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WCT CATALOG OF SHOWS June 1976 to August1,2024, including main stage, second stage, third stage shows and rentals ____________________________________________________________ 184 -- Main Stage Productions 1. Eeyore’s Birthday 6/76 Good Night Mrs. Puffin 8/77 Light Up the Sky 10/77 The Wizard of Oz 12/77 Three Comedies: Fumed Oak, Acrobats, and Ravensword 2/78 Draculala 6/78 Two Bears Back to Back 5/79 Skunk Hollow, or, Egad What a Cad 7/80 Sorry, Wrong Number 9/80 10. Two One Acts: Chinamen and Desmond 2/81 The School For Wives 2/82 The Miracle Worker 5/82 Arsenic and Old Lace 10/82 Meeting Mr. Elliot 1/83 A Thousand Clowns 4/83 Hopscotch and 75th 9/83 Harvey 10/83 Gamma Rays and Their Effects On Man- In-The-Moon Marigolds 12/83 Butterflies Are Free 2/84 20. Come Blow Your Horn 5/84 And Now For Something Completely Different 10/84 Fireflies 12/84 Come Back, Little Sheba 5/85 The Lion In Winter 12/85 Talking With 4/86 Rainmaker 9/86 Handy Dandy 5/87 Same Time, Next Year 2/87 Come Back To The Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 8/87 30. Stage Door 4/88

The Curse Of An Aching Heart 7/88 Seascape 3/89 The Face On The Barroom Floor 7/89 My Fair Lady 11/89 Let Me Hear You Whisper and Dumping Ground 2/90 Vital Signs 10/90 Chapter Two 3/91 Exit the Body 6/91 The Music Man 11/91 40. Crimes of the Heart 3/92 The Trip to Bountiful 6/92 Brighton Beach Memoirs 6/93 You Can't Take It With You 9/93 West Side Story 11/93 Love Letters (first showing) 12/93 The Spider's Web 3/94 Extremities 5/94 Of Mice and Men 8/94 Love Letters (second showing) 9/94 50. The Haunting of Hill House 10/94 The Kathy or Mo Show: Parallel Lives 5/95 Play It Again, Sam 7/95 Random Acts Of Comedy 10/95 Oliver 11/95 All In The Timing 3/96 Voices 5/96 'Night, Mother 8/96 Waiting For Godot 10/96 Incredible Light of Winter 12/96 60. Oh, Coward 3/97 Arms and the Man 5/97 What the Butler Saw 6/97 Stickfinder 8/97 The Belle of Amherst 10/97 A Christmas Carol 12/97 The Taming of the Shrew 1/98 Top Girls 4/98

Gypsy 5/98 Egad, The Woman In White 7/98 70. Get Short 8/98 La vida nos da sorpresas 9/98 Marlin the Magnificent 10/98 Finding the Blossom Before Winter 11/98 Blues In The Night 2/99 Seven Keys to Baldpate 4/99 The Abdication 5/99 The Emperor's New Clothes 9/99 Talley's Folly 11/99 New Works for the New Millennium 1/00 80. Bullshot Crummond 3/00 How I Learned to Drive 10/00 Barefoot in the Park 2/01 The Maiden's Prayer 4/01 Death Defying Acts 6/01 The Diary of Anne Frank 9/01 Greetings! 11/01 This is Our Youth 1/02 Harvey 4/02 Greater Tuna 6/02 90. Dracula 10/02 Shirley Valentine 2/03 Proof 4/03 Give Me Time 10/03 Mousetrap 2/04 Cookin’ with Gus 4/04 Butterflies Are Free 9/04 Steel Magnolias 11/04 Deathtrap 1/05 Fat Chance 4/05 100. Run For Your Wife 9/05 Lion In Winter 11/05 Bell, Book & Candle 1/06 Constant Wife 4/06

