2023-2024
Spring Shows | New Works Festival | Workshops & Special Events | Student Projects | Past Seasons
Directions to Keck Theater and Thorne Hall
Fall 2023
A Dream Play
Directed by Laural Meade
Scenic and Lighting Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
A young woman goes on a madcap journey to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Along the way she explores love, creativity, academia, marriage, quarantine, industrialization, spirituality - all in a kaleidoscopic landscape where characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessively recurrent image.
Run time is about two hours
Admission is free for all students!
Join us for a post-show talk on Friday, November 3.
Slanguage
Written by Universes
Directed by Will Power
Scenic and Lighting Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
From the streets of 90s New York to the world, this rarely performed hip hop gem is sure to ignite, provoke, and get heads spinning for real. Originally written and presented by the legendary ensemble Universes, Slanguage is an unprecedented and complete deep dive into the explosive essence of character and language. Get on the train, and prepare to let the words, beats, and dance take you anywhere. Now “stand clear of closing doors,” and let’s go.
Thursday-Saturday, November 16-18 at 7:30pm and Sunday, November 19 at 2pm in Keck Theater
Join us for a post-show talk on Friday, November 17.
Spring 2024
Legally Blonde
Music & Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin
Book by Heather Hach
Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Directed by Wanlass Visiting Artist Dawn Monique Williams
Musical Direction by Désirée La Vertu
Scenic Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
Lighting Design by Culley Guest Artist Christian Mejia
Choreography by Culley Guest Artist Roberta Inscho
Stage Managed by Josie Gordon
Sorority queen Elle Woods is thrown for a loop when her Ivy League-bound boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her. Never one to back down easily, Elle embarks on a rollicking journey that takes her all the way to the hallowed halls of Harvard Law School. Packed with infectious earworms, Legally Blonde is a guaranteed crowd pleaser with an empowering message of self-discovery and sisterhood.
Performs Friday-Sunday, April 19-21 & 26-28 at 7:30pm and Saturday, May 18 at 8:30pm in Keck Theater
Legally Blonde is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
The Receptionist
Written by Adam Bock
Directed by Jamie Angell
Stage Managed by Queenie Ngo
The Receptionist by Adam Bock is a genial workplace comedy that morphs into something considerably more menacing. What happens in a place where you really don’t want to know what’s happening? And how much responsibility do people have who don’t want to know? The Receptionist adroitly dissects and comically examines the complicity of folks just going about their business.
Performs April 4-6 at 8:00pm and May 17 at 8:30pm in the Keck Theater Lobby
Admission is free
The Receptionist is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Workshops & Special Events
Stage Combat Workshop with Rachel Flesher
Saturday & Sunday, April 6 & 7
in the Keck Theater Rehearsal Room
This two-day, six-hour foundations course for stage combat covers the core concepts of safety, story, and style - as defined by the Fight Directors Canada. Participants will learn the fundamentals of unarmed stage combat in a consent forward and trauma informed course designed to arm them with the tools to keep themselves and others safe while practicing scenes with physical violence. Core concepts covered include energy exchange, weight sharing, casting, scales of contact, masking, distance, on line and off line, knapping, The Cue Reaction Action Follow Through technique, and" selling”. Some techniques covered include falling, pushing, pulling, grabbing, slapping, punching, and more (time allowing). This is a fantastic course for any actor, or director hoping to add stage combat to their tool kit.
Voice Workshop with Sayda Trujillo
Friday, March 1, 2pm - 4pm
in the Keck Theater Rehearsal Room
Workshop description:
● Work on breath, resonance, and articulation
● Provide you with efficient vocal warm-ups for auditions, rehearsals, and more
● Give you tools for actively care for your voice daily
● Overall, help you integrate your intentions, body, and voice
Sayda Trujillo (She/Her) is a Guatemalan Canadian American theatre-maker who writes solo performance and teaches voice, movement, acting, devising, and applied theatre. Identity and storytelling inspire her personal and collective work with communities
around the world. For more information visit www.saydateatrera.com
Stage Kissing Workshop with Rachel Lee Flesher
Saturday, September 23 from 12pm to 4pm
in the Keck Theater Rehearsal Room.
Kissing on stage can be challenging to approach. There are very few jobs where you go to work and are asked to kiss your co-worker. So let's talk about kissing. In this workshop we'll explore best practices for approaching kissing in rehearsal and performance; creating kissing choreography that meets the characters, stories, and actors needs; techniques for clarifying and facilitating kissing choreography; alternative options to kissing; and masking techniques for kissing. Please note that there will be no lip to lip kissing in this workshop.
