Productions

ACTS has a rich history, with over 50 years of providing quality theatre to Southwest Louisiana. This is a full list of our productions going back to our 1966-1967 season.

2026-2027

THE SHARK IS BROKEN (Directed by Alex Tyler) - Underground show

RENT (Directed by Joy Klumppace) - Underground show

COME FROM AWAY (Directed by Kris Webster)

THE HOLIDAY CHANNEL CHRISTMAS MOVIE WONDERTHON (Directed by Alex Tyler)

RUMORS (Directed by Zac Hammons) - Underground show

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL (Second production) - (Directed by Katy Cole)

LITTLE WOMEN (Directed by Sarah Broussard)

2025-2026

THE TRAIL TO OREGON (Directed by Kris Webster) - 1st ACTS Underground show

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (Directed by Kathy Heath)

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Directed by Bobby Guillory) - Underground show

MISERY (Directed by Alex Tyler) - Underground show

FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS (Directed by Allison Schnake)

SISTER ACT (Directed by Kris Webster)

THE MOUSETRAP (Directed by Katy Cole)

2024-2025

CHICAGO (Directed by Walt Kiser)

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (Directed by Stan Morris) - Off Season

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER (Directed by Kathy Heath) - Off Season

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (Directed by Kris Webster)

JAKE'S WOMEN (Directed by Alex Tyler)

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Directed by Clay Hebert)

2023-2024

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Directed by Kathy Heath)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Directed by Bobby Guillory)

CHRISTMAS BELLES (Directed by Zac Hammons) - Off season show

ANYTHING GOES (Directed by Walt Kiser)

NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (Directed by Clay Hebert)

THE TRAIL TO OREGON (Directed by Kris Webster)

2022-2023

DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID (Directed by Jordan Gribble)

ELF THE MUSICAL (Directed by Kris Webster)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Directed by Lori Tarver)

HELLO, DOLLY! (Directed by Walt Kiser)

2021-2022

42ND STREET (Directed by Walt Kiser)

ROALD DAHL'S WILLY WONKA (Directed by Jordan Gribble)

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Directed and performed by Zac Hammons) - Off season show

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (Directed by Clay Hebert)

ALMOST, MAINE (Directed by Bobby Guillory, Kathy Heath, and Lori Tarver) - Off season show

2019-2021

STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Directed by Zac Hammons) - Off season show (Fifth production)

CLUE: ON STAGE (Directed by Clay Hebert)

A CHRISTMAS STORY (Directed by Clay Hebert)

DISASTER! THE MUSICAL (Directed by Kris Webster)

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (Directed by Clay Hebert)

2018-2019

I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE (Directed by Clay Hebert) - Off season show

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Directed by Clay Hebert)

NUNCRACKERS (Directed by Walt Kiser)

THE GIVER (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

MAMMA MIA! (Directed by Walt Kiser)

2017-2018

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Directed by Joy Pace)

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW (Directed by Zac Hammons)

SHREK THE MUSICAL (Directed by Walt Kiser)

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

2016-2017

STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Directed by Walt Kiser) (Fourth production)

SCROOGE!  (Directed by Kris Perez Webster) (Sixth production)

THE MIRACLE WORKER (Directed by Larenzo Carrier)

SPAMALOT (Directed by Clay Hebert)

2015-2016

GUYS AND DOLLS (Directed by Walt Kiser)

WAIT UNTIL DARK (Directed by Brooke Hanemann Swire)

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Directed by Joy Pace)

THE PRODUCERS (Directed by Robert Marcantel)

2014-2015

LEGALLY BLONDE (Directed by Damien Thibodeaux)

LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION -CHRISTMAS FUNDRAISER- (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (Directed by Carol Anne Gayle)

TIM RICE AND ELTON JOHN'S AIDA (Directed by Walt Kiser)

2013-2014

THE SECRET GARDEN (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

WHITE CHRISTMAS (Directed by Walt Kiser)

NOISES OFF (Directed by Walt Kiser)

HAIRSPRAY (Directed by Hailey Ford Coburn)

2012-2013 

NINE TO FIVE THE MUSICAL (Directed by Damien Thibodeaux)

