2022-23 Department Productions

CABARET
Book by Joe Masteroff | Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Director/Choreographer: Sidney Edwards
Music Director: Bigad Khloussi
Scenic Design: Kerry Jones
Costume Design: Landis Maren York
Lighting Design: Avery Reagan
Sound Design: Nanook Burkholder

Daring, provocative, and exuberantly entertaining, this 1966 musical explores the dark and heady life of Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the totalitarian regime of the Third Reich. 

CABARET is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.com

THE WIDOW OF VALENCIA
by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio
Director: Melanie Queponds
Scenic Design: Kerry Jones
Costume Design: Landis Maren York
Lighting Design: Ben Tusher
Sound Design: Nataly Ceniceros

Granted unexpected social freedom after her husband's death, a young woman plots to protect her reputation by day while enjoying her lover at night, using her wits to fool everyone and keep one step ahead of her increasingly complicated schemes. Lope de Vega’s commedia masterpiece from 1600 crackles in a new translation by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics group.

YELLOW FACE
by David Henry Hwang
Director: Reena Dutt
Scenic Design: Lily Bartenstein
Costume Design: Landis Maren York
Lighting Design: Xinyuan Li
Sound Design: Nataly Ceniceros

David Henry Hwang’s self-referential, soul-searching romp is a full-throttle comic attack on bigotry and the American theatre, straddling the line between reality and fiction, questioning what race really means, and exploring how politics and media interact and influence our society--ultimately asking us to reflect on who we really are as human beings. 

YELLOW FACE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

Past Seasons

2021-2022

• BROWN FACE by Carissa Atallah
• MEN ON BOATS by Jaclyn Backhaus
• RED OLEANDERS by Rabindranath Tagore

2020-21

• WATER BY THE SPOONFUL by Quiara Alegría Hudes
• SHE KILLS MONSTERS: VIRTUAL REALMS by Qui Nguyen
• 20:20 VISION created by the students of UCR and Bella Merlin

2019-20

• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by Howard Ashman (book and lyrics) and Alan Menken (music)
• HENRY V by William Shakespeare
• AT THE PASS by Stu Krieger

2018-19

• THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe

• MARISOL by José Rivera

2017-18

• LOVE’S LABOURS LOST Songs by Michael Friedman, Book adapted by Alex Timbers
• ANTIGONE by Sophocles
• BIRTHMARK by Rickerby Hinds

2016-17

• THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin
• TARTUFFE by Moliere
• STOP KISS by Diana Son

2015-16

• SPRING AWAKENING Books and Lyrics by Steven Sater, Music by Duncan Sheik
• ARGONAUTIKA, by Mary Zimmerman
• WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS by Charles Evered

2014-15

• MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT! Books and Lyrics by Eric Idle, Music by Eric Idle and John Du Prez
• MEASURE FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare
• MRS. PACKARD by Emily Mann

2013-14

• SUMI’S HOUSE by Kate Anger
• BLACKBALLIN’ by Rickerby Hinds
• THE ROVER by Aphra Behn
•  IN THE HEIGHTS Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes

2012-13

• THE METAL CHILDREN by Adam Rapp
• NOT A QUIVER, NOT A SOUND by Kate Anger
• THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare     

2011-12

• NYM AND THE BULL by Joe Powers
• IN THE BLOOD by Suzan-Lori Parks
• DETAINED IN THE DESERT by Josefina Lopez
• HAMLET by William Shakespeare