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SPRING 2025
The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

Mendocino Stories:

Journalistic Theatre Project
Co-directed by nationally acclaimed solo artist Dan Hoyle, Broadway and Hollywood actor Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Mendocino College Theatre Director Reid Edelman, this culmination of a year-long project will be an original production based on a Mendocino County theme and utilizing the innovative “journalistic theatre” process developed by Dan Hoyle.

Performances March 13-23, 2025 in the Mendocino College Center Theatre
Thursday March 13 • 7:30 PM • (pay what you wish preview)
Friday March 14 • 7:30 PM (opening night!)
Saturday March 15 • 7:30 PM
Thursday March 20 • 7:30 PM (special discount show, all tickets $10)
Friday March 21 • 7:30 PM
Saturday March 22 • 7:30 PM
Sunday March 23 • 2 PM (matinee performance)

TICKETS: $20, $15 students and seniors. Pay what you wish preview is Thursday March 13. Special discount show: Thursday March 20, all tickets $10. Advance tickets are available at the Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, and online at www.ArtsMendocino.org. For additional information, call (707) 468-3172.
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The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

The 18th Annual Festival of New Plays
Ten student-directed plays by local playwrights
Performances May 15-17, 2025 in the Mendocino College Little Theatre
Thursday May 15 • 7:30 PM • (pay what you wish preview)
Friday May 16 • 7:30 PM
Saturday May 17 • 7:30 PM (benefits College Foundation, glass of wine included!)

TICKETS: $All tickets $10. Pay what you wish preview is Thursday May 15. Advance tickets are available at the Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, and online at www.ArtsMendocino.org. For additional information, call (707) 468-3172.

TICKETS:
Tickets for Mendocino College Theatre productions are available starting 2 weeks before the first performance of each production at The Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, online at www.ArtsMendocino.org and at the door one hour before curtain as available. For additional information, call (707) 468-3172.

The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

Mendocino Stories:

Performances March 13-23, 2025 in the Mendocino College Center Theatre
Thursday March 13 • 7:30 PM • (pay what you wish preview)
Friday March 14 • 7:30 PM • (opening night!)
Saturday March 15 • 7:30 PM
Thursday March 20 • 7:30 PM (special discount show, all tickets $10)
Friday March 21 • 7:30 PM
Saturday March 22 • 7:30 PM
Sunday March 23 • 2 PM (matinee performance)

TICKETS: $20, $15 students and seniors. Pay what you wish preview is Thursday March 13. Special discount show: Thursday March 20, all tickets $10. Advance tickets are available at the Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, and online at https://www.artsmendocino.org/event/journalistic-theatre-project-mendocino-stories/. For additional information, call (707) 468-3172.
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The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

TICKETS: $All tickets $10. Pay what you wish preview is Thursday May 15. Advance tickets are available at the Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, and online at https://www.artsmendocino.org/event/the-18th-annual-festival-of-new-plays/. For additional information, call (707) 468-3172.

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FALL 2024

The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson

performances October 17-27, 2024 in the Mendocino College Center Theatre

AUDITIONS

Tuesday August 20, 2024 6 PM in the Center Theatre on the Ukiah campus
Call-Backs (as needed and as scheduled Wednesday August 21)

Auditions for the Mendocino College Fall production of The Book of Will, directed by Reid Edelman, will be held Tuesday August 20 with call-backs as needed on Wednesday August 21.
Rehearsals will begin on August 26, and performances will be October 17-27.

This is a truly beautiful play about friendship, love, theatre, art, and heart-achingly fragile nature of everything. The action unfolds three years after the death of William Shakespeare as his friends and fellow actors realize that they alone hold his plays in their memories and in their scattered collections of unpublished scripts. Together they set out to publish and thereby preserve his plays for future generations of theatregoers. Their efforts against all odds express not only their love of theatre, but their shared humanity and devotion to their friend Will.

The play calls for a large cast of 17-20 actors playing 25+ roles. We also need production crew to assist with scenery, costumes, props, lighting and stage management. For more information, please e-mail redelman@mendocino.edu or call (707) 468-3172. No preparation is necessary for the auditions. Just come to the college Center Theatre at 6 PM on Tuesday August 20!

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Coming in Spring 2025

The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

Mendocino Stories:

Journalistic Theatre Project

performances March 13-23, 2025 in the Mendocino College Center Theatre

An original play based on real stories from our community co-created by nationally acclaimed solo artist Dan Hoyle, Broadway and Hollywood actor Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, and Mendocino College Theatre Director Reid Edelman, this culmination of a year-long project will be an original production based on a Mendocino County theme and utilizing the innovative “journalistic theatre” process developed by Dan Hoyle.

OPEN AUDITIONS will be held in December 2024 or January 2025...stay tuned for more details

For additional information, call (707) 468-3172 or e-mail redelman@mendocino.edu.

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The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department presents

The 18th Annual Festival of New Plays
Ten student-directed plays by local playwrights

performances May 15-17 in the Mendocino College Little Theatre

Playwrights: Script submission deadline is February 14, 2025. Submit plays as a PDF or word attachment to redelman@mendocinio.edu. Plays with small cast sizes and minimal technical requirements are preferred

ACTORS: open auditions will be held Monday April 7 at 6 PM in the Mendocino College Little Theatre. Call-backs as needed will be scheduled on Tuesday April 8.

Backstage Crew: We will need stage managers, run crew and technicians. For information, call Reid Edelman at (707) 468-3172 or e-mail redelman@mendocino.edu.

For additional production photos since Fall 2016, visit our albums on FACEBOOK.

Production Photos 2000-2016
Click on cover photos below to view each album.
Photos by Ilena Yeru Pegan (starting 2016) and Evan Johnson (2000-2015).

Arcadia (2016)