The Springfield Theatre Guild incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 1947.
From that time on — through performances in many Springfield venues before the construction of our building at 101 E. Lawrence, to our name change to Springfield Theatre Centre and our new location at the Hoogland Center for the Arts — our goal has been the same.
We bring our community and the arts together. We strive to provide Central Illinois with quality theatre, educational opportunities, and a creative outlet for live theatrical arts.
Our White Rabbit series, PAVE arts camp, and our affiliation with the Active & Creative Teen Theatre offer young people an opportunity to learn the skills necessary to build confidence not only in performance, but in all aspects of theatre. As we celebrate our 60th Anniversary season, we welcome your participation. Whether you are a member of the SRO Club, a season ticket holder, volunteer or a member of our audience, we sincerely appreciate your support through 60 years!
1946-1951 Performances were in various Springfield locations before the building at 101 E. Lawrence was built, including the Hotel Abraham Lincoln, Illinois Building Auditorium, Knights of Columbus Auditorium, Hay-Edwards School and the Playhouse at 15th & Laurel. Abe Lincoln in Illinois; All My Sons; Angel Street; Command Decision; Craig’s Wife; Dear Ruth; Family Upstairs; Goodbye My Fancy; Guest in the House; Holiday; John Loves Mary; Light Up the Sky; The Little Foxes; Love Rides the Rails; The Male Animal; The Man Who Came to Dinner; My Sister Eileen; The Ninth Guest; Only an Orphan Girl; Petrified Forest; The Philadelphia Story; Spooks; Three Men on a Horse; The Women
1951-1952 The first performance at 101 E. Lawrence was on November 8, 1951. Springfield Theatre Guild, as we were known then, received numerous congratulatory telegrams from many famous celebrities, including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Broderick Crawford. Born Yesterday; The Bat; Claudia; Ladies in Retirement; It’s an Art
1952-1953 Chicken Every Sunday; The Ghost Train; Dirty Work at the Crossroads; The Two Mrs. Carrolls; The Happy Time
1953-1954 Bell, Book and Candle; The Chase; The Curious Savage; The Man Who Came to Dinner; Gramercy Ghost
1954-1955 Hangman’s Noose; Mrs. McThing; The Philadelphia Story; Mr. Barry’s Etchings; Death Takes a Holiday
1955-1956 Time Out For Ginger; Dial M for Murder; Lily, The Felon’s Daughter; The Rainmaker; My Three Angels
1956-1957 The Tender Trap; The Importance of Being Earnest; South Pacific; Therese; Harvey
1957-1958 Teahouse of the August Moon; Anastasia; Oklahoma!; Sabrina Fair; The Seven Year Itch
1958-1959 Desk Set; Mister Roberts; Inherit The Wind; Roberta; Life With Father
1959-1960 The Matchmaker; Time Limit; The Mousetrap; Plain and Fancy; Light Up the Sky
1960-1961 The Man in the Dog Suit; I Remember Mama; Witness for the Prosecution; Damn Yankees; The Gazebo
1961-1962 Howie; Diary of Anne Frank; Arsenic and Old Lace; The King and I; The Loud Red Patrick
1962-1963 Kind Sir; The Best Man; Tunnel of Love; Guys and Dolls; The Happiest Millionaire
1963-1964 A Majority of One; A Far Country; The Boy Friend; Night Must Fall; Critics Choice
1964-1965 Gigi; 12 Angry Men; Flower Drum Song; The Glass Menagerie; Come Blow Your Horn
1965-1966 Send Me No Flowers; The Miracle Worker; The Sound of Music; The Pleasure of His Company; Blithe Spirit
1966-1967 Never Too Late; The Advocate; Paint Your Wagon; Web of Murder; Mary, Mary
A 75,000 sq. ft. addition was added in October, 1967. The addition, named Paul Becker Hall (past STG president who was largely responsible for the original building), housed the scene shop, make-up room, dressing rooms and more rehearsal space.
1967-1968 Take Her She’s Mine; The Rivalry; Lo and Behold; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Barefoot in the Park
1968-1969 The Odd Couple; A Thousand Clowns; Call Me Madam; A Case of Libel; Generation
1969-1970 Three Men on a Horse; The Silver Whistle; Mame; Wait Until Dark; Star Spangled Girl
1970-1971 Cactus Flower; Catch Me If You Can; Hello, Dolly!; Wind Between the Houses; The Fantasticks
1971-1972 Little Mary Sunshine; Life With Mother; George M!; Ransom; I Do! I Do!
