A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry

Taking her title from Langston Hughes’s poem, “Harlem,” Hansberry forced both blacks and whites to re-examine the deferred dreams of African-Americans. She asked blacks to reconsider how those dreams might be defined; she demanded that whites not impede the fulfillment of those dreams for one more second. And she posed all her concerns in a work that portrayed a black family with a greater realism and complexity than had ever been previously seen.

Directed by Donis Leonard
October 12, 13, 19 20 at 8pm, and
October 14, 21 at 2pm
Edison Studio Theatre

The Dominguez Bridge Project
By Naomi Buckley and Brenda Killian

The newly-formed Dominguez Bridge Theatre Company created a community-based original play taken from interviews with forty years of Dominguez graduates. The play focuses on the connections between education and the real world, as it follows the stories of students who prepare to play many roles in their families, relationships, and communities.

Directed by Bill DeLuca
November 9, 10, 16, 17 at 8pm, and
November 18 at 2pm
University Theatre

The Colored Museum
By George C. Wolfe

A humorous view of black life, ³A Colored Museum,² is one of the most well-known satires on black culture. In a series of 11 vignettes, Wolfe puts African American imagery and stereotype on display as a commentary on their struggle to reconcile the past and find a true identity.

Directed by Jeffery Wright

February 22, 23, 29, Mar 1 at 8pm, and

Feb 24 Mar 2 at 2pm - Edison Studio Theatre

Lysistrata
By Aristophanes

Possibly the most bold antiwar play ever written, the women of ancient Athens and Sparta join together for a sex strike, to withhold their “offerings” to their men until they stop the senseless war. In the satiric universe of Aristophanes, everything is turned upside down, but the message of the play extends far beyond the 5th century B.C. to our time: make love, not war!

Directed by Marla Gam-Hudson
April 18, 19, 25, 26 at 8pm, and
April 27 at 2pm
University Theatre