THE LORAS PLAYERS

The Loras Players
ESTABLISHED 1910

2025-2026

• "Film TBA" by Summer Film Camp 2025
• Evil Dead by George Reinblatt, music by Cipolla, Bond, Morris, Reinblatt, based on characters by Sam Raimi
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes
• How to Get Away with a Murder Mystery by Don Zolidis

2024-2025

• "What Happened to Brunch?" by Summer Film Camp 2024
• Twisted River of Temptation by Kyle & Stephanie Klapatauskas
• The One-Day Play 2024
• The Lightning Thief by Joe Tracz, music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki, adapted from the book by Rick Riordan
• The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe
• The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis

2023-2024

• The One-Day Play 2023
• Ride the Cyclone (The Musical) by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
• 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Don Zolidis

2022-2023

• The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock and the novel by John Buchan
• Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
• Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock

2021-2022

• The One-Day Play 2021
• 44th Annual DBQ One-Act Festival (co-produced with the Dubuque Fine Art Players)
  "Lighted Fools" by Bridget Grace Sheaff
  "A Lovely Day for a Boat Trip (and to Kill your Spouse)" by Lindsey Brown
  "Grey" by Kristen Benjamin
• Gremlins: An Unauthorized Audio Play adapted from the screenplay by Chris Columbus
• No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

2020-2021

• The One-Day (Digital) Play 2020
• The War of the Worlds adapted by Howard E. Koch, from the novel by H.G. Wells
• Miracle on 34th Street adapted by the Lux Radio Theater
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

2019-2020

• Loras College: The Musical by Kyle & Stephanie Klapatauskas
• The One-Day Play 2019
• Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
• A Christmas Carol adapted by Joe Landry, from the novel by Charles Dickens
• She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (Cancelled for COVID-19)

2018-2019

• The One-Day Play 2018
• Around the World in 80 Days adapted by Mark Brown, from the novel by Jules Verne
• It's a Wonderful Life adapted by Joe Landry from the film by Frank Capra
• No Mud, No Lotus adapted from the book by Thich Nhat Hahn
• Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman

2017-2018

• 1440 Project
• The Illusion
• For A Blessed Christmas
• Darkness Visible

2016-2017

• Twisted River of Redemption
• One-Day Theatre Project
• A Flea in Her Ear
• Christmas Celebrations
• Public Dilemma

2015-2016

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Feiffer's People
• For a Blessed Christmas
• Jesus, Shakespeare & Amelia Earhart Run into a Wall
• Blacklight Shakespeare

2014-2015

• Twisted River of Deception
• Sounds of Christmas
• R.U.R. (guest director Lenore Howard)
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2013-2014

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Christmas Joy
• Lend Me a Tenor

2012-2013

• Twisted River of Temptation
• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Adding Machine
• 'Tis the Season
• Murder by Insanity
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• Blacklight Shakespeare

2011-2012

• 24-Hour Theatre Project
• Tales by Twain
• Magic of Christmas
• The Mousetrap
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2010-2011

• The Madwoman of Chaillot
• For a Joyous Christmas
• Roulette
• Working (guest director Erin Horst)
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2009-2010

• Urinetown
• Scratch Play
• Noises Off
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2008-2009 (100-Year Anniversary)

• Hamlet (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (co-produced with Fly-By-Night Productions)
• The World Goes 'Round (alumni showcase, guest director Erin Horst)
• Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2007-2008

• Shakespeare's Voices
• Give Me Your Answer, Do
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras
• Scratch Play: That's Life
• Little Women

2006-2007

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• All About Jack
• J.B.
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2005-2006

• Company
• The Miser
• The Jeweler's Shop
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2004-2005

• Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille
• Captain Rounding and the Ring Raiders
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Tom Foolery
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2003-2004

• The Dead
• Lysistrata
• Waiting for Godot
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2002-2003

• The Cotton Patch Gospel
• Nick Tickle: Fairy Tale Detective
• Spring into Easter
• Bullshot Cummond
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras

