2013)

Inheritors (2016)

Last Call: The Songs of Stephen Sondheim (2013)

Little Prince, The (2019)

My Sister (2014)

Peter & the Starcatcher (2017)

Pillowman, The (2015)

Private Eyes (2013)

Red (2012)

Reefer Madness (2018)

Steady Rain, A (2015)

Topdog/Underdog (2018)

Tribes (2015)

True West (2014)

Venus in Fur (2018)

 

Quad City Music Guild:

9 to 5: The Musical (2013)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (2012)

42nd Street (2019)

1940s Radio Christmas Carol, A (2014)

Aida (2006)

All Shook Up (2009)

Annie (2017)

Anything Goes (2007)

Beauty & the Beast (2005)

Beauty & the Beast (2019)

Beehive (2007)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The: The Musical (2019)

Cabaret (2013)

Catch Me If You Can (2018)

Cats (2015)

Children of Eden (2016)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2016)

Chorus Line, A (2018)

Christmas Carol, A (2016)

Christmas Story, A: The Musical (2015)

Christmas Survival Guild, A (2013)

Cinderella (2011)

Curtains (2010)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2012)

Drowsy Chaperone, The (2011)

Evita (2008)

Fiddler on the Roof (2005)

George M! (2006)

Grand Night for Singing, A (2018)

Grease (2010)

Guys & Dolls (2010)

Hello, Dolly! (2012)

Into the Woods (2016)

Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (2021)

It's a Wonderful Life: The Musical (2006)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2019)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2007)

King & I, The (2009)

Kiss Me Kate (2003)

Legally Blonde: The Musical (2014)

Les Misérables (2015)

Little Mermaid, The (2017)

Little Shop of Horrors (2017)

Little Women (2008)

Mame (2018)

Mamma Mia! (2021)

Mary Poppins (2015)

Matilda: The Musical (2021)

Meet Me in St. Louis (2012)

Miracle in Bedford Falls (2018)

Miracle on 34th Street (2007)

Music Man, The (2011)

My Fair Lady (2008)

My Favorite Year (2016)

Oklahoma! (2014)

Once Upon a Mattress (2008)

Peter Pan (2013)

Producers, The (2009)

Seussical (2009)

Shrek: The Musical (2018)

Sister Act (2019)

Sugar (2005)

Sunset Boulevard (2017)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2007)

Urinetown (2015)

West Side Story (2017)

Willy Wonka (2014)

Wizard of Oz, The (2006)

Working (2004)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2006)

Young Frankenstein (2015)

 

Richmond Hill Barn Theatre:

39 Steps, The (2019)

100 Lunches: A Gourmet Comedy (2013)

All My Sons (2022)

Almost, Maine (2009)

Amy's Wish (2016)

Angel Street (2008)

Another Part of the Forest (2005)

Any Famous Last Words? (2008)

Arcadia (2007)

Around the World in 80 Days (2009)

Arsenic & Old Lace (2007)

Bad Seed, The (2005)

Bad Year for Tomatoes, A (2006)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The (2007)

Big ... Bad ... Mouse! (2017)

Bingo (2015)

Blithe Spirit (2019)

Boys Next Door, The (2015)

Busybody (2009)

Busybody (2018)

California Suite (2007)

California Suite (2018)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2006)

Catch Me If You Can (2008)

Cheaper by the Dozen (2014)

Checkmate (2016)

Christmas Belles (2010)

Cliffhanger (2006)

Clue: On Stage (2021)

Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare [abridged], The (2015)

Curious Savage, The (2012)

Curse of an Aching Heart, The: Or, Trapped in the Spider's Web (2013)

Dearly Beloved (2008)

Dearly Beloved (2018)

Death of a Salesman (2013)

Death Takes a Holiday (2007)

Desk Set (2004)

Diviners, The (2017)

Don't Talk to the Actors (2011)

Doublewide, Texas (2017)

Doublewide, Texas Christmas, A (2019)

Down to Earth (2015)

Drinking Habits (2022)

Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act (2023)

Escanaba in 'da Moonlight (2011)

Escanaba in 'da Moonlight (2018)

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some) (2021)

Fantasticks, The (2016)

Fatal Attraction (2002)

Few Good Men, A (2007)

Flowers for Algernon (2016)

