Alum Daniel Sullivan, the Tony Award winner who credits SF State for giving him the “theatre bug,” is directing “Twelfth Night” this summer at Shakespeare in the Park in New York City.
Professor designs dank, dazzling sets in 'The Seafarer'
Conor McPherson’s booze-filled Christmas Eve play “The Seafarer” takes place in a dank Irish cave. In designing the set for the Bay Area premiere, Theatre Arts Professor John B. Wilson “frames the slovenly, bottle-strewn household within the rock walls of a cavern,”
Alumna Timothy Near again left little doubt about her talents, directing the Pulitzer and Tony winning drama “Doubt”at Center Rep Theatre in Walnut Creek.
In a Nov. 5 Contra Costa Times review, Sally Hogarty writes: “Skillfully directed by Timothy Near, the riveting drama tells of Father Flynn, a popular young Catholic priest at a parish school.
Dame Edna brings her latest show to San Francisco, where her daughter Valmai attended college. OK, the alum is actually the actress who plays the daughter of the international housewife, megastar, fashion icon and swami.
This year, recent alumni have revived a longtime tradition of launching their own theatre companies. At least four new groups produced new shows in San Francisco, bursting with a creative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Tension and physicality in Mark Jackson's 'Machinal'
Mark Jackson, one of the hottest names in Bay Area theatre, returns again to his alma mater to direct "Machinal." The Theatre Arts Department's first main-stage production of the school year plays Oct. 16 – 19 in the Little Theatre.
Theatre Arts Professor John B. Wilson is the set designer for TheatreWorks production of Tony Kushner's musical "Caroline, or Change," now playing at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
