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Tickets to Dance, Music, & Theatre Department 2025 Season
Spring 2025 Season
SPRING SHORTS: A Festival of One-Act Plays
It’s all in the act! Spring Shorts is a festival of one-act plays that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think. Seven shorts will be performed over 6 days in two programs (A and B). Get tickets for two days, or take in a double feature on a Saturday, to see them all!
Directed by CSUCI faculty, alumni, and current students, these one-acts are written by award-winning playwrights and performed by the talented students of the Spring 2025 Production and Advanced Production courses (PA/ART 191/391), presented by the CSUCI Theatre and Performance Studies program and Instructionally Related Activities.
Appropriate for ages: 16+
Running Time for each program: Approximately 60 minutes
Program Line-ups coming soon!
For more information, contact Festival Producing Artistic Director and Production course instructor Catherine.Burriss@csuci.edu.
Performance Dates:
Program A
Thursday, April 10 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 12 @ 7pm
Friday, April 18 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 19 @ 3pm
Program B
Friday, April 11 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 12 @ 3pm
Thursday, April 17 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 19 @ 7pm
Ticket prices:
- CI students: FREE (Dolphin ID required)
- Students with reservations will have priority seating. Seating is limited. Please
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- Other Students: $5 (Student ID & School name required)
- Faculty and Staff, Seniors, Military: $15 (ID required)
- General Public: $20
((echo/pulse)) Spring Dance Concert 
Join us for Cal State Channel Islands, Dance Studies’ inaugural spring dance concert, ((echo/pulse)) in Malibu Hall’s black box theater. This 90-minute show will include original works in the styles of Hip Hop, Contemporary, Modern, Latin Ballroom, Tap, Hoop Dance, and more. From first-time choreographers to seasoned professionals this collection of works encapsulates the skill, spirit, and creativity of the cohort at CI Dance Studies.
Faculty and guest artists choreographers include Chair of Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre, Heather Castillo; Founder and Director of Selcouth Dance Theater Company Marianna Varviani; Artist-in-Residence Julian Xiong, and Lecturer Carina Fourmyle.
Student Choreographers and Performers include Anahi Aguilar, Natasha Arce, Jade Barth, Morgan Brito-Moore, Kortni Godsey, Jordyn Jaglowski, Jessica López-Hernandez, Estephanie Oregel, Rodrigo Ortiz-Martinez, Alberto Sanchez, Madison Simpson, Semira Steward, Marieanna Thao, Promise Walters, Samantha Yankee, and Adien Yniguez, and Sarah Ysordia.
Tickets are available at https://commerce.cashnet.com/PERART. This performance is appropriate for all ages. All children and student tickets are free for all performances. For more details, please visit the CI Dance Studies Flow Page
Showtimes:
Thursday, May 1 @ 8pm
Friday, May 2 @ 8pm
Saturday, May 2 @ 2pm & 8 PM
For more information about the show, please contact instructor, director and producer,
heather.castillo@CSUCI.edu.
CHORAL SPECTACULAR 2025 
Dr. KuanFen Liu will conduct a performance of Sir Michael Tippett’s powerful oratorio A Child of Our Time by the CSU Channel Islands University Chorus, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra and guest soloists. The afternoon will also feature a combined performance by three high school choirs: the Rancho Campana High School Choir, Jon Sachs, director; the Santa Paula High School Cardinal Concert Choir, Jerry Cruz, director and CI Music Alum; and the Adolfo Camarillo High School Concert Choir, Sabrina Moreno, director and CI Music Alum.
For more information and tickets, visit Channel Islands Choral Association Website
Where:
RANCHO CAMPANA HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 4235 Mar Vista Drive, Camarillo
3 p.m. Sunday, May 18, 2025
Fall 2024 Season
MARIACHI GIRL
Mariachi Girl is a bilingual musical about a young girl’s dream of following in her father’s footsteps to become a Mariachi, but her dream runs counter to his traditional, patriarchal roots. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the musical explores cultural stereotypes and assimilation in the United States. It is a heartwarming story that celebrates cultural identity and promotes a positive self-image for young women.
Appropriate for ages 5 years and up.
This performance runs approximately one hour and twenty minutes. For more information about the show, please contact instructor, director and producer, miguel.orozco@csuci.edu
Performance Date: October 11th 7:30 PM at CSU Channel Islands
CSU Channel Islands Ticket prices:
- CI students: FREE (Dolphin ID required)
- Students with reservations will have priority seating. Seating is limited. Please make a reservation in advance.
- Other Students: $5 (Student ID & School name required)
- Faculty and Staff: $10 (Campus ID required)
- General Public: $15
Tickets for Mariachi Girl at CI
Tour Dates:
- Buena High School - October 17 - 7:30 pm
- Santa Paula High School - November 15 - 7:30 pm
- Oxnard College (for Channel Islands High School)- November 22 - 7:30 pm
- Rancho Campana High School - December 2 - 7:30 pm.
Link for tickets to tour locations
INTO THE WOODS
Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Book by JAMES LAPINE
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
CSUCI Theatre and Performance Studies is proud to present our first-ever Stephen Sondheim musical,Into the Woods!
Winner of 5 Tony awards, Into the Woods explores what happens when classic fairy characters and their stories intertwine, and the consequences of their wishes coming true. Join Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, the Wicked Witch and more on their journey to pursue their wildest dreams and find out what happily ever after can really mean.
Directed by Theatre & Performance Studies Faculty Laura Covault and Alumni Griffin Giboney.
Into the Woods has been assigned a rating of PG-13 by Music Theatre International. The musical focuses on the original Brothers Grimm versions of the stories which tend to be “darker” and less “happy ending” focused. There is some material in Act 2 that might frighten very young children, including loud noises, and brief moments of violence, and some deaths as the characters face the villain. Production elements include the use of neon lights that sometimes flash, dim, and change color but are on for the duration of the performance.
This performance runs approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes including one intermission.For more information about the show, please contact instructor, director and producer, laura.covault656@csuci.edu.
Performance Dates: November 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8 p.m. November 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. Special student matinee-Friday, November 22nd at 11 a.m.
Ticket prices:
- CI students: FREE (Dolphin ID required)
- Students with reservations will have priority seating. Seating is limited. Please make a reservation in advance.
- Other Students: $5 (Student ID & School name required)
- Faculty and Staff: $15 (Campus ID required)
- General Public: $25
Tickets for Into the Woods
Where:
CSU Channel Islands, Malibu Hall Theatre 140, 23 Chapel Drive. Google Map PinInto the Woods
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Roots in Flow
CI Dance Studies is proud to present our 2024 Dance Concert Roots In Flow. The event will be held in the new black box dance studio located in Malibu Hal 120. The works created and performed by students explore themes of identity, community, joy, psychology, and movement histories. This performance uses mild haze and lighting effects.
Appropriate for ages 8 and up.
This performance runs approximately 90 minutes. For more information about the show, please contact instructor, director and producer, heather.castillo@CSUCI.edu.
Performance Dates: November 21, 22, & 23 at 8 PM, Nov. 22 at 11AM, Nov. 23 2 PM.
Ticket prices:
- CI students: FREE (Dolphin ID required)
- Students with reservations will have priority seating. Seating is limited. Please make a reservation in advance.
- Other Students: $0 (Student ID & School name required)
- Faculty and Staff: $15 (Campus ID required)
- General Public: $25
Tickets to Roots in Flow
Where:
CSU Channel Islands Dance Theatre, Malibu 120, 23 Chapel Drive. Google Map Pin
WINTER CONCERT 2024
The CSUCI University Chorus will perform works by Reena Esmail, Eric
Whitacre, Haydn, Brahms and more! Donations welcomed at the door.
Where:
SANTA PAULA HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
7 p.m. Saturday, December 7
VENTURA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1338 East Santa Clara Street, Ventura
3 p.m. Sunday, December 8
For More Information Visit Channel Islands Choral Association Website