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Theater & Arts<br />
Comedic Classic ‘Tartuffe’ Opens At CSUSB Nov. 13<br />
A Provocative Take On A Comedic Classic<br />
Cal State San Bernardino’s Theatre Arts Department in <strong>November</strong><br />
will kick off its 50 th Anniversary main stage season with a wickedly<br />
powerful and provocative take on an old tale, Tartuffe, by Molière.<br />
This comedic classic from 1664 was the center of great controversy and<br />
censorship upon its release, and has now been masterfully adapted by David<br />
Ball, making it just as relevant and poignant as the day it first debuted.<br />
Tickets Now Online For<br />
Calimesa Christmas Concert<br />
Internet ticket sales for the<br />
annual Christmas Concert<br />
sponsored by Calimesa Community<br />
Concerts are underway.<br />
The Gary Bonner Singers and<br />
Orchestra will be featured in three<br />
concerts on Dec. 18 and 19 at the<br />
Calimesa Seventh-day Adventist<br />
Church.<br />
The concert, titled Bethlehem<br />
Skies, is a return engagement for<br />
the musicians. Dr. Bob Soderblom,<br />
founding director of the<br />
Calimesa concerts, notes the<br />
Bonner groups have previously<br />
made several sold-out appearances<br />
in Calimesa.<br />
The concert series is currently<br />
in its 30 th season. Its annual<br />
Christmas concert is known as the<br />
Candlelight Festival of Music and<br />
Lights.<br />
As before, this year’s concert<br />
will be directed by Dr. Gary Bonner,<br />
internationally recognized<br />
as a musician and a leader in<br />
advancing Christian choral music<br />
performance. He was the founding<br />
dean of the schools of music at<br />
Azusa Pacific University and later<br />
at California Baptist University,<br />
where he was honored as the university’s<br />
outstanding professor. He<br />
retired from CBU in 2012.<br />
Bonner launched the Gary<br />
Bonner Singers in<br />
1995. Acclaimed for<br />
their musical versatility,<br />
sparkling performance,<br />
and “warm, vibrant<br />
choral tone,” they have completed<br />
21 recordings. The 60-voice<br />
ensemble’s most recent recording,<br />
Legacy Christmas in Concert, is<br />
the live recording of their 2013<br />
Christmas concert. A full orchestra<br />
will accompany the singers in all<br />
three Calimesa performances.<br />
This year’s Calimesa concerts<br />
are at 6pm Friday, Dec.18, and on<br />
Dec. 19 at 4pm and 6pm. Tickets<br />
are $15, $10, $8, and $5. Tickets<br />
can be ordered online from<br />
iTickets.com or by phone at (800)<br />
965-9324.<br />
No tickets will be sold at the<br />
door, and pre-ordered tickets are<br />
nonrefundable.<br />
All three concerts are at the<br />
Calimesa Seventh-day Adventist<br />
Church, 391 Myrtlewood Dr. (4 th<br />
and Myrtlewood) in Calimesa.<br />
The church is chosen to host the<br />
community concert each Christmas<br />
partly because of its long<br />
tradition of beautiful lighting and<br />
decoration to honor the religious<br />
holiday, Soderblom said.<br />
“Early ticket orders have the<br />
best choice of seating for all three<br />
concerts,” he adds.<br />
A dedicated telephone line<br />
provides recorded information<br />
and directions for the concert at<br />
(909) 795-4960. IER<br />
Tartuffe last graced the CSUSB stage in 1990 when then-department<br />
chair Ron Barnes, for whom the theatre was named, directed the classic.<br />
Barnes was a founding faculty member when the college opened in 1965<br />
and founded the theatre arts department 43 years ago in 1972.<br />
It’s the late 1960s, and Orgon, a wealthy family man, has taken in a<br />
stranger by the name of Tartuffe. Tartuffe appears to be an extremely pious<br />
and devout man of religion, and Orgon regards him almost as a saint. Offering<br />
the stranger his best food and drink, Orgon places the needs of his<br />
guest above those of his wife and children, who believe Tartuffe is nothing<br />
more than a con man who pretends to be of the highest moral authority,<br />
but does not practice what he preaches.<br />
Brimming with music, costumes, props and scenery from the 1960s,<br />
this unique take on Tartuffe will be directed by theatre department chair<br />
Terry Donovan Smith. Tartuffe opens Nov. 13-22, with eight performances<br />
at 8pm each night and 2pm matinee performances on Nov. 15, 21<br />
and 22.<br />
The show will then move to the Palm Desert Campus for three additional<br />
performances the weekend of Dec. 5.<br />
Individual and season tickets may be purchased from the CSUSB Theatre<br />
Arts Box Office by phone at (909) 537-5884, or online at theatre.csusb.<br />
edu. Tickets are $6 for students and children under 17; $12 for faculty,<br />
staff, senior citizens and military; $15 for adults. Performances take place<br />
in the Ronald E. Barnes Theatre on the CSUSB campus. Parking at<br />
CSUSB is $6 Monday-Friday and $3 on the weekend. IER<br />
DECEMBER 11-20<br />
TICKET<br />
PRICES<br />
ONLY<br />
$10<br />
It is Christmas Eve, but the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge celebrates no holidays. As<br />
usual, he walks home from his office through the heavy fog to the large, empty<br />
building where he resides alone. Alone, however, is not what he will be this night. At<br />
his front door Scrooge encounters the ghostly face of his dead partner, Jacob Marley,<br />
and will soon learn that Jacob has plans for Scrooge to receive three more visitors<br />
this very evening - visitors who will transform his life.<br />
Sorry, no children under 5 are admitted<br />
RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY PLAYERS<br />
(951) 686-4030<br />
4026 14th St., Riverside<br />
www.riversidecommunityplayers.com<br />
<strong>November</strong>, <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Inland</strong> <strong>Entertainment</strong> <strong>Review</strong> 23
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