MAINSTAGE
'23-'24
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)(Revised)(Again), 4000 Miles, Judgment at Nuremberg, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Virgin Trial
'22-'23
The Last Wife, The Color Purple - The Musical, The Iceman Cometh, Once, That Day in Tucson
'21-22
Mother of the Maid, Oliver!, The Sea Horse, Flyin' West
'20-"21
PANDEMIC YEAR
'19-'20
Gross Indecency, The Weir, Proof, Love and Other Crazy Ideas
'18-'19
The Odd Couple, the Orphans' Home Cycle, It's a Wonderful Life, The Cherry Orchard, Seven Guitars, The Shawshank Redemption, City of Angels
'17-'18
Antigone, The Weir, Cymbeline, It's a Wonderful Life, Defying Gravity, Anna in the Tropics, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
'16-'17
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Deathtrap, It's a Wonderful Life, Photograph 51, Gem of the Ocean, Tennessee Playboy, 9 to 5
'15-'16
Stones in His Pockets, Vincent in Brixton, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Emilie, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Tall Girls, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Parade
'14-'15
Lost in Yonkers, Not About Heroes, Mary Stuart, Jitney, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Full Monty
'13-'14
The Rainmaker, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, M Butterfly, The Night of the Iguana, Steel Magnolias, The King and I
'12-'13
Three Tall Women, The Kentucky Cycle Part I, The Kentucky Cycle Part II, Housebreaking, For Colored Girls..., Pride’s Crossing, Ragtime
'13-'14
The Rainmaker, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, M Butterfly, The Night of the Iguana, Steel Magnolias, The King and I
'12-'13
Three Tall Women, The Kentucky Cycle Part I, The Kentucky Cycle Part II, Housebreaking, For Colored Girls..., Pride’s Crossing, Ragtime
'11-'12
Rules for Widows, All My Sons, The Seagull, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pride and Prejudice, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
'10-'11
HOT L Baltimore, Awake and Sing!, One Flea Spare, The Piano Lesson, Enchanted April, The Who’s TOMMY
'09-'10
Seascape, The Time of Your Life, Kimberly Akimbo, Moon for the Misbegotten, Mappa Mundi, The Light in the Piazza
'08-'09
The Homecoming, The Crucible, The Lady’s Not for Burning, Hedda Gabler, No Way to Treat a Lady, Galileo, Kiss of the Spider Woman
'07-'08
American Buffalo, A View From the Bridge, Lettice and Lovage, Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune, Copenhagen, A Man of No Importance
'06-'07
The Good German, The Woolgatherer, QED,
A Streetcar Named Desire
'05-'06
Line
SCRIPT IN HAND
with the KC Public Library
'15-'16
When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet, When Shakespeare's Gent's get together, Kiss Me Kate, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
'14-'15
Love Letters, Same Time, Next Year, Barefoot in the Park, The Light in the Piazza
'13-'14
Damn Yankees, The Odd Couple, Philadelphia Story, You Can't Take it With You, Asenic and Old Lace
'12-'13
Dirty Blonde, I Do, I Do, I Remember Mama, The Heidi Chronicles
'11-'12
Three Tall Women, Master Class, Sisters Rosensweig, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, My Fair Lady, Anne of Green Gables
'10-'11
The Real Thing, Six Degrees of Separation, Copenhagen, Fences, Guys and Dolls
'09-'10
Little Foxes, Picnic, That Championship Season,
South Pacific, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
'08-'09
Inherit the Wind, Antigone, Crimes of the Heart, The Night of January 16, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Chicago
'07-'08
Book of Days, Our Town, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Poets of the Plains, The Secret Garden, The Grapes of Wrath
'06-'07
The Glass Menagerie, Semple Stories: Langston Hughes, Bus Stop, The Delaney Sisters: The First Hundred Years, Book of Days
'05-'06
Death of a Salesman
The Hindu and the Cowboy - Tour KC region
Not About Heroes - ACANSA Festival, Little Rock
Snapshots - 10 minute play - Playwrights Intensive
History in Pictures -
They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. Here is a our walk down memory land. Scroll below to see gallery. You will discover a million words.
Our History
From the beginning, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre has taken a zero compromise approach when selecting what is brought to the stage each season.