2001-2002

• Forever Plaid
• Conversations with an Absurdist
  “A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot"
  “Letters From Me to You & P. S. Thanks for Coming”
  “Interview”
  “The Zoo Story”
  “The Attack of the Moral Fuzzies"
• Quilters

2000-2001

• Clue (The Musical)
• Christmas Classics on the Air
• Fabulous Fable Factory
• I Never Saw Another Butterfly
• Way Off-Broadway on Loras
  “Embryo”
  “The Brink of Silence”
  “The First Time Club”
  “Narcissus and Echo"
  “Triplet"
  “Hello out There"

1999-2000

• Mark
• Romeo and Juliet
• Half-Past Wednesday

1998-1999

• Where's Charley
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Alice in Wonderland

1997-1998

• One Upon a Mattress
• Of Mice and Men
• Raggedy Ann and Andy

1996-1997

• The Apple Tree
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Wheels

1995-1996

• Camelot
• Inherit the Wind
• Cinderella

1994-1995

• Damn Yankees
• Our Town
• Storybook Magic

1993-1994

• Oklahoma
• Scrooge. Marley and Company
• You Can’t Take it With You
• Magical Gifts and Dragons

1992-1993

• Guys and Dolls
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Pinocchio

1991-1992

• Grease
• Shrapnel in the Heart
• The House at Pooh Corner

1990-1991

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• All My Sons
• The Inside Pitch

1989-1990

• Lil' Abner
• The Silver Whistle
• Rocky and Bullwinkle

1988-1989

• Little Shop of Horrors
• Blithe Spirit
• Little Lulu

1987-1988

• Mark
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up

1986-1987

• Bells are Ringing
• Theatre Muses
• Wheels

1985-1986

• The Gin Game
• Man of La Mancha
• Scrooge
• Servant of Two Masters
• Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

1984-1985

• Cindy
• Spoon River Anthology
• Jack and the Beanstalk

1983-1984

• Annie
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Beauty and the Beast

1982-1983

• The Pirates of Penzance
• No More ... No Less
• The Miracle Worker
• Raggedy Ann and Andy

1981-1982

• Babes in Arms
• Night of January 16th
• Alice in Wonderland

1980-1981

• Where's Charley
• Dinny and the Witches
• A Potpourri

1979-1980

• Something's Afoot
• Wait Until Dark
• Night Must Fall
• Cinderella

1978-1979

• The Apple Tree
• The Little Foxes
• Count Dracula

1977-1978

• Shenandoah
• The Glass Menagerie
• Harvey
• Rapunzel and the Witch

1976-1977

• The King and I
• Catch Me if You Can
• Thurber Carnival
• Dr. Gray Matter's Dilemma

1975-1976

• Once Upon a Mattress
• 3 by Three + One
• The Twin Menaechmi
• Half-Past Wednesday
• I am an American

1974-1975

• Death of a Salesman
• Spoon River Anthology
• Raggedy Ann and Andy
• Little Mary Sunshine

1973-1974

• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Guys and Dolls
• The Taming of the Shrew

1972-1973

• Of Thee I Sing
• John Brown’s Body
• Winnie the Pooh
• Butterflies are Free
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1971-1972

• Biedermann and the Firebugs
• Young Abe Lincoln
• 1776

1970-1971

• Don't Drink the Water
• Under The Gaslight
• Man of La Mancha

1969-1970 - Missing

1968-1969

• Luv
• The Fantasticks

1967-1968

• The Odd Couple
• She Loves Me
• The Pajama Game

1966-1967

• Much Ado About Nothing
• West Side Story

1965-1966

• A Man For All Seasons
• You Can’t Take it With You
• Oliver!

