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Past Seasons

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Out Loud: Slam Poetry
05.02.2008 - 05.17.2008
By: Joanne Gordon and her Posse of Slam-Poets
Directed by: Joanne Gordon
Out Loud: Slam Poetry is an original explosion of poetry.
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Hair
10.10.2008 - 10.25.2008
By: James Rado & Gerome Ragni
Directed by: Joanne Gordon
Forty years after is opened on Broadway, America's Tribal Rock musical throbs with love and losss in 2008. Read The Playbill
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The Shape of Things
11.14.2008 - 12.06.2008
By: Neil LaBute
Directed by: Hugh O'Gorman
How far would you go fo a grade...for love...for art? Read the Playbill
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Green Piece
12.05.2008 - 12.13.2008
By: Anne Justine D'Zmura
Directed by: Anne Justine D'Zmura
Celebrate the spark that electrifies our creative spirit. From folk tale to myth - from the dawn of time to the hope for the...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
03.13.2009 - 03.21.2009
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Elizabeth Swain
Shakespeare's mystical romp. Comedy, romance...and fairies. Read the Playbill
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That Beautiful Laugh
03.27.2009 - 04.18.2009
By: Orlando Pabotoy
Directed by: Orlando Pabotoy
An exploration of laughter featuring clowning, live music and joy!. Read the Playbill!
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Chavez Ravine
05.08.2009 - 05.16.2009
By: Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza
Directed by: Edgar Landa
A tight knit community gets thrown a curve as Dodger hopes and an ambitious city collide at home plate. Read the Playbill!
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Zibaldone
10.23.2009 - 10.31.2009
By: Christopher Bayes and the Original Cast
Directed by: Orlando Pabotoy
A new adventure in the ancient art of Commedia. Unearth forbidden pleasures and indulge in the messiness of life. You may...
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Songs of the Siren
11.13.2009 - 12.05.2009
By: Students of the CSULB Theatre Arts Department
Directed by: Students of the CSULB Theatre Arts Department
Inspired by the classic favorites of Greek drama, our playwrights have chosen to "remix" the myths and legends of the...
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Miss Julie
10.08.2010 - 10.23.2010
By: August Strindberg, Adapted by Craig Lucas
Directed by: Trevor Biship
Gender and class explode into romance in the escalating power struggle of Strindberg’s naturalist masterpiece.
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Nine
10.29.2010 - 11.07.2010
By: Book by Arthur Kopit, Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Directed by: Joanne Gordon
Inspired by Frederico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical 8 ½, the hoards of insistent, flirtatious and potent women haunt,...
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Our Lady of 121st Street
11.12.2010 - 12.05.2010
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by: Edgar Landa
At the wake of Sister Mary Rose, strangers gather to mourn the Harlem nun who nurtured and tormented them. Stephen...
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Two Gents Redux
03.04.2011 - 03.12.2011
By: William Shakespeare, Adapted by John Farmanesh-Bocca
Directed by: John Farmanesh-Bocca
Reimagined in the midst of the chaos, chauvinism and bellicose rhetoric of the First Gulf War, romantic triangles,...
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9 Parts of Desire
03.18.2011 - 04.09.2011
By: Heather Raffo
Directed by: Anne D'Zmura
The personal stories of Iraqi women—doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. Discover the conflicting facets of what it means...
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A Man Walks into the World
04.15.2011 - 04.23.2011
By: Martin Heckmanns
Directed by: Valentin Levitsky
Debate the eternal question, “Maybe I should have…” in this hip new German play from an up-and-coming playwright and an...
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As You Like It
10.07.2011 - 10.15.2011
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Maureen Huskey
Set along a marginal highway strewn with debris, the eternal themes of oppression, exile, transformation, and love will be...
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Almost, Maine
10.21.2011 - 11.05.2011
By: John Cariani
Directed by: Jeff Paul
Love both unexpected and familiar blossoms and withers for the residents of the mythical town, Almost, on a magical night in...
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Execution of Justice
11.04.2011 - 11.12.2011
By: Emily Mann
Directed by: Trevor Biship
Inspired by the horrific murder of George Moscone and gay activist Harvey Milk, the justice system is put on trial in the...
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Sonia Flew
03.02.2012 - 03.17.2012
By: Melinda Lopez
Directed by: Luke Yankee
A searing and poetic family drama about a woman who flew Cuba at the start of the Castro regime.  Forty years later,...
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Side Show
03.16.2012 - 03.24.2012
By: Bill Russell and Henry Krieger
Directed by: Joanne Gordon
The moving true story of siamese twins who flee the freak show, but cannot escape the prison of their fused souls.
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Late: A Cowboy Song
04.27.2012 - 05.12.2012
By: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Margarett Perry
One very uncertain woman must choose between two worlds - the modern conventionalism of Pittsburgh, or the great unknown?
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Ajax In Iraq
10.05.2012 - 10.13.2012
By: Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by: John Farmanesh-Bocca
Ellen McLaughlin seeks to make sense of the horrors of war in a compelling fusion of Ajax, Sophocles' tragic military...
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Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
10.19.2012 - 11.03.2012
By: Jennifer Haley
Directed by: Trevor Biship
Contains adult language, graphic situations... and zombies.May not be appropriate for children.
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Lemon Boots
11.16.2012 - 12.01.2012
Directed by: Ezra LeBank
A visually stunning, kinetic theatre experience set in a world without water. Lives are made and broken on the promise of a...
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