History
86 Years of Quality Community Theater!
Kanawha Players is one of the oldest, continuously operating
amateur theater companies in the country. It has produced a season
of live productions since 1922. A team of volunteers constructed a
workshop at 5315 MacCorkle Ave in the 1940s. Over the summer of 2002
another team of volunteers gave it a bright new interior. In 2005,
KP bought and renovated a former church at the corner of Beauregard
and Washington Streets to be its new performance and workshop space.
The mission of Kanawha Players is to produce quality theater in a
nurturing community environment, while providing a place for
education, training and encouragement to those interested in
participating in the dramatic arts.
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(1) 1922-1923 Glory in the Morning Overtones The Neighbors Mr. Pim Passes By A Successful Calamity 3 One-Acts: Will O' the Wisp Twelve Pound Look Hop O' Me Thumb Enter Madame Prunella (2) 1923-1924 Rollo's Wild Oat The Peigon Her Husband's Wife Midnight Revue The Dover Road Smilin' Through (3) 1924-1925 The Neighbours Polly with a Past The Truth 3 One-Acts: Their Husband As I Remember You Mayor and the Manicure (4) 1925-1926 Mayor and the Manicure Dulcy You and I Grumpy To the Ladies Peg O' My Heart 3 One-Acts: Finders Keepers A Night at an Inn Supressed Desires (5) 1926-1927 The Whole Town's Talking Seven Keys to Bald Plate Expressing Willie The Show-Off Kindling Review of 1927 (6) 1927-1928 A Pair of Sixes Craigs Wife Love 'Em and Leave 'Em The Bad Man Captain Applejack Merton of the Movies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (7) 1928-1929 Butter and Egg Man Last of Mrs. Cheyney The First Year Charm Outward Bound The Silver Cord Pomroy's Past The Constant Wife (8) 1929-1930 Loose Ankles The Royal Family The Witch The High Road Children of the Moon Dr. Knock Meet The Wife The Road To Rome (9) 1930-1931 Ladies of the Jury In the Next Room Merry Wives of Windsor Candida Broadway Paris Bound The Swan Bird in Hand (10) 1930-1932 What Every Woman Knows The Good Hope Once in a Lifetime The Play's the Thing The First Mrs. Fraser June Moon Trelaweny of the Walls (11) 1932-1933 Let Us Be Gay The Ghost Train Midsummer Night's Dream Rebound There's Always Juliet Private Lives School for Scandal Ten Nights in a Barroom Musical Series and Art Exhibits (12) 1933-1934 Hay Fever As Husbands Go The Spider 2 One-Acts: St. Simon Stylittes Two Crooks and a Lady Merry Go Round The Second Man Michael and Mary The Noble Lord (13) 1934-1935 Late Christopher Bean The Mad Hopes Mrs. Moonlight The Perfect Alibi Holy Night Everyman The Suicide (14) 1935-1936 Three Cornerd Mon Candlelight Shining Hour Post Road Louder, Please Trial of Mary Dugan (15) 1936-1937 Personal Appearance Kind Lady Milky Way Men Must Fight Belle, the Typewriter Girl Pursuit of Happiness (16) 1937-1938 Boy Meets Girl Ceiling Zero Elizabeth the Queen George and Margaret Night of January 16th Yes, My Darling Daughter (17) 1938-1939 First Lady Winterset Tonight at 8:30 3 One-Acts Night Must Fall Stage Door Our Town (18) 1939-1940 Ah! Wilderness Susan and God Outward Bound You Can't Take It With You Blind Alley Meet My Sister (19) 1940-1941 Three Men on a Horse Margin for Error The Guardsman Charley's Aunt Ladies in Retirement Male Animal (20) 1941-1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner Out of the Frying Pan Pride and Prejudice Rope's End G. Washington Sept Here Mr. and Mrs. North (21) 1942-1943 Heaven Can Wait Claudia Arsenic and Old Lace Goodbye, Again Nine Pine Street Live Rides the Rails (22) 1943-1944 Pursuit of Happiness Papa is All The Land is Bright My Sister Eileen Philadelphia Story Junior Miss Three Mean on a Horse (23) 1944-1945 Dark Eyes Uncle Harry The Old Man Janie Three's a Family The Drunkard (24) 1945-1946 Kiss and Tell Blithe Spirit Cyrano de Bergerac Murder Without Crime On Borrowed Time Room Service (25) 1946-1947 Snafu Our Town Ten Little Indians Laura Over Twenty-One The Hasty Heart (26) 1947-1948 KP presents six Plays on Radio spanning season (27) 1948-1949 KP sponsors Summer Plays of '48 KP presents six Plays on Radio Night of January 16th (28) 1949-1950 Two Blind Mice Voice of the Turtle Angel Street Life With Mother (29) 1950-1951 See How They Run The Torchbearers The Petrifies Forest Ladies in Retirement For Love of Money (30) 1951-1952 Goodbye, My Fancy The Glass Menagerie I Remember Mama Command Decision Bertha, the Beautiful Typewriter Girl |
