This weekend (June 12-13), Playwrights’ Arena and Angels Gate Cultural Center present Angels Playfest, readings of new works at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Calif. A number of…
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Seen @CalArts: School of Theater Portfolio Review
[nggallery id=64] In late May, just before graduation, CalArts’ School of Theater held its 2010 Portfolio Review. Graduating and continuing students from the school’s programs in Design and Production were…
Continue reading »The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Explores Relationships among Women
[nggallery id=50] The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, best known as a melodramatic 1972 film by German director-screenwriter-actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was originally written for the stage by Fassbinder….
Continue reading »The Crane Also Rises: CalArts Connection to Coachella’s Ascension
[nggallery id=49] Anyone who attended the Coachella or Stagecoach festivals in recent weeks in Indio, Calif., couldn’t miss the giant origami crane towering over the festival grounds. The art installation,…
Continue reading »John King’s Dice Thrown at CalArts this Weekend
John King’s Dice Thrown begins its two-day run at CalArts tomorrow (April 23-24). Based on the visual poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” by Stéphane Mallarmé, the…
Continue reading »Director Henry Selick at CalArts Last Week to Talk Animation
Writer-director-producer and CalArts alum Henry Selick (Film/Video MFA 77) returned to campus on Thursday morning for a visiting artist lecture before a crowd of rapt animation staff, faculty and students…
Continue reading »Actors Showcase: Highlighting Talent from CalArts’ School of Theater
On Monday (April 19), 31 graduating MFA and BFA students from CalArts’ School of Theater will hit the boards of the Falcon Theater in Burbank for the school’s annual Actors…
Continue reading »Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood at CalArts this Weekend
In the Blood, which first premiered in 1999, is playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ first take on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The play follows Hester, La Negrita, an illiterate mother of…
Continue reading »Circle X Theater Company’s Lascivious Something Opens in LA this Weekend
[nggallery id=45] Two CalArts School of Theater graduates Olivia Henry (Theater BFA 08) and Alina Phelan (Theater BFA 95) star in the Circle X Theatre Co.’s production of Lascivious Something,…
Continue reading »Actor Ewan MacGregor Discusses Career and Craft with CalArts Students
[nggallery id=43] Actor Ewan McGregor doesn’t play a certain “type” in his roles. In the 1996 film Trainspotting, McGregor portrayed a hard-to-forget heroin addict. Three years later, he took on…
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