
Our Current Lineup
Welcome to a brand-new season at Portsmouth Little Theatre! We’re proud to present a diverse lineup of shows that celebrate storytelling, talent, and the joy of live performance. Whether you're a longtime supporter or joining us for the first time, this season has something for everyone, drama, comedy, and moments you won’t forget. Check out our upcoming productions below and mark your calendars. We can’t wait to see you at the theatre!




2025-2026 Season Lineup
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And Then There Were None - Kelli Riffe
Christmas Belles - Eva Gray
Home, I'm Darling - Kayla Parker
A Few Good Men - Kelli Riffe
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress - Kayla Parker
PLT Past Seasons
Curious about our past productions? Click to explore a rich history of performances at Portsmouth Little Theatre — from timeless classics to community favorites. 2024-2025 Wait Until Dark - Kasie McCreary (Adam Lucas, AD) A Christmas Story - Eva Gray The Play that Goes Wrong (Cancelled) - Adam Lucas and Heather Morris Tick, tick...BOOM! - Trevor McCormick M*A*S*H-Kayla Parker (Erin Ballengee AD) ​​ 2023-2024 Misery - Kerri Davis, Kelli Riffe A Christmas Carol - Trevor McCormick, Eva Martin August, Osage County - Kayla Parker, Pam Klinepeter 2022-2023 Velveteen - Kerri Davis Life X 3 - Leigh Anne Smith Clue - Leigh Anne Smith, Kasie McCreary Footloose - Trevor McCormick ​ 2021-2022 Season Almost, Maine - Joseph Pratt & Ruthie Stanley War of the Worlds - Nate Marcum Gaslight - Staci Slaughter & Kayla Parker A Tuna Christmas - Rosa Storey 12 Angry Women - Kayla Parker The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Victoria Suarez ​​ 2020-2021 Season Dark for Covid-19 ​​​ 2019-2020 Season The Humans - Rachel Hoople & Jim Humphrey The Witches - Staci Slaughter & Kayla Parker Fuddy Meers - Amanda Gowin Sylvia (canceled) - Leigh Anne Smith ​ 2018-2019 Season Arsenic and Old Lace - Mary Baughman A Christmas Carol - Guinevere Mercer The Little Prince - Staci Slaughter & Leigh Anne Smith Steel Magnolias - Melanie Porter 2017-2018 Season George Orwell's 1984 - Michael Stapleton The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Presents A Christmas Carol - Guinevere Mercer The Dixie Swim Club - Staci Slaughter Marriage is Murder - Guinevere Mercer 2016-2017 Season Jekyll & Hyde The Musical - Eric Armstrong Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus - Guinevere Mercer A Midsummer Night's Dream - Kasie Leightenheimer & Leigh Anne Smith Sordid Lives – Staci Slaughter 2015-2016 Season Vonya, Sonya, Masha & Spike - Leigh Anne Smith The Glass Menagerie - Kasie Leightenheimer & Kerri Davis Carousel - Jason Chaney Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got The Will - Guinevere Mercer 2014-2015 Season One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kasie Leightenheimer An O. Henry Christmas - Guinevere Mercer The Marvelous Wonderettes - Leigh Anne Smith & Jason Chaney Clybourne Park - Jason Chaney 2013-2014 Season Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps - Jim Hayes The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Melanie Manchester South Pacific - Jason Chaney Art - Micheal Stapleton 2012-2013 Season The Woman in Black - Jason Chaney A Charlie Brown Christmas - Becky Lovins The Secret Garden - Micheal Stapleton God of Carnage - Jim Hayes 2011-2012 Season BUG - Tucker Battrell Santaland Diaries and Season's Greetings - Leigh Anne Kimbler Annie, The Musical - Michael Stapleton Dead Man's Cell Phone - Loren Keller 2010-2011 Season And Then There Were None - Tucker Battrell It's A Wonderful Life Radio Play - Micheal Stapleton The Book of Liz - Leigh Anne Kimbler Godspell - Jason Chaney Willy Wonka Jr. - Susan Foster 2009-2010 Season The Zombie - Dani Gillstrap A Christmas Story - Jason Chaney & Micheal Stapleton Damn Yankees - Eric Armstrong Belles - Lorrie Tipton Beauty and the Beast, Jr. - Susan Foster ​ 2008-2009 Season The Story Goes On - Vincent Scarpinato, MD Count Dracula - Jim Hayes Miracle on 34th Street - Micheal Stapleton & Jason Chaney You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown - Eric Armstrong Death By Chocolate - Susan Reed Guys and Dolls - Eric Armstrong Honk, Jr. - Susan Foster 2007-2008 Season Wait Until Dark - Jason Chaney The Gift Of The Magi - Greg Davis Little Shop Of Horrors - Eric Armstrong The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Presents Murder At Checkmate Manor - Beverly Bell Alice In Wonderland, Jr. - Susan Foster 2006-2007 Season Night Watch - Kerby Hamilton & Michael Stapleton A Mall And The Night Visitor - Greg Davis Fools - Susan Reed Company (musical) - Jason Chaney 2005-2006 Season The Odd Couple (female version) - Susan Reed The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Greg Davis & Susan Reed A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Randy Warman The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 - Jimmy Tudor Aladdin, Jr. (musical) - Susan Foster 2004-2005 Season Cheaters - Susan Reed Plaza Suite - Jerry O'Bannion Working (musical) - Randy Warman The Music Man, Jr. (musical) - Susan Foster 2003-2004 Season What The Butler Saw - Harold Lane Black Comedy - Randy Warman Rumors - Shane Tieman Dear Edwina, Jr. - Susan Foster ​ 2002-2003 Season Are You Being Served - Tim Culver Dimly Perceived Threats To The System - John Kantz The 1940's Radio Hour - Randy Warman Annie, Jr. (musical) - Susan Foster ​ 2001-2002 Season The Belle of Amherst - Mary Baughman Inherit The Wind - Tim Culver Greater Tuna - Harold Lane Love, Sex And The IRS - Stephanie Gee & John Kantz Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (musical) - John Osborne 2000-2001 Season Everybody Loves Opal - Jim Hayes Send Me No Flowers - Kelley Leist and Glenda Willis The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds - Jay S. Willis Man Of La Mancha (musical) - Randy Warman Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr. - Susan Foster & Cleo Frank 1999-2000 Season The Curious Savage - Jay Willis Romeo and Juliet - Dave Edwards Weekend Comedy - John Kantz The Boys Next Door - Tim Culver 1998-1999 Season My Fair Lady (musical) - Paul Leist The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Cleo Frank & Stephen Rodeheffer Dial "M" For Murder - Randy Warman Moon Over Buffalo - Kelley Leist & Glenda Willis 1997-1998 Season Rehearsal For Murder - John Kantz Steel Magnolias - Dave Edwards Groucho - Harold Lane Wonderful Town (musical) - Jennifer Sears 1996-1997 Season The Second Lady - Jennifer Sears and Glenda Willis Home Is Where Your Clothes Are - Harold Lane Grease (musical) - Susan Foster and Paul Leist Barefoot In The Park - Dave Edwards 1995-1996 Season Nunsense II (musical) - Paul Leist The Second Time Around - Cleo Frank The Rainmaker - Randy Warman Arsenic And Old Lace - Paul Myers 1994-1995 Season Lend Me A Tenor - Ted Backus How Green Was My Brownie - Krista Gallion & Glenda Willis Death In England - Susan Hayes Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (musical) - Charles Cummings 1993-1994 Season Squabbles - John Osborne The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production Of A Christmas Carol - Steve Rodeheffer Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (musical) - Cleo Frank Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Greg Chinn & Joyce Hickman A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (musical) - Randy Warman Leader Of The Pack (summer musical in Tracy Park) - Susan Foster & Paul Leist 1992-1993 Season Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got The Will? - Charles Cummings The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Steve Rodeheffer A Month Of Sundays - Susan Hayes Baby (musical) - Randy Warman Is There Life After High School? (summer musical in Tracy Park) - Jeff Haught 1991-1992 Season Nunsense (musical) - Paul Leist A Christmas Carol - Camilla Broyles & Steve Gribble Rumors - Randy Warman Something's