Reviewers of the Elephant Room, which had its West Coast premiere earlier this month at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, are going to great lengths to not reveal…
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SummerWorks Festival Features Tuan’s ‘Unstageable’ Play
SummerWorks, one of the largest juried theater festivals in Canada, features more than 40 shows during its 10-day run this month. One of the plays earning the most attention is…
Continue reading »CalArtians Among 2012 Princess Grace Award Winners
The Princess Grace Foundation recently announced its 2012 awards, and among the more than two dozen recipients are CalArts students Vincent Richards, a current MFA student in the School of…
Continue reading »Final Week of NOW Festival Begins Tonight at REDCAT
The 9th Annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival wraps up this week at REDCAT with three new works by performance artist Emily Mast, choreographer Melanie Rios Glaser and theater artist Heather Woodbury….
Continue reading »Video from the Fringe: Aleshea Harris in ‘Oddlie’
Aleshea Harris, an MFA student in CalArts’ Writing for Performance program, is also a poet, singer-songwriter and actress. She’s currently in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe with her one-woman show…
Continue reading »On the Fringe: CalArts Productions at Edinburgh Festival
GODS @ Edinburgh teaser from Alexis Macnab on Vimeo. by Nicholas Katzban / Special to 24700 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s history stretches back to 1947. For the past nine of…
Continue reading »Week Two: NOW Festival Continues at REDCAT
The New Original Works (NOW) Festival continues this week with three new works for the stage. The week two program includes experimental choreographers Nick+James, sound/video artist and CalArts alumnus Jinku Kim (Music MFA 12)…
Continue reading »REDCAT Festival Celebrates the NOW
[nggallery id=268] The New Original Works (NOW) Festival—REDCAT’s summer celebration of vital new works for the stage—began a three-week run last night in LA featuring artists that challenge traditions and…
Continue reading »LA Art Happenings This Weekend
We’ve gotten a few notices about a number of CalArtian-involved art openings, screenings and other events happening in the Los Angeles area this weekend. Here’s a quick rundown: French filmmaker…
Continue reading »CalArtians Bring ‘Timboctou’ to Mexico
In March, we posted about the world premiere of award-winning Mexican playwright Alejandro Ricaño’s Timboctou at REDCAT. The bilingual collaboration between CalArtian and Mexican artists, will now be remounted for a run in Guadalajara,…
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