Our Season History
In 1970 TAM, founded by Dick Sewell and Robert Suddards Joyce, became the first professional classical repertory theatre north of Boston; it continues to be the only professional theatre in the Kennebec Valley. Perhaps our most significant contributions to the field have been maintaining a foothold in an economic region with decreasing financial resources, producing a traditional rotating repertory of classic plays with full cast sizes, and presenting seasons of vibrant language plays both during the summer and on tour throughout the state.
2020-Present
2025- The Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh, Twelfth Night, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, The Complete Works of Jane Austen Abridged, Cymbeline, The Rewards of Being Frank,
2024- The Velveteen Rabbit, Much Ado About Nothing, Souvenir, Shakespeare’s Will, The School for Husbands, Always… Patsy Cline, Romeo & Juliet, A Tuna Christmas
2023- The Reluctant Dragon, The Story of My Life, An Iliad, Richard II, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It, A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan featuring Cox & Box, Henry IV Part 1, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
2022- Tales from the Blue Fairy Book, Lysistrata, Pandora and Her Top Secret and Exceptionally Important Scientific Mission, Antony + Cleopatra, Amphitryon, Comedy of Errors, Eurydice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
2021- Fairy and Folk Tales for Schools, Aesop’s Guide to Friendship, Daddy Long Legs, The Agitators, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Measure for Measure, Age of Bees, Sofonisba, An Iliad, Grounded, Much Ado About Nothing, This Wonderful Life (streaming)
2020- Fairy and Folk Tales for Families, Every Christmas Story Ever Told… (and then some): The Stream, Plays of Futures Passed
2010-2019
2019 – Tall Tales Twice Told, Murder for Two, Merry Wives of Windsor, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Hamlet, Intimate Apparel, The Jungle Book, Sense and Sensibility, Romeo and Juliet, This Wonderful Life
2018 – Aesop’s Guide to Friendship, Pride@Prejudice, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Enchanted April, Dial “M” for Murder, The True Story of Little Red, Pirates of Penzance, King Lear, The Santaland Diaries
2017- The Tale of Princess Kaguya, My Father’s Dragon, Three Days of Rain, The Learned Ladies, Macbeth, Othello, Red Velvet, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Santaland Diaries
2016 – The Velveteen Rabbit; Cyrano; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The Barber of Seville; Henry V; The Illusion; Puss in Boots; Boeing Boeing; The Tempest; Every Christmas Story Ever Told
2015 – The True Story of Little Red; The Turn of the Screw; The Winter’s Tale; Fallen Angels; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Real Inspector Hound; Fool of the World and the Flying Ship; Ruddigore; Henry V; Every Christmas Story Ever Told
2014 – My Father’s Dragon; As You Like It; A Woman of No Importance; Romeo & Juliet; What the Butler Saw; Tales from the Blue Fairy Book; The Sorcerer; Macbeth; This Wonderful Life
2013 – The Legend of Finn MaCool; The Knight of the Burning Pestle; The Taming of the Shrew; Our Town; The Year of Magical Thinking; The Velveteen Rabbit; Patience; Twelfth Night; This Wonderful Life
2012 – The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship; Romeo & Juliet; The Little Prince; Tartuffe; Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Glass Menagerie; Henry IV, Part I; Of Thee I Sing; Hamlet; This Wonderful Life
2011 – The Reluctant Dragon; Much Ado About Nothing; Room Service; Blithe Spirit; King Lear; The Compleat Wrks of William Shakespeare, abridged; James and the Giant Peach; On the Twentieth Century
2010 – To the Moon; The Comedy of Errors; Is He Dead?; Misalliance; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Canterville Ghost; Pirates of Penzance
2000-2009
2009 – The Three Little Pigs; Twelfth Night; The Mousetrap; Hamlet; A Little Hotel on the Side; The Wind in the Willows; Oh Captain, My Captain; Carousel
2008 – Macbeth; Greek Myths: Out of the Box; Taxing Maine; Arsenic and Old Lace; The Mystery of Irma Vep; The Winter’s Tale; The Merchant of Venice; The Three Little Pigs; The Mikado
2007 – Romeo & Juliet; Paul Bunyan and Other Tall Tales; My Three Angels; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Charlotte’s Web; Tom Jones; Measure for Measure; The Oldest Story Ever Told; Once Upon A Mattress
2006 – Rumpelstiltskin; The Tempest; The Fantasticks; Charley’s Aunt; Othello; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; H.M.S. Pinafore
2005 – The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Odyssey; The Taming of the Shrew; The Grapes of Wrath; La Bete; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The Emperor’s New Clothes; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