1964-1965

• Carousel

1963-1964

• Koutev: Bulgarian National Ensemble
• A Thurber Carnival
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• My Fair Lady

1962-1963

• Everybody Loves Opal
• The Music Man

1961-1962

• The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
• Twelfth Night
• Take Me Along

1960-1961

• On Borrowed Time
• Romeo & Juliet
• Oklahoma

1959-1960

• Twelve Angry Men
• The Tragedy of King Richard II
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Kiss Me, Kate

1958-1959

• The Mousetrap
• Time Remembered
• Down in the Valley
• Music in the Air

1957-1958

• Witness for the Prosecution
• Julius Caesar
• Show Boat

1956-1957

• Dial "M" for Murder
• The Teahouse of the August Moon
• Brigadoon

1955-1956

• The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
• Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Gianni Schicchi
• The History of King Henry IV, Part I
• The Prisoner
• Annie Get Your Gun

1954-1955

• The Lady's Not for Burning
• Othello, the Moor of Venice
• The Strong Are Lonely
• Finian's Rainbow

1953-1954

• Pygmalion
• Take Away the Lady
• Hamlet
• His Eminence of England
• The Gypsy Baron

1952-1953

• Jenny Kissed Me
• The Cocktail Party
• The Curious Savage
• The Zeal of Thy House

1951-1952

• Bonaventure
• Harvey
• The Tempest
• The Righteous Are Bold

1950-1951

• The Far-Off Hills
• The Traitor
• The Madwoman of Chaillot
• The Comedy of Errors
• Thor, with Angels

1949-1950

• The Glass Menagerie
• Emma
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Life with Mother
• The City of Kings

1948-1949

• The Importance of Being Ernest
• Lute Song
• The Winslow Boy
• The Tidings Brought to Mary

1947-1948

• Macbeth
• Ten Little Indians
• Years Ago
• The Comedian

1946-1947

• The Bishop Misbehaves
• The Glory of Columbia
• Oedipus Rex
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Noah

1945-1946

• The Hasty Heart
• Angel Street
• Ramshackle Inn
• Richard III
• Queen Esther

1944-1945

• The Wranglers
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Traitor’s Gate

1943-1944

• Kind Lady
• Dear Brutus
• Junior Miss
• A Saint in a Hurry
• Janie

1942-1943

• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Wookey
• Tobias and the Angel

1941-1942

• Ladies in Retirement
• Mary of Scotland
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Mr. and Mrs. North

1940-1941

• Father Malachy’s Miracle
• The Royal Family

1939-1940

• Ten Minute Alibi
• The Baby Cyclone
• The First Legion

1938-1939

• The Family Upstairs

1937-1938

• The Mountain
• Berkeley Square
• Hid Battlements

1936-1937

• The Mission Units (The Little Father of The Wilderness & Dust of the Road)
• Captain Applejack

1935-1936

• The Perfect Alibi
• The Sign of the Cross
• Within These Walls
  “The Harlequinade”
  “Callista”
  “The Spanish Armada"

1934-1935

• Days Without End
• The Late Christopher Bean
• Old Lady 31

1933-1934

• The Nervous Wreck
• The Ivory Door
• Your Neighbors & Mine
• The Family Upstairs

1932-1933

• Joseph the Dreamer
• The Man of the Hour

1931-1932

• So This Is London
• Journey’s End

1930-1931

• Blow Your Own Horn
• Treasure Island
• Sun-Up

1929-1930

• Oliver Twist

1928-1929

• Number Seventeen
• Everyman
• The Confession

1927-1928

• Pals First

1926-1927

• The Monkey’s Paw
• Gracie
• Let’s Be Fashionable

1925-1926

• Magic

1924-1925

• The Aviator

1923-1924

• Captain Applejack

1922-1923

• The Man of the Hour

1921-1922

• The Yellow Jacket

1920-1921

• Stop Thief

1919-1920

• Seven Keys to Baldpate
• The Private Secretary

1918-1919

• A Successful Calamity
• Stop Thief!

1917-1918

• If I Were King
• It Pays to Advertise

1916-1917

• Under Cover
• A Pair of Sixes
• Officer 666

1915-1916

• Ready Money
• What the Public Wants
• Twelfth Night
• Seven Keys to Baldpate

1914-1915

• Stop Thief

1913-1914

• The Merchant of Venice
• Officer 666

1912-1913

• The Maid of France

1911-1912

• If I Were King
• Everyman
• The Dictator

1910-1911

• The Sign of the Cross
• Facing the Music

1909-1910

• My Friend from India

First Production - 1876

• The Merchant of Venice