2022-2023

Photo Credit: Sarahi Apaez

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Fall 2022

Elevada
Written by Sheila Callaghan
Directed by Wanlass Visiting Director Alana Dietze
Assistant Directed by Natalya Nielsen
Scenic & Lighting Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
Sound Design by John Zalewski
Projection Design by Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
Stage Managed by Kai Morfín
 
Photo Credit: Aubree Day Cedillo
Photo Credit: Aubree Day Cedillo
Ramona is reinventing herself following her second round of chemotherapy. Khalil has sold his identity to a major telecom and media corporation. June is learning to flirt again, post-divorce, and Owen has replaced his drug addiction with a massive collection of teas. 
 
A romantic comedy about living in the liminal spaces and resisting the urge to disappear. When our world is turned upside down, who do we become? How do we connect when the only constant is change?
 

November 3-5, 2022 at 7:30 pm and November 6, 2022 at 2 pm
In Keck Theater 

Seating is general admission. The house will open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.


 
Roe
Written by Lisa Loomer
Directed by Wanlass Visiting Theater Artist Khanisha Foster
Scenic & Lighting Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
Sound Design by John Zalewski
Projection Design by Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
Stage Managed by Max Tel
 
Photo Credit: Sarahi Apaez
Photo Credit: Sarahi Apaez

Lisa Loomer's Roe takes us out of the courtroom, introducing us to the real women at the heart of the controversial Supreme Court decision. Powerful, funny, poignant, and inspiring, Roe reflects the polarization in America today while giving us a fast-moving, fair-minded look at the history of our complicated shared humanity. Chosen for this upcoming season for painfully obvious reasons, this vital project speaks directly to the current times.

November 17-19, 2022 at 7:30 pm and November 20, 2022 at 2 pm

Join us for a post-show talkback on Friday, the 18th with Khanisha!

Read about the show in The Occidental

Seating is general admission. The house will open approximately 15 minutes prior to curtain.


Spring 2023

 
Oedipus at Colonus
Written by Sophocles
Translated by Robert Fagles
Directed by Will Power
Scenic Design by Xinyuan Li
Costume Design by Aed McMillian
Lighting Design by Culley Guest Artist Wesley Charles Siu Muen Chew
Sound Design by Culley Guest Artist Maxwell Transue 
Stage Managed by Max Tel

 

Oedipus at Colonus is the last chapter in the Greek mythological tale of King Oedipus, the once revered ruler of Thebes, who was ostracized for unknowingly killing his own father and marrying his mother. The play shows a complex king attempting to redeem himself, and find some kind of peace in the face of exterior torments and internal feelings of anger and remorse. What follows is not only a single king in torment, but a whole family (and consequently an ancient Greek society) at war with itself, with the stakes being each character’s sanity and existence.
 
April 21-23 & 28-29 at 7:30, April 30 at 2:00 and May 20 at 8:30
 
Free admission for students
A Doll's House, Part 2
Written by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Jamie Angell
Stage Managed by Avery Jones
 
What happens when there’s a knock on the door Nora slammed 15 years ago? Having left behind her domestic “prison” to become an independent self-actualized woman, Nora is now forced to return in order to finish what she started. Lucas Hnath's A Doll’s House, Part 2 stays true to the characters Ibsen created while contemporaneously investigating the meaning and underlying impulses behind Nora’s slammed door.
 
March 30, 31 & April 1 at 7:30
 
Admission is free
 

 

Student Projects

 
It Could Have Been Enough
A new play by Zachary Goldsmith '24
March 3 & 5 at 7:30pm behind Keck Theater

Rachel and Asher host their first Passover Seder at their new house, much to Rachel’s chagrin. But when Asher’s friends reveal a surprise Seder in the park, Rachel wants to stop it before there is any potential for a dangerous encounter. Desperate, she accepts the help of the Wicked Son, whose vile plan unleashes the ten plagues onto the house.

How far would someone go to run away from their identity? How can we balance trauma and joy? It Could Have Been Enough investigates what it means to be a Jewish young adult in 2022-2023.

 
 

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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