Theatre Algoma was established in 1972 as a student drama club at Algoma University College .The group was founded by Dr. Robert d'Amato, who served as Artistic Director until he retired in 2002. Early funding for the group came from AUC, the Sault Opera Society, and the Sault Theatre Workshop.
Theatre productions by staff and students of Algoma University College and Algoma University include:
1972 Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charente under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
1973 Vaclav Havel, The Garden Party
1974 Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
1974 May Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
April n.d. - An Evening of 1-Act Plays: Tennessee Williams; The Unsatisfactory Supper ; Eugene Ionesco - The Oversight ; William Butler Yeats - Purgatory ; Jean Genet - The Maids
n.d. - Samuel Beckett "Not I," and "An Evening with Samuel Beckett," with Lee Anne Pearson.
n.d. - They Lie for Love! (Twin Bill): Molière - Le médecin volant and David Garrick - The Lying Valet
n.d. - Harold Pinterm: The Dumb Waiter, Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, The Applicant, Request Stop
n.d. - 4-By Tennessee: The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Portrait of a Madonna, Lord Byron's Love Letter, Something Unspoken
1976 An Evening of One-Act Plays: Ferdinand Arrabal - Picnic on the Battlefield; August Strindberg - The Stranger; Matt Brown - Teacher Thomas; Deborah Wilson - The Logical Conclusion
1976 Intro Class and Mask Workshops
1976 Slawomir Mrozek, Tango
1976 Michel Tremblay's Hosanna
1976 Five Plays. Presented by the AUC English Department: Tennessee Williams, The Unsatisfactory Supper; Eugene Ionesco, The Oversight; W. B. Yeats, Purgatory; Anton Chekhov, The Proposal; Jean Genet, The Maids
1977 February 10-12 Albert Camus's Caligula
1977 March/April King Oedipus.
1986 Hillar Liitoja, Expound
1989 Virgin Bride
1990 November 22-24 Vaclav Havel, Temptation
1991 October 10-12 Albertine in Five Times
1992 February Une Soirée Beckett
1993 March Two Medieval plays
1993 Spring "A Monty Python Extravagazna, or, I Was A Polym (or) Phous Python, or, Circus of the Hyperreal Hermeneutics."
1994 Modern European Theatre Class
1995 March George Walker's Zastrozzi's The Master of Discipline
1997 November David Mamet's, Oleanna
1997 January 7-11 Jean Anouith, Eurydice
1999 Fall Construction of the theatre
1999 Christmas William Gibson's The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree
2000 March 24-25 Stages of Cruelty: A Theatrical Medley
2006 The Bootlegger Blues. Produced by the Shingwauk Players
2007 March 7-10 Timberelake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale
2010 Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
2011 Choices?
2012 What the Hell?
2014 March The Absurd and How to Deal With It: Ferdinand Arrabal, Pique-nique en campagne and Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano
2014 December Neil Fleming, Last Christmas
2015 March 26-28 Two One-Act Comedies: David Ives, Time Flies and Daniel Weissenberger, Voltaire and the Zombies
