American Theatre Festival

Lunchtime in Paris

Noon April 16
Café/Bookstore

Part of the American Theater Festival, Lunchtime in Paris is a 45-minute musical salute to the great French city of art and culture. Listen to the fabled music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Oscar Hammerstein. Starring Samantha Bonomo, Nate Bassman and Carol Beth True. Event is free and open to the public.

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The Art World in Paris – Post World War II

Noon April 17
SSB 1102

Bring your lunch and listen to Brian Alich's presentation about the art world in Paris, France, when Gertrude Stein became famous among artists from around the world. Alich is the art technician for St. Charles Community College. This American Theatre Festival event is free and open to the public.

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Midnight in Paris

7 p.m. April 18
SSB 1102

Heather Rodgers, SCC professor of English, will introduce Woody Allen’s Academy Award winning film Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson. The film takes us back in time from the present to the 1920s when Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald captivated Paris. This American Theatre Festival event is free and open to the public.

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"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Center Stage Theatre, April 24-28

by Edward Albee
Directed by Hal Berry

Performances:
7:30 p.m. April 24 & 25
8 p.m. April 26 & 27
2 p.m. April 28

School Matinee:
10 a.m. April 25
For mature audiences, High School and above

Online Ticket Sales open March 24 at stchastickets.com

When Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway in 1962, critics raved at what became a transformational play for the American theatre. Targeting the modern American marriage, it broke new ground with its controversial profanity and sexual situations. Set in New England during the Cold War sixties, the marriage of George and Martha, with its “razor-sharp” dialogue and vicious taunts, is laid open for all to see. Winner of both the Tony and the New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, it went on to become a very successful film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

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Perilous Times: Robert F. Kennedy and the Civil Rights Era

9 a.m. April 29
SC 205-206

SCC Professors Vickie Herbal, Ron Pettus, Michael Kuelker and Hal Berry will discuss what became one of the most violent periods in American social and political history. This American Theatre Festival event is free and open to the public.

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Gertrude Stein and a Companion

By Win Wells
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Directed by Rebecca David

Performances:

10 a.m. May 1
7 p.m. May 2
1 p.m. May 3
8 p.m. May 4
2 p.m. May 5
SSB Auditorium

Tickets:

$6 General Admission
$5 Seniors and non-SCC students
Free SCC students with ID, SCC faculty and staff
Purchase tickets online at stchastickets.com or the SCC Box Office, 626-922-8050

Gertrude Stein and a Companion illuminates the relationship between Gertrude Stein, noted author and patron of the arts, and Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude’s friend, lover, editor, critic and muse. In 1920s Paris, Stein’s salon was the epicenter of the artistic movements of the day. To the outside world, Toklas was simply Stein’s “companion,” but this play reveals the significant influence she had on Stein and on the arts culture of the 1920s.

The show is part of the American Theatre Festival; all performances are in the auditorium of the Daniel J. Conoyer Social Sciences Building.

RFK

By Jack Holmes
Is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Directed by Alex Saccavino

Performances:

7 p.m. May 1 and May 5
10 a.m. May 2
8 p.m. May 3
2 p.m. May 4
SSB Auditorium

Tickets:

$6 General Admission
$5 Seniors and non-SCC students
Free SCC students with ID, SCC faculty and staff
Purchase tickets online at stchastickets.com or at the SCC Box Office, 626-922-8050

A moving portrayal of the words and events in the life of Robert F. Kennedy, from the death of his brother, President Kennedy, through the Civil Rights crisis and conflicts over the Vietnam War, to his decision that the only way to stop that war was to run for the presidency himself. The New Yorker called RFK a “labor of love and conscience.” Using the music and visual images of the ‘60s, RFK brings back a time when the nation was inspired to believe that the American Dream was possible for all.

The show is part of the American Theatre Festival; all performances are in the auditorium of the Daniel J. Conoyer Social Sciences Building.