Photos & Production History

40 years of great performances

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Theatre Program established: 1978
Theatre Department created: 1983
Dance Major established: 1993

# = student-directed or student-choreographed production
+ = World Premiere
(1993 through present)

2022-2023	Theatre Productions *We Are Proud to Present A Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915* *The Threepenny Opera* *Oedipus: A Staged Reading* *(& Medea): A Staged Reading +* *Love + Information* *Local Girls* Dance Productions Reset: New Dances # In Motion
2021-2022	Theatre Productions En El Tiempo de Las Mariposas Call Me by Any Other Name... Just as Sweet + The Saint Plays # Assembly Festival: You Are Cordially Invited #+ A Feeling Of, Feeling For #+ Rosy-Crimson Firebringer: The Musical. # *Miss You Like Hell* Dance Productions Reset: New Dances # In Motion
2020-2021	Theatre Productions MAGIC* + Far Away* # Run Glue Tree Pour Drive* + Unstable Connections +* A List * 10x10, or The Decameron* + Memento: Mori: Triptych + Dance Productions Ephemerality: Dances in Time # En Route # *Senior Dance Photoshoot* *Many of the theatre and dance productions were virtual due to the covid-19 health crisis.
2019-2020	Theatre Productions The Importance of Being Earnest Into the Woods New Voices / New Visions — Directors' Festival & World Premiere Plays Beauty Runs on Light Feet # Family Values #+ Holy Sht #+ Lessons for an Unaccustomed Bride # Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind #* A Raisin in the Sun The Bacchae Dance Productions *Moving Stories 2019* *Master Choreographers 2020* Performance Photos Studio Photos *2020's Berg Fringe* and Dance Emerge started production but were canceled prior to their performances due to the covid-19 health crisis.**
2018-2019	Theatre Productions Machinal Brigadoon New Voices / New Visions — Directors' Festival & World Premiere Plays The Repair Man #+ Still Growing Up #+ Am I Blue # Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play O War # Love & The Law: An Evening of Opera & Musical Theatre *21 Chump Street #* Trial By Jury # The Telephone # Dance Productions *Moving Stories 2018 #* *Master Choreographers 2019* Performance Photos Studio Photos Dance Emerge 2019 #
2017-2018	Theatre Productions New Voices / New Visions, Part 1 How I Wonder #+ In Finite Potential #+ Shadow Day # 187 # Sunday in the Park with George New Voices / New Visions, Part 2 Conform #+ The Bald Soprano # Ubu Roi Glory for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Dance Productions Moving Stories 2017 # Master Choreographers 2018 Dance Emerge 2018 #
2016-2017	Theatre Productions Attention: New Visions Directors' Festival The Imaginary Audience #+ Oh, The Humanity, and Other Good Intentions # The Pirates of Penzance Falling: New Visions Directors' Festival Salome # Icarus's Mother # Listen To Me Wig Out! The Cherry Orchard Dance Productions Moving Stories 2016 # Master Choreographers 2017 Dance Emerge 2017 # Circus Workshop: Welkin #+
2015-2016	Theatre Productions New Voices - World Premiere Plays Three Bedroom #+ My Short Shitty Life #+ Death of a Sun #+ Chicago Servant of Two Masters New Visions - Directors' Festival # Terrible Beautiful Bodies #+ Hello Out There # The Exception and the Rule # Passion Play Ulysses in Nighttown Dance Productions Moving Stories 2015 # Master Choreographers 2016 Dance Emerge 2016 # Circus Workshop: VOD #+
2014-2015	Theatre Productions New Visions - Director's Festival The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden # Hrosvitha # Out Loud (Three Short Plays) # This Is a Chair # Anyone Can Whistle Agamemnon The Miss Firecracker Contest Street Scene Romeo and Juliet Dance Productions Moving Stories 2014 # Master Choreographers 2015 Dance Emerge 2015 # Circus Workshop: Atlas #+
2013-2014	Theatre Productions New Voices 2013 #+ The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Winter's Tale The Learned Ladies New Visions - Director's Festival Every Good Boy Deserves Favour # butyou'reaman #+ Still Life with Iris # Mad Forest Dance Productions Moving Stories 2013 # Master Choreographers 2014 Dance Emerge 2014 #
