California State University, Fullerton's College of the Arts is set to captivate audiences with an array of artistic performances and events, ranging from emotionally charged plays to mesmerizing jazz ensembles. This season, immerse yourself in a diverse palette of creative expressions, with highlights including the Composer's Forum, a gripping theatrical production of 'Really Really,' and the harmonious sounds of the Titan Voices & Singing Titans. Join us in celebrating the vibrant arts culture that the university has to offer, showcasing the talents of both students and professionals.

A Symphony of Arts: Celebrating Creativity at California State University, Fullerton

California State University, Fullerton's College of the Arts is set to host an array of vibrant performances and exhibitions that celebrate the diverse world of arts. From the stirring arias of the University Symphony Orchestra's Student Concerto/Aria Competition to the dynamic rhythms of the World Citizen Band and Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble, this series of events offers something for every art enthusiast. With highlights including the much-anticipated 'Hajar - Opera In Concert' and an engaging Arts Week 2025, the campus will transform into a hub of creativity and artistic exploration.

A Week of Artistic Excellence at California State University, Fullerton

Arts Week is a university-wide educational program that showcases all disciplines of the College of the Arts, including Visual Arts, Dance, Music, and Theatre. It provides a spotlight for artists to shine while collaborating with faculty and professionals in the field of arts.

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Arts Week 2025

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The Box Office is also open one hour prior to scheduled ticketed performances (sales are limited exclusively to that day's performances only).

Maureen Yuen, violin

The World Citizen Band and The Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble

University Symphony Orchestra - Student Concerto/Aria Competition

Hajar - Opera In Concert

Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble and Fullerton Latin Ensemble

Titan Voices & Singing Titans

The play centers around whether a hook-up at a college party was consensual or not and the aftermath among friends, conquests and aquaintances from varying degrees of wealth and privilege or not.

Really Really

Grand Central Theatre

Jazz Small Groups

The Box Office is located on the southwest corner of the Clayes Performing Arts Center. Free 15-minute parking has been moved to inside the Nutwood parking structure. Additional information on 15-minute parking location

Composer's Forum

Cello Choir

“Oh No, Could I Be in Love?” by Jocelyn Raquepau; arr. Matt Falker Soloist: Estela Krivoshia

“But Not for Me” by George and Ira Gershwin Soloist: Valentina Manco

“All at Sea” by Jamie Cullum; arr. Kerry Marsh Soloists- David Wickline and Daphne Master

“Beautiful Friendship” by Donald Kahn; arr. Matt Falker Soloist: Crishelle Bayani

“There Will Never Be Another You” by Harry Warren Soloist: Estela Krivoshia

“Time After Time” by Sammy Chan and June Styne; arr. Kerry Marsh Soloists: Brendan Baxter, Paige Ragan, Vincent Navarro

Jazz Singers

Tuesday Matinée

Horn, Trombone, & Low Brass Ensembles • Steven Mahpar, Michael Hoffman, and Dr. David Holben, directors

The Dwight Richard Odle Box Office is located at the south-west corner of the   Joseph A. W. Clayes III Performing Arts CenterOpens in new window   (CPAC) adjacent to the Nutwood Parking Structure and across from the Visual Arts Complex.

Advanced Vocal Workshop • with guest Michael Schütze, piano

City Recital Hall

The CSUF Opera Theatre presents "Two's Company, Three's a Crowd!" Enjoy an evening of some of opera's greatest duets and trios, as well as a few gems that are off the beaten path. With works by Mozart, Cimarosa, Rossini, Donizetti, Johann Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan, Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, and Philip Glass, this evening of comedy, family squabbles, friendship, romance, and a little bit of horror to boot, has a little something for everyone.

Two's Company, Three's a Crowd!

Have you ever wondered what became of Wendy Darling after her adventures with Peter Pan in Neverland? “Lost Girl” catches up with J.M. Barrie’s beloved character who must find Peter, reclaim her kiss, and move forward with her life. Wendy comes out from behind Peter’s shadow to tell her own coming-of-age story about finding love, overcoming trauma, and entering adulthood.

Lost Girl

Hallberg Theatre

Note: Please check this page prior to the event. If this performance is canceled or postponed, it will be noted here.

The Art of Song - Featuring HEX Vocal Ensemble

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University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus perform Mozart's "Requiem"

University Wind Symphony

Tacos With a Fork is an original piece written by BFA Devised senior, Christian De La Torre. It is a brief look into the upbringing of a young child who struggled with finding a place within his race. From altercations with friends, the color of his skin, and feeling like a fraud as a member of the Hispanic community, this piece tells the story of a young child finding who he is within the ethnic community he was born into.

Tacos With A Fork

Music by Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams, Mina Choi, McCoy Tyner, Count Basie and Eva Scow

Fullerton Jazz Orchestra

Featuring CSUF’s award -winning dancers and choreographers in dynamic performances designed to challenge and engage.


