1955 to the Present
We are celebrating our 64th season of producing live theatre for Valparaiso and the greater Northwest Indiana region. From 1955 through 1995, productions were staged at Memorial Opera House. In between, CST performed in The Alley Studio, before moving to our current home, Chicago Street Theatre, in 1998.
Season 1: 1955-56
Papa is All
Blithe Spirit
The Heiress
Season 2: 1956-57
Southern Exposure
Ladies in Retirement
Season 3: 1957-58
Stalag 17
The Silver Whistle
Dial M for Murder
You Can’t Take it With You
Season 4: 1958-59
My Three Angels
Death Takes A Holiday
Night of January 16
The Philadelphia Story
Season 5: 1959-60
The Women
Separate Tables
The Seven Year Itch
State of the Union
Season 6: 1960-61
Three Men on a Horse
Come Back Little Sheba
Voice of the Turtle
Arsenic and Old Lace
Season 7: 1961-62
A Shred of Evidence
George Washington Slept Here
Diary of Anne Frank
Ten Night in a Barroom
Season 8: 1962-63
Born Yesterday
The Deadly Game
A Solid Gold Cadillac
The Pleasure of His Company
Season 9: 1963-64
Picnic
The Girls in 509
Once Upon A Mattress
The Little Foxes
Season 10: 1964-65
The Bad Seed
Little Mary Sunshine
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harvey
Season 11: 1965-66
Mary, Mary
Take Me Along
The Mouse Trap
Teahouse of the August Moon
Season 12: 1966-67
Where’s Charley
The Glass Menagerie
A Thousand Clowns
Mr. Roberts
Season 13: 1967-68
Papa Is all
A Critic’s Choice
Guys & Dolls
A Miracle Worker
Season 14: 1968-69
South Pacific
The Man Who Came to Dinner
A Case of Libel
Never Too Late
Season 15: 1969-70
Barefoot in the Park
Paint Your Wagon
Skin of Our Teeth
A Lion in Winter
A Visit to a Small Planet
Season 16: 1970-71
Cactus Flower
Wait Until Dark
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Mame
Light Up the Sky
Season 17: 1971-72
Life With Father
Bell, Book, and Candle
Johnny Belinda
Fiddler on the Roof
Season 18: 1972-73
The Match Maker
The Rainmaker
A Man for All Seasons
Finian’s Rainbow
Season 19: 1973-74
Forty Carats
Advise and Consent
Morning’s At Seven
Man of LaMancha
The King’s Rabbits
Season 20: 1974-75
Butterflies Are Free
Death & Life of Sneaky Fitch
The Crucible
Carnival
The Pied Piper
Season 21: 1975-76
Finishing Touches
The Fantastiks
Design for Murder
Looking Glass Land
Gramercy Ghost
Season 22: 1976-77
The Sunshine Boys
Under Papa’s Picture
Marmalade Gumdrops
I Never Sang for My Father
Carousel
Season 23: 1977-78
6 Rms Riv Vu
Goldilocks
Night Must Fall
The Drunkard
Season 24: 1978-79
Any Wednesday
A Thurber Carnival
Camelot
Accommodations
Season 25: 1979-80
The Incredible Jungle Journey of Fenda Maria
Sleuth
You Can’t Take It With You
Godspell
Play It Again, Sam
Season 26: 1980-81
Treasure Island
Damn Yankees
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge & Marley)
Dracula
Night of January 16
The Curious Savage
Season 27: 1981-82
The Invisible Dragon
Vanities
A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
Little Mary Sunshine
God’s Favorite
Catch Me If You Can
Season 28: 1982-83
Three Fairy Godmothers
Chapter Two
Babes in Toyland
Of Mice and Men
Hotel Paradiso
Death Trap
Season 29: 1983-84
The Enchanted Journey
They’re Playing Our Song
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge & Marley)
Sly Fox
Summer and Smoke
Murder at Howard Johnson’s
Season 30: 1984-85
Androcles and the Lion
Romantic Comedy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Gypsy
Arsenic and Old Lace
Spoon River Anthology
Season 31: 1985-86
The King’s Rabbits
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
California Suite
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Death of a Salesman
Whodunnit
Talking With…
Season 32: 1986-87
Cinderella
Heaven Can Wait
A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
King of the Ice Cream Mountain
Days of Wine and Roses
True West
Extremities
Odd Couple (Female)
Season 33: 1987-88
Vaudville and the Great Western Melodrama
Chicago
My Husband’s Wild Desires Almost Drove Me Mad
The Little Snow Girl
Fools
Look Homeward Angel
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Season 34: 1988-89
Jack and the Giant
A Chorus Line
Harvey
The Snow Queen
The Children’s Hour
Time After Time
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Season 35: 1989-90
Aesop’s Falables
Sugar Babies
Something’s Under the Bed
The Nerd
Many Moons
The Dresser
1940’s Radio Hour
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Season 36: 1990-91
Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
Steel Magnolias
The Boys Next Door
Oliver
Little Murders
Cabaret
Season 37: 1991-92
The Pied Piper
Children of a Lesser God
Kiss Me Kate
Working
Dylan
Other People’s Money
