Lancaster Campus Theatre Past Performances
The ý Lancaster Theatre program is a robust academic program that annually stages three theatrical productions featuring OHIO students during the academic year and one community production, which features both students and area residents and debuts during the Lancaster Festival.
Past Performances: 2010-Present
The Lancaster Campus Theatre Program has offered multiple productions each year under the direction of A. Victor Jones since the program was reinstated in 2010.
2020-Present
2025
- White Christmas
- Godspell (2012)
2024
- Deathtrap
- Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
2023
- You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
- Into the Woods
- American Son
- The Play That Goes Wrong
- A Merry American Christmas
2022
- Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors
- RENT
- [title of show]
- Community Theatre Production, It’s A Wonderful Life
2021
- “Friends Celebrating the Music of Broadway”
- Romance, Nomance!
- The Shadow Box
- The Producers
2020
- Almost. Maine
- Chicago
- And Then There Were None
- The Sound of Music
2010-2019
2019
- Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical
- Legally Blonde, The Musical
- I Hate Hamlet
2018
- next to normal
- Hello, Dolly!
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- Moon Over Buffalo
2017
- The Fantasticks
- Grease
- Moon Over Buffalo
- A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
2016
- The 39 Steps
- The Wizard of OZ
- Dead Man’s Cell Phone
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
2015
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- West Side Story
- Barefoot In The Park
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
2014
- Lend Me A Tenor
- Cinderella
- The Elephant Man
- It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
2013
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Producers
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Miracle on 34th Street
2012
- The Mousetrap
- Chicago
- Almost, Maine
- It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
2011
- Rumors
- Steel Magnolias
- It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
2010
- Final Dress Rehearsal
- And Then There Were None
Past Performances: 1969-1998
The Lancaster Campus Theatre Program has offered a variety of performances each year under the direction of Jeffrey R. Wagner, a professor who served as the director of the program for approximately 30 years.
1990-1998
1998
- Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Israel Horovitz
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon (Last Performance by Jeffrey Wagner)
1997
- Agnes of God by John Pielmeier
- CUMP: A Soljier’s Tale in Two Acts by Herb Leifer
- Voices by Susan Griffin
1996
- Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
1995
- Hometown Heroes
1994
- The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel (The Cleveland Playhouse)
- Down the Road by Lee Blessing
- Agnes of God by John Pielmeier
1993
- The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon
- A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan
- Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
1992
- On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
- Clarence Darrow by David Rintels
- The Belle of Amherst by William Luce
1991
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
1990
- Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
- How the Other Half Lives by Alan Ayckbourn
- Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
1980-1989
1989
- The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney, Jr.
- ’night Mother by Marsha Norman
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1988
- The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt
- Independence by Lee Blessing
- The Goodbye People
1987
- The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn
- God’s Favorite by Neil Simon
- Tribute by Bernard Slade
1986
- The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manhoff
- Still Life by Emily Mann (50th Production by Jeffrey Wagner)
- Dames at Sea by George Haimsoln & Robin Miller
1985
- The Good Doctor by Neil Simon
- Tally’s Folly by Lanford Wilson
- Nuts by Tom Topor
1984
- The Prisoner by Bridget Boland
- Vanities by Jack Heifner
- Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
1983
- Same Time Next Year by Bernard Slade
- Chapter Two by Neil Simon
- Norman, Is That You? by Ron Clark & Sam Bobrick
1982
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- Hold Me by Jules Feiffer
- Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
1981
- A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
- Black Comedy: A One Act Farce by Peter Shaffer
- Was He Anyone?: An Absurd Comedy by N.F. Simpson
1980
- The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
- The Price by Arthur Miller
- Carnival by Bob Merrill
1970-1979
1979
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton
- Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
1978
- Summertree by Ron Cowen
- Prisoner of 2nd Avenue by Neil Simon
- The Apple Tree (Passionella & Diary of Adam and Eve) by Jerry Bock
1977
- LUV by Murray Schisgal
- Two for the See Saw by William Gibson
- Godspell: A Musical by Stephen Schwartz
1976
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
- 6 Rms Riv Vu: A Situational Comedy by Bob Randall
- The Girls in Room 503: A Political Satire by Howard Teichmann
1975
- Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee
- The Bat by Lionel Bart
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman
1974
- The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
- Oliver by Lionel Bart
- The Fantastiks by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
1973
- Send Me No Flowers by Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Harold S. Prince
- Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
1972
- Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
- You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner
- J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
1971
- View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
- Don’t Drink the Water by Woody Allen
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
1970
- Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
- The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash
1969
1969
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett