The theatre production program at Northwest Missouri State University (Theatre Northwest) typically produces more than a dozen shows each year. These productions include a Freshman mainstage production in the first month of the first trimester, two other mainstage shows, touring shows, and up to eight second stage and studio shows. Students get the opportunity to perform, design, and even direct early and often. Recent productions include The Laramie Project, Great Expectations, the Diviners, Ah, Wilderness!, Twelfth Night, The Seahorse, Same Time Next Year, Women and Wallace, Proof, The Blue Room, The Yellow Boat, and The Glass Menagerie, How I Learned to Drive, Buried Child, Macbeth, Ghosts, The Good Doctor, Dancing at Lughnasa, Medea, Cowboy Mouth, Rumors, Zoo Story, and Hedda Gabler.