Afoot (musical) - Larry Broadright & Charles Cummings Pump Boys And Dinettes (summer musical in Tracy Park) - Jeff Haught 1990-1991 Season The Spider - Randy Warman Weekend Comedy - John Kantz The Foreigner - Larry Broadright & Steve Rodeheffer Annie (musical) - Cleo Frank 1989-1990 Season M*A*S*H. - John Osborne Anne Of Green Gables - Cleo Frank Crimes Of The Heart - Randy Warman Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (musical) - John Osborne 1988-1989 Season Tintypes (musical) - Mala Ottney The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Joyce Hickman & Melanie Warman Brighton Beach Memoirs - Rhonda Spradlin Oklahoma (musical) - Tony Lavinder 1987-1988 Season Wait Until Dark - Spencer Davis The Dining Room - Randy Warman The Octette Bridge Club - G. Robert Stone Is There Life After High School (musical) - Randy Warman 1986-1987 Season Dracula - Randy Warman A Christmas Carol - Joyce Hickman & Melanie Warman Cheaters - Susan Meade You're A Good Man Charlie Brown (musical) - Randy Warman 1985-1986 Season Don't Drink The Water - Susan Meade and Melanie Warman The Fantasticks (musical) - Carl Ratliff Sleuth - Susie Booth The Sound Of Music (musical) - Tony Lavinder 1984-1985 Season The 1940's Radio Hour (musical) - Randy Warman The Butler Did It - Rhonda Spradlin The Wizard Of Oz (musical) - Tony Lavinder You Can't Take It With You - Mike Williams 1983 - 1984 Season Everybody Loves Opal - Bill Sanders The Seven Year Itch - Keith Winters The Importance Of Being Earnest - Douglas Ramsey A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (musical) - Randy Warman 1982 - 1983 Season An Evening Of Russian One Acts - Rhonda Spradlin Arms And The Man - Tim Kennard What The Butler Saw - Keith Winters Working (musical) - Keith Winters 1981 - 1982 Season Here Lies Jeremy Troy - Randy Warman A Murder Is Announced - Rhonda Spradlin The Prisoner Of Second Avenue - Wayne Dovenbarger The Shadow Box - Vince Engel I Do! I Do! (summer musical) - Elizabeth & Graham Snyder 1980-1981 Season God's Favorite - Skip Stuart Cheaper By The Dozen - Rhonda Spradlin One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - John Galyean Subject To Change - Brian Morris A Thousand Clowns (summer dinner theatre) - Tony Lavinder 1979 - 1980 Season The Murder Room - Tony Lavinder The Good Doctor - John Galyean The Glass Menagerie - Rhonda Spradlin Mary, Mary - Wayne Dovenbarger Under The Yum Yum Tree (summer dinner theatre) - Tony Lavinder 1978 - 1979 Season Never Too Late - Rhonda Spradlin The Mousetrap - Bill Sanders Black Comedy - Randy Warman Beginner's Luck - Susie Booth Any Wednesday (summer dinner theatre) - Elliott Bucher 1977 - 1978 Season 6 RMS RIV VU - Susie Booth I Never Sang For My Father - Burl Addington Night Watch - Candy Teske How The Other Half Loves - Bill Sanders Once More, With Feeling (summer dinner theatre) - Keith Winters 1976 - 1977 Season Lovers And Other Strangers - Lester Heller Candida - Wayne Dovenbarger Not Now, Darling - Jerry Hall Witness For The Prosecution - Burl Addington The Odd Couple (summer dinner theatre) - Lester Heller 1975 - 1976 Season Arsenic And Old Lace - Keith Winters The House Of Blue Leaves - Randy Warman The Lion In Winter - Bill Sanders See How They Run - Elliott Bucher Charley's Aunt - G. Robert Stone 1974 - 1975 Season All Because Of Agatha - Don Vineyard Last Of The Red Hot Lovers - Bill Sanders The Rainmaker - Randy Warman Dr. Cook's Garden - Keith Winters Bus Stop - Frank Swearingen 1973 - 1974 Season Play It Again Sam - Bill Sanders Done To Death - G. Robert Stone The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds - Randy Warman Butterflies Are Free - Keith Winters 1972 - 1973 Season Picnic - Irma Wolfe A Man For All Seasons - G. Robert Stone Right Bed, Wrong Husband - Elliott Bucher Ten Little Indians - J. David Thompson The Apple Tree (summer production) - Randy Warman 1971 - 1972 Season Plaza Suite - G. Robert Stone The Paisley Convertible - Pam Cranston Busybody - J. David