CSUB Theatrefest Seasons

(since the opening of the Doré Theatre in May 1979)

2023-2024
The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs (director: David Melendez)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Carmela Full of Wishes" (director: Amy Ressler)
The River Bride (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)

2022-2023
Little Shop of Horrors (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Tomato Plant Girl" (director: Amy Ressler)
Sweat (directors: Judd Johnson, Mandy Rees)
The Last Croissant (director: David Melendez)

2021-2022
The First Degree (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Noodle Doodle Box" (director: Amy Ressler)
Shakespeare Unmasked: Celebrating Shakespeare's Women (director: Mendy McMasters)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)

2020-2021
Tales from the Vault of Fear (director: Zoe Saba)
Thursday Stories Live! (director: Amy Ressler)
She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms (director: Mandy Rees)

2019-2020
Antigone (director: Dave Peterson)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Pickle Patch Bathtub" (director: Amy Ressler)
The Who's Tommy (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)

2018-19
Dreamers: Aquí y Allá (director: Mandy Rees)
The Dining Room (director: Zoe Saba)
Harvey (director: Dave Peterson)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" (director: Amy Ressler)

2017-2018
The Profane (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Unsorted" (director: Kamala Boeck)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
The Importance of Being Earnest (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)

2016-2017
Love's Labour's Lost (director: Zoe Saba)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "There’s an Alligator Under My Bed, A Nightmare in My Closet, and Something in My Attic" (director: Kamala Boeck)
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Pippin (director: Mandy Rees)
2015-2016
The Servant of Two Masters (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
La Gringa (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Aladdin" (director: Kamala Boeck)
2014-2015
From Dust Thou Art (director: Mandy Rees)
Lorca in a Green Dress (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
The Gamester (director: Zoe Saba)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Water Play" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2013-2014
Living Out (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Hairspray (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Dust Bowl Dreams" (director: Kamala Kruszka)

2012-2013
Dracula (director: Mandy Rees)
The Taming of the Shrew (director: Zoe Saba)
The Cherry Orchard (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Imaginators" (director: Kamala Kruszka)

