RTG Production History
The Racine Theatre Guild was founded in 1938 by 26 people with $13. Since then, we have produced hundreds of plays and musicals throughout the community and on our stage. Interested in learning more about our full history? Check it out here!

Perfect Wedding
2022 – 23 Racine Theatre Guild
2020 – 21 Racine Theatre Guild
Closed to in-person performances due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

On Golden Pond
2019 – 20 Racine Theatre Guild

Lombardi
2018 – 19 Racine Theatre Guild
A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Sister Act
2017 – 18 Racine Theatre Guild
A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Lend Me A Tenor
2016 – 17 Racine Theatre Guild
The Iliad, The Odyssey and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less

Bridge to Terabithia
2015 – 16 Racine Theatre Guild
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Calendar Girls
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mary Poppins

One Slight Hitch
2014 – 15 Racine Theatre Guild
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
The Werewolf’s Curse or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
The Sound of Music
One Slight Hitch
Dixie Swim Club
The Giver
Spamalot

Les Miserables
2013 – 14 Racine Theatre Guild
The Rocky Horror Show
Suite Surrender
Deathtrap
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Almost, Maine
37 Postcards
The Miracle Worker
Les Misérables

Be My Baby
2012 – 13 Racine Theatre Guild
Elvis Has Left The Building
Noises Off
A Nice Family Gathering
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka
A Night at the Nutcracker
Be My Baby
The Three Musketeers
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Comic Potential
2011 – 12 Racine Theatre Guild
I Do! I Do!
Comic Potential
Doubt, A Parable
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka
Glorious!
The Curious Savage
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
Chicago

Bull in a China Shop
2010 – 11 Racine Theatre Guild
The Andrews Brothers
Southern Hospitality
Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchel
Miracle on 34th Street
Don’t Hug Me
Treasure Island
Bull in a China Shop
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Producers
2009 – 10 Racine Theatre Guild
The Honky Tonk Angels
Hotbed Hotel
The Sunshine Boys
Miracle on 34th Street
Murder at the Howard Johnson’s
A Bad Year For Tomatoes
Holes
The Producers

Steel Magnolias
2008 – 09 Racine Theatre Guild
Side by Side by Sondheim
The Nerd
Steel Magnolias
Beauty and the Beast
Dearly Departed
Leading Ladies
The Boys Next Door
Godspell

You Can’t Take It with You
2007 – 08 Racine Theatre Guild
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Laughing Stock
King O’ The Moon
Scrooge! The Musical
You Can’t Take It with You
The Gamester
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Guys and Dolls

Scrooge! The Musical
2006 – 07 Racine Theatre Guild
Forever Plaid
Mixed Emotions
The Foreigner
Scrooge! The Musical
Proof
The Uneasy Chair
Stand and Deliver
Gypsy

Anne Frank and Me
2005 – 06 Racine Theatre Guild
Packer Fans From Outer Space
The Affections of May
The Assassin’s New Friend
Scrooge! The Musical
Weekend Comedy
The Supporting Cast
Anne Frank and Me
Lucky Stiff

HONK!
2004 – 05 Racine Theatre Guild
My Way
Those Crazy Ladies In the House On The Corner
HONK!
It’s A Wonderful Life
Visiting Mr. Green
Dead Guilty
I Ought To Be In Pictures
The Music Man

Don’t Go Gentle
2003 – 04 Racine Theatre Guild
Always…Patsy Cline
Send Me No Flowers
HONK!
A Christmas Story
Taking Leave
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
Do Not Go Gentle
Over The Tavern

Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got The Will?)
2002 – 03 Racine Theatre Guild
A Grand Night for Singing
Over The River and Through The Woods
Murder by Misadventure
Annie
Vikings
Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got The Will?)
Flowers For Algernon
Anything Goes

Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001 – 02 Racine Theatre Guild
A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline
Pools Paradise
Escanaba In Da Moonlight
Annie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Scapino
Number the Stars
The Amorous Ambassador

Crossing Delancy
2000 – 01 Racine Theatre Guild
Something’s Afoot
The Sensuous Senator
Crossing Delancey
Oliver
Catch Me If You Can
Communicating Doors
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
West Side Story

Oliver
1999 – 00 Racine Theatre Guild
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
A Thousand Clowns
Living Together
Oliver
Beau Jest
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Twelve Angry Jurors
Moon Over Buffalo

The Crucible
1998 – 99 Racine Theatre Guild
Have a Nice Day
Cookin’ With Gus
A Tuna Christmas
Oliver
The Trip to Bountiful
The Crucible
Having Our Say
Lone Star Love Potion

Don’t Dress for Dinner
1997 – 98 Racine Theatre Guild
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Don’t Dress For Dinner
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wizard of Oz
Sylvia
Camping with Henry and Tom
The Glass Menagerie
Squabbles

Desire Under the Elms
1996 – 97 Racine Theatre Guild
Oil City Symphony
Wait Until Dark
Inspecting Carol
The Wizard of Oz
Desire Under the Elms
Alone Together
The Outsiders
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

