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Performances

For information, visit www.smc.edu/theatre or call (310) 434 4393. Performances are held in one of the two theaters in the Theatre Arts Complex, located on SMC’s Main Campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Advance tickets may be purchased online at events.smc.edu ($2/ticket service charge), by phone at (310) 434 3000, or in person at the SMC Events Office (Amphitheater building, SMC Main Campus). Discounts available for students and seniors.

Aida
Music by Elton John. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, & David Henry Hwang. Come enjoy a pop-rock musical that offers a contemporary take on the grand classic tale of the love between a soldier and an enslaved princess.
Preview: March 27• 8pm
March 28, 29, April 4, 5 • 8pm
March 30, April 5, 6 • 2pm
$18/$15/$12 (Preview: $9) • Theatre Arts/Main Stage

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare. This complex contraption revolves around two couples whose romantic cross-purposes are further complicated by their entrance into fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies preside and the impish character of Puck plies his trade. Seating is strictly on a first-arrival basis.
April 18, 19 • 8pm
April 19, 20 • 2pm
$10 • Theatre Arts/Studio Stage

The Father
By August Strindberg. This tragedy portraying the duel of the sexes tells the tale of a father—a cavalry captain and intellectual freethinker—and a mother who is unscrupulous in her methods to dominate the decision on the educational future of their child. Seating is strictly on a first-arrival basis.
May 2, 3 • 8pm
May 3, 4 • 2pm
$10 • Theatre Arts/Studio Stage

Camila
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Lori McKelvey. Presented in music and dance, this tale of a young woman and a priest sentenced to death for their forbidden love is based on a true story so powerful that a government banned the telling of it for 150 years!
Preview: May 15 • 8pm
May 16, 17, 23, 24 • 8pm
May 18, 24, 25 • 2pm
$20/$18/$15 (Preview: $10) • Theatre Arts/Main Stage

Miss Saigon
Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. A moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war, this is the tale of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman who struggle to find each other after falling in love in the turmoil of the Vietnam War and becoming separated by the fall of Saigon.
Preview: July 10 • 8pm
July 11, 12, 18, 19 • 8pm
July 13, 19, 20 • 2pm
$20/$18/$15 (Preview: $10) • Theatre Arts/Main Stage

The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum. Bring the whole family to see this delightful musical stage adaptation of the classic tale of Dorothy and her dog Toto and their adventures “over the rainbow.”
July 25, 26, August 1, 2 • 7pm
July 26, 27, August 2, 3 • 1pm
$10/$5 (ages 3-12)/Free (age 2 and under, on parent’s lap) • Theatre Arts/Studio Stage

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