2012-2013	Theatre Productions 44 Plays for 44 Presidents On the Town The Bourgeois Pig: A New Play + Bartholomew Fair New Visions - Director's Festival Iphigenia and Other Daughters # Mental Landscapes # The Marriage of Figaro Dance Productions Moving Stories 2012 # Master Choreographers 2013 Dance Emerge 2013 #
2011-2012	Theatre Productions New Voices 2011— New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights #+ New Myths— Original Works by Emerging Alumni # Merrily We Roll Along Curse of the Starving Class Stop Kiss # A Midsummer Night's Dream The Three Sisters Dance Productions Moving Stories 2011 # Master Choreographers 2012 Dance Emerge 2012 #
2010-2011	Theatre Productions Polaroid Stories # The Pajama Game The Last Days of Judas Iscariot La Dispute The Tempest + Orlando Dance Productions Moving Stories 2010 # Master Choreographers 2011 The Tempest + Dance Emerge 2011 #
2009-2010	Theatre Productions New Voices 2009 — New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights #+ Bat Boy: The Musical New Visions - Director's Festival The Increased Difficulty of Concentration # Uncommon Women and Others # The Other Shore An American Tragedy + Blood Wedding Dance Productions Moving Stories 2009 # Master Choreographers 2010 The Other Shore Dance Emerge 2010 #
2008-2009	Theatre Productions Miss Julie # *Oklahoma!* Twelfth Night The Possibilities Caw + *A Flea in Her Ear* Dance Productions Moving Stories 2008 # Master Choreographers 2009 Dance Emerge 2009 #
2007-2008	Theatre Productions Three More Sleepless Nights # Al Takes a Bride # Ruddigore # New Voices 2007 # Venus Zanna, Don't! # Love's Labour's Lost Dance Productions Moving Stories 2007 #+ Master Choreographers 2008 Dance Emerge 2008 #
2006-2007	Theatre Productions Weldon Rising # Urinetown the Musical Life's a Dream Orpheus Descending Corps #+ Monkey in the Middle Dance Productions Moving Stories 2006 # Master Choreographers 2007 Corps #+ Dance Emerge 2007 #
2005-2006	Theatre Productions Lebensraum # Cabaret New Voices 2005 #+ A Bird of Prey # Big Love The Pillow of Kantan # *Figurentheater: Emigré* and Exit: A Hamlet Fantasy + Dance Productions** Dance On # Master Choreographers 2006 Dance Emerge 2006 #
2004-2005	Theatre Productions Tartuffe Pippin Christmas on Mars # How I Learned to Drive # Catholic School Girls # Pirates of Penzance Lures and Snares + *Summerfolk* Dance Productions Student Choreographer Showcase — Fall 2004 # The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2005 Student Choreographer Showcase — Spring 2005 #
2003-2004	Theatre Productions Dancing at Lughnasa # On the Town Scenes from an Execution Measure for Measure New Voices 2004 — New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights #+ *The Seagull* Dance Productions Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2003 # Alumni Dance Concert — a celebration of 10 years of the Dance Major *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2004* Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2004 #
2002-2003	Theatre Productions Picasso at the Lapin Agile # Into the Woods # Anything's Dream + Electra Private Eyes # *The Beggar's Opera* Dance Productions Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2002 # The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2003 Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2003 #
2001-2002	Theatre Productions New Voices 2001 — New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights #+ Wonderful Town The Game of Love and Chance Juliet and Her Romeo: The Sixth Quarto + The Vagina Monologues Pentecost Dance Productions Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2001 # The Muhlenberg Dancers Concert 2002 Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2002 #
2000-2001	Theatre Productions A Midsummer Night's Dream Mother Hicks Little Shop of Horrors The Crucible Hot Ice # *Dido and Aeneas* Dance Productions Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2000 # *The Muhlenberg Dancers Concert 2001* Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2001 #