2011-2012
A Lesson Before Dying (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Hotel Paradiso (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Talking Stick" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2010-2011
Tartuffe (director: Zoe Saba)
The Marriage of Bette and Boo (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Chicago (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "New Kid" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2009-2010
Scepter in the Sand (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Merry Wives of Windsor (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Arkansaw Bear" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2008-2009
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (director: Zoe Saba)
Everyman (director: Mandy Rees)
Anna in the Tropics (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Gold Fever" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2007-2008
Lend Me a Tenor (director: Zoe Saba)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Evita (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Skupper-Duppers" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2006-2007
Nickel and Dimed (director: Mandy Rees)
Antigone in New York (director: Maria-Tania Becerra)
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (director: Kenneth Elliott)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Wiley and the Hairy Man" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2005-2006
Electricidad (director: Kenneth Elliott)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Twelfth Night (director: Anita DuPratt)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Talking Stick" (director: Kamala Kruszka)
2004-2005
A Doll’s House (director: Anita DuPratt)
Home (director: Cynthia Martin)
Proof (director: Kenneth Elliott)
The Boy Friend (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "James and the Giant Peach" (director: Cynthia Martin)
2003-2004
Agnes of God (director: Anita DuPratt)
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
What the Butler Saw (director: Donald LaPlant)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Fabulous Fable Factory" (director: Cynthia Martin)
2002-2003
A View from the Bridge (director: Anita DuPratt)
Absurd Shorts (one-act absurdist plays) (director: Donald LaPlant)
Comedy of Errors (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Androcles and the Lion" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
2001-2002
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
The Misanthrope (director: Donald LaPlant)
Company (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young AudiencesA Midsummer Night’s Dream (director: Amy Schaumburg)
2000-2001
Postmortem (director: Mandy Rees)
The Children’s Hour (director: Anita DuPratt)
Romeo and Juliet (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Only My Imagination" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
1999-2000
Theatre of New Voices (student directors)
Our Town (director: Anita DuPratt)
The Real Thing (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Trouble With Nick" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
1998-1999
The Heidi Chronicles (director: Anita DuPratt)
Rhinoceros (director: Amy Schaumburg)
Doré Theatre 20th Anniversary Gala, May 1999: My Fair Lady (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Dinosaur Play" (student director)
1997-1998
Blue Window (director: Anita DuPratt)
Noises Off (director: Mandy Rees)
Macbeth (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Dream Weaver" (director: Amy Schaumburg)
1996-1997
Vinegar Tom (director: Anita DuPratt)
Bedroom Farce (director: Paige Newmark)
The Secret Garden (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Lollipop Machine" (director: Mandy Rees)
1995-1996
Chekhov in Yalta (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Medea (director: Mandy Rees)
The Boys Next Door (director: Anita DuPratt)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "The Tale of the Dragonhazenfugen Festival"(director: Mandy Rees)
1994-1995
A Bold Strike for a Wife (director: Anita DuPratt)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (director: Lani Harris)
Anything Goes (director: Mandy Rees)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "My Own Fantastic Adventure" (director: Mandy Rees)
1993-1994
Green Card (director: Anita DuPratt)
Picnic (director: Mandy Rees)
Taming of the Shrew (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Three Topsy-Turvy Tales" (director: Mandy Rees)
1992-1993
Our Country’s Good (director: Anita DuPratt)
Pippin (director: Mandy Rees)
I Hate Hamlet (director: Heidi Helen Davis)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "I Sailed with Columbus" (director: Mandy Rees)
1991-1992
All My Sons (director: Anita DuPratt)
School for Scandal (director: Mandy Rees)
True West (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Theatre for Young Audiences: "Snow White & the Five D.W.A.R.F.S" (director: Mandy Rees)
1990-1991
HOT L Baltimore (director: Anita DuPratt)
The Foreigner (director: Mandy Rees)
U.S.A. (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
1989-1990
Crimes of the Heart (director: Anita DuPratt)
The Diviners (director: Bill DeLuca)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
1988-1989
Brighton Beach Memoirs (director: Anita DuPratt)
Camille (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
What the Butler Saw (director: Fred Fate)
1987-1988
The Contrast (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Jitters (director: Anita DuPratt)
Sherlock Holmes: The Legend (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
1986-1987
No Exit (director: Anita DuPratt)
The Glass Menagerie (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
Top Girls (director: Anita DuPratt)
1985-1986
Measure for Measure (director: Anita DuPratt)
Candida (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
"The Real Inspector Hound"; "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet" (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
1984-1985
Antigone (director: Anita DuPratt)
Come back to the 5 & dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (director: Jeffrey D. Mason)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (director: Anita DuPratt)
1983-1984
From Dust Thou Art (revival from the previous season) (director: Peter Grego)
Getting Out (director: Anita Cowan)
Shakespeare’s Lovers (director: Anita Cowan)
1982-1983
Ghosts (director: Peter Grego)
From Dust Thou Art (director: Peter Grego)
The House of Blue Leaves (director: Anita Cowan)
1981-1982
The Threepenny Opera (director: Peter Grego)
The Runner Stumbles (director: Anita Cowan)
An American Sampler: "The Long Christmas Dinner" & "A Voice Through the Door" (director: Peter Grego)
1980-1981
Trial by Jury (director: Peter Grego)
The Shadow Box (director: Peter Grego)
Buried Child (director: Peter Grego)
1979-1980
A Flea in Her Ear (director: Peter Grego)
The Taming of the Shrew (director: Peter Grego)
One-Act Festival (director: Peter Grego)
1978-1979
Doré Theatre Opening Gala, May 1979: Camelot (director: Peter Grego)
[Pre-Doré: The Rimers of Eldritch, Fall 1978 (director: Peter Grego)]