On Golden Pond 9/06 Drinking Habits 11/06 Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune 2/07 Cactus Flower 4/07 Social Security 6/07 No Sex Please—We’re British 8/07 110. A Party to Murder 11/07 Moonlight & Magnolias 01/08 The Housekeeper 04/08 The Grass is Greener 07/08 Love, Sex, & IRS 09/08 Romantic Comedy 11/08 Born Yesterday 01/09 Fantasticks 03/09 Avanti 06/09 Tuesdays with Morrie 08/09 120. Said the Spider to The Fly 11/09 Bus Stop 02/10 Catch Me If You Can 05/10 Lend Me a Tenor 08/10 Sylvia 10/10 Man From Earth 06/11 Fore Plays Fore Real 09/11 My Three Angels 11/11 Mindgames 05/12 Late of This Address 07/12 130. Last Pay Phone in Willits 9/12 Lilies of the Field 11/12 Same Time, Next Year 2/13 Dead Man’s Cell Phone 5/13 2 Across 9/13 Eleemosynary 11/13 Flaming Idiots 2/14 The Dining Room 4/14 See How They Run 6/14 The Nightmare 9/14 140. The Angel of Chatham Square 11/14

Arsenic and Old Lace 1/15 Lips Together, Teeth Apart 4/15 Kill Me, Deadly 6/15 Necole Suttles with Ed Reinhart 8/15 Fright Night 10/15 In the Next Room 2/16 Blithe Spirit 4/16 Beside Yourself 6/16 The Nerd 8/16 150. A Christmas Carol 12/16 The Sunshine Boys 2/17 God of Carnage 4/17 Grace and Glorie 6/17 Picasso at the Lapin Agile 9/17 Moon Over Buffalo 11/17 Rapture, Blister, Burn 2/18 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers 4/18 Rio Hondo 6/18 The Phantom Toll Booth 7/18 160 Revival at Possum Kingdom Community Church 10/18 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 12/18 Clue, the Musical 2/19 Legends! 4/19 Off the Map 6/19 Peter Pan 7/19 I and You 10/19 Twelfth Night 11/19 Doubt, a Parable 2/20 The Viewing room 7/21 170. Oz! 8/21 Complete Works of Wm Shakespeare, Abridged 10/21 It’s a Wonderful Life 12/21 Deathtrap 3/22 Annie, Jr. 7/22 Breaking Legs 8/22 Keely and Du 10/22 All Is Calm 12/22

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 2/23 Meteor Shower 4/23 180. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream 7/23 The Odd Couple (Female Version) 9/23 Wait Until Dark 11/23 Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show 2/24 The Glass Menagerie 4/24 25 Second Stage shows Dueling Pianos (first show in Playhouse) May 1993 Generica.. Original play penned by Colin Matheson and friends 1995 Vagina Monologues 2002 Scripted I 2004 The Treasure of the Gypsies (kids’ show) 2004 Complete Works of Wm Shakespeare, Abridged 2005 Complete History of America, Abridged 2006 The Diaries of Adam and Eve 2006 Kimberly Akimbo 2006 (10) Love Letters 2007 The Adventures of Cunning and Guile 2010 Scripted III 2013 Scripted IV (The Christmas Scripted) 2015 Red Hot Patriot 2016 To Couple or Not To Couple 2016 Trial of the Wicked Witch (kids show) 2017 Riding the WillitsTrain (kids show) 2020 Spoon River Anthology (video version) 2021 (20) Love Letters 2022 Clarence Darrow 2022 Hymn to Her 2023 Lonely Planet 2023 Mothers and Sons 2024 The Tooth of Crime 2024

Third Stage shows (Third Stage includes storytelling, music concerts, poetry, improv, readings, radio productions and other ) Readings 15 Lonely Planet 1997 Dear Mrs. Martin 1999 Reading Between the Lines 2011 A Taste of Honey 2013 King Lear 2013 Copenhagen 2013 The Christians 2017 Painting Churches 2019 Den of Thieves 2019 10 A Soupcon of Samson 2020 Death By Golf 2020 Heliocentric – streamed as online movie 2021 You’ve Got Hate Mail 2022 The Flick 2023 True West 2023 Storytelling and improv 20 4 -- Teens Acting Out (a teen variety show directed by Linda Posner,1995 to 1997) 4 -- improv shows 1995-2015 I’m Glad I’m Here (One) 2002 10 I’m Glad I’m Here (Two) 2003 Storytellers 2004 Speakeasy I (monologues and stories) 2014 Speakeasy II 2015 Speakeasy III 2016 Speakeasy IV 2017 Speakeasy V 2018 Speakeasy VI 2019