To Kill A Mocking Bird
1995 – 96 Racine Theatre Guild
Smoke on the Mountain
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lettice and Lovage
The Wizard of Oz
Out of Order
Dancing at Lughnasa
A Few Good Men
Phantom

Peter Pan
1994 – 95 Racine Theatre Guild
Nunsense II: The Second Coming
I Hate Hamlet
The Rainmaker
Peter Pan
The Miracle Worker
Tons of Money
Marvin’s Room
Lost in Yonkers

Prelude to a Kiss
1993 – 94 Racine Theatre Guild
The Cardigans
Prelude To A Kiss
The Cemetery Club
Peter Pan
Wife Begins At Forty
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Boys Next Door
Broadway Bound

Driving Miss Daisy
1992 – 93 Racine Theatre Guild
Tomfoolery
Rumors
Driving Miss Daisy
Peter Pan
Of Mice and Men
Nunsense
The Immigrant
Lend Me a Tenor

Foxfire
1991 – 92 Racine Theatre Guild
The Taffetas
Foxfire
The House of Blue Leaves
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Run For Your Wife
Pack of Lies
Hunting Cockroaches
Social Security

Cat Among the Pigeons
1990 – 91 Racine Theatre Guild
Pump Boys and Dinettes
I See the Sun
Middle Age Spread
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Steel Magnolias
Terra Nova
Cat Among the Pigeons

Crimes of the Heart
1989 – 90 Racine Theatre Guild
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Rough Crossing
The Nerd
I’m Not Rappaport
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Greater Tuna
Crimes of the Heart
They’re Playing Our Song

The Odd Couple (Female Version)
1988 – 89 Racine Theatre Guild
Little Shop of Horrors
The Odd Couple (Female Version)
Corpse
The Foreigner
The Shadow Box
Noises Off

Seascape
1987 – 88 Racine Theatre Guild
Seascape
Charley’s Aunt
My Three Angels
The Lion in Winter
Summer and Smoke
Wild Honey

The Fantasticks
1986 – 87 Racine Theatre Guild
Morning’s At Seven
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Mass Appeal
The Three Cuckolds
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Fantasticks

The Poor of New York
1985 – 86 Racine Theatre Guild
The Poor of New York
Sherlock Holmes and The Affair of The Amorous Regent
Season’s Greetings
The Art of Dining
Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
God’s Favorite

Agnes of God
1984 – 85 Racine Theatre Guild
Dracula
Fools
The Gin Game
Agnes of God
Tintypes

Under the Gaslight
1983 – 84 Racine Theatre Guild
A Bedfull of Foreigners
Deathtrap
The West Side Waltz
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Present Laughter
Under the Gaslight

Private Lives
1982 – 83 Racine Theatre Guild
After Dark
The Biggest Thief in Town
The Little Foxes
Private Lives
You Never Can Tell
The Impossible Years
The Drunkard

Veronica’s Room
1981 – 82 Racine Theatre Guild
See How They Run
On Golden Pond
Veronica’s Room
Abelard and Heloise
Romantic Comedy

Bedroom Farce
1980 – 81 Racine Theatre Guild
An Italian Straw Hat
The Owl and the Pussycat
Bedroom Farce
Billy Budd
Chapter Two

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1979 – 80 Racine Theatre Guild
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
How the Other Half Loves
Same Time – Next Year
Macbeth
Bullshot Crummond

A Breath of Spring
1978 – 79 Racine Theatre Guild
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Delicate Balance
Walsh
Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath or Goodnight Ladies
A Breath of Spring

Let’s Get A Divorce
1977 – 78 Racine Theatre Guild
Let’s Get a Divorce
Absurd Person Singular
Blithe Spirit
A Streetcar Named Desire
Scapino

The Waltz of the Toreadors
1976 – 77 Racine Theatre Guild
The Taming of the Shrew – first show on the RTG stage in October 1976
Sleuth
6 RMS RIV VU
The Waltz of the Toreadors
The Sunshine Boys

No Sex, Please – We’re British
1975 – 76 Guild Playhouse
Pools Paradise
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
The Patriots
No Sex, Please – We’re British

The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch
1974 – 75 Guild Playhouse
The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch
Uproar in the House
Rashomon
The House of Bernarda Alba
The Prisoner of Second Avenue

How’s the World Treating You?
1973 – 74 Guild Playhouse
How’s the World Treating You?
The Imaginary Invalid
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ah, Wilderness!

