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Needham Community Theatre was founded in 1956 by former members of The Linden Players, a community theatre group sponsored by The Congregational Church of Needham. Since that time, NCT has produced two regular season productions a year. From 1956 through 1963 NCT only staged plays. In 1964 NCT performed a musical (The Pajama Game) for the first time, with then-Broadway star John Raitt attending one of the performances. Since then, NCT tradition has been to perform a musical in the fall and a comedy or drama in the spring.

NCT also periodically stages workshop productions and play readings throughout the year, as well as entries to the annual community theatre festival previously sponsored by the New England Theatre Conference (NETC), and now by the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres (EMACT). A complete listing of regular season productions and festival entries follows below.

 

2010
  • Nightwatch
  • Jekyll and Hyde (upcoming)
2009
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • The Wizard of Oz
2008
  • Rumors
  • Titanic
2007
  • Sara Crew
  • Beauty and the Beast

2006
  • Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Oliver!

2005

  • The Women
  • My Fair Lady

2004

  • The Secret Garden (non-musical)
  • Scrooge: The Musical

2003

  • The Crucible
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster (EMACT)
  • Evita

2002

  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Interview (EMACT)
  • Fiddler on the Roof

2001

  • Anne of Green Gables
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (EMACT)
  • Annie

2000

  • M*A*S*H
  • Richard Cory (EMACT finalist)
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1999

  • Plaza Suite
  • The Wizard of Oz

1998

  • You Can't Take It with You
  • Carousel

1997

  • Working
  • The Sound of Music

1996

  • NCT 40th Birthday Show
  • Lend Me a Tenor
  • Oliver

1995

  • Crossing Delancey
  • Six Characters in Search of an Author (EMACT)

1994

  • Mystery at Greenfingers
  • The Music Man

1993

  • Crimes of the Heart (and EMACT)
  • 42nd Street

1992

  • The Dining Room
  • The Pajama Game

1991

  • Blithe Spirit
  • Ain't Misbehavin' (NETC)
  • Oklahoma!

1990

  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • The Apple Tree (NETC)
  • Fiddler on the Roof

1989

  • Cactus Flower
  • Mame

1988

  • Play It Again, Sam
  • Annie

1987

  • Night Watch
  • Anything Goes

1986

  • Plaza Suite

1985

  • Barefoot in the Park
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1984

  • The Butler Did It
  • Carousel

1983

  • Sleuth
  • Whistlestop
  • Pirates of Penzance

1982

  • No Sex Please, We're British
  • The Music Man

1981

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Oklahoma!

1980

  • Table Manners
  • Pippin

1979

  • Harvey
  • Funny Girl

1978

  • The Night of January 16th
  • Live Spelled Backwards (NETC)
  • Man of La Mancha

1977

  • The Gingerbread Lady
  • Guys and Dolls

1976

  • The Effect of Gamma Rays...
  • Solitaire (NETC)
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1975

  • The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • The Sandbox (NETC)
  • Promises, Promises

1974

  • Play It Again, Sam
  • Applause

1973

  • The Public Eye/Black Comedy
  • Fiddler on the Roof

1972

  • I Never Sang For My Father
  • Kismet

1971

  • Cactus Flower
  • Mame

1970

  • Everything In The Garden
  • Flower Drum Song

1969

  • Picnic
  • Brigadoon

1968

  • Dark of the Moon
  • Wonderful Town

1967

  • Never Too Late
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1966

  • Carousel

1965

  • A Shot in the Dark
  • Fiorello

1964

  • Send Me No Flowers
  • The Pajama Game

1963

  • Sabrina Fair
  • Death of a Salesman

1962

  • Auntie Mame
  • The Night of Janaury 16th

1961

  • Bus Stop
  • Light Up The Sky

1960

  • The Third Best Sport
  • Witness for the Prosecution

1959

  • The Den Set
  • See How They Run

1958

  • The Little Foxes
  • Mr. Roberts

1957

  • Night Must Fall
  • Janus

1956

  • Jane





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