A CHRISTMAS STORY (Directed by Walt Kiser)

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE (Directed by Carolyn Woosley)

THE PAJAMA GAME (Directed by Walt Kiser)

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL (Directed by Hailey Ford Coburn)

MY FAVORITE THINGS -A SUMMER SHOWCASE FUNDRAISER- (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

2011 -2012 

   RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA (Directed by Walt Kiser)

THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (Directed by Walt Kiser)

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Directed by Adley Cormier) (Second production)

INTO THE WOODS (Directed by Damien Thibodeaux)

REMEMBER WHEN -SUMMER SHOWCASE FUNDRAISER- (Directed by Marc Pettaway)

2010-2011

OLIVER! (Directed by Marc Pettaway) (Fifth production)

DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS (Directed by Walt Kiser)

AUNTIE MAME (Directed by Loretta Janca)

KISS ME KATE (Directed by Walt Kiser)

ONE NIGHT ONLY - ACTS GOES TO THE MOVIES - Fundraiser Event - (Directed by Kris Perez Webster)

2009-2010

(All shows after this point directed by Marc Pettaway with the exception of one fundraiser)

DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

DOUBT

THE REAL SAGA OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (Third production)

ONE NIGHT ONLY - Fundraiser Event - (Directed by Lindsay Quebedeaux)

2008-2009

ANNIE WARBUCKS

BUS STOP

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

HANSEL & GRETEL IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

2007-2008

SCROOGE *** November/December 2007 (Fifth production)

THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS *** February/March 2008 (Third production)

HARVEY *** May 2008

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN *** June/July 2008

2006-2007

SOUTH PACIFIC *** October/November 2006

THE SOUND OF MUSIC *** February/March 2007

THE RED SHOES (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

WEEKEND COMEDY *** May 2007

STEPPING OUT *** July 2007 - Fundraiser Event -

2005-2006

CABARET *** November 2005

THE MATCHMAKER *** February/March 2006

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM *** June 2006

2004-2005

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS *** October 2004 (20th Anniversary Production)

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE *** February 2005

STEEL MAGNOLIAS *** June 2005 (Third production)

2003-2004

EARL LONG IN PURGATORY *** October 2003

SCROOGE, THE MUSICAL *** November/December 2003

CHICAGO *** March 2004

DRIVING MISS DAISY *** June 2004

2002-2003

ANNIE WARBUCKS *** October 2002

THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC *** February 2003

TOYS IN THE ATTIC *** June 2003

MURDER IN THE MAGNOLIAS *** July 2003

2001-2002

THE SOUND OF MUSIC *** October 2001

SUNSHINE BOYS *** December 2001

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES *** June 2002

2000-2001

ANNIE *** October 2000

THE FANTASTICKS *** February 2001

THE WIZARD OF OZ (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

AUNTIE MAME  *** June 2001

1999-2000

SYLVIA

HANSEL & GRETEL

COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA

SNOW WHITE (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

THE APPLE TREE

1998-1999

OLIVER! (Fourth production)

TRIBUTE

STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Second production)

PINOCCHIO (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

SWING

1997-1998

WIFE BEGINS AT 40

BLACK COMEDY/WHITE LIARS

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

MONKEY BUSINESS

THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

1996-1997

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Performed at the Lake Charles Civic Center) (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

NEVER TOO LATE

THE MIRACLE WORKER

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE

1995-1996

PETER PAN (Performed at the Lake Charles Civic Center) (Second production)

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS

THE HEIRESS

RUN FOR YOUR WIFE

THE PIED PIPER  (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

70, GIRLS, 70 

1994-1995

PETER PAN (Performed at the Lake Charles Civic Center)

SCROOGE (Fourth production)

VANITIES (Third production)

(ACTS presented the Crowley Acadia Players at the Chateau Charles)

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

GREATER TUNA

CINDERELLA (Children's Studio Theatre Production)

1993-1994

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE

GREATER TUNA (Also as dinner theatre at Belizaire's in Crowley)

MARY, MARY

LOST IN YONKERS

1992-1993

APPLAUSE

LOVE LETTERS

DARK DAY AT DALTON

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES

1991-1992

NUNSENSE

PAPA NOEL

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

CROSSING DELANCY

SWEET CHARITY

1990-1991

DRIVING MISS DAISY

THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Second production)

GYPSY

1989-1990

BROADWAY BOUND

PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

VANITIES (Also as dinner theatre at Cafe Ole) (Second production)

1988-1989

DIAL "M" FOR MURDER

ENCORE '88

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN

1987-1988

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

THE NERD

ENCORE! ENCORE!