(31) 1952-1953 Twentieth Century Glad Tidings Madwoman of Chaillot Bell, Book and Candle Mister Roberts Curse of an Aching Heart (32) 1953-1954 Light Up the Sky Stalag 17 Night Must Fall Harvey Parade Autumn Crocus Dear Brutus Bertha, the Beautiful Typewriter Girl (33) 1954-1955 The Male Animal A Christmas Carol My Three Angles The Importance of Being Earnest An Inspector Calls Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker Ah! Wilderness Tiger at the Gates Ten Nights in a Barroom (34) 1955-1956 Dial "M" For Murder Skin of our Teeth King of Hearts Taming of the Shrew Solid Gold Cadillac Under the Gaslight Dark of the Moon Dark Lady of the Sonnets (35) 1956-1957 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! The Time of Your Life The Desperate Hours 2 One-Acts: Riders to the Sea Lysteria Teahouse of the August Moon The Two Orphans (36) 1957-1958 Front Page Bernardine The Corn is Green Janus The Desk Set Letchery in Left Hand Anna Christie Broken Circle (37) 1958-1959 Visit to a Small Planet Papa is All Arms and the Man Chas. '58 (Boy Friend) Cast on Stage Witness for the Prosecution Death of a Salesman No Time for Sergeants Under the Gaslight The Cave Dwellers (38) 1959-1960 Say, Darling Speaking of Murder Peter Pan Inherit the Wind The Fifth Season Auntie Mame To Shakespeare With Love Mime and Movement Rachel with the Charleston Symphony (39) 1960-1961 Of Thee I Sing Two for the Seesaw Detective Story The Women Look Homeward, Angel Operation Mad Ball Blue Denim This is My Best (40) 1961-1962 Born Yesterday Abe Lincoln in Illinois Marriage-Go-Round Dark of the Moon Life With Father The Chairs U.S.A. The Wasteland The Supermarket (41) 1962-1963 Critic's Choice Darkness at Noon The Visit The Seven Year Itch Come Blow Your Horn The Anvil Waiting for Godot The House of Bernarda Alba The Rose Tattoo Tea and Sympathy (42) 1963-1964 The Rivals Thurber Carnival Picnic The Girls in 509 The Lark Diary of Anne Frank Apollo of Bellac Clarembard Krapp's Last Tape The Firebugs Showcase '66 (43) 1964-1965 Androcles and the Lion High Tor Desire Under the Elms Photo Finish Pygmalion Madwoman of Chaillot Box and Cox The Two Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver Slatefall (44) 1965-1966 You Can't Take It With You Caine Munity Courtmartial Never Too Late Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Bus Stop Anastasia The Glass Menagerie Step Down Into Hell (45) 1966-1967 Arsenic and Old Lace A Streetcar Named Desire The Rainmaker Any Wednesday Country Girl Take Her, She's Mine Spoon River Anthology Lady on the Rocks (46) 1967-1968 Mister Roberts Mary, Mary Raisin in the Sun Barefoot in the Park Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? A Thousand Clowns The Cocktail Party Spoon River Anthology Players Choice (47) 1968-1969 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum The Best Man The Odd Couple Little Mary Sunshine View From the Bridge Pleasure of His Company The Tenth Man Spoon Fiver Anthology Our Own Thing (48) 1969-1970 Hay Fever Everything in the Garden Don't Drink the Water The Little Foxes Harvey The Man Nobody Saw The Hope of Heaven Spoon River Anthology The Fantasticks (49) 1970-1971 Cactus Flower The Lion In Winter Killing of Sister George Marat/Sade The Fantasticks Luv La Ronde (50) 1971-1972 Our Town The Miracle Worker The School for Scandal The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Owl and the Pussycat(51) 1972-1973 The Women Little Murders Luv Plaza Suite The Petrified Forest (52) 1973-1974 Butterflies are Free The Rose Tattoo The Effect of Gamma Rays On Marigolds Man In The Moon Blithe Spirit Stop The World (53) 1974-1975 Last of the Red Hot Lovers The Mousetrap Middle of the Night And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little Peter Pan Lady Audley's Secret (54) 1975-1976 The Man Who Came to Dinner Dial "M" for Murder Look Homeward. Angel Plat it Again, Sam You Know I Can't Hear You when the Water's Running (55) 1976-1977 Ten Little Indians You Can't Take It With You A Dolls House The Secret Lives Of Mildred Wild A Man For All Seasons (56) 1977-1978 Pygmalion Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum Dark of the Moon Witness for the Prosecution |
