
CSUSB’s Department of Theatre Arts brings you the 2022-23 season, “We’re Back and in Your Face!” with the first play, “A View From the Bridge,” coming to the Ronald E. Barnes Theatre Nov. 11-20.

Stan and Ellen Weisser show their dedication to advancing CSUSB by helping students succeed and making higher education a priority for all.

The Sept. 7 event brought nearly 300 CSUSB administrators, faculty, staff, students and community members together in the Santos Manuel Student Union South to officially break ground for the new 73,337-square-foot Performing Arts Center.

The performing arts programs at CSUSB shape students into well-rounded individuals, giving them the artistic integrity and professional skillset to advance to successful futures in a wide-range of careers.

The nearly $127 million construction project will add a new Performing Arts Center and is scheduled to open during the 2024-25 academic year. The ceremony has been moved indoors due to extreme heat in the forecast, and is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, in the Santos Manuel Student Union South.

CSUSB’s Opera Theatre presents “I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky,” set in Los Angeles circa 1994 during the Northridge earthquake, on Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Recital Hall.

This contemporary adaptation based on Homer’s classic poem “The Odyssey” will drop on the Department of Theatre Arts’ Vimeo channel for four performances beginning May 14.

The construction and renovation project would add two new buildings to campus including a new Performing Arts Center and an academic building that would serve as an anchor to the College of Arts and Letters.

David Yaghoubian (history), Kelly Campbell (psychology) and Stacey Fraser (music) are included in various news media coverage.