2023-2024
Splash Hatch on the E Going Down by Kia Corthron
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
Scarecrow by Heidi Armbruster
The Treasurer by Max Posner
2022-2023
Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames
The Tin Woman by Sean Grennan
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher
God’s Spies by Bill Cain
2021-2022
Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher
Red Herring by Michael Hollinger
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
The Last White Man by Bill Cain
2020 – 2021
The Christians by Lucas Hnath+
Principal Principle by Joe Zarrow+
9 Circles by Bill Cain+
Natural Shocks by Lauren Gunderson+
+All of Next Act’s 2020 – 2021 productions were presented exclusively virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 – 2020
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
A Small Fire by Adam Bock
9 Circles by Bill Cain*
Special Presentations
Inside the Circle
*Next Act’s 2020 production of Bill Cain’s 9 Circles was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2018 – 2019
Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau
How to Write a New Book for the Bible by Bill Cain
Special Presentations
Hear What’s in the Heart: An Italian Shoemaker’s Tale by Steve Scionti and James Shanta
Branching Out (Community Youth Project)
2017 – 2018
Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
The Secret Mask by Rick Chafe
Equivocation by Bill Cain
I And You by Lauren Gunderson
Special Presentations
The Seeds of Banquo by Angela Iannone (Staged Reading)
The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson (Staged Reading)
Across the Viaduct (Community Youth Project)
Hear What’s in the Heart: An Italian Shoemaker’s Tale by Steve Scionti and James Shanta
2016 – 2017
The Taming by Lauren Gunderson
UnSILENT NIGHT by John Kishline and Edward Morgan
The Other Place by Sharr White
Bloomsday by Steven Dietz
Special Presentations
Now or Later by Christopher Shinn (Staged Reading)
An Evening with Carl Sandburg Created & Performed by Jonathan Gillard Daly (Staged Reading)
Milwaukee Minds (Community Youth Project)
2015 – 2016
Back of the Throat by Yussef El Guindi
Bravo, Caruso! by William Luce
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith
Motherhood Out Loud Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein
Special Presentations
Twilight: Milwaukee, 2016 (Community Youth Project)
McGivern & Mom
2014 – 2015
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter by Julie Marie Myatt
Heresy by A.R. Gurney
No Child… by Nilaja Sun
TEN QUESTIONS to Ask your Biology Teacher about Evolution by Stephen Massicotte
Special Presentations
When We Go Upon the Sea by Lee Blessing
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Community Youth Project)
2013 – 2014
Perfect Mendacity by Jason Wells
Groucho: A Life in Revue Book, lyrics & music by Arthur Marx & Robert Fisher
Race by David Mamet
Three Views of the Same Object by Henry Murray
Special Presentations
It’s a Wonderful Life: Live Radio Show Adapted by Mary MacDonald Kerr
2012-2013
microcrisis by Mike Lew
It’s a Wonderful Life Live Radio Show Adapted by Mary MacDonald Kerr
The Clockmaker by Stephen Massicotte
Grace by Craig Wright
Special Presentations
A Kodachrome Christmas by Pat Hazell
The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
2011-2012
The Exonerated by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney
Vigil by Morris Panych
One Time by Richard Lyons Conlon
Special Presentations
The Women Who Can’t Sing
An Evening in the Harlem Renaissance
Summer Stories w/ John McGivern by John McGivern
2010 – 2011
Four Places by Joel Drake Johnson
Big Boys by Rich Orloff
A Sleeping Country by Melanie Marnich
Special Presentations
Home for the Holidays w/ John McGivern by John McGivern
2009 – 2010
Mary’s Wedding by Stephen Massicotte
7 Stories by Morris Panych
Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman
The Value Of Names by Jeffrey Sweet
Special Presentations
John McGivern’s Home For The Holidays
This Little Light Of Mine by Adrienne Danrich
2008 – 2009
Lombardi: The Only Thing by Eric Simonson
Murderers by Jeffrey Hatcher
Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing
The Pavilion by Craig Wright
Special Presentations
Winter Tales with John McGivern
Paul Robeson in Concert
2007 – 2008
An Interview with Paul Robeson by Paul A. Mabon, Sr. & John Kishline
Greetings! by Tom Dudzick
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful by Charles Ludlam
Special Presentations
Winter Tales with John McGivern
2006 – 2007
Last of the Boys by Steven Dietz
Mercy of a Storm by Jeffrey Hatcher
Paradise by Glyn O’Malley
Ears on a Beatle by Mark St. Germain
Special Presentations
A Very Merry McGivern / Santaland Diaries
2005 – 2006
Coyote on a Fence by Bruce Graham
Red Herring by Michael Hollinger
The Retreat from Moscow by William Nicholson
An Infinite Ache by David Schulner
2004 – 2005
Dear Esther by Richard Rashke
The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive
The Goodbye People by Herb Gardner
Master Harold… and the boys by Athol Fugard
2003 – 2004
Mindgame by Anthony Horowitz
Bravo, Caruso! by William Luce
Between Men and Cattle by Richard Kalinoski
Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones
Special Presentations
Dear Esther (Staged Reading)
An Interview With Paul Robeson (Staged Reading)
2002 – 2003
Taking Leave by Nagle Jackson
Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard
Between East and West by Richard Nelson
Bea’s Niece by David Gow
2001 – 2002
Bee-Luther-Hatchee by Thomas Gibbons
Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
Side Man by Warren Leight
2000 – 2001
Down The Road by Lee Blessing
Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
Blood Knot by Athol Fugard
Fallen Angels by Noel Coward
Special Presentations
Bravo, Caruso! by William Luce (Staged Reading)
1999 – 2000
Hauptmann by John Logan
Room Service by John Murray & Allen Boretz
A Night in November by Marie Jones
My Thing of Love by Alexandra Gersten
Special Presentations
Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon (Staged Reading)
1998 – 1999
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Greetings! by Tom Dudzick
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
Below the Belt by Richard Dresser
1997 – 1998
Artis Generis by James DeVita / Descent by Tom Patrick
Stage Struck by Simon Gray
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
The Price by Arthur Miller
1996 – 1997
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
1995 – 1996
The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer
Noël and Gertie by Sheridan Morley
Fool for Love by Sam Shepard
Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
1994 – 1995
Marvin’s Room by Scott McPherson
On the Open Road by Steve Tesich
Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray and Eric Peterson
1993 – 1994
Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally
The Firebugs by Max Frisch
Evelyn and the Polka King by John Olive
1992 – 1993
Brief Lives by Patrick Garland
Incommunicado by Tom Dulack
Private Lives by Noel Coward
1991 – 1992
The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin
And a Nightingale Sang by C.P. Taylor
Cobb
Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley
Theatre Festival
The Importance of Being Earnest
1990 – 1991
A Wrinkle in Time from the book by Madeleine L’Engle, adapted by Jonathan Smoots
Reckless by Craig Lucas
The Voice of the Prairie by John Olive
Haven for the Disillusioned conceived by Helena Dynerman
Sea Marks by Gardner McKay
Theatre Festival
The Boys Next Door
Wait Until Dark