Panola Playhouse

A Historic Community Theatre

HISTORY OF PRODUCTIONS 1962-2007

 

1962-63

You Can’t Take It With You

Night Must Fall

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Bell, Book and Candle

A Sleep of Prisoners

 

1963-64

The Boy Friend

Craigs Wife

Many Moons

The Egg and I

 

1964-65

The Glass Menagerie

Lil’Abner

Will The Mail Train Ride Tonight

Or

Love Rides the Rails

Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole

An Evening with Eudora Welty

John Brown’s Body

 

1965-66

The Curious Savage

Annie Get Your Gun

Our Town

The Fantastics

 

1966-67

The World of Carl Sandberg

Oklahoma

The Mouse That Roared

Rip Van Winkle

Bus Stop

 

1967-68

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Imaginery Invalid

Spoon River Anthology

Blithe Spirit

 

Sunday Series 1968-70

The Al Ben Dot Combo

James Coleman and Cynthia Yeats Furr

Ole Miss Group 68

Fore and Twenty Singers

Hildeg and McCullar

The Messengers

 

1968-69

Arsenic and Old Lace

Tom Sawyer

Barefoot in the Park

The Hairy Falsetto

An Evening with William Shakespeare

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

 

 1969-70

Sarah Siddons-The Worlds Greatest Actress

Luv

Picnic

Once Upon a Mattress

The Subject was Roses

My Three Angels

 

1970-71

Night of January 16

Never Too Late

Livin’ De Life

Dad Poor Dad Mama’s hung You in The Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad

 

1971-72

Wait Until Dark

Everybody Loves Opal

Ten Nights in a Barroom

 

1972-73

The Mousetrap

Life with Father

The Sound of Music

 

1973-74

Mid Summer Mink

 

1974-75

Mary, Mary

Peter Pan

Charley’s Aunt

Plaza Suite

 

1976-77

Oliver

The Little Foxes

The four Poster

 Doctor Holacaust

 

1977-78

The Tempest

Alice in Wonderland

 M’Liss

A Christmas Carol

Meriwether Sledge Recital

 

1980

Inherit the Wind

Tom Sawyer

Little Women

Arsenic and Old Lace

 

 

1981-82

Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?

Bell, Book and Candle

Your’re a Good Man , Charlie Brown

An Evening of Music – Ole Miss Choir

 

1982-83

The Diary of Anne Frank

Cole

Wizard of Oz

Busy Body

 

1983-84

Cinderella

Butterflies Are Free

A Christmas Carol

Barefoot In the Park

 

1984-85

Gift of Murder

You Can’t Take It With You

The Robber Bridgegroom

Snoopy

An Evening of Music Meriwether Sledge, Stephen Eisenhard

 

1985-86

The Star Spangled Girl

Plaza Suite

David Preston Durrett Concert

 

1986-87

The Cookie Lady

Casey Lipe

Jazz Combo

The Mikado

Sterling Performances

 

1987-1988

Haika

 

1989-1990

On the Verge

Oklahoma

Murder in the Vicarage

Leonard Graves and Meryl Sergent

Memphis Civic Ballet

Faye Brigance and Lyndell Watkins


1993-1994

Love Letters

Nunsense II

Annie

 

1994-1995

University of Mississippi Concert Singers

Oklahoma

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Faith County

How to Eat Like a Child

 

1995-1996

Jack and the Beanstalk

Tumbleweeds

Blithe Spirit

 

1996-1997

You Can't Take It With You

Spoon River Anthology

Once Upon A Time

The Littlest Angel

 

1997-1998

An O'Henry Christmas

 

1998-1999

Arsenic and Old Lace

Diary of Ann Frank

Disney Spectacular

 

1999-2000

The Old, Old Story

A Tomb With a View

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

 

2000-2001

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Anybody for Tea / Married at Sunrise

Bye Bye Birdie

 

2001-2002

Oliver Twist

Calamity Jane

 

2002-2003

Southern Exposure

Effects of Gamma Rays on Merigold Moon in the Moon

 

2003-2004

Annie Jr.

The Odd Couple

 

2004-2005

A Christmas Program

Godspell Jr.

 

2005-2006

Canterville Ghost

The Christmas Carol

Social Security

Grease School Version


2006-2007

Dracula

It's A Wonderful Life (Musical Version)

Faith County
Peter Pan

2007-2008

The Miracle Worker

Miracle on 34th Street
Footloose
Wizard of Oz

2008-2009
The Hobbit
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Willy Wonka
Steel Magnolias
Beauty and the Beast