David Harrower’s play Blackbird made its Los Angeles premiere earlier this month at Rogue Machine inside Theatre/Theater in Los Angeles, and Sam Anderson—known to millions as the good-hearted, yet hapless…
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Film Fridays: MOTH, an Opera
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. Today’s Film Fridays selection is a trailer…
Continue reading »Russian, CalArts Theater Collaboration Featured in The Washington Post
[nggallery id=178] During this past Spring semester, students from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in Moscow traveled 6,000 miles to work with CalArts’ School of Theater students, and earlier…
Continue reading »International Theater Festival Puts LA on the RADAR
[nggallery id=176] RADAR L.A.—an international festival of contemporary theater—runs this week (June 14-19) to coincide with the Theatre Communications Group (TCG)’s national conference in Los Angeles. Influential theater ensembles from…
Continue reading »2011 Alpert Award Winners Announced
[nggallery id=172] On May 19 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, The Herb Alpert Foundation and CalArts announced the 2011 winners of the 17th Alpert Award in the Arts. …
Continue reading »Video: Annette Bening, Donald McKayle Receive Honorary Degrees from CalArts
At CalArts graduation last Friday, the Institute conferred two honorary doctorate degrees to stage and screen actress Annette Bening and, dancer, choreographer and educator Donald McKayle. After receiving their degrees,…
Continue reading »CAP Students Present Life is a Dream (La Vida es Sueño) at REDCAT
[nggallery id=171] Teen theater students put a contemporary spin on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 17th Century play—Life is a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)—and take a theatrical classic back…
Continue reading »Two by Tuan: New Works by Playwright to be Read at Los Angeles Theater Center
Two new plays by Alice Tuan, the head of the Writing for Performance program, will be read at Los Angeles Theatre Center this week, featuring CalArts talent. A staged reading…
Continue reading »School of Theater’s 2011 Design and Production Portfolio Review
[nggallery id=166] Graduating and continuing students from the CalArts School of Theater’s programs in Design and Production will present their portfolios to visitors and industry recruiters alike on Monday (May…
Continue reading »2011 New Works Festival Celebrates Risk-Taking with a Purpose
The School of Theater’s New Works Festival (NWF) kicked off last week with a diverse lineup of projects on the schedule—including a 6 am Psychedelic Ukulele Blues concert, an Architectural…
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