Spring Dance Theatre

CSUF New Music Ensemble & Contemporary Chamber Ensemble • Pamela Madsen and Eric Dries, directors

Guitar Chamber Recital

Pacific Brass Program to feature selections from film and/or video game music.

University Band & Pacific Brass

Free admission
Note: Please check this page prior to the event. If this performance is canceled or postponed, it will be noted here.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is an irreverent satire that skewers politics, social irresponsibility, and even musicals themselves. After a devastating 20-year drought, the government of a Gotham-like city has banned private toilets, forcing citizens to pay admission to a single, sinister company for one of life’s most basic needs. But a brave hero emerges and decides enough is enough and inspires the town to revolt along with him. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown has been hailed for its modern wit, outrageous perspective, and cheeky send ups of the musical genre.


Urinetown The Musical

Young Theatre

The Studio Series is a collection of plays, readings and workshops performed in the Arena Theatre and Grand Central Theatre that challenge our students and audiences to take a deeper look into theatre and the stories that we tell.  The Studio Series is an intimate space where performers, directors and designers are given the opportunity to use their resourcefulness and create a barebones theatrical production.

A Bright New Boise

Living Out

Want to know who murdered my theatre company?  Me.

Seduction?  Check.

Betrayal?  Check.

No checks?  Check.

The desire for the femme fatale and inclusive ambitions?

Accidentally On Purpose

Marisol Perez is a young, big city professional whose life abruptly changes when she wakes one morning to find the world has become a dystopian battleground: Brooklyn is a war zone, coffee is extinct, the moon has disappeared, and angels are trading in their wings for machine guns. Amidst the chaos, Marisol remains resolute in her mission to salvage what hope remains amidst the rubble of the apocalypse. Winner of the 1993 Obie Award, “Marisol” is a harrowing and timely dark fantasy that keeps you “laughing right through the misery” - Los Angeles Times .

Marisol

Join Cal State Fullerton’s dancers and choreographers for an evening of expressive, captivating performances on the intimate 12’ x 16’ stage of Grand Central Theater.

12 x 16 DANCE

Grand Central Art Center

SO Percussion

Fall Dance Theatre: “In Tandem,” features guest artist and alum  Bradley BeakesOpens in new window  and works by faculty and student dancers and choreographers.

Fall Dance Theatre "in Tandem"

Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Musical, A Chorus Line follows seventeen dancers as they audition for one spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, the fictionalized show’s choreographer asks the remaining dancers to talk a bit about themselves, revealing their individuality and humanity. Based on the stories of real Broadway dancers, A Chorus Line continues to be as funny, heart wrenching, and refreshingly honest as it was when it opened nearly 50 years ago.

A Chorus Line

In 1986, a group of LGBTQ activists from Chicago’s “Boystown” are weary - they have been fighting City Hall to pass the “Gay Rights Ordinance” since 1972. Enter a group of Catholic Sisters who band together with the activists while embroiled in their own fight for equal rights within the church. And in the middle, Pablo, a musician searching for his place in the world. Inspired by true events, The Boys and the Nuns is an examination of identity, belonging, and faith, woven together with the music of the 80s, from Spanish language power ballads to synthy new wave to Chicago’s homegrown house music.

The Boys And The Nuns

welfth Night  is a classically Shakespearean comedy of unrequited love and gender confusion. When aristocratic twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck (and both think the other is dead), they are forced to fend for themselves in a strange town. Along the way, Viola disguises herself as a man (Cesario) to be near the count she loves, Orsino, who dotes on OIivia. But Olivia, who is idolized by Malvolio, falls for Cesario. Enter Sebastian, a near look-alike of his sister, who resurfaces to heighten the confusion – and comedy – of their romantic predicaments. In this reimagining of  Twelfth Night, director Collette Rutherford transports her cast to a coastal Italian resort town at the height of the 1920s Jazz Age

Twelfth Night

Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

Love And Information

The Revolutionists is a new play about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe De Gouge, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, loose their heads and try to beat back the extremist insanity in the Paris of 1793. What was a hopeful revolution for the people is now sinking into hyper violent hypocritical male rhetoric. However will modern audiences relate. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.

The Revolutionists

When teenagers Eli and Oskar meet, Eli tells Oskar “I can’t be friends with you. Just so you know.” But despite all the reasons why they think they couldn’t – or shouldn’t – be friends, they develop a deep devotion to one another that changes their lives forever. Based on the acclaimed novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, boundless love prevails over immense fear, menacing bullies, negligent adults, and truly horrifying events.

California State University, Fullerton College of the Arts

7 - 11 Apr, 2025

Arts Week 2025

Feb 27, 2025

Maureen Yuen, violin

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