Druid Ireland | The New Electric Ballroom:

Dec 2-6:

Branded, marked and scarred by talk,” explains Breda. “Boxed by words.” Humiliated by gossip after a dancehall scandal during their halcyon days, Breda and her similarly past-50 sister Clara have retreated into isolation and obsession. With their much-younger sister Ada, they recount the fateful day and the choices that followed. Enda Walsh’s funny and tender-hearted play reveals how much we are defined by the stories we tell, and how compelled we are to tell them.

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APPLY NOW FOR THE BEUTNER FAMILY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS

Beutner Family Award for Excellence in the Arts APPLICATION PDF

Austin Beutner, Chair of the CalArts Board of Trustees, and his wife Virginia made a gift of $1 million to help twenty extraordinary CalArts students complete their studies and make strong entrances to professional life.  The primary consideration for this award is the applicants’ excellence in pursuit of their métier and potential for promising careers in the arts.

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Teatr Zar | Triptych

Dec 1-3:
Years in the making, Teatr Zar’s “Triptych” is an intimate, haunting experience. The Wroclaw-based troupe employs a revolutionary theatrical method emphasizing ritual movement, ancient sacred songs and visceral acting techniques that dissolve the separation between actors and spectators. In three discrete sections—“Gospels of Childhood,” “Caesarean Section” and “Anhelli”—these ingredients meld into potent stories of love, death, suicide and redemption. Director Jaroslaw Fret and his international cast present “Triptych” for a very limited audience in Royce Hall.

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6th Annual Artivist Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood

Join us DECEMBER 1-5, 2009 for the 6th Annual Artivist Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.  ”ARTIVIST” is the first international film festival dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children’s Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Advocacy. Filmmakers from around the world unite at the annual Artivist to address the importance of Art and Advocacy in our global community.
Artivist has announced “LA MISSION”, Directed by Peter Bratt and Starring Benjamin Bratt, as this year’s Opening Night Film. Screening 45 independent, narratives, documentaries, shorts, and experimental films from around the globe, the festival concludes with The 2009 Artivist Awards on Saturday, December 5th.  The Artivist Awards honors the festival’s winning Films, Filmmakers, and the contributions of Celebrity advocates.  Past Artivist Award recipients include: Ted Danson, Alyssa Milano, Joaquin Phoenix, Mira Sorvino, Ed Begley, Jr., James Cromwell, and Claes Nobel of the NOBEL Prize family.

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Lighting Student Daphne Mir makes a splash at LDI

Daphne Mir appears here at the LDI2009 tweetup. Adam Frank, MFA1 lighting, and communications assistant, Ian Garrett also made it to Orlando for the biggest annual lighting show!

Help Mississippi Damned

MFA Management  Student Alessandra Brown has been working as Producer’s Assistant at Morgan’s Mark since May. All summer they’ve been spreading the word about their movie Mississippi Damned (MD), starring CalArts Alum Simbi Khali-Williams, on the film festival circuit. This summer MD has won 10 awards on the film festival circuit and now they are getting ready for theatrical release in the spring. Most recently at the Chicago International Film Festival, Mississippi Damned won awards including the Jury Awards for best supporting actress Jossie Harris Thacker, best screenplay and best feature film. Also Tina Mabry, the film’s director has recently been named one of Out Magazine’s Top 100 people to know.

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24700 » Annette Bening Talks to CalArts Theater School Students about Life, Career

That was just one of the bits of advice offered by acting great Annette Bening to CalArts’ School of Theater students and faculty at an all-school meeting last Friday in the Coffeehouse Theater on campus.

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hollywood fringe – participant registration open

Participant registration for the Hollywood Fringe Festival is now open. We welcome artists and producers around the world to join the Fringe in Los Angeles.

Registering for the Fringe is a three step process:

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Crime and Punishment at A Noise Within

Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus
Directed by Craig Belknap
October 10-December 17, 2009


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This thrilling new adaptation of a towering masterpiece–undertaken by three actors in 90 breathless minutes–explores the exquisite fragility of the mind.  In a desperate quest to be redeemed for the perpetration of an unspeakable crime, brilliant Raskolnikov embodies humankind’s eternal struggle between enlightened genius and the temptation of  evil.

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Assistant Director at the Odyssey Theatre

The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is looking for an assistant director for its upcoming production of “A Song at Twilight” by Noel Coward with Orson Bean, Alley Mills and Laurie O’Brien. Rehearsal will start December 27th (probably daytime rehearsals in the first two weeks, then evenings). The opening is January 16th. James Glossman from New York will direct. This is a great possibility to get involved at the Odyssey Theatre!

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