Susan Slept Here (1965)
History
Greenwood Little Theatre has been an integral part of our community since its inception in 1956, officially becoming a non-profit organization in 1961. Our journey began with a passionate community group, paving the way for what would become a cornerstone of local culture. In 1966, our dedication to the arts culminated in the construction of the W.M. Whittington, Jr. Playhouse, providing a dedicated space for our performances.
From the outset, Greenwood Little Theatre has been a melting pot of talent, bringing together individuals from all walks of life to create compelling theatrical experiences. Our repertoire has ranged from enchanting musicals to poignant dramas, from uproarious comedies to gripping mysteries, captivating audiences throughout the decades.
Initially, our productions found a home at North Greenwood School, later renamed Kathleen Bankston Elementary School. However, the establishment of the W.M. Whittington Jr. Playhouse in 1967, located at 707 Sycamore St., marked a significant milestone in our history. Named in honor of President Emeritus Bill Whittington, this 200-seat venue became synonymous with exceptional theater experiences.
In 2021, Greenwood Little Theatre embarked on a new chapter by relocating to the Davis Auditorium at 400 Cotton Street. This move symbolized our commitment to growth and innovation, although it meant bidding farewell to the beloved W.M. Whittington Jr. Playhouse, which had been an integral part of our identity for many years.
Throughout our journey, Greenwood Little Theatre has not only entertained but also enriched our community and beyond. We've provided a platform for aspiring theater enthusiasts to hone their craft, while delivering unparalleled live amateur theater experiences to our audience members.
Our history stands as a testament to our enduring dedication to excellence in entertainment. We invite you to join us in shaping our future successes, whether it's through participation on stage, behind the scenes, or as a cherished member of our audience.
Come, be a part of our journey - we eagerly anticipate welcoming you into the vibrant world of Greenwood Little Theatre!
List of Previous Productions
Highlighted titles contain links to digital programs or lobby posters.
2024 - Season 69
Showtime! A Senior Queen’s Showcase (GLT Fundraiser)
2023 - Season 68
Glitz: The Little Miss Christmas Pageant Musical by Bert Bernardi and Justin Rugg
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Seussical, JR. by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
2022 - Season 67
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
2021 - Season 66
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
2020 - Season 65
No productions this year.
2019 - Season 64
Annie by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin
Ragtime by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
2018 - Season 63
Dreamgirls by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger
Laundry and Bourbon / Lonestar by James McLure
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
2017 - Season 62
Wait Until Dark: A Thriller by Frederick Knott
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash
Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
2016 - Season 61
On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Neil Simon's Plaza Suite
2015 - Season 60
The Butler Did It by Tim Kelly
The Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
The Producers, A New Mel Brooks Musical
2014 - Season 59
Curiosity Cat by Chris Grabenstein
Into the Woods by James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim
2013 - Season 58
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Vintage Hitchcock: A Radio Play
Mama Won't Fly by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
Moon Over Buffalo by Ken Ludwig
Smokey Joe's Cafe by Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller
2012 - Season 57
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne, Glyn Robbins
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Dixie Swim Club by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
2011 - Season 56
Dearly Beloved by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Buddy Holly Story by Alan Janes
2010 - Season 55
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Nunsense by Dan Goggin
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
The Breakfast Club by John Hughes
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
2009 - Season 54
Beauty and the Beast by Alan Menken, Tim Rice, Howard Ashman
No Time for Sergeants by Ira Levin
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro
2008 - Season 53
Broadway Review
3 One Acts by Tennessee Williams
Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Bus Stop by William Inge
2007 - Season 52
A Tuna Christmas by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
Gypsy by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents
The Music Man by Meredith Willson
First Baptist of Ivy Gap by Ron Osborne
2006 - Season 51
Three One Act Plays
Bye Bye Birdie by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas by Carol Hall, Larry L. King, Peter Masterson
Dearly Departed by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones
2005 - Season 50
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner
Harvey by Mary Chase
Marriage to an Older Woman
Bullshot Crummond by Ron House, Alan Shearman, Diz White, John Neville Andrews, Derek Cunningham
2004 - Season 49
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
2003 - Season 48
Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser and Jo Swerling
Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
2002 - Season 47
The Exact Center of the Universe by Joan Vail Thorne
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
2001 - Season 46
Don't Dress For Dinner by Marc Camoletti, Robin Hawdon
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Once Upon a Mattress
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Gentleman from Mississippi by David Dallas
Drop Dead Please
2000 - Season 45
Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Diary of Anne Frank by by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
See How They Run by Philip King
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Oliver by Lionel Bart
1999 - Season 44
Bye Bye Birdie by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Romance: Puccini to Porter
Putting on Heirs by Michal Jacot
1998 - Season 43
Marvin's Room by Scott McPherson
Who's On First by Jack Sharkey
Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare
You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1997 - Season 42
The Octette Bridge Club by P.J. Barry
Man of LaMancha by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion
M*A*S*H by Tim Kelly, Richard Hooker
USO on Tour
1996 - Season 41
I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick
Cheaper By the Dozen, Adapted by Christopher Sergel
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tim Kelly
Nunsense by Dan Goggin
1995 - Season 40
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Murder in the Magnolias by Tim Kelly
The Fantasticks by Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
1994 - Season 39
Hot 'n' Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration! by Mark Waldrop, Cole Porter, David Armstrong, Bruce W. Coyle
The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell
Forty Carats by Jay Presson Allen
Sorry! Wrong Chimney! by Leo W. Sears, Jack Sharkey
1993 - Season 38
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Second Time Around by Henry Denker
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
1992 - Season 37
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Hello, Dolly! by Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman
Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
1991 - Season 36
The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash
Wizard of Oz
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
Songs of Rogers & Hammerstein
1990 - Season 35
The Nerd by Larry Shue
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
1989 - Season 34
In Berlin
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin
The Ponder Heart by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Legends! by James Kirkwood
1988 - Season 33
Greater Tuna by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
Carnival! by Michael Stewart and Bob Merrill
On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
The Odd Couple (Female Version) by Neil Simon
Broadway: Then & Now
1987 - Season 32
Sweet Charity by Neil Simon
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Morning's At Seven by Paul Osborn
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Broadway: Music of Lifetime
Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley
1986 - Season 31
Laura
My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
Broadway in the 80's
1985 - Season 30
Fourposter by Jan de Hartog
Private Lives by Noël Coward
A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
1984 - Season 29
Second Lady
Annie by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin
Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall
Dial "M" for Murder by Frederick Knott
1983 - Season 28
Chapter II
Li'l Abner by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
1982 - Season 27
Guys And Dolls by Frank Loesser and Jo Swerling
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
Good Morning, Miss Dove by William McCleery, Frances G. Patton
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
1981 - Season 26
Vanities by Jack Heifner
Subject to Change by Jules Tasca
Pretzels by John Forster, Judith Kahan, Jane Curtin, Fred Grandy
6 RMS RIV VU by Bob Randall
The Music Man by Meredith Willson
1980 - Season 25
The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt
By George by Michael Voysey
Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druten
1979 - Season 24
Kiss Me Kate by Samuel and Bella Spewack
The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon
Everybody Loves Opalby John Patrick
Oliver by Charles Dickens
1978 - Season 23
Dear Charles by Alan Melville
Night Watch by Lucille Fletcher
Life With Father by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
George Washington Slept Here by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Finishing Touches by Jean Kerr
1977 - Season 22
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel
1976 - Season 21
Five One Acts
1776 by Sherman Edwards
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
Man of LaMancha
The Solid Gold Cadillac by George S. Kaufman & Howard Teichmann
1975 - Season 20
Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee
Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
1974 - Season 19
Witness for the Prosecution
Peter Pan, Adapted by John Simons
Fiddler on the Roof
Absence of Cello by Ira Wallach
3 One Act Plays
Forty Carats, Adapted by Jay Presson Allen
1973 - Season 18
Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen
1972 - Season 17
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
The Potting Shed by Graham Greene
Damn Yankees
1971 - Season 16
Don't Drink the Water by Woody Allen
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
1970 - Season 15
Luv by Murray Schisgal
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
Babes In Arms by Richard Rodgers
1969 - Season 14
Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
The Boy Friend by Sandy Wilson
Star Spangled Girl by Neil Simon
1968 - Season 13
Harvey by Mary Chase
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Girls in 509 by Howard Teichmann
1967 - Season 12
You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon
1966 - Season 11
Mary Mary by Jean Kerr
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Never Too Late by Sumner Arthur Long
1965 - Season 10
Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
Susan Slept Here by Alex Gottlieb and Steve Fisher
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
1964 - Season 9
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
Champagne Complexby Leslie Stevens
1963 - Season 8
Dear Charles by Alan Melville
Affairs of State by Louis Verneuil
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
1962 - Season 7
Nude With Violin by Noël Coward
Laura by Vera Caspary and George Sklar
The Curious Savage by John Patrick
Lo and Behold! by John Patrick
1961 - Season 6
Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart
Mr. Pim Passes By, Written by A. A. Milne
Parlor Story by William McCleery
1960 - Season 5
The Tender Trap by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
Jane by S. N. Behrman
The Case of the Crushed Petunias, A Lyrical Fantasy by Tennessee Williams
1959 - Season 4
Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
1958 - Season 3
Poor Aubrey by George Kelly
The Red Barn
1957 - Season 2
My Three Angels by Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack
Solid Gold Cadillac by Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman
The Clod by Lewis Beach
1956 - Season 1
Dear Ruth by Norman Krasna
Evening Dress Indispensable: An Utterly Nonsensical Playlet in One Act by Roland Pertwee