The Golden West College Theater Department would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our 2011-2012 Theater Season. After reviewing the exciting season information described below, we know that you will want to be a part of the power and the magic that only live theater can create!

The Golden West College Theater Department is dedicated to offering our audiences the finest in theatrical entertainment. With a growing department of talented theater artists and a professional faculty and staff, we are committed to bringing you a variety of theater programming that is exciting, educational, and entertaining! Furthermore, utilizing both our Mainstage and Stage West theaters, we are able to offer you the opportunity to see exceptional productions in two very different and dynamic theater spaces!

We encourage you to take a moment to review our season. After doing so, we know that you will agree that the 2011-2012 Theater Season is truly exceptional, and promises to be one of our most exciting seasons to date. With an excellent lineup of productions, a talented and diverse group of performers and designers, and a season ticket package that is a tremendous value, we know that you will be delighted with what we have to offer, and we would like to formally invite you to make the Golden West College Theaters your theaters of choice for the 2011-2012 season!

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde

October 14-23, 2011

Directed by Martie Ramm

First performed over 100 years ago in London, The Importance of Being Earnestis regarded by critics and scholars as being one of the wittiest plays ever written.  Known as a trivial comedy for serious people, this hilarious play finds two dashing men-about-town pursuing their share of wine, women and song.  Deciding to bend the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives, they complicate matters by inventing imaginary characters to help them escape their tedious obligations and cover their clandestine activities. The Importance of Being Earnest makes elegant fun out of mistaken identities and sexual warfare. It remains today one of the theatre’s most perfectly created comedies. More information...

A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams

November 11-20, 2011

Directed by Tom Amen

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, is not only a landmark American drama, but a ground-breaking theatrical event! Set in the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, the play revolves around Blanche DuBois, an emotionally fragile and destitute woman who has come to the end of the line; the seedy home of her sister, Stella, and her rough, brutish brother-in law, Stanley Kowalski. In a sultry, decadent jungle of dappled half-light, free-flowing liquor, honky-tonks, rippling sexuality, and fleeting sanity, Blanche desperately seeks refuge in a quiet world of memory and illusion. But Stanley is there to cut off her only escape, and rip her back into the cold, hard light of reality with raw, animal power. Poetic and provocative, lyrical and lusty, A Streetcar Named Desire is a haunting, uncompromising, and undisputed masterpiece from one of the great voices of the American Theater. More information...

The Servant of Two Masters

By Carlo Goldoni
Adapted and Translated by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi

March 16-25, 2012

Mainstage Theater

Directed by Tom Amen

The Servant of Two Masters, Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s delightful 18th Century farce, has never been livelier than in this raucous and rollicking new translation and adaptation by Jeffery Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi. Befuddled fathers, jealous lovers, thwarted marriages, mistaken identities, intentional disguises, and, of course, one very wily servant, collide head-on in this impossible tangle of misunderstandings and mad-cap comedic mayhem! A gem of a play, and a brilliant example of the Commedia dell’Arte style, The Servant of Two Masters has been entertaining global audiences for over 250 years! So, be a part of theater history and join us for non-stop laughter! More information...

Cabaret

Book by Joe Masteroff
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Music by John Kander

May 4-13, 2012

Mainstage Theater

Directed and Choreographed by Martie Ramm

One of the most provocative and innovative musicals in Broadway history, Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret brings to life the outrageous characters that inhabited Berlin right before the start of the Third Reich.  Winner of 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Cabaret is based both on the play "I Am a Camera" by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.  In showing the denizens of the seedy Kit Kat Club and the decadent real world of Berlin where love and politics touched the lives of many, Cabaret confirms its status as adaringly original musical drama. For Mature Audiences. More information...