Funny Valentines (2010)

Greater Tuna (2012)

Here Lies Jeremy Troy (2022)

I Take This Man (2013)

Importance of Being Earnest, The (2011)

In-Laws, Outlaws & Other People [That Should Be Shot] (2016)

Independence (2011)

Inherit the Wind (2017)

King o' the Moon (2007)

Last Mass at St. Casimir's, The (2009)

Last Romance, The (2014)

Laughing Stock (2009)

Leading Ladies (2014)

Leaving Iowa (2022)

Light Up the Sky (2008)

Love Thy Neighbor (2013)

Man with the Plastic Sandwich, The (2000)

Marvin's Room (2010)

Melville Boys, The (2014)

Misery (2023)

Missing Link (2019)

Moonlight & Magnolias (2008)

More Than Meets the Eye (2012)

Mousetrap, The (2013)

Murder on the Rerun (2015)

Nerd, The (2012)

Nice Family Gathering, A (2012)

Noises Off (2012)

Odd Couple, The (2014)

On Golden Pond (2019)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2019)

Out of Sight, Out of Murder (2017)

Outside Mullingar (2021)

Over the River & Through the Woods (2023)

Over the Tavern (2005)

Penny for Your Thoughts, A (2023)

Perfect Wedding (2006)

Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2002)

Proof (2006)

Rabbit Hole (2009)

Robin Hood Caper, The (2015)

Rounding Third (2017)

Scapin (2018)

Seafarer, The (2023)

Sex Please, We're 60 (2011)

Sex Please, We're 60 (2018)

Silent Sky (2022)

Shape of Things, The (2010)

Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Jersey Lily (2014)

Spitfire Grill, The (2011)

Sunshine Boys, The (2006)

Turn for the Nurse, A (2010)

Unexpected Guest, The (2002)

Unnecessary Farce (2023)

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (2016)

Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play (2022)

Wrong for Each Other (2010)

You Can't Take It with You (2005)

 

Riverbend Theatre Collective:

As Bees in Honey Drown (2008)

Elegies: A Song Cycle (2008)

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (2009)

Hate Mail (2009)

Kimberly Akimbo (2008)

Last Five Years, The (2009)

 

Riverside Theatre:

As You Like It (2001)

Comedy of Errors, The (2002)

Death of a Salesman (2006)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (2001)

Laramie Project, The (2003)

Macbeth (2003)

Memory of Water, The (2002)

Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2009)

Private Lives (2003)

Richard III (2009)

Romeo & Juliet (2002)

Spinning into Butter (2001)

Tempest, The (2006)

Twelfth Night (2006)

Walking the Wire (2003)

Wit (2003)

 

St. Ambrose University:

All My Sons (2007)

Charlotte's Web (2007)

Commedia Dell'arte (2015)

Crème de Coco (2007)

Fortinbras (2007)

Glengarry Glen Ross (2015)

God's Favorite (2008)

Inherit the Wind (2008)

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells (2015)

Lettice & Lovage (2009)

Little Prince, The (2019)

Little Women: The Musical (2022)

Narnia (2006)

Noises Off (2016)

Parade (2015)

Pippin (2008)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2005)

She Kills Monsters (2021)

Threepenny Opera, The (2006)

[title of show] (2023)

Urinetown (2005)

Working (2014)

 

Scott Community College:

Actor's Nightmare, The (2012)

Baby with the Bathwater (2016)

Blue Sky Merchants (2013)

Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin', A (2010)

Crossing Acheron: The Tragedy of Antigone (2014)

Design for Living (2008)

Dinner Party, The (2015)

Don't Talk to the Actors (2012)

Elephant Man, The (2013)

God of Carnage (2015)

Haunted Lives (2009)

Jake's Women (2010)

Lottery, The (2008)

Richard Blaine, the Merchant of Morocco: Or, What If Shakespeare Wrote Casablanca? (2008)

Summer People, The (2008)

To Burn a Witch (2010)

War of the Worlds, The (2011)

Who Am I This Time? (2009)

 

Spotlight Theatre:

All Shook Up (2023)

All the Great Books (Abridged) (2018)

Christmas Story, A: The Musical (2022)

Big: The Musical (2019)

Billy Elliot: The Musical (2019)

Christmas Carol, A: The Musical (2023)