Season 38: 1992-93
Winnie the Pooh
The Elephant Man
Annie
The Art of Dining
Fiddler on the Roof
Shenandoa
Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends/A Final Evening with the Illuminati
Season 39: 1993-94
Beauty and the Beast
The Glass Menagerie
Animal Crackers
The Diviners
The Sound of Music
Charley’s Aunt
Season 40: 1994-95
Alice in Wonderland
Dangerous Liasons
Fortinbras
Death and the Maiden
Guys and Dolls
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Streetcar Named Desire
40-year Reunion
Season 41: 1995-96
Snow White
Macbeth
Revenge of the Space Pandas
Will Rogers Follies
Vacated Opera House for Renovation
Dancing at Lughnasa (at Machinists’ Hall)
The Wizard of Oz (at Machinists’ Hall)
Marvin’s Room (at Valparaiso University)
Emperor’s New Clothes (at Lakewood Park)
The Invention (at Lakewood Park)
Season 42: 1996-97
Love Letters (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Orphans (CTG’s Alley Studio)
The Angels of Lemnos (staged reading) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Orphans (CTG’s Alley Studio)
A Christmas Carol (Dickens) (Valparaiso University)
The Dining Room (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Not for Profit by Kevin Murphy (staged reading) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Bob Craig’s America (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Something Bright and Alien by Kevin Murphy (staged reading) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Wally’s Café (Jimmy’s Cafe, Valparaiso)
Roxanne’s Kiss (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Eleemosynary (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Laundry and Bourbon / Lonestar (LCTG) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Revolution (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Educating Rita (Footlight Players) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Season 43: 1997-98
Graceland/Parked
An Evening with Eve (CTG’s Alley Studio)
6 Rms Riv Vu (Way Off Broadway) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Here’s Looking at You Kid (Mary Wilde) (CTG’s Alley Studio)
Miracle on 34th Street (Valparaiso University)
Vacated Alley Studio 12/20/97
CTG Encores: Saluting 43 Years of Musical Memories (Strongbow Inn)
Casino Night (Court Restaurant)
Took Possession of Chicago Street Theatre
Greater Tuna
The Fantastics
Beyond Therapy
As You Like It
The Angels of Lemnos by CST member Jim Henry (World Premiere)
Season 44: 1998-99
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Little Shop of Horrors
The Diary of Anne Frank
It’s a Wonderful Life
CTG Encores: An Evening with Gershwin
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds
Agnes of God
Nunsense
Once Upon a Clothesline
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
The Sea Horse
Season 45: 1999-00
Hansel and Gretel
Biloxi Blues
Mean Eugene: A Christmas Tail
It’s a Wonderful Life
Romeo and Juliet
CTG Encores: An Evening with Cole Porter (Strongbow Inn)
The Secret Garden
Buried Child
Charlotte’s Web
Solid Gold Cadillac
Season 46: 2000-01
The Wind in the Willows
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Christmas Story (World Premiere)
Never the Sinner
CTG Encores: The Best of Broadway (Strongbow Inn)
Macbeth the Rock Opera Staged Reading
She Loves Me
African-American Weekend: Eddie Chappell Sextet & “Standing on the Shoulders of our Ancestors”
The Seventh Monarch
The Memory of Water
Season 47: 2001-02
East of the Sun
Three Penny Opera
(One Night Jam concert)Michael McDermott
Chamber Music / The 15 Minute Hamlet
A Christmas Story
The Curse of the Starving Class
CTG Encores: Red, White & Broadway (Strongbow Inn)
The Hot L Baltimore
Glengarry Glen Ross
Communicating Doors
Why are We Americans? 4th of July Slide Presentation
Jungle Book
New Tech Booth Constructed
Season 48: 2002-03
Tom Sawyer
Company
Annie
A Few Good Men
African Hertage: Sunday Morning / Black Souls
CTG Encores: An Evening at the Cabaret (Strongbow Inn)
The Dining Room
The Giver by Valpo Reads a Book Program
Balm in Gilead
A Lie of the Mind
Season 49: 2003-04
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
A Flea in Her Ear
A Christmas Story
Julius Ceasar
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Princess and the Pea
CTG Encores Celebrates LUV (Strongbow Inn)
Dinner with Friends
Working
Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations
Season 50: 2004-05
Alice in Wonderland
The Boys Next Door
Annie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Pied Piper
Little Murders
CTG Encores: Greatest Hits (Strongbow Inn)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
When We Were Alive (World Premiere)
Go Dog, Go!
