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CSUSM Theatre presents

As You Like It, a Musical by Shaina Taub & Laurie Woolery

Directed by Maria Patrice Amon with musical direction by Eliza Vedar. 

As You Like It is an immersive dream-like tale of faithful friends, feuding families, and lovers in disguise.

• March 5 - 8, 2025
• 7:00pm 
• ARTS 111

Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph

Directed by Jason Heil. 

Gruesome Playground Injuries explores the complex relationship between two people using a series of physical injuries as metaphors for their emotional wounds, highlighting themes of love, pain, and the impact of trauma on personal connections.

CONTENT WARNING: Contains discussions of depression, physical injuries, self-harm, and sexual assault.

• April 16 - 19, 2025
• 7:00pm 
• ARTS 111

CSUSM Theatre presents

The Motherf**cker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Directed by Shaun Heard and Judy Bauerlein. 

A high-octane verbal cage match about love, fidelity, and misplaced haberdashery.

• November 20th-23rd
• 7:00pm 
• ARTS 111

CSUSM Theatre presents 

Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill

Directed by Judy Bauerlein and Shaun Heard. 

With potent images of disturbing injustices, Vinegar Tom uses a seventeenth-century witch hunt to condemn the past and present oppression of women. Caryl Churchill shows how marginalized women, who did not fit into the narrow social categories of the patriarchy, were often labeled witches for little reason other than their non-conformity. 

• October 9th-12th
• 7:00pm 
• ARTS 111

The Old Globe Globe For All presents 

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

"As You Like It" is a classic pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare. It follows Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and the court jester, Touchstone, to the Forest of Arden. There, disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind encounters her love, Orlando, and eventually reveals her true identity during a group wedding at the end of the play. 

• November 1, 2024
• 6:00pm 
• ARTS 111

Spring arts preview 2024: Theatre artist Maria Patrice Amon amins to expand the Latinx narrative.

Recent theatre graduates Hannah Harding (left) and Alexis Rojas (right) accompanied professor Judy Bauerlein (center) for a four-week Summer in London program this past summer through CSU Summer Arts.

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