Queens College Theatrical Production History
Welcome to our new Production History page. The table below is a work in progress, and we are still missing several productions, particularly those that took place between 1966-2007. If you were involved in one of our productions and you don’t see the information listed here, please reach out to Ralph Carhart at ralph.carhart@qc.cuny.edu. We would love to include your QC experience.
*We are aware of the sorting issue on the Opening Night column and we are working on it.
| wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_created_at | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_last_edited_at | Opening Night | Title | Playwright | Producer | Director | Theatre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1937 | Olympia | Ferenc Molnár | Cue Club | E203 | Informal staging; original club advisor was Elizabeth Scanlon | |
| 2 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Jan-1938 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | Cue Club | E109 | Final act only | |
| 3 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1938 | The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden | Thornton Wilder | Cue Club | Elizabeth Scanlon & Ethel Stresow | The Crown refers to it as "the first production ever produced" at the College | |
| 4 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Nov-1938 | L'Enfant Malade | Georges Courteline | French Department | Radio play | ||
| 5 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1938 | The Queen's Husband | Robert Sherwood | Cue Club | Elizabeth Scanlon | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | First "varsity" produciton |
| 6 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1938 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | German Club | A German "ruppelspiel" of an excerpt from the play | ||
| 7 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Jan-1939 | A Minuet | Louis N. Parker | Cue Club | Announcement only. No coverage in The Crown of a performance. | ||
| 8 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1939 | Candida | George Bernard Shaw | Playshop | Elizabeth Scanlon | Varsity Production | |
| 9 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1939 | Der Gruene Kakadu | Arthur Schnitzler | German Club | Harold Lenz | ||
| 10 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Jun-1939 | Rehearsal | Christopher Morley | Playshop | Josephine Homer | Lab production | |
| 11 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Jun-1939 | Bury the Dead | Irwin Shaw | Playshop | Seymour Bosworth & Sally Pschenitza | Lab production, excerpt | |
| 12 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1939 | Night of January 16th | Ayn Rand | Playshop | Adam Aitchison | Varsity Production | |
| 13 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1940 | Die Brenschere | German Department | Harold Lenz | Concert version | ||
| 14 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1940 | Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt | German Department | Harold Lenz | Concert version | ||
| 15 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1940 | Onkel Tobias | Joseph Weigel | German Club | Concert version | ||
| 16 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1940 | Week End | Hannah Balsam | Playshop | Florence Camposa | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Grand prize winner Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production |
| 17 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1940 | Night Traffic | Thomas Ahearn | Playshop | Margaret Twohig | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Honorable mention Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production |
| 18 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1940 | It Looks Like Rain | Olga Helen Christie | Playshop | Ethel Stresow | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Honorable mention Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production |
| 19 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1940 | Outward Bound | Sutton Vane | Playshop | Mary Pettas | League Building, Flushing | Varsity Production-took place off-campus because of lack of stage equipment, was supposed to be Andrew Jackson HS but was changed at the last minute. |
| 20 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1940 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | Playshop | George Hinckley | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Varsity Production; first with Dorothy Brennan as advisor |
| 21 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1940 | Deutsches Weihnachtsspfel | German Club | Heinrich Schnitzler | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | ||
| 22 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1940 | Les Boulengris | Georges Courteline | French Club | Ruth Klein | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | |
| 23 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1941 | The Second Shepherds' Play | The Wakefield Master | English Department Faculty | Announcement only. No coverage in The Crown of a performance. | ||
| 24 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1941 | Sparking | E.P. Conkle | Playshop | Raymond Scheele | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act |
| 25 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1941 | Time and the Blizzard | R. Steinberg | Playshop | Helen Steinreich | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act |
| 26 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1941 | Sharp Practices | John Emperor | Playshop | Harold Slotnik | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act |
| 27 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1941 | H.M.S. Pinafore | W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | Jay Allen | Lower Lounge | Concert version |
| 28 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1941 | Hypothetical Hurricane | Kenneth Mildenberger | Playshop | Ethel Stresow | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Grand prize winner Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production |
| 29 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1941 | Exception to the Rules | Hannah Balsam | Playshop | Sally Pschenitze | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Honorable mention Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production |
| 30 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1941 | Forgive Us This Day | Olga Helen Christie | Playshop | Lorna Lethbridge | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Student written one-act (Honorable mention Playshop One-Act contest), Varsity Production; Wriiten under pen name Leonard Gloria |
| 31 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1941 | Orientation A.M. | John Borrs & Ellsworth Ehni & Norman Phillips & John Morrell & Roy Brown | Playshop | John Borrs | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | Varsity Production |
| 32 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1941 | Die Kleinen Verwandten | Ludwig Thoma | German Club | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | ||
| 33 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1941 | Das Boese Weil | Wilhelm Wiesebach | German Club | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | ||
| 34 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Sep-1941 | Die Zauberflöte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | German Department | Puppet show | ||
| 35 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Nov-1941 | Bird in the Hand | John Drinkwater | Playshop | League Building, Flushing | Varsity Production | |
| 36 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1941 | The Fan | Carlo Goldoni | Speech Department | Elizabeth Scanlon & Dorothy Brennan | League Building, Flushing | First departmental production |
| 37 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1941 | Cox and Box | F.C. Burnand & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | Jay Allen | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | |
| 38 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1941 | Gilbert & Sullivan Review | W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | Jay Allen | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | |
| 39 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Jan-1942 | Die Jugendfreunde | Ludwig Fulda | German Club | Harold Lenz | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | |
| 40 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1942 | Double Doom | A. P. Herbert | Playshop | Ruth Chassen | League Building, Flushing | Performed in place of the canceled one-act contest |
| 41 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1942 | The Rising of the Moon | Lady Gregory | Playshop | Alan Siegler | League Building, Flushing | Performed in place of the canceled one-act contest |
| 42 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1942 | Giant's Stair | Wilbur Steele | Playshop | Bernice Kaplow | League Building, Flushing | Performed in place of the canceled one-act contest |
| 43 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Mar-1942 | Red Death | Ruth Barth | Radio Players | Arthur Bronstein | Radio play | |
| 44 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1942 | Patience | W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | Jay Allen & Wilbur Pronovost & Manfred Botticini & Arnold Rood | Jefferson Hall Auditorium | |
| 45 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Apr-1942 | My Client Curley | Norman Corwin | Radio Players | Arthur Bronstein | Radio play | |
| 46 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1942 | Without a Paddle | Roy Brown & Marty Fliesler & Norman Phillips & Robert Higgins & Lillian Guttenberg & John Morrell | Playshop | Raymond Scheele | League Building, Flushing | Varsity Production |
| 47 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | May-1942 | They Fly Thru the Air With the Greatest of Ease | Norman Corwin | Radio Players | Arthur Bronstein | Radio play | |
| 48 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Oct-1942 | Gilbert & Sullivan Review | W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | |||
| 49 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Nov-1942 | Pirates of Penzance | W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan | Peers & Peris | Jay Allen & Arnold Rood | League Building, Flushing | |
| 50 | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | 12007137 | 14/11/2025 12:57 PM | Dec-1942 | Watch on the Rhine | Lillian Hellman | Playshop | Elizabeth Scanlon | League Building, Flushing | Varsity Production |
| Opening Night | Title | Playwright | Producer | Director | Theatre | Notes |