Past Seasons
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Season | Title | Type | Director | |
2024–25 | The Plot | Play | Sean Runnette | |
Natural Shocks | Other | Carol Holland | ||
Dracula: a feminist revenge fantasy, really. | Play | Rachel Friden | ||
Shakespeare Acting Class | Other | Sean Runnette | ||
Cry It Out | Play | Karen Thornton | ||
2023–24 | Summer Showcase | Other | ||
24 Hour Theatre Project | Other | |||
Ms Holmes & Ms Watson - Apt 2B | Play | Doug McLaughlin | ||
Dead Man's Cell Phone | Play | Joseph Guadara | ||
The Aliens | Play | Eric Craft | ||
Brudermord! A Fratricide Avenged! | Play | Sean Runnette | ||
2022–23 | Open Mic Night | Other | ||
Word Association | Reading | George LaVigne | ||
![]() | Into The Woods | Musical | Alan Van Antwerp | |
Waiting for Hamlet | Other | Kevern Cameron | ||
Pride and Prejudice | Play | Lily Boyle | ||
![]() | Ripcord | Play | Rachel Friden | |
TRAGEDY: a tragedy | Play | Sean Runnette | ||
![]() | The Book of Will | Play | Carol Holland | |
Bent | Play | Stephen Catron | ||
2021–22 | Live Music Fundraiser | Other | ||
Wiesenthal | Other | Mark Liebert | ||
![]() | You've Got to be Taught - the songs of Hammerstein & Sondheim | Musical | Robert Allan | |
![]() | The Dresser | Play | Sarah Henley | |
![]() | Waiting for the Double Lines | Reading | Amanda Marino | |
![]() | The Revolutionists | Play | John A.C. Kennedy | |
![]() | Ebenezer: A Shadow Carol | Reading | Lauri MacMillan | |
![]() | Twelfth Night | Play | Carol Holland | |
2020–21 | ![]() | Shook Up Showtunes | Other | Rachel Friden |
I Do! I Do! | Musical | Brendan Lynch-Littlejohn | ||
A Halloween Spooktacular Virtual Open Mic Night | Other | |||
2019–20 | CTG Virtual Open Mic Night | Other | ||
![]() | Thinner Than Water | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
![]() | Every Brilliant Thing | Other | Kevern Cameron | |
![]() | Holiday Open Mic Night | Other | ||
![]() | A Doll's House, Part 2 | Play | Sky Monroe | |
2018–19 | Open Mic Night | Other | ||
![]() | The Who's Tommy | Musical | ||
![]() | Durante! | Other | ||
![]() | Home of the Great Pecan | Play | George Seylaz | |
![]() | The Bald Soprano | Play | Rachel Friden | |
![]() | King Lear | Play | Kevern Cameron | |
Chester's Own | One-act | |||
![]() | Holiday Cheer | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | Sounds and Sweet Airs - An Elizabethan Evening | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | Disenchanted! | Musical | Roseann Ruggiero | |
2017–18 | An Evening of Stand-Up Comedy | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | |
CTG 50th Anniversary Gala | Other | |||
![]() | Titanic, The Musical | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
Venus In Fur | Play | Stephen Catron | ||
![]() | Seminar | Play | Lauri MacMillan | |
HOLIDAY CHEER - an Evening with the Black River Singers | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | ||
![]() | An Evening of One-Act Plays | One-act | ||
![]() | Our Town | Play | Kate Lyn Reiter | |
![]() | Shows For Days | Play | Roseann Ruggiero | |
2016–17 | ![]() | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Musical | Kevern Cameron |
Stand Up Comedy Night | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
![]() | 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche | Play | Lauri MacMillan | |
![]() | The Trip to Bountiful | Play | Kevern Cameron | |
The Lady From Dubuque | Reading | Zita Geoffroy-Heinz | ||
The Killing of Sister George | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
A Month in the Country | Reading | Kevern Cameron | ||
![]() | The Other Place | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
2015–16 | ![]() | Peter and The Starcatcher | Play | |
![]() | Stand Up Comedy | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | |
![]() | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Play | Chase Newhart | |
![]() | Roundelay | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | |
![]() | When We Are Married | Play | Cindy Alexander | |
![]() | The Secret Garden | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | Doubt | Play | Kevern Cameron | |
2014–15 | ![]() | Songs for a Summer Night 2015 | Other | Clifford H. Parrish |
![]() | Rounding Third | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
![]() | End Days | Play | Stephen Catron | |
![]() | Ruthless! | Musical | Cindy Alexander | |
The Tale of The Allergist's Wife | Play | Roseann Ruggiero | ||
2013–14 | ![]() | Hair | Musical | |
Comedy Night | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
![]() | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Musical | Roseann Ruggiero | |
![]() | Ayckbourn at 75 - A Theatrical Birthday Party | Other | Michael T. Mooney | |