Play it Again, Sam
1972 – 73 Guild Playhouse
Play It Again, Sam
The Lion in Winter
The Innocents
The Comedy of Errors
Butterflies Are Free

Don’t Drink the Water
1971 – 72 Guild Playhouse
Don’t Drink the Water
Summertree
Tevya and His Daughters
Look Homeward, Angel
Forty Carats

Cactus Flower
1970 – 71 Guild Playhouse
Cactus Flower
The Crucible
Luv
Little Mary Sunshine
A Flea in Her Ear

A Man for All Seasons
1969 – 70 Guild Playhouse
Star Spangled Girl
Man For All Seasons
Shot In The Dark
She Loves Me
Arms and the Man

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
1968 – 69 Guild Playhouse
The Odd Couple
The Typists and The Tiger
A Thurber Carnival
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Life With Father

The Amorous Flea
1967 – 68 Guild Playhouse
Any Wednesday
Barefoot in the Park
Anastasia
The Amorous Flea
Charley’s Aunt

Inherit the Wind
1966 – 67 Guild Playhouse
Mary, Mary
Inherit the Wind
The Boyfriend
The Cradle Song
You Can’t Take It With You

All the Way Home
1965 – 66 Guild Playhouse
Never Too Late
All the Way Home
The Fantasticks
Everybody Loves Opal
Sunday in New York

Hotel Paradiso
1964 – 65 Guild Playhouse
The Spider’s Web
An Enemy of the People
Separate Tables
Hotel Paradiso
The Curse of an Aching Heart

The Happiest Millionaire
1963 – 64 Guild Playhouse
Lil’ Abner
The Best Man
Come Blow Your Horn
Dark at the Top of the Stairs
The Happiest Millionaire
Bells Are Ringing

Once Upon A Mattress
1962 – 63 Guild Playhouse
Bye Bye Birdie
Critic’s Choice
Our Town
Once More With Feeling
Monique
Once Upon a Mattress

The Pleasure of His Company
1961 – 62 Guild Playhouse
Babes in Arms
The Pleasure of His Company
Call Me Madam
The Glass Menagerie
Kind Sir
No Time for Sergeants

Death of a Salesman
1960 – 61 Guild Playhouse
Bell, Book and Candle
Reclining Figure
Death of a Salesman
The Gazebo
Third Best Sport

Visit to a Small Planet
1959 – 60 Guild Playhouse
Witness for the Prosecution
The Desk Set
Light Up the Sky
The River Line
Visit to a Small Planet

The Solid Gold Cadillac
1958 – 59 Guild Playhouse
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Great Sebastians
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Desperate Hours
The Matchmaker

Time of the Cuckoo
1957 – 58 Guild Playhouse
Harvey
Hatful of Rain
Teahouse of the August Moon
Time of the Cuckoo
King of Hearts
Thieves’ Carnival

Mister Roberts
1956 – 57 Guild Playhouse
The Tender Trap
The Rainmaker
Summer and Smoke
Bus Stop
Mister Roberts

Dial M for Murder
1955 – 56 Guild Playhouse
The Biggest Thief in Town
The Little Foxes
Sabrina Fair
Dial M for Murder
Stalag 17

My Three Angels
1954 – 55 Guild Playhouse
My Three Angels
The Heiress
Late Love
The Importance of Being Ernest
Laura

The Moon is Blue
1953 – 54 Guild Playhouse
Affairs of State
The Glass Menagerie
The Happy Times
The Curious Savage
The Moon Is Blue

Dream Girl
1952 – 53 Uptown Theatre
Dream Girl
Lo and Behold
Come Back, Little Sheba

Father of the Bride
1951 – 52 Uptown Theatre
Mr. Barry’s Etchings
The Father of the Bride
Watch on the Rhine
The Bat

Born Yesterday
1950 – 51 Uptown Theatre
The Silver Whistle
All My Sons
See How They Run
Born Yesterday

Three’s a Family
1949 – 50 Uptown Theatre
Three’s a Family
Ten Little Indians
Heaven Can Wait
Parlor Story
Adam Loves Eve – RTG Original Production

I Remember Mama
1948 – 49 Uptown Theatre
The Night of January 16
I Remember Mama
Barrets of Wimpole Street
John Loves Mary

I Like it Here
1947 – 48 Uptown Theatre
I Like It Here
R.U.R.
Guest in the House
Dear Ruth

Angel Street
1946 – 47 Mainstreet Theatre
Laura
The Hasty Heart
Angel Street
The Royal Family

Kiss and Tell
1945 – 46 Mainstreet Theatre
Kiss and Tell
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Blithe Spirit

Junior Miss
1944 – 45 Mainstreet Theatre
Stage Door
Junior Miss
Spring Again

Claudia
1943 – 44 Mainstreet Theatre
Papa Is All
Claudia
Ladies In Retirement

Night Must Fall
1942 – 43 Mainstreet Theatre
Arsenic and Old Lace
Night Must Fall
The Philadelphia Story

Margin for Error
1941 – 42 Woman’s Club
George Washington Slept Here
Margin For Error
This Thing Called Love

The Male Animal
1940 – 41 Woman’s Club
Outward Bound
You Can’t Take It With You
The Male Animal

The Night of January 16
1939 – 40 Woman’s Club
The Night of January 16
Her Master’s Voice
Room Service
1938 – 39 First Season
Three One Act Plays
“The Bride Wore Red Pajamas”
“Chinese Money”
“Murder by Morning”
The Ghost Train
The Late Christopher Bean
Idlings of the King
He Ain’t Done Right By Nell
Petticoat Fever
Fun Dividend to Patrons of the First Season
“Good Night Please”
“A Husband for Breakfast”
“A Cup of Tea”