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 “Doubt,”
a drama evoking child-abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic
Church in the United States, makes its Fresno premiere Friday, Nov. 2,
in the newly named Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre at California State
University, Fresno.
“Doubt” is directed by Kathleen McKinley, a professor in the Department
of Theatre Arts at Fresno State. Miles Villaneuva plays a priest who may
be too close to one of the junior high students in the parish school and
Hayley Galbraith and Rhiannon Fernandaz play nuns suspicious of the
priest’s actions.
The presentation of John Patrick Shanley’s much-praised drama, which
debuted in 2004, is University Theatre’s second production of its
2007-08 season.
It will be staged in what formerly was the Arena Theatre, part of the
Speech Arts Building. It was renamed Oct. 19 in honor of the Woods’
whose gift to the university triggered a matching gift that allowed for
substantial work to begin on refurbishing and modernizing the theater.
This production will benefit from new lighting equipment installed last
spring. Improvements are scheduled for the Green Room and theater
seating.
The curtain rises on “Doubt” at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2. Additional
performances are scheduled at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, and Nov. 6-10. A
matinee will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4. A reception paying tribute
to the Woods’ generosity is scheduled after Saturday’s performance.
Tickets are $15 general; $13 for Fresno State faculty, staff and Alumni
Association members, seniors (60 and older) and non-Fresno State
students; $8 Fresno State students. No one under 5 will be admitted.
Tickets are available from the University Theatre Box Office from noon
to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday near the north entrance to the Speech Arts
Building (5201 N. Maple Ave.): telephone 559.278.2216; fax 559.278.7215;
online
www.csufresno.edu/Theatre.
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