Events & Performances

2023-2024

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Directions to Keck Theater and Thorne Hall

Fall 2023

A Dream Play

A Dream Play
Written by August Strindberg in a new version by Caryl Churchill
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!
 
November 2-4 at 7:30pm and November 5 at 2:00pm in Keck Theater
Join us for a post-show talk on Friday, November 3.
 
Photo Credit: Sarahi Apaez

Slanguage

Slanguage Web Poster

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.

Photo from Slanguage
Photo by Marc Campos

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
Music 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

Purchase tickets

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

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


Special Events

Theater Production Alumni Forum and Celebration

Lineset 10 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

Photo by Sarah Kozinn

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 

Poster for Sarah Strudevant's 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

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By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Maile Brucklacher
Assistant directed by Hayden Jennings

Saturday, December 2 at 7:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


How the sky meets the land in LA

How the sky meets the land in LA

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 8:30pm 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).


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