Thompson Don't Drink The Water - John Glass A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (dinner theatre) - Randy Warman Anything Goes (summer musical) - Jeff Duteil 1970 - 1971 Season The Absence Of A Cello - G. Robert Stone My Three Angels - John Glass Guest In The House - George Perkinson A Shot In The Dark - Virginia McIlwain The Music Man (summer musical) - Jim Sharp 1969 - 1970 Season The Star Spangled Girl - Mary Claire McPhail The Subject Was Roses - G. Robert Stone Me And Thee - Mary Irwin A Thousand Clowns - Camilla Broyles Mame (summer musical) - Jim Hayes 1968 - 1969 Season The Odd Couple - Mary Irwin A Delicate Balance - Marion Hartley Any Wednesday - Freda Egleston Halfway Up The Tree - Virginia McIlwain 1967 - 1968 Season Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling - Mary Irwin The Potting Shed - Jim Pugh Prescription: Murder - John Glass Barefoot In The Park - Jim Hayes 1966 - 1967 Season Never Too Late - John Glass Pools Paradise - Jim Hayes & A. Donald Rindfuss The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs - Mary Irwin Wake Up, Darling - Wally Stein 1965 - 1966 Season Bad Seed - Mary Irwin Mary, Mary - Marion Hartley Death Of A Salesman - Marion Hartley Third Best Sport - William Greber & A. Donald Rindfuss 1964 - 1965 Season Advise and Consent - Marion Hartley Roar Like A Dove - Wally Stein Portrait In Black - John Glass Sunday In New York - Keith Winters 1963 - 1964 Season Everybody Loves Opal - Mary Irwin Come Blow Your Horn - Freda Egleston Critic's Choice - Marion Hartley Golden Fleecing - John Glass 1962 - 1963 Season See How They Run - Freda Egleston The Silver Whistle - George Perkinson The Seven Year Itch - Wally Stein Write Me A Murder - Jim Pugh 1961 - 1962 Season Send Me No Flowers - George Perkinson Night Of January 16th - Wally Stein Once More, With Feeling - Mary Irwin The Grass Is Greener - Jerry Cropper 1960 - 1961 Season You Can't Take It With You - Mary Irwin Angel Street - John Glass The Gazebo - George Perkinson Belvedere - Willard Kirkpatrick 1959 - 1960 Season Holiday For Lovers - G. Robert Stone Perfect Alibi - Willard Kirkpatrick The Diary of Anne Frank - John Glass John Loves Mary - Jim Pugh 1958 - 1959 Season The Reluctant Debutante - John Glass Susan Slept Here - Willard Kirkpatrick Time Limit! - George Perkinson The Mousetrap - Jim Pugh 1957 - 1958 Season Bus Stop - George Perkinson The Desperate Hours - G. Robert Stone The Tender Trap - Willard Kirkpatrick The Caine Mutiny Court Martial - George Perkinson 1956 - 1957 Season Oh, Men! Oh, Women! - G. Robert Stone Bell, Book and Candle - George Perkinson Harvey - Dorothy Klein The Solid Gold Cadillac - John Glass 1955 - 1956 Season Sabrina Fair - John Glass Dial "M" For Murder - Dorothy Klein The Heiress - Jim Pugh Goodbye, My Fancy - George Perkinson 1954 - 1955 Season Light Up The Sky - Clinton Arnot My Three Angels - Clinton Arnot Stalag 17 - Clinton Arnot Roberta (first spring musical offered by PLT) - Clinton Arnot 1953 - 1954 Season The Man Who Came To Dinner - Demarest Polacheck Blind Alley - Demarest Polacheck The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Demarest Polacheck The Happy Time - Demarest Polacheck Dirty Work At The Crossroads (bonus show) - Bill Johnson 1952 - 1953 Season Blithe Spirit - Demarest Polacheck Laura - Demarest Polacheck The Little Foxes - Demarest Polacheck The Women - Demarest Polacheck 1951 - 1952 Season Two Blind Mice - Ruth Walters The Curious Savage - John Glass Hangman's Noose - Jim Pugh Our Town - Demarest Polacheck 1950 - 1951 Season Papa Is All - Howard Lee The Willow and I - John Glass George Washington Slept Here - Howard Lee Night Must Fall - Jim Pugh 1949 - 1950 Season You Can't Take It With You - Howard Lee Night of January 16th - Jim Pugh An Inspector Calls - John Glass The Philadelphia Story - Howard Lee 1948-1949 Season My Sister Eileen - Barbara Webb Ten Little Indians - Howard Lee I Remember Mama - Barbara Webb For Love Or Money - Howard Lee