For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf

By Nzotake Shange
Directed by Shakina Nayfack
October 9 - 11 at 8 PM
October 11 & 12 at 2 PM

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical sucess at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing..every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf is groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world. _________________________________

Zoot Suit (A Revival)

By Luis Valdez
Directed by Alma Martinez
February 5 -7 at 8 PM
February 7 & 8 at 2 PM

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Due to audiences' overwhelming response to last season's 30th Anniversary production that broke all box-office records and played to sold out houses for it's entire two week run, Zoot Suit returns for 5 perfomances only. In Valdez's poignant and musical retelling of the 1942 Sleep Lagoon Murder Trial and the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, these infamous svents are reexamined through the eyes of those most adversely affected. A masterpiece of the American and Chican Theatre canon, Zoot Suit is critical yet hopeful, hard hitting yet triumphant, tragic yet humorous, and always celebratory of the indomitable human spirit. Don' miss this unforgettable evening of theatre. "Pues Orale!"

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Dance Concert 2009

Artistic Direction by Laurie Cameron
April 30 - May 2 at 8 PM
May 3 at 2 PM

The talents of professional guest artists, Pomona faculty and senior dance majors, create thought-provoking, cutting-edge choreography and dance.

The Dragon

By Yevgeny Schwartz
Directed by Betty Bernhard
November 20 - 22at 7 PM
November 22 & 23 at 2 PM

A musical Russian Fable. "The only way to be free of dragons is to have one of your own."

Suitable for everyon over age 5

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Twelve Angry Jurors

By Reginald Rose
Directed by Tom Leabhart
March 5 -7 at 8 PM
March 7 & 8 at 2 PM

Twelve Angry Jurors reveals, behind the scenes, a jury's deliberations as the 19 year-old son is tried for the murder of his abusive old father. On the hottest day of the year, 12 jurors begin their deliberations with 11 in favor of conviction. However, one Juror 8, tries to convince the others of "reasonable doubt." Alliances are drawn, temper flare and all reveal who they are and what they believe in while a man's life hangs in the balance.

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The Liar

By Pierre Corneille

Directed by Leonard Pronko
April 2 - 4 at 8 PM
April 4 & 5 at 2 PM

A comic masterpiece by the Master of French classical tragedy in a brillant verse translation by Ranjit Bolt. Base on a Spanish play, The Liar is a charming cream puff of illusion and reality in which the hero's inventive fantastic lies create ever-new complications.

 

 

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