1999-2000	Theatre Productions Aunt Dan and Lemon Our Town The Country Wife Cave Theory + West Side Story The World of Anton Chekhov: Four One-Act Vaudevilles # Dance Productions *Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert* Student-Choreographed Concert I # Student-Choreographed Concert II #
1998-1999	Theatre Productions Getting Out # The Mikado — * Please see note below. The Winter's Tale Blood Brothers # Ophelia's Tattoo + Dance Productions Junior/Senior Choreography Showcase # Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert Student Choreographed Concert #
1997-1998	Theatre Productions Food and Shelter # Brigadoon Top Girls Galileo Dance Productions Student Choreographed Concert # *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert*
1996-1997	Theatre Productions Fefu and Her Friends Cabaret Peer Gynt The Kafka Project + Dance Productions Student Choreographed Concert # *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert*
1995-1996	Theatre Productions Medea Oklahoma! Oleanna SubUrbia # *Cloud Nine* Dance Productions Student Choreographed Concert # *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert*
1994-1995	Theatre Productions Crimes of the Heart Hamlet Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) A Chorus Line Dance Productions *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert*
1993-1994	Theatre Productions Lydie Breeze Carnival The Three Sisters Allen Tales + Dance Productions *The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert*
1992-1993	Theatre Productions Bed Time Story The Apple Tree Preggin and Liss The Good Woman of Setzuan Prelude to a Kiss The Pajama Game
1991-1992	Theatre Productions Voice of the Turtle Ruddigore The Miracle Worker Phaedra
1990-1991	Theatre Productions Man of La Mancha Vinegar Tom A Midsummer Night's Dream
1989-1990	Theatre Productions Life Under Water The Author's Voice The Skin of Our Teeth Asian Shade Street Scene
1988-1989	Theatre Productions The Lesson The Bald Soprano The School for Scandal The Baby with the Bathwater Candide
1987-1988	Theatre Productions The Dining Room The Vengeance Anything Goes South Pacific Snow
1986-1987	Theatre Productions Ernest in Love Twelfth Night Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Oklahoma!
1985-1986	Theatre Productions Androscoggin Fugue Bye Bye Birdie Amahl and the Night Visitors Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Suicide
1984-1985	Theatre Productions What I Did Last Summer Good News The Play of Daniel 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1983-1984	Theatre Productions The Doctor in Spite of Himself Mother Courage and Her Children Miss Julie Of Thee I Sing
1982-1983	Theatre Productions Album Measure for Measure Once Upon a Mattress
1981-1982	Theatre Productions The Water Engine Tartuffe Antigone Last Gasps Oh What a Lovely War… Riders to the Sea Trial by Jury
1980-1981	Theatre Productions Spring Awakening You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Woods Guys and Dolls
1979-1980	Theatre Productions The Pirates of Penzance Before Christmas Much Ado About Nothing
1978-1979	Theatre Productions Our Town Anything Goes

* A Note About Racial Stereotypes and Deleted Photos

Some past theatre performances at Muhlenberg contained insensitive racial stereotypes, among them The Mikado and Annie Get Your Gun. We apologize for the harm that the stereotypes depicted in these performances and associated photos have caused our community. These productions do not reflect our current philosophy of theatre production, casting or production design, and we have removed any related image galleries.

Practices within Summer Music Theatre and the Department of Theatre & Dance concerning casting and the canon of shows and plays considered for production have evolved significantly and purposefully in recent years to more thoughtfully consider the experience of communities of color, both as performers and audience.

We appreciate the work that students and alumni have done to hold our College community accountable for past and present harms. Each of us plays an important role in ensuring our College community is welcoming and inclusive.

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