Speakeasy VII (streamed) 2021 Speakeasy VIII 2022 20 Speakeasy IX 2023 Music shows (not Guest Artist) 40 The Music of George Gershwin 2005 More Gershwin 2006 8 -- Local Lights. Music series produced by David Partch 2013 to 2015 5-- Shake It Loose – music series produced by Mike A’Dair 2020 Karaoke Nights 2017 Go Tell It On The Mountain I 2020 Malakai, Forrest and Sarah 2022 Funkacillin 2022 (20) Go Tell It on the Mountain II 2022 Dirty Cello 2023 Gladspeil 2023 Dry Branch Fire Squad 2023 The Real Sarahs 2023 Malakai, Forrest and Friends 2023 Bug Guts 2023 Shovelman and Black Suzie 2023 Sharon Garner and the Lincoln Andrews Trio 2023 Clay Hawkins 2023 (30) Ramana Vieira 2023 Funkacillin 2023 The Back Porch Trio 2023 Soul Circus 2023 Just For Fun Chorus Xmas Show 2023 Shovelman and Black Suzie 2024 Blue Luke Quartet 2024 Dirty Cello 2024 Shovelman and Black Suzie 2024 The Clay Hawkins Band 2024 (40) Bug Guts 2024

Poetry 13 Howl (a streamed reading featuring Ben Strasser reading the famous beat poem by Allen Ginsberg) 2020 Starlight Lounge Open reading 11/ 2021 Open reading 3/2022 Kirk Lumpkin and David Partch 5/ 2022 Theresa Whitehill 7/2022 Maya Khosla and Gerri Hulse-Stephens 9/ 2022 Spanglish Night for the Soul 11/2022 Mike A’Dair and Steve Hellman 3/ 2023 Heavy Lifting – Theresa Whitehill (poet) and Felicia Rice (bookmaker) 5/ 2023 (10) Georgina Guardado and Brenda Yeager 8/2023 Dan Essman 10/2023 WJ Ray and Dan Hibshman 3/2024 Open Reading – Long Form 5/2024

Radio Shows 23 Pat Novak for Hire Pat Novak for Hire II Junkyard Armageddon West A Christmas Carol Ellery Queen I Ellery Queen II Myths, Legends and Folktales Cobbled Together 10. Cobbled Together II Lifeboat Mutiny Poirot Spoon River American Cinema Classics Fasten Your Seatbelts Dracula On a Wing and a Prayer Something Missing Deep Freeze 20. She’s Having a Party Don’t Think She Won’t Hollywood Does African Queen Pat Novak III Lectures and movies 3 Don Samson versus Mike A’Dair: JFK Debate 2021 Why JFK Was Killed – Paul Kangas talk 2023 Maria Gilardin: Daniel Ellsberg film 2023

Guest Artist Series. produced by Kitty and Creek Norris 83 Dec. 11, 2010 Sol Flamenco Dec. 10, 2011 Sol Flamenco January 7, 2012 Janson and Pattis (guitars) March 10, 2012 Louis Colaiannia April 20, 2012 Swami Beyondananada (New Age comedy) May 19, 2012 Riad Abdel-Gawad ( Egyptian violinist) July 15, 2012 Michael Manring August 11, 2012 Keith Bonfield and Steve Davison (guitars) August 25, 2012 Gabriel Ayala December 8, 2012 Sol Flamenco January 26, 2013 Tim Farrell and Michael Manring February 1, 2013 Helen Long (piano) March 23, 2013 Ancient Future May 1, 2013 La Tania June 23, 2013 Will Clipman June 30, 2013 John Singer and Yodo Kurahashi Shakuhatchi July 19, 2013 Dan Kennedy August 17, 2013 Tim Farrell and Steve Davison Sept. 6, 2013 The Aether Brigade October 12, 2013 Swami Beyondananda (new age comedy) December 6, 2013 Yaelisa (flamenco dance) March 23, 2014 R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman (Native American music) August 12 and 13, 2014 Chris Black and Ken James August 23, 2014 Molly’s Revenge Nov. 9, 2014 Tim Farrell Dec. 7, 2014 Ken Garr (magician) Dec. 10, 2014 Sol Flamenco Jan. 18, 2015 Patrick Ball Feb. 20, 2015 Four Shillings Short Feb. 28, 2015 Hanz Araki (flute) March 5, 2015 Goitse March 27, 2015 Claude Burbon (guitar) March 29, 2015 Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter April 27, 2015 Betany Coffland April 26, 2015 Cassie and Maggie MacDonald May 3, 2015 David Rogers (guitar)

