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Department Productions
Producing a rich variety of plays and musicals, our department helps students bring these stories to life on stage with the expertise of our seasoned technical directors and creative professionals.
2024-2025 Production Season
The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce shows for the 2024-2025 season.
Spring 2025
Bull in a China Shop
By Bryna Turner
Directed by Allison Scarlet Jaye
Performance Dates: April 4, 5, 12, 13, 2025
Synopsis:
Galloping through forty years in a New England women's college, BULL IN A CHINA SHOP follows Mary Woolley and her partner Jeannette Marks as they reform and revolutionize women's education at the height of the suffrage movement. As evolving ambitions and desires strain the couple's relationship, this fast-paced comedy with whiplash dialogue and a modern spin looks at how we change the world, how the world changes us, and how we try to grow old together.
Acts of Kindness
Written and Directed by Gregory Ramos
Performance Dates: May 30th and 31st, 2025
Premiering at the University of Redlands before it tours to the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival in Scotland for our May Term Travel Course.
Synopsis:
ACTS OF KINDNESS is a docudrama inspired by interviews in El Paso, Texas USA, after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of twenty-three innocent people. Told through a multitude of different characters, the play grapples with gun control, the divided U.S. political landscape, and the ongoing issue of immigration in America. Heartfelt, engrossing, and intimate, the play is a tribute to the victims and survivors of the event and a cautionary tale about gun violence in America. A community rises to reach collective healing and an understanding of our shared humanity.
Past Productions
2024-2025 Production Season
Die Fledermaus
By Johann Strauss II.
Directed by Cindy Snyder
Conductor: Co Nguyen
Performance Dates: February 21 and 22, 2025
Synopsis:
Set in 19th-century Vienna, the story revolves around a wealthy man, Gabriel von Eisenstein, who is sentenced to jail but instead attends a grand ball hosted by Prince Orlofsky. Eisenstein’s wife, Rosalinde, and their maid, Adele, also attend in disguise. The evening is filled with mistaken identities, flirtations, and humorous deceptions, all orchestrated by Dr. Falke as part of an elaborate prank to avenge an earlier joke Eisenstein played on him. The opera concludes with the revelation of the ruse and a joyous reconciliation.
Senior Capstone Project - Constellations
By Nick Payne
Directed by Cary Goertzel
With Nicole Stidham, Acting. Lighting Design by Maximus Susi.
Performance dates: December 6 and 7, 2024
Synopsis:
This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
Real Women Have Curves
By Josefina López
Directed by Gregory Ramos
Performance Dates: November 8, 9, 16, 17, 2024
Synopsis:
Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. And while they work, hiding from the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), they talk... about their husbands and lovers, their children, their dreams for the future. The story is told from the point of view of Ana, the youngest among them. Just graduated from high school, Ana dreams of getting out of the barrio and going off to college and becoming a famous writer. Although she needs the money, Ana doesn't like working at the factory and has little respect for the coworkers, who make fun of her ambitions and what they consider her idealistic feminist philosophies. However, Ana keeps coming to her job and chronicling her experiences in a journal. As the summer unfolds, she slowly gains an understanding and appreciation of the work and the women, eventually writing an essay that wins her a journalism fellowship which will take her to New York City. This play, a microcosm of the Latina immigrant experience, celebrates real women's bodies, the power of women, and the incredible bond that happens when women work together.
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