SPRING 2023

MAINSTAGE (non-ticketed, no reservations)

Opera/Double Bill

Quake Conductor: Rakefet Hak
Les Mamelles de Tirésias Conductor: Jakub Rompczy
Conceived by: Mary Birnbaum
Stage Direction by: Alison Moritz and Staci Mize

In collaboration with the Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA Department of Theater presents two vastly different and unique one-act operas. The first, Quake, is a chamber opera for four singers, a four-member choir and chamber orchestra written by UCLA professor Kay Rhie. This will be followed by Les Mamelles de Tiresias, a French comedy or opera bouffe that is based on the surrealist play by poet Guillaume Apollinaire.

Performances
June 2, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
June 3, 2023, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
June 4, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Freud Playhouse

OFF MAINSTAGE (non-ticketed, no reservations)

Keffiyeh/Made in China

By Dalia Taha
Directed by Yuval Zehavi

Keffiyeh/Made in China consists of 10 vignettes that depict slices of everyday Palestinian life. In each episode, these people experience everyday situations that become surreal as they try to cope with the oppressive forces of colonialism and capitalism — an inseparable part of life under a decades-long occupation.

Performances
May 18-19, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
May 20, 2023, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Macgowan 1340

Tell Me I'm Gorgeous at the End of the World: The Last Gay Play

By Aaron Coleman
Directed by David H. Parker

The Fire Island Pines, an intensely hedonistic and sexually liberated scene, welcomes gay men from all over—as long as they blend in. Tell Me I’m Gorgeous at the End of the World: The Last Gay Play is about the (sometimes literal) earth-moving influence that Black and brown Queer people have when they try to exist in white spaces not only unintended for them, but in which they are rendered completely invisible.

Performances
June 8-9, 2023, 8:00 p.m.
June 10, 2023, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Macgowan 1340

MFA Ones (Two plays)

Original work by M.F.A. playwriting students. More info TBA.

Performances
June 10, 2023, 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Macgowan 1330

Undergrad One Acts (Three shows/One bill)

A series of one-acts directed and featuring undergraduate actors from UCLA Department of Theater.

Performances
May 11-13, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Macgowan 1330

FALL 2022

MAINSTAGE

Antigone

By Sophokles
Translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Staci Mize

This 21st century spin on a classic Greek myth zeroes in on the battle between what we are being told to see versus what is actually in front of us. This fresh take on Antigone’s story centers around the tension between media, government and the people — as well as the war over bodily autonomy and rights.

Performances
November 17-18, 21-22, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
November 19, 2022, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Little Theater

OFF MAINSTAGE (non-ticketed, no reservations)

Happy Birthday Mars Rover

By Preston Choi
Directed by Joe Olivieri

This other-worldly unpublished play takes a scathing and hysterical look at our universe and the meaning of life itself. The Mars Rover sings “Happy Birthday” to itself as it searches for life on Mars as humans back on Earth search to understand what life is. It's a medley of snapshots, from cave people naming abstract concepts, bubbles that scream when popped, housewives battling existential dread, cows trying to get to heaven, and the last human on Earth collecting jars of hair.

Performances
November 12 and 19, 2022, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
November 17-18, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
Macgowan 1340