2023-2024 Season
Single tickets on sale 3 weeks before each show opens.
The Studio Series is a collection of plays, readings and workshops performed in the Arena Theatre and Grand Central Theatre that challenge our students and audiences to take a deeper look into theatre and the stories that we tell. The Studio Series is an intimate space where performers, directors and designers are given the opportunity to use their resourcefulness and create a barebones theatrical production.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
Written by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Sarah Ripper
October 11–14, 2023
Arena Theatre
8 pm: October 11, 12, 13, 14
The Revolutionists is a new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, loose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent hypocritical male rhetoric. However will modern audiences relate. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.
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Single tickets are on sale September 22, 2023, at 12:00pm
LOVE AND INFORMATION
(Sophomore BFA Acting Showcase)
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Jeremy Lewis
October 20 - 28, 2023
Arena Theatre
8 pm: October 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
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)
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Single tickets are on sale September 29, 2023, at 12:00pm
THE BOYS AND THE NUNS
Director/Choreographer: Jonny Martinez
Musical Director: Rod Bagheri
Composer: Michael McBride
Lyricist/Librettist: Sandra Delgado
Creative Consultant: Ryan Morales Green
Producer/PI: Josh Grisetti
November 3-5, 2023
Arena Theatre
8pm: Nov 3, 4
2pm: Nov 5
In 1986, a group of LGBTQ activists from Chicago’s “Boystown” are weary - they have been fighting City Hall to pass the “Gay Rights Ordinance” since 1972. Enter a group of Catholic Sisters who band together with the activists while embroiled in their own fight for equal rights within the church. And in the middle, Pablo, a musician searching for his place in the world. Inspired by true events, The Boys and the Nuns is an examination of identity, belonging, and faith, woven together with the music of the 80s, from Spanish language power ballads to synthy new wave to Chicago’s homegrown house music.
CSUF Theatre & Dance Department partnered with New York’s Latiné Musical Theatre Lab to source up-and-coming Musical Theatre writers and composers who have been vetted by the lab and have promising new works already in development. This is a unique, innovative, and desperately needed project in that it literally harnesses the creative power of the HSI Community to solve history inequities in Latiné representation.
Importantly, this project fulfills the University mission and honors our HSI designation by creating educational content that directly serves the Hispanic community in the area of theatre, music, and dance. This project brings together CSU students, students from neighboring institutions, local professional performers, and the professional writing team based in Chicago and New York. The work will culminate in a partially staged public performance at CSUF, however, this is only the incubation phase of a commercially viable production that could have far wider reach, beyond our immediate community.
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Single tickets are on sale October 13, 2023, at 12:00pm
TACOS WITH A FORK
Written and performed by Christian de la Torre
May 3-4, 2024
Grand Central Theatre
Inside CSUF's Grand Central Arts Center
125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701
8pm: May 3-4
Tacos With a Fork is an original piece written by BFA Devised senior, Christian De La Torre. It is a brief look into the upbringing of a young child who struggled with finding a place within his race. From altercations with friends, the color of his skin, and feeling like a fraud as a member of the Hispanic community, this piece tells the story of a young child finding who he is within the ethnic community he was born into.
Single Tickets $10 / $5 (Titan Price
)
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Single tickets are on sale April 11, 2024, at 12:00pm
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