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Performing Arts Mission Statement
The mission of the Performing Arts Department at Riverside City College is to provide students the means to accomplish their goals in the performing arts with an educational program that prepares them to contribute as artists, educators, audience and supporters of the arts. At the heart of the department are outstanding arts experiences, superior teaching, and access to valuable aesthetic learning in dance, music, and theatre.
Upcoming Productions!
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
November 20, 21, & 22, 2008
8:00pm Evening Performance
November 22 & 23, 2008
2:00pm Matinee Performance
Singletary Hall (Quad 144)
In October 1998 Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder.
A Man For All Seasons
by Robert Bolt
April 23, 24, & 25, 2009
8:00pm Evening Performance
April 25 & 26, 2009
2:00pm Matinee Performance
"The true story of Chancellor Sir Thomas More and the moral struggles he faces when his friend, King Henry VIII plans to leave the Catholic Church in order to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. When More is forced to make a decision to support or denounce the king, he takes the most challenging action of all and remains silent; believing that strict adherence to the law will protect him from punishment, fully underestimating how power can be abused and loyalty breached. A timeless story of politics, power and religion that has special relevance to our present day, A Man For All Seasons is a touching account of a man’s fight for his principles and the consequences he has to pay for those convictions during a time of enveloping moral darkness."
Recent News!
RCC THEATRE DEPARTEMENTS production of Urinetown the Musical has been chosen for festival participation at the Region VIII KCACTF Festival XL at California State University Los Angeles. This invitation is extended as a showcase for the finest productions entered this year within Region VIII (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii & Guam) Regional festival productions are seen by the National Selection Team chosen by the Kennedy Center and the KCACTF national Committee. We were selected as one of the finest amidst UC, State, Community College and Private Institutions. This is a huge honor and I am proud of the students, staff and faculty who shared in the work of this production. The goals of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival are:
- to encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
- to provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight; and achieve professionalism;
- to improve the quality of college and university theater in America;
- to encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.
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