The show begins at 8 p.m. Following the performance, Rivera will talk to members of the audience. The Studio Theatre is located in Nordhoff Hall on the southwest side of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

The Obie Award-winning play, directed at CSUN by César Holguín, takes place on a moonlit summer night in Barstow, where a young housewife awaits the return of her husband, a soldier in the first Gulf War. He has won two Obie Awards for playwriting and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Grant. Other awards are a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in playwriting, the Whiting Foundation Writing Award and a McKnight Fellowship. He was a writer-in-residence at London's Royal Court Theatre and co-created/produced the NBC-TV series, "Eerie, Indiana."

"References of Salvador Dalí," which has received rave reviews for performances across the country, runs Sept. 10-12, 15-19 and 22-26. Curtain is at 8 p.m., except on Wednesdays, when it is at 7 p.m., and on Sundays, when it is at 3 p.m.