(57) 1978-1979 Private Lives A Christmas Carol EQUUS Room Service The Diary of Anne Frank Dirty Work at the Crossroads (58) 1979-1980 Count Dracula A Christmas Carol Vanities Romeo and Juliet The Fantasticks Hair (59) 1980-1981 Light Up The Sky A Streetcar Named Desire California Suite On Golden Pond (60) 1981-1982 Mornings at Seven Whose Life is it Anyway? Table Manners Chapter Two Misalliance The Gin Game One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (61) 1982-1983 Deathtrap A Flea In Her Ear Tribute Out Town Same Time, Next Year The Field (62) 1983-1984 The Brute How She Lied to Her Husband Seduction Duet Me Too, Then You Can't Take It With You Veronica's Room All Over Town Anne of A Thousand Days Barefoot in the Park Laundry & Bourbon The Chastitute Lone Star (63) 1984-1985 Auntie Mame Don't Drink the Water When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? Watch On The Rhine A Coupla White Sitting Around Talking Foxfire Lone Star PVT. Wars (64) 1985-1986 The Best Little Whore House In Texas The Lion In Winter Crimes of The Heart Death of A Salesman Agnes of God I Do, I Do The American Dame (65) 1986-1987 Catch Me if You Can By Strouse Lil' Abner Noises Off Macbeth The Steadfast Tin Solider Mass Appeal The American Century (66) 1987-1988 Amadeus Master Harold and the Boys The Threepenny Opera Brighton Beach Memoirs The Foreigner The Cherry Orchard Frosty the Snowman The Toys Take Over Christmas (67) 1988-1989 Oliver Charley's Aunt The Dresser 1959 Pink Thunderbird House of Blue Leaves Raggedy Ann & Andy Me Too, Then Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (68) 1989-1990 Bye Bye Birdie Tocoi Light Babes In Toyland The Nerd Stepping Out I'm Not Pappaport Snoopy The Female Version of The Odd Couple (69) 1990-1991 Nunsense A Shatna Maidel Narnia Steel Magnolias Harvey Quilters Lovers Leap Me Too, Then (70) 1991-1992 Girl Crazy Sneakers Driving Miss Daisy Wait Until Dark Arsenic and Old Lace Personals (71) 1992-1993 Rumors Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Extremities Big River Lend Me A Tenor (72) 1993-1994 Nunsense II Anne of Green Gables I Hate Hamlet A Few Good Men (73) 1994-1995 Little Shop Of Horrors Little Women Lost In Yonkers Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (74) 1995-1996 Forever Plaid The Wind in the Willows The Female Version of The Odd Couple The Speed of Darkness (75) 1996-1997 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Alice in Wonderland Beau Jest Witness for the Prosecution (76) 1997-1998 A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum School House Rock Inherit the Wind The Sisters Rosenweig (77) 1998-1999 Sylvia Dorothy Meets Alice You Can't Take It With You Ten Little Indians (78) 1999-2000 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Dearly Departed The Best Man Dial "M" for Murder (79) 2000-2001 Diary of Anne Frank Cafe Noir On Golden Pond (80) 2001-2002 Miracle Worker Don't Dress for Dinner Brighton Beach Memoirs (81) 2002-2003 Moon Over Buffalo The Pavillion Our Town Same Time, Next Year Cotton Patch Gospel The Vagina Monologues (82) 2003-2004 Working A Christmas Story Over the River and Through the Woods Jitney Patient A Briefs and Shorts (83) 2004-2005 Arsenic and Old Lace Miracle on 34th Street The Boys Next Door Honk! The Musical Haiku Briefs and Shorts (84) 2005-2006 The Spitfire Grill It's a Wonderful Life Enchanted April The Vagina Monologues To Kill a Mockingbird Briefs and Shorts (85) 2006-2007 Noises Off A Christmas Story Steel Magnolias Wait Until Dark Crowns 86) 2007-2008 Harvey The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Drawer Boy The Cruclble Tuesdays with Morrie |