A.S. Theatre Arts Program
Kingsborough Theatre Arts Production Seasons
Production Philosophy
Kingsborough Theatre Arts produces a season of plays and musicals each semester. The program aims to offer production experiences each year in both our Lighthouse Theatre, a 299-seat proscenium theatre, and our Acting Studio, an intimate, flexible performance space, seating audiences between 50-60 people. The program is dedicated to providing our students with educationally-centered and artistically-rich production experiences that explore a broad range of theatrical works. While we believe that it is important to feature works that have previously been seen as canonical, Kingsborough Theatre Arts also looks to question the theatrical canon by featuring theatrical works written by artists of color, queer artists, women artists and artists with varying abilities. We see our production season not only as a necessary educational laboratory for our theatre students but also as an artistic service to our community by providing theatrical productions that foster empathy, conversation, and connection across our college campus. It is through these production experiences that we strive to further the education of our students, enrich the artistic life of our college, and position theatre as a centerpiece of civic discourse in our college community.
Kingsborough Theatre Arts Production History (2007 – 2024)
2023-2024 Season
Everybody by Branden Jacobs Jenkins
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by Greg Allen
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical by Rob Rokiki and Joe Tracz
2022-2023 Season (return to in-person performances & audience)
The Amateurs by Jordan Harrison
Big Love by Charles Mee
2021-2022 Season (live-streamed from the Lighthouse Theatre)
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman & The Tectonic Theatre Project
Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
2020-2021 Season (entirely online)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Language of Angels by Naomi Iizuka
We’re Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee
2019-2020 Season
Sweat by Lynn Nottage (online)
by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell (online)
Marisol by José Rivera
* Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu
2018-2019 Season
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin
Penny Pinball Presents The Beacons (university premiere) by Georgina Escobar
2017-2018 Season
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Bent by Martin Sherman
Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Detroit ‘67 by Dominique Morrisseau
2016-2017 Season
Antigone, in a version by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Judith Malina
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis
First Date, Music and Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner; book by Austin Winsberg
The Tennessee Williams Festival, An Evening of One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams
2015-2016 Season
Violet by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley, based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts
The Solo Performance Festival, by KCC Theatre Students, led by Prof. Paul Ricciardi
Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam
Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Lillian Groag
2014-2015 Season
Two Gentlemen of Verona adapted by John Guare & Mel Shapiro, Lyrics by John Guare, and Music by Galt MacDermot, based on the play by Shakespeare The Hot ‘L’ Baltimore by Lanford Wilson
2013-2014 Season
Big River by William Hauptman, from the novel by Mark Twain, Music/Lyrics by Roger Miller
Unpacking Home, an empathic exploration of home and homelessness, a collaboration between Kingsborough Communication College, LaGuardia Community College and Artists Striving to End Poverty.
Fabulation (or, The Re-Education of Undine) by Lynn Nottage
2012-2013 Season
Rent by Jonathan Larson
Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory
2011-2012-Season
Working by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, music by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor, and lyrics by Schwartz, Carnelia, Grant, Taylor, and Susan Birkenhead
Almost, Maine by John Cariani
2010-2011 Season
Smokey Joe's Café by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman
2009-2010 Season
Once On This Island, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty
The Trickeries of Scapin by Moliere
2008-2009 Season
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz, with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
2007-2008 Season
Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman Fall
The Vagina Monologues by Even Ensler
All in the Timing by David Ives
* Recipient of four national awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, including distinguished production of a play, distinguished ensemble, distinguished performance by an actor, and the citizen artist award.