Theater Season
2024-2025

Get ready to step into a dazzling world of light, sound, and spectacle at our experimental, immersive production of Xanadu!  Experience cutting-edge technology prototypes and audience interaction integrated with a full musical experience and a soundtrack that will have you grooving right along with the cast.

Directed by James Darrah, professor and director of Opera UCLA Presented in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Rodrigo is an opera by George Frideric Handel that tells the gripping story of Spain’s last Visigothic king. After seizing the throne through betrayal, Rodrigo descends into tyranny, turning his back on justice and on Florinda, his former lover who bears his child. As Florinda’s brother Giuliano and the rightful heir Evanco rise in rebellion, Rodrigo must confront the cost of his ambition. Set against a backdrop of political upheaval and personal reckoning, Rodrigo explores themes of power, betrayal, and redemption through Handel’s soaring, dramatic score. Don’t miss this compelling operatic gem, brought to life by students across music and theater disciplines. Performances: May 16, 2025 – 8:00 p.m. May 17, 2025 – 8:00 p.m. May 18, 2025 – 2:00 p.m.

Performance: May 29, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. mockingbird Directed by Cerulean Long and written by Elaina Marino Synopsis: While on leave from Afghanistan in 2012, a young soldier leaks information about the ongoing war. At his family home in Missouri, a voice on the phone, that may or not be his mother, threatens to expose present and past secrets if he does not confess his guilt. Hello, World Directed by Shuwen Cao and written by Jeffery Lowen Four sentient satellites share an important message with all of humanity. What does our world look like from above? Where does humanity fit into the universe, and what will become of us and our technology? Belle Kaufman Directed by Hall McCurdy and written by Logan Sobel Synopsis: With their lives interrupted by their mother’s passing, three siblings, and an oblivious outsider, must navigate their complex relationships with one another and the deceased, reconceptualize their volatile and disparate childhoods, and decide who must take home the last item of their mother’s will.   TICKETING INFORMATION: Tickets for Undergraduate One Acts can be requested through the online form. Ticket reservations are required to see the show. Patrons without a reservation may be denied access to the venue. Ticket requests are due by 5:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, May 29.

House Key Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. Macgowan 1340 Please RSVP at bit.ly/housekeyplay Bunker Play Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Macgowan 1340 No reservation required.