2004 – The Arabian Nights; The Odd Couple; As You Like It; The Liar; Idiot’s Delight; Antony and Cleopatra; Pippi Longstocking; The Vagina Monologues; The Complete History of America; El Cid; Iolanthe
2003 – The Sword in the Stone; We Won’t Pay, We Won’t Pay!; Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Philadelphia Story; Julius Caesar; Dangerous Liaisons; Alice in Wonderland; Vivien; The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged); The Pirates of Penzance
2002 – Anne of Green Gables; Tom Sawyer; Ground Into Liberty; Much Ado Much Nothing; You Can’t Take It With You; Henry V; Talley’s Folly; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Mikado
2001 – Tom Sawyer; Henry IV, Parts I and II; The Matchmaker; Cymbeline; Private Lives; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; H.M.S. Pinafore
2000 – Hero Stuff; Twelfth Night; The Importance of Being Earnest; Macbeth; Ah, Wilderness!; Anne of Green Gables
1990-1999
1999 – The Odyssey; Romeo & Juliet; Harvey; Comedy of Errors; The Lion in Winter; Cinderella
1998 – Just So Stories; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Sherlock Homes and the Sign of the Four; Richard III; The Heiress; Jack & the Beanstalk
1997 – Non-Stop Aesop; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Miser; Hamlet; Shadowlands; Aladdin
1996 – Puss in Boots; As You Like It; Hard Times; The Winter’s Tale; Arms and the Man; One Upon a Wolf
1995 – Much Ado About Nothing; The Venetian Twins; Measure for Measure; The Lady’s Not for Burning; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
1994 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; The Play’s the Thing; Grannia; The Wind in the Willows
1993 – Old Times; Twelfth Night; Tartuffe; She Stoops to Conquer; The Seagull; Rumpelstiltskin
1992 – Waiting for Godot; Saint Joan; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth; The Playboy of the Western World; One Inch Fellow
1991 – The Liar; The Comedy of Errors; King Lear; Our Country’s Good; The Musicians of Bremen
1990 – Pinocchio; Diary of a Madman; The Merchant of Venice; Light Up the Sky; The Cherry Orchard; Brave New World; Just So Stories
1980-1989
1989 – The Red Shoes; Wenceslas Square; All’s Well that Ends Well; The Country Wife; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Thirteen Clocks
1988 – Taking Steps; Two Gentleman of Verona; Richard II; Jane Eyre; Rapunzel
1987 – Macbeth; The Imaginary Invalid; Othello; Much Ado About Nothing; Uncle Vanya; Hansel & Gretel
1986 – Romeo & Juliet; Rumpelstiltskin; The Miser; The Lion in Winter; And a Nightingale Sang; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Beauty and the Beast
1985 – Twelfth Night; Great Expectations; Caesar & Cleopatra; Julius Caesar; As You Like It; Mary of Scotland; The Further Adventures of Maid Marian; Romeo & Juliet
1984 – Jane Eyre; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; The Rivals; The Tempest; Twelfth Night
1983 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Comedy of Errors; Twelfth Night; Hamlet; Cyrano de Bergerac
1982 – Macbeth; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Canavans; Juno and the Paycock; The Winter’s Tale; The Masterbuilder; In One Basket; The Emperor’s New Clothes
1981 – The Noodle Doodle Box; The Glass Menagerie; Tartuffe; Macbeth; The Lark; The School for Scandal
1980 – The Red Shoes; Goodly Creatures; Romeo & Juliet; The Servant of Two Masters; The Taming of the Shrew; Ondine; Monday After the Miracle!; Puss in Boots
1970-1979
1979 – Great Expectations; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard III; Henry V; A Cry of Players; Alice in Wonderland
1978 – Hamlet; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; As You Like It; Volpone; Old King Cole; The Wooden O!
1977 – Don Juan in Hell; Twelfth Night; Othello; Measure for Measure; She Stoops to Conquer; Toad of Toad Hall
1976 – Antony and Cleopatra; Henry IV, Part I; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Imaginary Invalid; The King who Stole the Shadows
1975 – The Tempest; The Comedy of Errors; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Androcles and the Lion; King Lear; Rumpelstiltskin
1974 – The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; The Miser; Caesar & Cleopatra; Sleeping Beauty; The Wooden O!; The Food of Love; Royal Throne of Kings; Walt Whitman
1973 – As You Like It; Julius Caesar; Tartuffe; The Winter’s Tale; The Wooden O!
1972 – Much Ado About Nothing; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; An Evening of Pinter; The Wind in the Willows
1971 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shoemaker’s Holiday; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Royal Throne of Kings; Walt Whitman
1970 – The Lady’s Not For Burning; The Tempest; Romeo & Juliet; Twelfth Night
Special Thanks to Linda Robitaille for building the first 32 years of history (1970-2001)