Mesa Encore Theatre
History of Plays ~ A Story of Perseverance, Adventure, Excellence!
Smilin’ Through by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin
1937
Fresh Fields by Ivor Novello
Mesa Little Theatre officially begins - performance at Irving School
1937 - 1938
The Enchanted April
Night Must Fall
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Petrified Forest
1938 - 1939
Night Over Taos
Tovarich
Three Men on a Horse
Spring Song
1939 - 1940
Room Service
The Fool
Ethan Frome
Button Button
1940 - 1941
Among the Stars
Broken Dishes
Nick of the Woods
The Cat and the Canary
1941 - 1942
Lena Rivers
Billy Greybeard
Three Cornered Moon
1942 - 1943
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Daisies on the Cartracks
1943 - 1945 WWII Blackout
1945 - 1946 (Under Parks & Rec)
Please Ta Meecha
Loves in Lavender
My Man Godfrey
Mamma’s Baby Boy
1946 - 1947 (Mesa Little Theatre’s name returns)
Claudia
Don’t Take My Penny
1947 - 1950 Blackout
1950
Angel Street
1950 - 1951 (Became Pepper Street Players)
One Act Play Festival
Indian Summer
Goodbye to the Lazy K
Rehearsal
Champagne
Bolts and Nuts
The Whole Town’s Talking
King Lady
Squaring the Circle
One Act Play Festival
The Red Lamp
Lost Victory
1951 - 1952
Rebecca
Andy Hardy/Skiddings
Arsenic and Old Lace
1952 - 1953
One Borrowed Time
The Curious Savage
One Act Play Festival
The Third Plate
Two Many Hands on the Clock
Escape by Moonlight
Ghost of the Green Mansion
1953 - 1954
Jumpin’ Jupiter
The Heiress
John Loves Mary
1954 - 1955 (Name Returns to Mesa Little Theatre)
Dover Road
1955 - 1956
Bell, Book and Candle
Lo and Behold
1956 - 1957
Be Your Age
Separate Rooms
Nothing But the Truth
Night Must Fall (Arizona Repertory Guest Production)
1958 - 1959
The Tender Trap
Janus
Caught in a Villain’s Web
1959 - 1960
Laura
Holiday for Lovers
The Wide Open Heart
1960 - 1961
Dirty Work at the Crossroads
One Act Play Festival
The Monkey’s Paw
The Bathroom
Under Angry Stars
1961 - 1962
The House on the Cliff
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
1962 - 1965 Black out
1965 - 1966 (Under aegis of Mesa Fine Arts Association)
Goodbye, My Fancy
My Three Angels
Peter and the Wold
Cheaper by the Dozen
Two Blind Mice
1966 - 1967 (Reorganized Mesa Parks and Recreation as Mesa Community Players)
Night Must Fall
The Bad Children
The Skin of Our Teeth
1967 - 1968
Room for One More
All My Sons
Many Moons
1968 - 1969
The Odd Couple
Charlie’s Aunt
The Tender Trap
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1969 - 1970
The Night of January 16th
Greensleeves Magic
The Star Spangled Girl
A Thousand Clowns
Cactus Flower
The Best Man (Guest production by SCP - Scottsdale Community Players?)
The Drunkard
The Crucible
LUV
1970 - 1971
The Lion in Winter (Nick Nolte in cast)
Snow White
Love Rides the Rails
(1971 - 1972 Unrecorded not known if forgotten)
1972 - 1973
The Four Poster Bed
Comedy Tonight (original play)
Come Blow Your Horn
1973 - 1974
One Play Mary, Mary
1974 - 1975
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Ready When You Are, C.B.
You Can't Take it With You
1975 -1976
Cheaper by the Dozen
Arsenic and Old Lace
Exit Laughing
George Washington Slept Here
1976 - 1977
Motletiny Finn
Only Yesterday
Enter Laughing
1977 - 1978
Our Town
Hansel and Gretel
Mrs. McThing
1978 - 1979
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Breath of Spring
Cinderella
1979 - 1980
You Can't Take it With You
The Desk Set
God's Favorite
Arsenic and Old Lace
1980 - 1981
Barefoot in the Park
Everybody Loves Opal
Once in a Lifetime
Run and Not Grow Weary
1981 - 1982
The Crucible
The Sunshine Boys
Accomodations
Ring Around the Moon
1982 - 1983
The Miracle Worker
The Pensure of His Company
1983 - 1984
Summer and Smoke
Bus Stop
MacBeth Did IT
1984 - 1985
Butterflies Are Free
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1985 - 1986
Romeo and Juliet
Hay Fever
The Shadow Box
1986 - 1987
Two by Two
Alone Together
Artichoke
1987 - 1988
Catch Me If You Can
Sunrise at Campobello
H.M.S. Pinafore
1988 - 1989
Everybody Loves Opal
Taking My Turn
The Heiress
1989 - 1990
Middle of the Night
Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera
The Desperate Hours
1990 - 1991
The Please of His Company
Fox Fire
The Real Inspector Hound
1991 - 1992
Royal Gambit
My Three Angels
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
1992 - 1993
Black Comedy
Twelve Angry Men
Wait Until Dark
1993 - 1994
The Mousetrap
Steel Magnolias
The Rainmaker
1994 - 1995
Laura
Star Spangled Girl
Mary, Mary
1995 - 1996
The Subject Was Roses
Send Me No Flowers
Night Watch
1996 -1997
Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera
You Can’t Take it With You
Done to Death
Run for Your Wife
1997 - 1998
The Importance of Being Earnest
Exit the Body
Come Blow Your Horn
No Sex Please, We’re British
1998 - 1999
Play it Again, Sam
Visit to a Small Planet
Sabrina Fair
1999 - 2000
Faulkner’s Bicycle
Snoopy!