![]() | Good People | Play | Cindy Alexander | |
![]() | The Elephant Man | Play | Stephen Catron | |
![]() | Moon Over The Brewery | Play | Jay Mills | |
Evening of Stand-Up Comedy | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
2012–13 | ![]() | Fiddler On The Roof | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish |
![]() | Steel Magnolias | Play | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | Musical | Chris Mortenson | |
Love, Loss, and What I Wore | Reading | Cindy Alexander | ||
![]() | That Championship Season | Play | ||
8 | Reading | Ellen Fraker Glasscock | ||
2011–12 | Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World / Exchange | One-act | ||
Carol Channeling | Other | |||
![]() | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Play | Stephen Catron | |
![]() | By Jeeves | Musical | ||
The Black River Singers | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | ||
![]() | The Cocktail Hour | Play | Cindy Alexander | |
2010–11 | ![]() | Grey Gardens | Musical | |
Evening of Stand Up Comedy | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
![]() | Mauritius | Play | Jay Mills | |
The Ten Commandments | Reading | Perry Kroeger | ||
Nightmare Alley | Reading | |||
![]() | Urinetown | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
Love Letters | Play | Penny Hoadley | ||
Carol Channeling Carols | Other | |||
![]() | Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Play | ||
![]() | The Women | Reading | Cindy Alexander | |
![]() | Fiction | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
The Actor’s Nightmare/Check, Please | One-act | Stephen Catron | ||
2009–10 | Songs of a Summer Night | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | Triumph of Love | Musical | ||
![]() | Shirley Valentine | Play | Cindy Alexander | |
![]() | The Receptionist | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
Man of the Moment | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
![]() | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Play | Chris Mortenson | |
![]() | 50/50: Ayckbourn & Chester Theatre Group | Other | Michael T. Mooney | |
2008–09 | ![]() | Nine | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish |
GamePlan | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
![]() | Improbable Fiction | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
Wildest Dreams | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
Rabbit Hole | Play | Jay Mills | ||
Sugar Daddies | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
Home For The Holidays: A Christmas Cabaret | Other | Mary Saarmann | ||
On Golden Pond | Play | Scott Hart | ||
2007–08 | Songs for Summer Night (4) | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | |
![]() | Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief | One-act | Chris Mortenson | |
The Baker’s Wife | Musical | Scott Hart | ||
Molly Sweeney | Play | Jay Mills | ||
The Sisters Rosensweig | Play | Roseann Ruggiero | ||
The Clean House | Play | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
Trifles | Other | Gloria Lamoureux | ||
2006–07 | ![]() | 1776 | Musical | Mark Happel |
![]() | The Norman Conquests | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
![]() | Illyria | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
The Real Thing | Play | Mary Saarmann | ||
![]() | Music From A Sparkling Planet | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
How He Lied to Her Husband/Dark Lady of the Sonnets | Other | Tom Murray | ||
2005–06 | ![]() | Blood Brothers | Musical | Scott Hart |
Talking Heads | Play | Michael T. Mooney | ||
I Hate Hamlet | Play | Jay Mills | ||
Lifes Curves/Women of Manhattan | One-act | Roseann Ruggiero | ||
String of Pearls | Reading | Cindy Alexander | ||
2004–05 | And The World Goes Round | Musical | Roseann Ruggiero | |
![]() | Snake in the Grass | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
![]() | A Man of No Importance | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
Proof | Play | Jay Mills | ||
2003–04 | Neale Godfrey Is Tap Dancing Through the BoardRoom | Other | ||
![]() | The Taming of the Shrew | Play | Lauren Mills | |
![]() | As Bees In Honey Drown | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
![]() | James Joyce’s The Dead | Play | Mary Saarmann | |
![]() | Body Language | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
2002–03 | Follies | Musical | Mark Happel | |
![]() | Time Flies and Other Short Plays | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
![]() | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) | Play | ||
Infinite Freedom | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
Picasso at the Lapin Agile | Play | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
