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department history

department history

A Historical Perspective
Since the opening of James Martin High School in the fall of 1982, the Martin Theatre department has proven to be a strong part of the overall success of the school's 32 year history. Consistently keeping up with Martin's growing and expanding population of almost 3500 students, the theatre program is one of the largest in the State of Texas. We house two full time theatre directors/instructors who teach approximately 300 theatre students in various levels of theatre instruction.

In Martin's first year of existence, only three classes of theatre were offered to a student population consisting mostly of sophomore level students. We only performed two plays that year. We performed Neil Simon's THE GOOD DOCTOR and our UIL One Act Play entry that year was I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY by Celeste Raspanti.

In the years following, the program began to increase in size thus began the need to create addition performance opportunities. The theatre season now includes a Fall Main Stage production, a Fall Little Theatre production, A Black Box Series of original student-written, student-produced plays, the UIL One Act Play, and a Spring Musical in May. The musical is done in association with the award-winning MHS Choir, Band, and Orchestra programs. 

Throughout our history, the Martin Theatre program has been very successful in UIL One Act Play competition. We have won the District and Bidistrict contest and advanced to the Area contest 29 times in 34 years. We have advanced to Regional competition 20 times and we have advanced to the State UIL One Act Play Contest 16 times. At the State contest we were selected First-Runner Up in 1990, 1999, 2012, and 2013. We won the State Championship in 1996 and 1998.
State Advancing UIL One Act Plays
  • ​1985 The Shadow Box
  • 1986 Children of a Lesser God
  • 1989 The Diary of Anna Frank
  • 1990 After the Fall*
  • 1992 The Rimers of Eldritch
  • 1994 Holy Ghost
  • 1996 Our Country’s Good**
  • 1998 A View from the Bridge**
  • 1999 The Hands of It’s Enemy*
  • 2002 The Voice of the Prairie
  • 2003 The Late Henry Moss
  • 2004 The Cripple of Inishmaan
  • 2011 Ruby’s Story
  • 2012 August: Osage County*
  • 2013 Children of a Lesser God*
  • 2019 Dancing at Lughnasa

*=Selected First Runner Up at the State Contest
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Won the State Championship
Martin Musicals Through the Years
  • ​1984 Godspell
  • 1985 Carousel
  • 1986 Grease
  • 1987 Guys and Dolls
  • 1988 Sugar
  • 1989 My Fair Lady
  • 1990 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • 1991 Anything Goes
  • 1992 The Music Man
  • 1993 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  • 1994 Brigadoon
  • 1995 Annie Get Your Gun
  • 1997 Fiddler on the Roof
  • 1998 Once Upon a Mattress
  • 1999 Hello Dolly
  • 2000 Damn Yankees
  • 2001 How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • 2002 The Sound of Music
  • 2003 Footloose
  • 2004 The Pajama Game
  • 2005 Guys and Dolls
  • 2006 The Boyfriend
  • 2008 Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • 2009 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • 2010 Urinetown
  • 2011 Sweeney Todd
  • 2012 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  • 2013 Into The Woods
  • 2014 Bye Bye Birdie
  • 2015 The Drowsy Chaperone
  • 2017 Pippin
  • 2018 Godspell
  • 2019 Chicago
  • 2022 The Music Man
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