The Farmington Players began in 1953 as an off-shoot of the American Association of University Women. From there, a more formal designation as the Farmington Players soon took hold. The first production, “The Torchbearers,” was performed at a local church. Later in the ‘50s, after performing in various city and educational locations, the Farmington Players moved to their present location on Twelve Mile Road. Initially, productions were staged downstairs on a dirt floor. Over the years, improvements to the original Barn transformed it into a more finished space, with the theater itself eventually moving upstairs into a traditional and finished setting. In the 70+ years of existence, the Farmington Players have staged hundreds of musicals, dramas, mysteries and comedies – all as a community theater comprised with a 100% volunteer membership. Residents of Farmington, Farmington Hills and beyond have come to recognize the group as a true community resource.
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2024 || Lend Me A Tenor | Something Rotten! | The Best Laid Plans | Humbug
2023 || Wait Until Dark | A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder | A Jukebox for The Algonquin | A Nice Family Christmas
2022 || Tokens of Affection | Deathtrap | One Act Festival | Suite Surrender | The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays
2021 || A Hunting Shack Christmas
2020 || Unnecessary Farce
2019 || As Bees in Honey Drown | The Drowsy Chaperone | One Act Festival | Ripcord | Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
2018 || And Then There Were None | Into The Woods | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Let Nothing You Dismay
2017 || Becky’s New Car | Spamalot | Mid-Winter Break | Calendar Girls | Greetings!
2016 || The Diary of Anne Frank | The Full Monty | The Vast Difference | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2015 || Miracle on South Division Street | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Boeing Boeing | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2014 || Assassins | Rumors | Arsenic & Old Lace | Leading Ladies
2013 || Rabbit Hole | Legally Blonde | Dracula | Annie
2012 || Whose Wives Are They Anyway? | Little Shop of Horrors | Avenue Q | The Dixie Swim Club | The 1940’s Radio Hour
2011 || Red, White and Tuna | The Producers | To Kill a Mockingbird | A Christmas Carol
2010 || You Can’t Take It With You | Gypsy | Leaving Iowa | A Christmas Story
2009 || The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 | Sweet Charity | And The Winner Is | Miracle on 34th Street
2008 || Chapter Two | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Barefoot in the Park | It’s a Wonderful Life
2007 || Steel Magnolias | Escanaba in da Moonlight | Oklahoma! | Over the River and Through the Woods | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2006 || The Pagans | Guys and Dolls | You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown | Moon Over Buffalo
2005 || Proof | State Fair | John & Jen | The Taming of the Shrew | Comic Potential
2004 || Noises Off! | Weekend Comedy | Fiddler on the Roof | Breath of Spring | Charley’s Aunt
2003 || Present Laughter | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged | Nunsense | Last of the Red Hot Lovers | A Streetcar Named Desire | On Golden Pond
2002 || The Rainmaker | Once Upon A Mattress | The Solid Gold Cadillac | A Tuna Christmas
2001 || The Uninvited | Stalag 17 | Bell, Book and Candle | Habeas Corpus
2000 || Of Mice and Men | Kiss Me, Kate | Fools | The Lion in Winter
1999 || The Fantasticks | Don’t Dress for Dinner | The Women
1998 || The Heiress | Laughter on the 23rd Floor | Broadway Barned | A Tuna Christmas
1997 || Later Life | Brigadoon | Sylvia
1996 || Dancing at Lughnasa | Isn’t It Romantic | Light Up the Sky
1995 || What I Did Last Summer | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Bedroom Farce
1994 || All My Sons | Les Liaions Dangereuses | The Man Who Came to Dinner
1993 || Play On! | Anything Goes | Lend Me a Tenor | A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
1992 || Bus Stop | Murder by Natural | Causes | California Suite
1991 || Days to Come | The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 | Blithe Spirit | Many Moons
1990 || Waiting for the Parade | The Odd Couple | Foxfire
1989 || The Butler Did It | Pack of Lies | Mister Roberts
1988 || I am a Camera | Relatively Speaking | The Foreigner
1987 || Octette Bridge Club | The Good Doctor | The Unexpected Guest | Alone Together
1986 || Table Manners | The Matchmaker | The Dining Room
1985 || You Can’t Take It With You | Applause | The Elephant Man | Laura
1984 || The Constant Wife | The Pajama Game | Chapter Two | Frankenstein | Habeas Corpus
1983 || The Glass Menagerie | Three Bags Full | Comanche Café/Domino Courts | Tribute
1982 || Night Watch | South Pacific | The Best Laid Plans
1981 || The Runner Stumbles | How the Other Half Loves | Kiss or Make Up
1980 || Angel Street | Arsenic and Old Lace | The Lady’s Not for Burning | Guys and Dolls
1979 || The Importance of Being Earnest | The Philadelphia Story | Caught in the Villain’s Web | The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1978 || A Doll’s House | The Bat | A Streetcar Name Desire
1977 || Night Must Fall | 6 RMS RIV VU | The Night of the Iguana | Hayfever
1976 || Private Lives | And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little | The Boys in the Band | Twelfth Night
1975 || Arms and the Man | Goodbye, Charlie! | Rape of the Belt | Inherit the Wind
1974 || Mousetrap | Ah, Wilderness! | The Power of It All | Damn Yankees
1973 || I Never Sang for My Father | Plaza Suite | Don’t Drink the Water
1972 || The Chalk Garden | An Inspector Calls | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Forty Carats
1971 || The Lion in Winter | Cactus Flower | See How They Run
1970 || The Letter | Star-Spangled Girl | The Prime of Miss Jean Brody | Halfway Up the Tree
1969 || Strange Bedfellows | Case of Libel | Once Upon a Mattress
1968 || Barefoot in the Park | Mary, Mary | Anastasia
1967 || Death of a Salesman | A Shot in the Dark | Male Animal
1966 || George Washington Slept Here | Blithe Spirit | Othello | Never Too Late
1965 || The Great Sebastians | The Little Foxes | Ladies in Retirement
1964 || Rain | Warrior’s Husband | Come Blow Your Horn
1963 || Our Town | Charlie’s Aunt | Curious Savage
1962 || Barretts of Wimpole Street | Born Yesterday | Come Back, Little Sheba
1961 || Sabrina Fair | Tonight at 8:30
1960 || Hasty Heart | The Grass Harp
1959 || Visit to a Small Planet | Reluctant Debutante
1958 || My Three Angels | Present Laughter | Hidden River
1957 || Two Blind Mice | The Bay is Green
1956 || Strange Bedfellows | Lo and Behold
1955 || Harvey | Ramshackle Inn
1954 || January Thaw
1953 || Torchbearers | The Late Christopher Bean