Earlier this semester at CalArts, School of Theater faculty member LisaGay Hamilton directed an acting workshop on playwright Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek. Hamilton’s theater acting credits…
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Charles Phoenix Presents Retro Holiday Slide Show at REDCAT
[nggallery id=”221″] This Sunday (Dec. 18), pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix comes to REDCAT bearing his large collection of vintage slides documenting holidays past. The connoisseur of Americana, Southern California…
Continue reading »School of Theater Presents The Firebugs, Taco Time
As the Fall semester wraps up at CalArts, the School of Theater presents two new productions beginning this week. The Firebugs, directed by Deena Selenow (Theater MFA 2), will run…
Continue reading »Disney Creative Entertainment Brings Dance Workshop to CalArts
[nggallery id=”220″] On Tuesday (Nov. 29), The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts welcomed team members from Walt Disney Creative Entertainment to campus to conduct a career-training workshop…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Puppeteer Pulls Strings on The Muppets
[nggallery id=217] With the feature film The Muppets opening nationwide this week, puppeteer Chase Woolner, a fourth-year BFA student in CalArts’ School of Theater, can cross another item off his…
Continue reading »Boxing Bout In the Jungle of Cities Opens Tonight
In the Jungle of Cities, a play written by legendary playwright and German modernist Bertolt Brecht, tells the story of a battle of life and death between two metaphorical boxers…
Continue reading »Gregor’s Big Red Balloon Floats into the Coffeehouse Theater this Weekend
This weekend the CalArts School of Theater presents workshop performances of Gregor’s Big Red Balloon, written by Sarah Louise Wilson (Theater BFA 01) and co-directed by Randall Whittinghill (BFA Theater…
Continue reading »CalArts’ Walt Disney Modular Theater Transforms into The House of Bernarda Alba
[nggallery id=”214″] Starting this Friday at 8 pm, a production of Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba opens at The Walt Disney Modular Theater on the…
Continue reading »Lauded Playwright David Greenspan Previews New Work at CalArts Tomorrow
Praised by The New York Times as “the Downtown art world’s greatest secret weapon [in the battle against theatrical mediocrity],” New York playwright, director, and performer David Greenspan brings a…
Continue reading »Heather Ehlers SPINs Life into Art in L.A. and New York
Theater School Faculty Heather Ehlers performed her one-woman show, SPIN for enthusiastic audiences at the Electric Lodge in Venice Oct. 27-30. She takes the show to The United Solo Festival…
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