1972-1973 Don’t Drink The Water; Dirty Work at the Crossroads; Anything Goes; Picnic; Plaza Suite
1973-1974 Forty Carats; Stalag 17; The Mikado; The Innocents; Butterflies Are Free
1974-1975 Teahouse of the August Moon; You Can’t Take It With You; Carousel; The Owl and the Pussycat; Harvey
1975-1976 The Odd Couple; Godspell; Nightwatch; Oliver!; 6 Rms Riv Vu
1976-1977 The Sunshine Boys; Two by Two; The Lion in Winter; Cabaret; Pinocchio; No Sex Please, We’re British; The Book of Dreams
1977-1978 David and Lisa; Tenderloin; God’s Favorite; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Sleeping Beauty; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The King of Illinois
1978-1979 Our Town; The Taming of the Shrew; Scrooge; Death of a Salesman; H.M.S. Pinafore; Dirty Work at the Crossroads; Nobody Likes Mordacious…; The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1979-1980 Dracula; The Fantasticks; The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe; The Little Foxes; Another Part of the Forest; Pippin; The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1980-1981 The Endless Pavement (original children’s); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Vachel (original script); Pirates of Penzance; A Child’s Christmas in Wales and A Christmas Carol; Vanities; Jesus Christ Superstar; California Suite; Poe, Illusions and Delusions
1981-1982 The School for Wives; Man of La Mancha; Hannah and A Child’s Christmas in Wales; The Runner Stumbles; Royko; Company; The Rainmaker; Alice in Wonderland
1982-1983 Sleuth; Fiddler on the Roof; As You Like It; Ah, Wilderness; The Pushcart Wars; Chicago; The Miracle Worker
1983-1984 Whose Life Is It, Anyway?; Annie; Romeo & Juliet; The Dramatic Revival of Edwin Booth; They’re Playing Our Song; Crimes of the Heart
1984-1985 Mass Appeal; The Robber Bridegroom; Standing on My Knees; Heidi; Jacques Brel; The Dining Room; Snow White; A Streetcar Named Desire; Billy Bishop Goes to War
1985-1986 Black Coffee; A Christmas Carol; Amadeus; Talley’s Folly; Sweeney Todd; The French Have A Word For It; A Chorus Line; Royko
1986-1987 Dream; A Murder Is Announced; Little Shop of Horrors; Sherlock Holmes; Da; Shoulders; Purlie; Agnes of God
Summer of 1987 The Odd Couple; Barefoot in the Park; The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1987-1988 You Can’t Take It With You; Morning’s at Seven; A Day in Hollywood; West Side Story; Fool For Love; To Be Young, Gifted and Black; A…My Name is Alice; Manny
1988-1989 The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wilde; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
1988-1989 La Cage Aux Folles; The Taming of the Shrew; Noises Off; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; The House of Blue Leaves
1989-1990 On Golden Pond; Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; A Christmas Carol; The Glass Menagerie; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Murder on the Nile; A Lesson From Aloes; Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
1990-1991 Arsenic and Old Lace; To Kill a Mockingbird; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Boys Next Door; Guys and Dolls; Steel Magnolias; Bleacher Bums
1991-1992 Brighton Beach Memoirs; Big River; The Normal Heart; Wait Until Dark; The Foreigner; The American Clock; Nunsense
1992-1993 Biloxi Blues; The Best Man; Grease; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Flea in Her Ear; Prelude to a Kiss; Baby
1993-1994 The Great Cross Country Race; Broadway Bound; Twelfth Night; Annie; The Littlest Elf; Red, Hot & Cole; Angel Street/Gaslight; Our Town; I Never Sang for My Father; Nunsense II; Three Bears/Three Pigs
1994-1995 Pump Boys and Dinettes; Jack and the Beanstalk; Dracula; Lend Me a Tenor; Scrooge, The Stingiest Man in Town; Little Shop of Horrors; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Miracle Worker; Harvey; Snow White; The Sound of Music
1995-1996 The Fantasticks; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Blithe Spirit; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; It’s a Wonderful Life!; Charlotte’s Web; Barefoot in the Park; Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; The Runner Stumbles; Winnie-the-Pooh; The Music Man
1996-1997 A…My Name is Still Alice; The Velveteen Rabbit; A Few Good Men; Life with Father; Miracle on 34th Street; Alice in Wonderland; Evita; Laundry & Bourbon and Lonestar; The Junglebook; Of Mice and Men; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1997-1998 Born Yesterday; Dial M for Murder; The 1940’s Radio Hour; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; On Golden Pond; Annie Get Your Gun; The Odd Couple (Female Version); Toad in the Hole; Stone Soup; The Phantom Tollbooth. ACTT: Romeo & Juliet
1998-1999 Driving Miss Daisy; The Mousetrap; Annie Warbucks; Moon Over Buffalo; Working; Inherit the Wind; Cabaret; Cinderella; Littlest Angel/Gift of the Magi; Pinocchio; Heidi. ACTT: Return to the Forbidden Planet
1999-2000 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (twice); The Sunshine Boys; I Hate Hamlet; Witness for the Prosecution; Frankenstein; Winnie-the-Pooh – A Christmas Tale; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Clue The Musical; Aurora: Sleeping Beauty
2000-2001 Snow White; Into the Woods; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; Forever Plaid (a collaboration with Gordon Productions); Guys and Dolls, Jr.; Steel Magnolias; Murder’s A-float; My Fair Lady. ACTT: Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2001-2002 Something’s Afoot; A Streetcar Named Desire; Nuncrackers; Robin Hood; Crimes of the Heart; The Gazebo; Camelot; Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr. ACTT: Little Shop of Horrors; David and Lisa
2002-2003 Over The River and Through The Woods; Footloose; A Christmas Story; The Hobbit; Once Upon a Mattress; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Jesus Christ Superstar; Charlotte’s Web. ACTT: Li’l Abner; Don’t Drink the Water
2003-2004 The Dinner Party; Stuart Little; Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas; Annie; Three Tall Women; As You Like It; Tommy; Holes. ACTT: Snoopy!!!; Mother Hicks
2004-2005 The first performance at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in downtown Springfield was on September 17, 2004. Sunday in the Park With George; The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf; Death of a Salesman; Scrooge, the Musical; Deathtrap; You Can’t Take It With You; James and the Giant Peach; Bye, Bye, Birdie! ACTT: Frankenteen; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005-2006 The Man Who Came to Dinner; Jekyll & Hyde; A Few Good Men; Santa Claus, The Musical; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Noises Off; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Aladdin, Jr. ACTT: Clue, the Musical; Harvey
2006-2007 Assassins; Blithe Spirit; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; Nuncrackers; Macbeth; Ramona Quimby; Fools; Sweeney Todd. ACTT: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Rehearsal for Murder
2007-2008 The Spitfire Grill; Driving Miss Daisy; Cinderella; Dreamgirls; The Nerd; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Mr. Toad’s Mad Adventures; Children of Eden. ACTT: Return to the Forbidden Planet; Loving Lives
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