Production History
The CCSF Theatre Arts Department has a long history of presenting stimulating productions of both classic and contemporary plays featuring students and guest performers. To give you an idea of the kinds of things you might expect to see on our stage, here is a listing of productions offered over nearly fifty years. The musicals and operas were produced in conjunction with the Music Department.
1970's
Justice
My Life
Phormio
The Corner
Chump Changes
1979
The Dark At the Top of the Stairs
The House of Blue Leaves
1980
Medea
For Colored Girls...
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Anything Goes
1981
Macbett
Good Woman Of Setzuan
Arms and the Man
1982
The Shadow Box
The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
The Creation of the World and Other Business
A Midsummer Night's Dream
South Pacific
1983
Cabaret
Lysistrata
Tartuffe
The Detective Story
1984
West Side Story
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Bonds of Interest
1985
Pirates of Penzance
Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy
Twelfth Night
The Artful Lodgers
1986
Picnic
The Water Engine
Sweeney Agonistes
1987
Love for Love
The Odd Couple
Love: Personal Ad One Acts
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1988
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Mother of Us All
1989
The Normal Heart (with Lawrence Hecht)
Museum
A Chorus Line
The Frogs
1990
Guys And Dolls
The Tempest
1991
The Best Of Broadway
The Crucible
The Winter’s Tale (featuring Catherine Conklin)
1992
Big River
The Dining Room
Our Town
(featuring Lee Meriwether)
Festival of American Playwrights of Color
(recognized by the Kennedy Center)r
1993
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Talley and Son
1994
Festival of American Playwrights of Color
(recognized by the Kennedy Center)
Assassins
Frieda
1995
Macbeth
The Miracle Worker
Lives of the Great Poisoners
1996
A Streetcar Named Desire
Williams One-Acts
Hard Times
Falling Through a Hole in the Air
1997
Romeo and Juliet
The American Car
Falling Through a Hole in the Air
Trouble In Tahiti
1998
Godspell
Getting Away With Murder
The Magic Flute
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1999
Major Barbara
All My Sons
On The Razzle
Ariadne
2000
The Fantasticks
A Month In The Country
Measure for Measure
Cloud Nine
Othello
Kismet
2001
King Lear
Picnic
Shakespeare’s Women
Renegade Voices of the 60's
The Redwood Curtain
Sweeny Todd
2002
Bad Habits
The Laramie Project
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Ten By Ten
Angels Fall
Shakespeare’s Lovers
Plump Jack
The Seagull
2003
Twilight Los Angeles
Memoirs of JFK
A Doll's House
And Then They Came For Me
The Tender Land
2004
Joseph And The Amazing Techniclor Dreamcoat
Night of the Iguana
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Lifehouse
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well...and Living in Paris
2005
Little Shop Of Horrors
Roadsigns
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Postcard from Morocco
2006
Bob Fosse’s Pippin
Women of Ibsen
The Children's Hour
Angels in America Part One
Urinetown
2007
Once Upon A Mattress
Taming of the Shrew
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Exonerated
Songs for a New World
2008
The Beard of Avon
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
(featuring Lee Meriwether)
Cabaret
Steel Magnolias
Aftermath of War: in their own words
Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights
2009
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
The Time of Your Life
Hedda Gabler
All’s Well that Ends Well
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
2010
Grease
Richard III
A Diary of Bock and Harnick
Language of Angels
The New Orleans Monologues
2011
The Importance of Being Earnest
Guys and Dolls
The Fantasticks
The Glass Menagerie
Sweet Bird of Youth
2012
Thou Swell (1930's Revue)
The Mousetrap
Arsenic and Old Lace
As You Like It
Jesus Christ, Superstar
2013
I'll Be seeing you (1940's Revue)
You Can't Take It With You
The Women
Much Ado About Nothing
Sweet Charity
2014
The Tempest
Good News
Wonderful Town (Concert Performance)
Heaven Can Wait
Clyborne Park
2015
A Flea In Her Ear
Legally Blond
Blue Window
Company
2016
All The Way
Chicago
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2017
12th Night
Anything Goes
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Anonymous
Spoon River Anthology
2018
An Ideal Husband
The Drowsy Chaperone
Cradle Will Rock
2019
Incognito
Mamma Mia
99 Histories
American Night: the Ballad of Juan Jose
2020
Shakespeare in Love (cancelled in rehearsal due to COVID pandemic)
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