Art | Play | Jay Mills | ||
2001–02 | Songs for Summer Night (2) | Other | Clifford H. Parrish | |
A Doll's House | Play | Patrick Horan | ||
![]() | A Perfect Ganesh | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
Arcadia | Play | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
Collected Stories | Play | Roseann Ruggiero | ||
2000–01 | ![]() | 1776 | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish |
The Diary of Anne Frank | Play | Jay Mills | ||
![]() | Time of My Life | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
![]() | All In The Timing | Play | Jeff Knapp | |
1999–00 | A Grand Night for Singing | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
Collected Stories (workshop) | Play | Roseann Ruggiero | ||
Waiting for Godot | Play | Patrick Horan | ||
1999–100 | Tribute | Play | Barbara Neff | |
![]() | Oh, Coward! | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | |
1998–99 | Songs for Summer Night | Musical | ||
![]() | Family Circles | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
Cloud Nine | Play | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
Three Tall Women | Play | Jay Mills | ||
The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Musical | Edward Earle | ||
1997–98 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical | Donna Sousa | |
The Foreigner | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
Later Life | Play | Barbara Neff | ||
The Man Who Came to Dinner | Play | Edward Earle | ||
![]() | Baby with the Bathwater | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
1996–97 | The Belle of Amherst | Play | Patrick Horan | |
![]() | Enchanted April | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
Animal Crackers | Workshop | |||
St.Louis Woman | Other | Kate Lyn Reiter | ||
A Little Night Music | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | ||
What the Butler Saw | Play | |||
1995–96 | Children’s Program (J. Horan) | Play | Jimmy Horan | |
FootPrints | Workshop | |||
![]() | Relatively Speaking | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
Lost In Yonkers | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
Twelve Angry People | Play | Margaret Langworthy | ||
Dancing At Lughnasa | Play | Mary Saarmann | ||
Lips Together, Teeth Apart | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
1994–95 | Nunsense II | Musical | Edward Earle | |
Marvin’s Room | Play | |||
![]() | Sweeney Todd | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | |
Hay Fever | Play | Barbara Neff | ||
![]() | Jake’s Women | Play | Sal Ruggiero | |
1993–94 | Joined at the Head | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | |
Lettice and Lovage | Play | Sal Ruggiero | ||
Mornings At Seven | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
That Championship Season | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
1992–93 | ![]() | Nunsense | Musical | Dennis J. Parker |
The Heidi Chronicles | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
The Importance of Being Earnest | Play | Patrick Horan | ||
Assassins | Musical | |||
![]() | Light Up the Sky | Play | Barbara Neff | |
1991–92 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Musical | Edward Earle | |
The House of Blue Leaves | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
The Dining Room | Play | |||
Mary Moppins | Reading | Michael T. Mooney | ||
The Belle of Amherst | Play | Patrick Horan | ||
Ladies of the Alamo | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
Harvest (one act festival) | One-act | |||
1990–91 | Eastern Standard | Play | Dennis J. Parker | |
Bedroom Farce | Play | Michael T. Mooney | ||
Starting Here-Closer than Ever | Musical | Patrick Horan | ||
Steel Magnolias | Play | Clifford H. Parrish | ||
1989–90 | Into the Woods | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | |
Woman in Mind | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | ||
Stepping Out | Play | Sal Ruggiero | ||
It Takes A Woman | Other | Jimmy Horan | ||
A View from the Bridge | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
Painting Churches | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
1988–89 | The Odd Couple | Play | Patricia Johnson | |
Musical Chairs | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | ||
![]() | The Miss Firecracker Contest | Play | Michael T. Mooney | |
As Is | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
1987–88 | Beyond Therapy | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | |
![]() | Ways & Means | One-act | Michael T. Mooney | |
Jerry’s Girls | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | ||
A Midsummers Night Dream | Play | Perry Kroeger | ||
1986–87 | Stop the World, I Want To Get Off | Musical | Edward Earle | |
The Miracle Worker | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