Theater Production Alumni Forum and Celebration
Saturday, February 10, 2024 4 - 5:30 p.m.
in Keck Theater
Join us for the Oxy Theater Production Alumni Forum and Lineset 10 Incorporated’s 20th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, February 10, 2024, on campus at Keck Theater from 4-5:30 p.m. with a reception to follow. Lineset 10 Incorporated Scenery and Production Services was founded in 2003 by Oxy faculty, Resident Professor Brian Fitzmorris and Technical Director Aubree Cedillo. Over its 20 years, the company has provided professional opportunities for roughly 100 Oxy students and alumni. Our Production Alumni, all Lineset 10 veterans, will share their experiences as professionals in the theater and live event industry and related fields. Find out how they went from being Oxy students to gaining a foothold in this dynamic industry.
Butoh Medea
Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 7pm
in Thorne Hall
Admission is free
Performed, Choreographed and Conceived by Yokko
Written by SMV
Directed by Brian Rhinehart
Music by Paul Michael Henry
Additional Music and Vocals by Hiroko Komiya
Co-Choreographed by Jordan Rosin
Costume Design by Deepsikha Chatterjee
Lighting Design by Derek Van Heel
Production Speech Coaching by Dianna Cortez
Tour Technical Direction by Robin Dill
Reinterpreting Euripides' great tragedy through the use of Japanese Butoh Dance, performance artist Yokko brings the tortured spirit of Medea to life. This fusion of Eastern dance and Western drama invites the audience inside Medea’s dark and desperate struggle. Trapped in the underworld, she is forever cursed to relive her tragic journey through love, hate, and ultimate loss.
Student Projects
The Seven Deadly Seas
The Seven Deadly Seas musical tells the swashbuckling love story between James and Margaret, a pirate and a princess. Their unlikely romance is threatened by Captain Dagon, the Devil’s henchman, who makes Faustian bargains and twisted promises, condemning the lives of all people involved. This original story is inspired by pirate films from the Golden Age of Hollywood and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and takes the treasured enemies to lovers trope but adds a dark twist through themes of revenge, betrayal, good vs. evil, and death.
Saturday, October 14 at 8:30
A Thing of Beauty
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Maile Brucklacher
Assistant directed by Hayden Jennings
Saturday, December 2 at 7:00
Snap Pea
Written by Wren Andres
Description: 2014. Eighth Grade. Snap Pea has a lot going on already between Band rehearsal and balancing learning the ins and outs of the lesbian punk rock music scene with Harper -- who they're pretty sure they're in love with -- and spending time with their mom, when she's here here, not working or somewhere SNAP PEA can't seem to reach. But when a death in the family occurs suddenly, Snap Pea's world is left spinning in the opposite direction and grasping for everything they think they know.
Monday, March 18 at 7:30pm in Herrick Chapel
Gothamite
Written by Zachary Goldsmith
Based on true events. Sammy wants to cure the evils of 1820s Gotham, but his controversial medley causes his life to take a tragic turn. What happens when delusion becomes reality?
Sunday, March 24, 1pm in the Keck Theater Dressing Room
How the sky meets the land in LA
Written and Devised by Jonah de Forest
Directed by Natalya Nielsen
How the sky meets the land in LA incorporates elements of documentary theater, mixed-media and spoken word to tell the story of one families’ unique relationship with the Golden West. An exploration of intergenerational memory and authorial authority, this project serves as both a family autopsy, a love letter and an excavation of self.
March 29 at 7:30pm and March 30 at 8:15pm in the Keck Theater Rehearsal Studio
Chutzpah!
Devised by Ella Raziel
Chutzpah! is a one woman recital featuring a collection of songs and monologues. Come hang out and enjoy this entertaining and humorous show about Judaism, musical theater, and growing up
March 29 at 8:15pm and March 30 at 7:30pm in the Keck Theater Rehearsal Studio
Directions to Keck Theater & Thorne Hall
Click here for maps and directions. Keck Theater is building #30 on the printable campus map. From Campus Road, enter at the Bird Road entrance. From Bird Road, turn left onto Gilman Road. Turn right onto AG Coons Road, Keck Theater is on the left. Parking is located next to the theater in the first lot on the left. There is also street parking in front of the theater. Handicap parking available on either side of the theater.
Thorne Hall is #52 on the map. Parking is available on the street or at the visitor parking lot (#43). Handicap parking is available on Thorne Road next to the theater.
Click here for directions to Oxy Arts, located at 4757 York Boulevard (Los Angeles).