June 8, 2015 Coyote Jump June 29, 2015 Caroline Aiken July 12, 2015 Dust in my Coffee (country and western) July 26, 2015 The Fire with Rebecca Lomnicky and David Brewer August 15, 2015 Marc Yaffee and Ina Romero stand-up comedy Sept. 20, 2015 Delbert Anderson Trio October 2, 2015 Daimh October 6, 2015 Fiore and Ayers (classical guitar) October 18, 2015 Tannahill Weavers Jan. 11, 2016 Peter Janson, Steve Davison and Larry Pattis (guitar) March 10, 2016 Old Blind Dogs April 2, 2016 Ancient Future May 8, 2016 Linsey Aitken and Ken Campbell June 26, 2016 Jazz Gitan August 14, 2016 Men of Worth (Celtic Duo) October 2, 2016 Patrick Landeza, Hawaiian slack key guitar November 13, 2016 Patrick Ball Jan. 22, 2017 Chris Webster and Nina Gerber April 9, 2017 Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter April 30, 2017 Marc Yaffee -- stand up comedy May 7, 2017 Ryan McKasson and Eric McDonald June 30, 2017 Aaron Larget-Caplan and Peter Janson July 16, 2017 Cheryl Hodge Duo (blues) July 30, 2017 Pandit Deobrat Mishra Sept. 10, 2017 Ramana Viera Ensemble -- Fado music October 22, 2017 Cassie and Maggie MacDonald December 9, 2017 Caminos Flamencos/ Tierra de Flamenco (dance) January 7 , 2018 -- Swami Beyondananda Mar 25, 2018 -- Patrick Ball April 8 , 2018 -- Nicole Stromsoe and Dorian Michael May 20, 2018 -- Linsey Aitken and Ken Campbell July 22, 2018 -- The Quitters August 26, 2018 -- The Ramona Vieria Ensemble Sept. 16, 2018 -- Stella Heath and the French Oak Gypsy Band Nov. 11, 2018 -- Dirty Cello Jan. 11, 2019 -- The Fire (Scottish) Feb. 10, 2019-- Nina Gerber and Chris Walker

March 3, 2019 -- Tempest March 30, 2019 – Will Clipman workshop plus concert May 10, 2019 – The String Revolution June 2, 2019 – Stella Heath does Billie Holiday July 21, 2019 -- Nicole Stromsoe and Dorian Michael August 11, 2019 – Deobrat Mishra playing sitar August 25, 2019 -- Marc Yaffee Sept. 8, 2019 – Dirty Cello Oct. 6 , 2019 -- SonoMusette

Rentals 30 Willits Shakespeare Company Romeo and Juliet 1999 A Comedy of Errors 2000 The Tempest 2009 Macbeth 2013 Earth Theater American Peace 2004 Alive On Arrival – 3 plays by Don Samson 2010 Waldorf School of Mendo Co. Oliver! 2006 Sherry Glaser Oh My Goddess! 2013 Taking the High Road 2016 Willits Charter School (10) Romeo and Juliet 2012 Mendocino Dance Project One Two Three, Dance! 2016 Let’s Dance! 2017 Dance show 2019 Mendocino Vocal Ensemble Motown Review 2004 Beatles Mania 2005 Down in My Soul (With special guests, The Delphonatics) 2006 Fly By Night Productions, featuring Randy Rutherford as solo performer My Brother Sang Like Roy Orbison 1999 Weaverville Waltz 2000

One Frigid Slimy Knight 2005 Car Lords Poetry Group (20) October in the Railroad Earth -- a celebration of the Life and Work of Jack Kerouac 1998 Robin Rule and Pat Drizzell – poetry NA Café Corazon -- teen poetry and song 1995 Posner and Marill Who We Are, Now – Linda Posner and Pearl Marill 2022 Up Close and Personal – Linda Posner and Pearl Marill 2023 Confessions of a 40-year Old Hula Hooper – Pearl Marill 2023 Independent producers Men Alive! 1997 Willits Has Talent 2000 Cocktales (a locally-written, male version of Vagina Monologues) 2003 Felicity Artemis: The End of Dystopia 2022 (30) Swami Beyondananda 2023

Subtotals and Total 184 -- Main Stage shows 83 -- Guest Artist series concerts 25 -- second stage shows 15 -- readings 13 -- poetry 40 -- concert series 20 -- improv and storytelling 3 -- lectures and movies 23 -- radio 30 -- rentals 436 -- total