Previous Productions

Previous Theatre Productions

2007-2008 Season

A Christmas Carol the Musical

You Can't Take it With You

You Can't Take It With You relates the humorous encounter between a conservative family and the crazy household of Grandpa Martin Vanderhof. Grandpa's family of idiosyncratic individualists amuse with their energetic physical antics and inspire with their wholehearted pursuit of happiness.

2006-2007 Season

NDNU Muves

Student Showcases

A Little Night Music

A Christmas Carol - The Musical

Much Ado About Musicals

Annual Labor Day Theatre Festival

2005-2006 Season

Dreams Made Flesh - NDNU Muves dance showcase
A Journey through the Body, Mind, and Soul in Dance. "The body is a vehicle... to a creative mind... where the soul runs free."

Fiddler on the Roof
Bock and Harnick's classic musical story of God, family and tradition facing the winds of revolution and change.

Student Showcase
Featured No Exit, The Author's Voice, and Disneyland on Parade.

20th annual The Music of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Produced by the NDNU Theatre Arts Department and The Performance Group, hailed as one of the treasures of the Bay Area holiday season, the annual musical gift to the community returned for its 20th consecutive season.

SHADES
A provacative selection of plays including Real Women Have Curves, Dearborn Heights, and a selection of scenes by William Shakespeare.

2005 Annual Labor Day Theatre Festival
2005 featured alum Gina Latimerlo's The Ever After, and a preview of scenes from Coastal Rep's production of Misery directed by alum Karen Burns.

2004-2005 Season

NDNU Muves - Evolution Through Motion/Awaken Your Mind - dance showcase
An artistic and acrobatic presentation by the NDNU Theatre Dance Program

OKLAHOMA! by Rodgers and Hammerstein
NDNU Theatre Arts, Dance, and Music departments, along with director Randall Stuart delivered as promised: an interesting, ensemble, unit-set interpretation of the classic musical based on the spirit of the original play, "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs.

Student Showcase
Featured The Fourth Mrs Phillips, Bury the Dead, Trifles, and The Love Course.

The Music of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Produced by the NDNU Theatre Arts Department and The Performance Group, hailed as one of the treasures of the Bay Area holiday season, the annual musical gift to the community returned for its 19th consecutive season.

Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins
The premier performance of the first fully staged production of Dead Man Walking. Based on the book Dead Man Walking by Sr. Helen Prejean, CSK, the play was written by Academy Award-winning actor/director Tim Robbins. This important play was part of a year-long examination of the death penalty by NDNU's Center for Social Justice.

Annual Labor Day Theatre Festival
2004 featured Sharing Dad written and directed by alum Jonathan Knott, selections from Talking With... directed by alum Karen Burns, The Dance and the Railroad directed by alum Harley Tallet, St. Etienne written and directed by Carlmont High School recent graduate Heather You, The Corridor written by local playwright Pam Brown and directed by alum Karen Burns, Quid Pro Quo written and directed by Tammy Massa, and Identity concieved and performed by NDNU dance instructor Coleen Lorenz.

2003-2004 Season

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Student Showcase
Featured Pvt. Wars, Apres Opera, The Apostle John, Late Night in the Womens' Restroom at the Jungle Bar, and Ten Dollar Drinks.

Rose Tatoo

Labor Day Festival

Featured Lone Star, The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue, Cafe, and The House of Ramon Iglesias.

2002-2003 Season

1940s Radio Hour by Walton Jones
1942 . . . The world is at war. On the evening of December 21st, the Mutual Manhattan VARIETY CAVALCADE is preparing its weekly, live broadcast from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room. The characters of this screwball comedy step out of a bygone era and evoke memories of favorite backstage musical films. Zany antics and the live renditions of songs such as "BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY," "LOVE IS HERE TO STAY," "BLUE MOON," "THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC," and "I'LL BE SEEING YOU" with an onstage band and swing-dancing studio-audience will heat up the night.

Student Showcase

Featured The Barnhouse Effect, Am I Blue, Naomi in the Living Room, and Hello Out There.

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Produced by the NDNU Theatre Arts Department and The Performance Group, hailed as one of the treasures of the Bay Area holiday season, the annual musical gift to the community returned for its 17th consecutive season.

Blood Wedding

Labor Day Festival

Featured Roosters, Sylvia, and Breast Men.

2001-2002 Season

Into the Woods by Sondheim and Lapine.
Fairy tale characters come to musical life in this dazzling Tony Award winning musical. INTO THE WOODS goes beyond mere Broadway razzmatazz melding Sondheim's ingenious lyrics and music with Lapine's text to show the trials and tribulations of ordinary people as they pursue their dream . . . and what life is like after they are granted.

Student Showcase

tudent-directed One-Act plays, in a studio-style setting. Easter Night, Fiat, Sure Thing, Time Flies, and Fifty Years Ago.

The Music of Dickens' A Christmas Carol

A Midsummer's Night Dream - by William Shakespear

Labor Day Festival

Featured Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Rules of Love, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

Previous productions include

The Skin of Our Teeth

Wild Honey

The Rover

Rags

Noises Off!

The Good Woman of Seztuan

Oliver!

Marisol

The Madwoman of Chaillot

The Crucible

Godspell

Measure for Measure

Pirates of Penzance

Bedroom Farce

Hedda Gabbler

The Misanthrope

Breaking the Prarie Wolf Code

Once Upon a Mattress

The Foreigner

All My Sons

Bullshot Crummond

Spring Awakening

Another Antigone

The Real Inspector Hound

Lullabye of Broadway