Noises Off!
2000 - 2001
(becomes Mesa Encore Theatre)
God’s Favorite
Carnival
Murder by Misadventure
2001 - 2002
The Cemetery Club I
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Deathtrap
2002 - 2003
Rumors
Goodbye, Charlie
Bells are Ringing
2003 - 2004
Dear Ruth
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Over the River and Through the Woods
2004 - 2005
It Runs in The Family
A Bench in The Sun
That Darn Plot!
2005 - 2006
(MET starts performing at new Mesa Arts Center)
Harvey
And Then There Were None
The Desk Set
Blithe Spirit
2006 - 2007
The Star Spangled Girl
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
I Hate Hamlet
The Last Five Years
2007 - 2008
Cabaret
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Little Shop of Horrors
Breaking Legs
2008 - 2009
Lend Me a Tenor
Godspell
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Footloose
2009 - 2010
Leading Ladies
RENT
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Forbidden Broadway
Once on This Island
2010 - 2011
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bye Bye Birdie
Over the River and Through the Woods
Ragtime
Man of La Mancha
The Music Man
2011 - 2012
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Proof
A Christmas Story
West Side Story
Ragtime
Hairspray
2012 - 2013
Seussical
Guys and Dolls
Forever Plaid
Hello Dolly!
Spring Awakening
Noises Off
2013 - 2014
Grease
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Oklahoma
August Osage County
Big River
The Full Monty
2014 - 2015
Godspell
Oliver!
39 Steps
Carousel
Avenue Q
A Chorus Line
2015 - 2016
The Wiz
Fiddler on the Roof
Deathtrap
Spamalot
Boeing Boeing
Sweeney Todd
2016 - 2017
New Black Box space at 933 E. Main St.
MAINSTAGE
Footloose
The Music Man
Fox on the Fairway
Billy Elliot
The Fantasticks
Urinetown
BLACK BOX
Scrooge in Rouge
Circle Mirror Transformation
Reasons to be Pretty
2017 - 2018
MAINSTAGE
Chicago
Annie
The Graduate
Beauty and the Beast
Forbidden Broadway
Rock of Ages
BLACK BOX
[sic]
Woman in Black
Scrooge in Rouge
Mad Gravity
A Kid Like Jake
Jesus Hopped the A Train
2018 - 2019
MAINSTAGE
Legally Blonde
Mary Poppins
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Hello Dolly!
Toxic Avenger
In the Heights
BLACK BOX
Lone Star/Laundry and Bourbon
Real Women Have Curves
Scrooge in Rouge
Lion in Winter
Boy Gets Girl
Summer and Smoke/Summer at the Lake
2019 - 2020
Into the Woods
Pirates of Penzance
Darkside
Shrek the Musical
She Kills Monsters
Songs for Tough Times Cabaret Online
When I Grow Up; A Free Cabaret From a new Generation Online
2020 - 2021
(Online Virtual season due to COVID 19)
Zoom Plays New Works Festival
It Came from Mars
Almost Maine
The Laramie Project
I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change
Eight Reindeer Monologues
2021 - 2022
(MET Leaves location on Main and moves near Mesa Community College in a storefront previously called “Koreamart”.
The Best of Broadway
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Annie (Youth Production)
Holly Jolly Christmas A Holiday Revue
Barefoot in the Park
Boy
2022 - 2023
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Grease
Noises Off
The Addams Family
The Odd Couple (Female Edition)
9 to 5
2023 - 2024
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Little Shop Of Horrors
Always Plenty Of Light At The Starlight All-Night Diner
The Lightning Thief
Peter And The Starcatcher
Heathers The Musical
2024 - 2025
Bright Star (Last show rehearsed at Koreamart)
Freaky Friday
A Chorus Line
2025 - 2026
TBA