On Stage

 Please note: "Mega Audition" information for the year's productions can be found at http://production.arts.uci.edu. Direct all questions to audition@uci.edu.

 Fall 2012 Productions
 

Orlando

Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Annie Loui
Opens November 2
Closes November 4

Performances:
Friday, November 2, at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 3, at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 4, at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm

Claire Trevor Theatre (Audience will sit on the stage of the Claire Trevor stage)
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominee, Sarah Ruhl, adapted Virginia Woolf’s witty novel, Orlando, into a stylish play that examines the nature of identity. Orlando, our gender-changing protagonist, travels through five centuries, aging only 36 years, all the while observing changes in sexual stereotypes, laws, morals, and fashion. Seen as a love letter from Woolf to Lady Sackville-West, this provocative play questions the nature of love as it parodies literary styles through the ages.

 

 

 

Tinseltown Christmas

Book and Lyrics by Chana Wise
Music by Carl Johnson
Directed by Don Hill
Opens December 1
Closes December 8

Performances:
Saturday, December 1 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 2 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, December 6 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 7 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 8 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm

Claire Trevor Theatre
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Get into the holiday spirit with this delightful, charming, and entertaining new musical from our partners at Academy for New Musical Theater in Los Angeles.  Christmas Eve:  Living in two adjacent Hollywood apartments, Steve and Monica have never gotten along until the arrival of celebrity ghosts from the classic black-and-white films featured in the annual Christmas Movie Marathon on TV.  The fun begins when Steve and Monica are confronted with the ghosts of Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, and Natalie Wood.  True to its title, Tinseltown Christmas has a classic happy Hollywood ending.

 


 Winter 2013 Productions
 

The Rose Tattoo

Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Shannon Ferrante
Opens January 26
Closes February 3

Performances:
Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, January 27 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, January 31 at 8:00 pm
Friday, February 1 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 2 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 pm

Little Theatre
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Tony Award winner for Best Play, The Rose Tattoo has been described as Tennessee William's most hopeful play.  The Williams cannon is filled with tragic stories of characters struggling to survive the pain and torment of loneliness, but in Rose Tattoo he celebrates this struggle for all its passion, brutality and self-righteousness as an essential part of the human experience.  Williams reminds us that loneliness, isolating by nature, is a powerful experience that can draw us together.

 

 

The Radio Plays

Directed by Eli Simon & Vincent Olivieri
Opens February 1
Closes February 3

Performances:
Friday, February 1 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 2 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm

Claire Trevor Theatre (Audience will sit on stage of the Claire Trevor Theatre)
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

This is not your grandmother's old-time radio drama. Join us for a night of theatre powered only by the human voice, music, sound effects and Hollywood-style foley artistry.  The evening will be comprised of three short pieces, ranging from an old-time radio play to a modern classic! 

 

 

After Troy

Created & Directed by Mihai Maniutiu
Opens March 12
Closes March 17

Performances:
Tuesday, March 12 at 8:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 14 at 8:00 pm
Friday, March 15 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 pm

Claire Trevor Theatre
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Renowned European director and Distinguished Professor of Drama, Mihai Maniutiu, creates a thought-provoking drama based on the play Hecuba by Euripides.  It takes centuries to build a city/culture based on human values.  Sometimes, one night is all it takes to turn it to ashes.  After Troy examines the conflict between civilization and the barbarians who are intent on annihilating it.  This production features a post-apocalyptic society wherein the degradation of human values, in times of hate, bloodshed and cruelty, is in full view.  Looking into the dark mirror of Troy, we may learn once more to battle the barbarians that threaten our cities. 

 

 

Festival of New Musicals

Opens March 15
Closes March 17

Performances:
Friday, March 15 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 pm

xMPL, Experimental Media Performance Lab

The Fourth Annual Festival of New Musicals – as part of our alliance with The Academy of New Musicals – is called the Digital Natives Project and refers to anyone who was born into a world driven by technology. The Festival will be a “multi-media internet theater musical e-graffiti platform” which will explore technology in our lives . . . for better or for worse.



 Spring 2013 Productions
 

The Visit

Written by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Directed by Jane Page

Opens April 27
Closes May 5

Performances:
Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Thursday, May 2, at 8:00 pm
Friday, May 3 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 pm

Little Theatre
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Written in 1956, Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Visit is a powerful play that is relevant to contemporary America, where this production will be set.  The piece addresses such issues as women’s rights, vengeance, justice, and forgiveness.  The people of the town where the action takes place eagerly await the visit of Claire Zachanassian, a resident who left as a teenager.  She has since become a billionaire and generous philanthropist.  She is the town’s final hope.  Will the town be saved?  And if so, at what price?

 

Spring Awakening

Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Directed by Ryanne Laratonda

Opens June 1
Closes June 8

Performances:
Saturday, June 1 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 2 at 2:00 pm
Thursday, June 6 at 8:00 pm
Friday, June 7 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 8 at 1:00 pm and 8:00 pm

Claire Trevor Theatre
For ticket information, please contact the UCI Arts Box Office at 949-824-2787
Tickets may also be purchased online here.

Based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play, Spring Awakening is a rock musical about the dawning of sexual awareness during puberty and the dangers of censoring curiosity at too young an age.  Winner of eight Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards in 2007, the show juxtaposes contemporary music with period text to echo the frustrations of teenagers from every generation.



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