BILOXI BLUES

CHICAGO

1986-1987

OLIVER! (Third production)

NOISES OFF

IF THE SHOE FITS

BRIGHTON BEACH

THE KING AND I

1985-1986

ANNIE

COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN

SCROOGE (Third production)

NIGHT MOTHER (ACTS Presents the New Orleans Maringy Theatre)

CHAPTER TWO

A CHORUS LINE

1984-1985

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS

SCROOGE (Second Production)

AGNES OF GOD (ACTS Presents the New Orleans Maringy Theatre)

THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG

1983-1984

A COUPLE OF WHITE CHICKS SITTING AROUND TALKING (Dinner Theatre Lake Charles Country Club)

SCROOGE

MASS APPEAL

~The Traveling Years~

1982-1983

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (MSU Auditorium)

TRIBUTE (Squires Auditorium, McNeese  StateUniversity)

THE HOMESTEAD ACTS OPEN HOUSE (ACTS One Reid Street Theatre)

1981-1982

SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM (Dinner Theatre at El Rio Restaurant)

ROMANTIC COMEDY (Lake Charles High School Auditorium)

THE ELEPHANT MAN (Squires Auditorium, McNeese State University)

THE SHADOW BOX (Lake Charles High School Auditorium)

CHAMPAGNE COMPLEX (Dinner theatre at the old Holiday Inn)

1980-1981

ON GOLDEN POND (Lake Charles High School Auditorium)

STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF (Squires auditorium, McNeese State University) (Second production)

THE FANTASTICKS (Lake Charles High School Auditorium) (Second production)

~Lake Charles High~

1979-1980

THE SUNSHINE BOYS

SAME TIME NEXT YEAR

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

THE HAPPY TIMES

1978-1979

GODSPELL

THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS

'LIL ABNER

VANITIES

1977-1978

OLIVER! (Lake Charles Civic Center Theatre & Lake Charles High School Auditorium) (Second production)

GOD'S FAVORITE

BAD HABITS (Dinner theatre at Chateau Charles)

THE PAJAMA GAME

~ACTS Theatre-in-the-Round, Church Street~

1976-1977

FINIAN'S RAINBOW

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER

BLACK COMEDY

PRIVATE LIVES

DAMN YANKEES

-Lake Charles High School Auditorium-

1975-1976

TEA AND SYMPATHY

CARNIVAL

THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

THE BOY FRIEND

I DO! I DO! (Dinner theatre at Chateau Charles)

COMPANY (Dinner theatre at Chateau Charles)

THE FANTASTICKS (Dinner theatre at Chateau Charles)

THE APPLE TREE (Dinner theatre at Chateau Charles)

1974-1975

CABARET

FORTY CARATS

TOYS IN THE ATTIC

NO, NO, NANETTE

-Lake Charles Civic Center Theatre -

1973-1974

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

SWEET CHARITY

NIGHT WATCH

AUNTIE MAME 

~The Arcade Theatre~ 

(The ACTA Awards held on May 19, 1973 was the last public performance in the Arcade Theatre before it burned.)

1972-1973

SHOWBOAT

BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE

THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Last Stage Performance in the Arcade Theatre)

1971-1972

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

PLAZA SUITE

YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

FUNNY GIRL

1970-1971

GYPSY

CACTUS FLOWER

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

MAN OF LA MANCHA

1969-1970

HELLO, DOLLY!

DON'T DRINK THE WATER

WHO'S AFRAID OF  VIRGINIA WOOLF?

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

IF THE SHOE FITS...

1968-1969

THE KING AND I

THE LION IN WINTER

TAKE HER, SHE'S MINE

LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE

1967-1968

OLIVER!

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES

1966-1967

A THOUSAND CLOWNS

ALICE!