Mission/History

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre is the state’s largest non-profit resident theatre company. The Rep has produced more than 350 productions including 45 world premieres on its 377-seat theatre located in its historic building in downtown Little Rock.

The Rep employs guest artists from across the country and local artists to produce works – created, rehearsed and built in downtown Little Rock – ranging from contemporary comedies and dramas to world premieres to the classics of dramatic literature.

The Rep relies on season subscriptions, special events, foundation support, corporate and individual donations and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arkansas Arts Council. The Rep’s auxiliary group, Friends of The Rep, contributes time and energy to support the theatre through ushering, fundraisers, and organized events. The Rep receives local community support from more than 400 volunteers who usher for The Rep’s productions.

Frequently hosting civic groups and non-profits for special events and workshops, The Rep also serves as a co-producer on the bi-annual legal spoof Gridiron and frequently engages in co-productions with other regional theatres and local organizations such as Acansa, Ballet Arkansas, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts.

The Rep brings Tony Award-winners and other nationally recognized artists to its stages, and is locally recognized as the Best Live Theatre and the Best Performing Arts Organization by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Times.

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• The School for Lies
• The Gift of the Magi
• The Santaland Diaries
• The Call
• Mamma Mia!

• Memphis
• Wait Until Dark
• Elf
• The Whipping Man
• Mary Poppins
• August: Osage County

• Ring of Fire
• The Second City
• That 80s Show
• A Christmas Carol, The Musical
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Wiz
• Next to Normal
• A Loss of Roses

• Les Miserables
• If You Sing it They will Come
• It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
• Looking Over the President’s Shoulder
• The Foreigner
• The Elephant Man
• The Who’s Tommy

• Steel Magnolias
• Will-to-Laugh
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Of Mice and Men
• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
• Comedy of Errors
• Towns Facing Railroads
• Crowns
• Bad Dates
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Retreat from Moscow
• Intimate Apparel
• A Chorus Line

• Proof
• Heroes and Villains
• My Way
• Annie
• The Piano Lesson
• Friends Like These
• Fully Committed
• Gypsy

• As Bees in Honey Drown
• Two Ruffs & A Rogue
• Blackbirds of Broadway
• A Christmas Carol
• The Second City
• An Evening with Groucho
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Blues in the Night
• Damn Yankees

• Little Shop of Horrors
• The Woman in Black
• Pump Boys and Dinettes
• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• Angels in America: Perestroika
• Peter Pan
• Moon Over Buffalo
• Fort Chaffee
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Always… Patsy Cline
• A Delta Spirit
• A Perfect Ganesh

• Sing, Baby, Sing
• Harvey
• Nunsense II: The Second Coming
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart
• Once On This Island
• Always… Patsy Cline
• And The World Goes Round
• The Good Times are Killing Me
• Battery
• Irish Crazy Jane
• Pieces of Eight
• Hail, Mary!

• Nunsense
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Driving Miss Daisy
• The Boys Next Door
• The Dining Room
• Laughing Wild
• Homefires
• Oil City Symphony
• Talking Things Over with Chekhov
• The Tempest
• Due South

• Marry Me A Little
• Biloxi Blues
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• The Club
• Pageant
• Educating Rita
• The Foreigner
• Tom Foolery
• Talking With
• The Mousetrap
• A Shakespearean Collage

• That Championship Season
• Mass Appeal
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
• Bus Stop
• Talley’s Folly
• Crimes of the Heart
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• E.M. Forster’s The Celestial Omnibus

• Starting Here, Starting Now
• Scapino
• America Hurrah
• The Subject Was Roses
• Oh, What A Lovely War
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Banker’s Dilemma

• Sweet Charity
• Celebration
• Vanities
• The Runner Stumbles
• Twelfth Night
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Boys in the Band
• Lola, Lola
• Educational Tour

• Monty Python’s Spamalot
• The Crucible
• A Christmas Story
• Sister Act
• Jar The Floor
• Godspell

• Pal Joey
• Red
• Because of Winn Dixie
• Clybourne Park
• Les Miserables
• The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)

• Evita
• Hamlet
• A Christmas Story
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Review the Revue
• Hairspray
• The 39 Steps

• The Legacy Project
• Barefoot in the Park
• Hello, Dolly!
• Doubt
• Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
• Fire on the Mountain
• Sing, Dance, Repeat!

• My Fair Lady
• The Frankenstein Experiment
• The Sleeper
• Children of Eden
• A Soldier’s Play
• The Miracle Worker
• Ain’t Misbehavin’
• Much Ado About Nothing

• You Can’t Take It with You
• Circumnavigator 20/01
• I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!
• The Sound Of Music
• Art
• All The King’s Men
• Cabaret
• The Tempest
• The Second City

• The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• Myth
• The Second City
• The Wizard of OZ
• Cookin’ at the Cookery, The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter
• Dracula
• Sister Amnesia’s Country Western
• Nunsense Jamboree
• Idols of the King

• Amadeus
• The Foreigner
• A Tuna Christmas
• Woody Guthrie’s American Song
• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• Always… Patsy Cline
• If These Shoes Could Talk
• Beehive
• Lee Roy and Donna and the Big Grandaddy
• A Woman’s Knees
• Del Ray’s New Moon
• M. Bard

• Smoke on the Mountain
• Patio/Porch
• A… My Name Is Still Alice
• The Glass Menagerie
• Radio Gals
• I Hate Hamlet
• Blues in the Night
• Shakin’ the Mess Out of Misery
• Reckless
• Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know
• M. Bard

• Broadway Bound
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Guys and Dolls
• Little Lulu in a Tight Orange Dress
• The Mystery of Irma Vep
• I’m Not Rappaport
• Orphans
• Evita
• Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
• Road
• Boys’ Play
• Theatrix
• Bargains
• A Soldier’s Tale
• Sharon Douglas at The Rep

• Natural Disasters
• U.S.A.
• Greater Tuna
• A… My Name Is Alice
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• The Real Thing
• Pump Boys and Dinettes
• A Shakespeare Collage

• Billy Bishop Goes to War
• Black Coffee
• A Christmas Carol
• Side Shows
• How the Other Half Loves
• Oh Coward
• Sing For Your Supper
• Idiots Karamazov
• Educational Tour

• Blithe Spirit
• Hedda Gabler
• Side by Side by Sondheim
• Getting Out
• Merton of the Movies
• Peanuts and Crackerjack
• Chicago
• Educational Tour

• Jacques Brel is Well and Living in Paris
• Kennedy’s Children
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June
• Fitting For Ladies
• An Evening with Gershwin
• The Glass Menagerie
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Edgar Allen Poe with Scott Edmonds