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Teahouse of the August Moon
by John Patrick
directed by Clarence Strickland
Fall 1989

An Award-winning American Classic to open the newly renovated Wise Auditorium ... winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony, and the Critic's Circle Award, this time-proven Comedy pursues the career of an Army of Occupation officer stationed in Okinawa. "One of the most successful plays of modern theatre, " critics call it "completely captivating, uproarious, a howling hit!"

Dearly Departed
by David Botrelle and Jessie Jones
directed by Dr. David W. Crawford
Fall 1989

Not Since Steel Magnolias has a more colorful and dysfunctional group of Southern eccentrics gathered below the Mason-Dixon line. If you like Greater Tuna, this comedy is your cup of tea.

Journey's End
by R.C. Sheriff
Directed by Clarence L. Strickland
October 7-12, 1999

A classic of the English-speaking theatre, this "tragic and moving" drama is the "greatest of all British war plays" showing the effect of war on a group of young officers in the WWI trenches.

Twelfth Night: or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dr. David W. Crawford
December 2-7, 1999

The Duke falls blindly in love with the countess Olivia, who falls madly in love with Cesari, who is really the disguised Viola, who falls hopelessly in love with the Duke. This "simple" plot grows in Elizabethan complexity until all characters are terribly and hilariously intertwined in the web of Aristocratic comic romance.

*Spring Musical: West Side Story
by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim
Stage Direction by Victor L. Siller; Music Direction by Andrew Skoog
Fall 1999

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Circle Award, and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award, this Irish drama has the claim of "the most elegent and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie."

Dancing at Lugnasa
by Brian Friel
directed by Jacque Shackelford
Fall 1999

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play, the Outer Circle Award, and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award, this Irish drama has the claim of "the most elegent and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie."