NAU 2024 – 2025 Theatre Events
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Directed by Jaclynn Jutting
The Clifford E. White Theater
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.” (Hero, Act 3, Scene 1)
After protracted war, Don Pedro’s army has just returned home victorious, and the Italian village is ready for love. But does the war continue? Two of Shakespeare’s most turbulent couples—Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero, lob two-edged witticisms and damning accusations back and forth. A community of mischief-makers stir the pot creating and well-meant and malicious results. Will the truth or deception out?
Written in 1598-1599, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s best comedies including well-known wordplay and banter; “In a false quarrel there is no true valor.” (Benedick, Act 5 Scene 1)
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GHOSTS OF BOGOTA’ by Diana Burbano
Directed by Andrea Morales
The Clifford E. White Theater
Ghosts of Bogota’ tells the story of three siblings, now in their late twenties and thirties, who return to their ancestral home after the death of their grandfather, who no one wishes to mourn. A heartbreaking, dark and irreverent comedy, Ghosts of Bogotá’ tells the universal story of family secrets, past pains, and a unique tale of the immigrant experience of never feeling fully at home in a country that claims you.
Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Ghosts of Bogotá’ was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in Feb 2020.
The play is “Wickedly humorous at times, gut wrenching at others.” – NPR, KCRB Radio
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CLYDE’S by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kathryn Ervin
The Clifford E. White Theater
A truck stop sandwich counter provides opportunity and redemption for a formerly incarcerated staff. Clyde, the shops strong-willed and callous owner suppresses them, but despite it all the staff learn to reclaim their purpose and inspiration allowing themselves to dream. The NY Times says this about Clyde’s, “We are living in Greek times…The systems that control our lives—institutional racism, predatory capitalism, the prison-industrial complex—seem as powerful and implacable as gods. What can humans do about fate, [other] playwrights suggest, but submit to it and hope to preserve the story?… But Nottage’s delightful play, Clyde’s…dares to flip the paradigm.” Nottage’s brilliance as a storyteller is how she can simultaneously bring the ills of our society to the fore and reveal the humanity in a bright comedy.
Clyde’s
premiered on Broadway in 2021 and in 2023, it became the most staged play in the United States according to American Theatre magazine’s annual survey.
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PRIDE’S CROSSING by Tina Howe
Directed by Kathleen M. McGeever
The Clifford E. White Theater
In Pride’s Crossing, Tina Howe creates a fictional biography of Mabel Tidings Bigelow, a New Englander whose life has traversed over nine decades in the twentieth century. Tina Howe writes in her introduction to the play, “There was a young woman who swam the English Channel in 1926. A new Yorker named Gertrude Ederle. She was nineteen and she beat every record on the books.” Taking her inspiration from Gertrude Ederle and superimposing the “what if” on her elderly aunt, Maddy, Howe has created a complex heroine, Mabel Tidings who becomes a grand figure, specific in her achievement, and universal in the sadness of the expectations of her gender. A memory play, we follow Mabel’s story as she ricochets from decade to decade uncovering her roots that forges her identity — a domineering mother, a distant father, two brothers – one caring, one contentious – and an abusive husband. Mable defies adversity, as many of Howe’s heroines do, because they carry remarkable inner strength and find reconciliation. Mable’s peace is in the ocean, swimming. A triumphant and inspiring award-winning play that transcends our expectations!
The world premiere of Pride’s Crossing was presented by the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1997, and the winner of the 1997 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. Playwright Tina Howe, a friend to NAU Theatre, sadly passed in September of 2023. We honor Tina’s place in American Theatre with our production.
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