'Night Mother | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
Mass Appeal | Play | Edward Earle | ||
Is There Life After High School? | Musical | Edward Earle | ||
1985–86 | She Loves Me | Musical | Patrick Horan | |
The Norman Conquests | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Agnes of God | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
Our Town | Play | Stephen Fredericks | ||
1984–85 | Baby | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | |
Harbinger of Spring (one acts) | One-act | |||
The Chalk Garden | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Fifth of July | Play | Dennis J. Parker | ||
1983–84 | Side by Side by Sondheim | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | |
Artichoke | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | ||
Lion in Winter | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
1982–83 | The Apple Tree | Musical | Perry Kroeger | |
Separate Tables | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Working | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | ||
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little | Play | Clint Betz | ||
1981–82 | Musical Chairs | Musical | Edward Earle | |
Table Manners | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Man of LaMancha | Musical | Victoria Nardone | ||
The Shadow Box | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | ||
1980–81 | Dames At Sea | Musical | Penny Morey | |
Blithe Spirit | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Collision Course | Play | Katherine Shepard | ||
The Glass Menagerie | Play | Penny Hoadley | ||
Company | Musical | Sal Ruggiero | ||
1979–80 | Godspell | Musical | Penny Morey | |
![]() | Absurd Person Singular | Play | Patricia Johnson | |
Come Back, Little Sheba | Play | Victoria Nardone | ||
Oh, Coward! | Musical | Edward Earle | ||
1978–79 | ![]() | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Musical | Penny Morey |
The Rainmaker | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Mary, Mary | Play | |||
The Fantasticks | Musical | Clifford H. Parrish | ||
Picnic | Play | Scott M. Jacoby | ||
1977–78 | ![]() | Guys and Dolls | Musical | Penny Morey |
Royal Family | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Royal Gambit | Play | Clint Betz | ||
A Little Night Music | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
1976–77 | ![]() | Cabaret | Musical | Penny Morey |
The Circle | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
![]() | Butterflies are Free | Play | Ralph Leonard | |
Carnival! | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
1975–76 | Once Upon A Mattress | Musical | Barbara Barnard | |
Rashomon | Play | Patricia Johnson | ||
Harvey | Play | Jim DeVol | ||
1974–75 | The Boy Friend | Musical | Penny Morey | |
Annie Get Your Gun | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
Abelard and Heloise | Play | Dolores DelliSanti | ||
The Grass Harp | Play | |||
1973–74 | Oliver! | Musical | ||
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Play | |||
![]() | Mame | Musical | Billie Burr | |
1972–73 | Carousel | Musical | Penny Morey | |
The Andersonville Trial | Play | |||
Company | Musical | |||
Little Murders | Play | |||
1971–72 | Brigadoon | Musical | Penny Morey | |
Sweet Bird of Youth | Play | |||
Call Me Madam | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
Middle of the Night | Play | |||
1970–71 | Bye Bye Birdie | Musical | ||
Viet Rock | Musical | |||
Blood Wedding | Play | |||
Fanny | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
Indians | Play | |||
1969–70 | West Side Story | Musical | ||
We Bombed in New Haven | Play | |||
Gypsy | Musical | Billie Burr | ||
A Delicate Balance | Play | |||
1968–69 | The Little Foxes | Play | ||
Stop the World, I Want To Get Off | Musical | Edward Earle | ||
Madwoman of Chaillot | Play | |||
1967–68 | Summer Sounds | Other | ||
![]() | Visit to a Small Planet | Play | ||
![]() | Anything Goes | Musical | ||
![]() | Summer and Smoke | Play | ||
1967 | Summer Sounds | Other | ||
![]() | All My Sons | Play | ||
A Thurber Carnival | Musical | |||
PRE-BLACK RIVER PLAYHOUSE: | ||||
1965–66 | ![]() | Born Yesterday | Play | |
The Lady’s Not for Burning | Play | |||
1964–65 | Auntie Mame | Play | ||
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Play | |||
1963–64 | The Rope Dancers | Play | ||
Life With Father | Play | |||
1962–63 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Play | ||
Bell, Book and Candle | Play | |||
1961–62 | Arsenic and Old Lace | Play | ||
Come Back, Little Sheba | Play | |||
1960–61 | Send Me No Flowers | Play | ||
The Crucible | Play | |||
1959–60 | The Curious Savage | Play | ||
Bus Stop | Play | |||
Our Town | Play |