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (2021)

Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, A (2019)

Happy Elf, The (2018)

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (2018)

Legally Blonde: The Musical (2024)

Lightning Thief, The: The Percy Jackson Musical (2022)

Little Shop of Horrors (2021)

Matilda: The Musical (2019)

Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical (2019)

Oliver! (2023)

Peter & the Starcatcher (2022)

Producers, The (2022)

Puffs (2023)

School of Rock: The Musical (2023)

Sound of Music, The (2021)

Spitfire Grill, The (2019)

SpongeBob Musical, The (2023)

Tuck Everlasing (2022)

Wedding Singer, The (2020)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2021)
 

Timber Lake Playhouse:

9 to 5: The Musical (2023)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (2021)

39 Steps, The (2023)

Ain't Misbehavin' (2006)

Ain't Misbehavin' (2021)

All Shook Up (2008)

Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver (2016)

Always … Patsy Cline (2016)

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (2018)

Bat Boy: The Musical (2007)

Beauty & the Beast (2018)

Beehive: The '60s Musical (2018)

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (2007)

Big Fish (2015)

Big Meal, The (2015)

Big River (2015)

Boeing-Boeing (2012)

Born Yesterday (2018)

Bright Star (2023)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2009)

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2021)

Children of Eden (2011)

Church Basement Ladies (2008)

Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, A (2021)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2009)

Dracula (2007)

Fiddler on the Roof (2018)

Flight of the Lawnchair Man (2011)

Footloose (2012)

Foreigner, The (2008)

Forever Plaid (2018)

Full Monty, The (2005)

Full Monty, The (2018)

Funny Money (2007)

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (2016)

Gaslight (2016)

Grease (2009)

Grease (2023)

Greater Tuna (2015)

Guys & Dolls (2012)

Gypsy (2016)

Hairspray (2015)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (2016)

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (2005)

Inspector Calls, An (2014)

Into the Woods (2019)

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2007)

Jersey Boys (2023)

Jesus Christ Superstar (2021)

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2014)

Late Nite Catechism 2 (2005)

Lend Me a Tenor (2009)

Les Misérables (2014)

Little Mermaid, The (2019)

Mamma Mia! (2019)

Man of La Mancha (2019)

Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (2023)

Newsies: The Musical (2019)

Noises Off (2019)

Peter Pan (2015)

Philadelphia Story, The (2006)

Pippin (2021)

Producers, The (2008)

Red Herring (2011)

Robber Bridegroom, The (2021)

Rock of Ages (2016)

Rumors (2014)

Shout! The Mod Musical (2014)

Smokey Joe's Café (2007)

Sound of Music, The (2023)

Spitfire Grill, The (2011)

Steel Magnolias (2019)

Sunset Boulevard (2011)

Sweet Charity (2011)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2006)

'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 (2011)

Titanic (2016)

Tom, Dick, & Harry (2006)

Underpants, The (2005)

Urinetown (2006)

Wait Until Dark (2009)

Wedding Singer, The (2009)

West Side Story (2008)

What a Wonderful World (2021)

Wizard of Oz, The (2006)

Working (2012)

You Can't Take It with You (2008)

Young Frankenstein (2014)

 

Additional Productions:

1776 (2002)

Aaron Power! The Musical (2022)

Bash (2009)

Boys Next Door, The (2009)

Broadway Bound (2005)

Dad & Me (2016)

Guardian, The (2012)

Guys & Dolls (2009)

Life Is a Dream (2002)

Magic Flute, The (2004)

Once Upon a Mattress (2011)

Rigoletto (2003)

Seascape (2000)

Spotlight on Susan Glaspell (2023)

Stacks, The: An Immersive Mystery (2024)

Tragedy of Sarah Klein, The (2010)

Vagina Monologues, The (2003)

 

Reader Tony Awards

"Faves in Fives 2016: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

"Faves in Fives 2017: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

"Faves in Fives 2018: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

"Picks o' Six 2019: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

"Two-Oh-Two-Oh Twos: The Fifth-Annual (Albeit Abbreviated) Reader Tony Awards" / "Hindsight Is 2020: The Year in Area Theatre"

"Picks o' Six 2021: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

"Fives in Fives 2022: Highlights from the Year in Area Theatre"

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