METROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE
Major Masterworks and Contemporary Classics
About Us
MET Production History 2005-2018
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
'05-'06
Line
'06-'07
The Good German
The Woolgatherer
QED
A Streetcar Named Desire
'07-'08
American Buffalo
A View From the Bridge
Lettice and Lovage
Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune
Copenhagen
A Man of No Importance
'08-'09
The Homecoming
The Crucible
The Lady’s Not for Burning
Hedda Gabler
No Way to Treat a Lady
Galileo
Kiss of the Spider Woman
'09-'10
Seascape
The Time of Your Life
Kimberly Akimbo
Moon for the Misbegotten
Mappa Mundi
The Light in the Piazza
'10-'11
HOT L Baltimore
Awake and Sing!
One Flea Spare
The Piano Lesson
Enchanted April
The Who’s TOMMY
'11-'12
Rules for Widows
All My Sons
The Seagull
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pride and Prejudice
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
'12-'13
Three Tall Women
The Kentucky Cycle Part I
The Kentucky Cycle Part II
Housebreaking
For Colored Girls...
Pride’s Crossing
Ragtime
'13-'14
The Rainmaker
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
M Butterfly
The Night of the Iguana
Steel Magnolias
The King and I
'14-'15
Lost in Yonkers
Not About Heroes
Mary Stuart
Jitney
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Full Monty
'15-'16
Stones in His Pockets
Vincent in Brixton
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Emilie
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Tall Girls
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Parade
'16-'17
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Deathtrap
It's a Wonderful Life
Photograph 51
Gem of the Ocean
Tennessee Playboy
9 to 5
'17-'18
Antigone
The Weir
Cymbeline
It's a Wonderful Life
Defying Gravity
Anna in the Tropics
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
'18-'19
The Odd Couple
the Orphans' Home Cycle
It's a Wonderful Life
The Cherry Orchard
Seven Guitars
The Shawshank Redemption
City of Angels
SCRIPT IN HAND
'05-'06
Death of a Salesman
'06-'07
The Glass Menagerie
Semple Stories: Langston Hughes
Bus Stop
The Delaney Sisters: The First Hundred Years
Book of Days
'07-'08
Book of Days
Our Town
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Poets of the Plains
The Secret Garden
The Grapes of Wrath
'08-'09
Inherit the Wind
Antigone
Crimes of the Heart
The Night of January 16
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Chicago
'09-'10
Little Foxes
Picnic
That Championship Season
South Pacific
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow is Enuf
'10-'11
The Real Thing
Six Degrees of Separation
Copenhagen
Fences
Guys and Dolls
'11-'12
Three Tall Women
Master Class
Sisters Rosensweig
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow is Enuf
My Fair Lady
Anne of Green Gables
'12-'13
Dirty Blonde
I Do, I Do
I Remember Mama
The Heidi Chronicles
'13-'14
Damn Yankees
The Odd Couple
Philadelphia Story
You Can't Take it With You
Asenic and Old Lace
'14-'15
Love Letters
Same Time, Next Year
Barefoot in the Park
The Light in the Piazza
'15-'16
When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet
When Shakespeare's Gent's get together
Kiss Me Kate
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
At it's heart, MET is committed to the art of story. We claim the great stories of our heritage as the birthright for all people. We work to encourage the creation of new stories and new artists whose voices speak to the rich totality of our community and whose perspectives deepen our understanding of each other and of our selves. We believe that exploration of personal creativity and opportunity for engagement in life long learning is critical to the health and happiness of people and our world.
Karen Paisley
Producing Artistic Director
Karen is the founding Artistic Director of MET, a veteran professional director, performer, writer and award-winning educator. A graduate of UNCG, she earned her Masters Degree in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. Favorite directing and acting projects include Ragtime, One Flea Spare, The Light in the Piazza, The Time of Your Life, Death of a Salesman, Copenhagen, The Woolgatherer, West Side Story, The Crucible, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire du Lune, Hello Dolly, The Wizard of OZ, The Sound of Music and many others.
Bob Paisley
Co-Producer
John Robert Paisley is an award winning actor and director, working with theatres across North America, UK and Australia. Bob has played such challenging roles as Teach in American Buffalo, the title role in Faustus (LA Dramalogue Award), Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Heisenberg in Copenhagen, The Man in The Event, and the 42nd President in Bill Clinton Hercules. He has directed productions for Theatre West Virginia, the Birmingham Children’s Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Our Town Theatre Group and Fringe festivals in Kansas City, Bedford, UK, Adelaide, Australia and Edinburgh, Scotland. TV and film credits include The Rosa Parks Story, General Hospital and the CBS TV murder mystery series, Scene of the Crime
MET Board of Directors
David Emerick
Scott Crouse
Dave Walden
Bob Paisley
Thelda Kestenbaum
Brad Dawdy
Claudia Grunewald
MET Advisory Board
Don Dagenais
Jack Clifford
Kelley Martin
Rob Leigh
Valerie Schlosser
Barbara Batts
Alan Tilson