Season 51: 2005-06
The Little Mermaid
The Underpants
A Christmas Story
The Birthday Party
Cheaper By The Dozen
CTG Encores: Hooray for Hollywood (Strongbow Inn)
We Bombed In New Haven
Woman In Mind
Monsters Under the Bed
Murder In Green Meadows
Season 52: 2006-07
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Rumors
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Violet Hour
Catherine Called Birdy
CTG Encores: Guys and Dolls (Duneland Falls)
Coyote on a Fence
Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party
The Chinese Cinderella
Fuddy Meers
Season 53: 2007/08
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Bedroom Farce
A Christmas Story (VU Center for the Arts)
Chicago Street Theatre auditorium renovated
Letters Home
James and the Giant Peach
CTG Encores: A Little Night Music (Duneland Falls)
Our Town
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Assassins
Season 54: 2008/09
The Jungle Book
Camping with Henry and Tom
A Christmas Carol (Schario)
Doubt
The Red Shoes
Encores: Decades, They’re Playing Our Song (Aberdeen Manor)
Moon Over the Brewery
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Triumph of Love
Season 55: 2009/10
How to Eat Like a Child
Is He Dead?
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (musical)
A Tuna Christmas
The Pillowman
Ascension Day
Encores: Decades, As Time Goes By (Strongbow Inn)
And Then There Were None
The Heidi Chronicles
Chess
Season 56: 2010/11
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Annie
A Tuna Christmas
The Drawer Boy
Life with Mother Superior
14th Encores: Decades, Serenade the Moon (Strongbow Inn)
The Clean House
Frost/Nixon
Fools
Season 57: 2011/12
The Fabulous Fable Factory
What the Butler Saw
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?
Red Licorice
15th Encores: Vegas, Baby! (Strongbow Inn)
The Cherry Orchard
Brother of All (World Premiere)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CST/Central Park Plaza)
Season 58: 2012/13
Snow White
Dracula
The Sound of Music
American Rex (World Premiere)
The Less Than Human Club
16th Encores: Vegas, Baby! (Strongbow Inn)
The Graduate
A Picasso (Co-produced with The Genesius Guild) (Edith B. Wood Studio Theatre)
A View From the Bridge
The Comedy of Errors CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 59: 2013/14
The World’s Worst Fairy Godmother
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! In rotating rep with Santaland
The Santaland Diaries
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
CST 17th Encores: Vegas, Baby!
Play it Again, Sam
Snow Angel (Teen Ensemble) (Wood Studio)
Rabbit Hole
Romeo and Juliet CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 60: 2014/15
Beauty and the Beast
Frankenstein
Scary Godmother (Wood Studio)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Tammy: A Coming of Age Story About a Girl Who is Part T-Rex
18th Encores: Diamond Jubilee! (VU Center for the Arts)
Henry and Ramona
The Angels of Lemnos
A Little Bit Not Normal
Cobb
Hamlet CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 61: 2015/16
Cinderella
The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein (Co-produced with ETC)
Junie B. Jones The Musical
Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective
Let’s Misbehave: Roaring 20’s Speakeasy Fundraiser (The Spa Events Center)
Orson’s Shadow
Teen Fest: Hoodie and Chicken Road (Wood Studio)
Wash, Dry, Fold (AACT Play Fest Winner)
The Tempest CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 62: 2016/17
Harriet The Spy
Night of the Living Dead
A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail
The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical
Pale Dream
Betrayal (Wood Studio)
A Year with Frog and Toad
The Rose Tatoo
Incorruptible
The Taming of the Shrew CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 63: 2017/18
How to Eat Like a Child
Hair
It’s a Wonderful Life
Hurlyburly
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Moonlight and Magnolias
Fool For Love
Much Ado About Nothing CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 64: 2018/19
The Actor’s Nightmare/Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You
Evil Dead The Musical
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Keely and Du
Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)
Boeing Boeing
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
Macbeth CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 65: 2019/20
A Wrinkle In Time
The Toxic Avenger: The Musical
Santaland Diaries
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Black Comedy – Canceled mid-run due to COVID
God Of Carnage – Canceled, performed as virtual staged reading
Heathers: The Musical – Postponed
TeenFest – Livestreamed
Othello CST/Central Park Plaza – Canceled
Season 66: 2020/21
Italian American Reconciliation – Postponed, performed as virtual staged reading
The Woman In Black – Canceled
The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (Virtual)
It’s A Wonderful Life – The Radio Play (Virtual)
A Christmas Carol – Canceled
James And The Giant Peach
TeenFest
Heathers: The Musical
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – CST/Central Park Plaza
Season 67: 2021/22
Coraline, The Musical
A Christmas Carol
Doing Durang
Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook
TeenFest
Stop Kiss (Studio)
As You Like It
Season 68: 2022/23
Misery
Ken Ludwig’s ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
The Play That Goes Wrong
Rosemary With Ginger (Studio)
Rent
TeenFest
Julius Caesar – CST/Central Park Plaza