hollywood fringe – once more, with feeling

Once More, With Feeling

produced by laura youngkin, not your average bears, 60 minutes, ages 18+

“Chloe’s a drag queen. She’s got somebody tied up on her sofa. Also, that boy and that girl keep breakin’ up and yellin’ about it. Cue the music.”

MOVEABLE PIECE (theater in unexpected places) seeks an experienced playwright

MOVEABLE PIECE (theater in unexpected places) seeks an experienced playwright to lead a site-specific project kickoff session in early May.

Individual will be guiding a select group of playwrights in discussion, experimentation and investigation at the chosen performance location: an active, urban, public park in Hollywood. This opening lab is meant to inspire ideas, snippets, and short plays for the participating writers’ subsequent development and kicks off the company’s theatrical residency at (and investigation of) the site. Session leader is expected to attend the final performance and may be asked to review scripts.

Second, a new show produced by Celeste Den (MFA 04 Acting)

Hello friends!

I am very excited to announce Filament Theatre Co.’s first production of 2010: second. This project is especially close to my heart for so many reasons…

it is our fledgeling theatre company’s first production after coming out of a 2 year hiatus,

Invitation to THE FIFTH STRING

JANET STERNBURG (playwright)

RAFAEL LOPEZ-BARRANTES (director)

MARK MENZIES (composer)

invite you to a staged reading of

THE FIFTH STRING

MAY 3 (MONDAY), 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Room E106 *

This is a repeat reading for all those who couldn’t make it to the enthusiastically received January performance, as well as for other friends of The Fifth String.

international training course for those who are interested in teaching theatre

Fondazione di Venezia - Scuola d’arte drammatica Paolo Grassi

TEACHING THEATRE

international training course for those who are interested in teaching theatre

directed by Anatolij Vasiliev

scientific coordinator Maurizio Schmidt with the collaboration of Cristina Palumbo

“bobrauschenbergamerica”: New Theatrical Homage to Artist Robert Rauschenberg | Goldstar

Alum Chris Payne (MFA Acting 06) is appearing in TheSpyAnts Theatre Company presention of the Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee’s kaleidoscopic play, bobrauschenbergamerica, a wild road trip through the American landscape. Through a collage of people and places, of music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, it's a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter.

An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith: Stories from the Front Lines of Care

Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m.

The California Endowment’s
Center for Healthy Communities
1000 N. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

A director of a South African orphanage comforts a teen infected with AIDS. A doctor in a New Orleans public hospital evacuates patients after Hurricane Katrina. Lance Armstrong and Gov. Ann Richards battle cancer. These are just a few of the stories Anna Deavere Smith brings to life in her new, acclaimed one-woman play, Let Me Down Easy, a collection of firsthand accounts of health care from those who have experienced it most intimately. Join us as Smith—playwright, actress, New York University professor and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient—performs excerpts from Let Me Down Easy and discusses what the project taught her about health, mortality, the human body and the care we give it.

Moveable Piece Theater seeks full-length plays for Staged Readings

Moveable Piece Theater of Los Angeles, CA seeks full-length plays for its monthly Staged Reading in a Bar series.

What we seek:
* New or under-produced scripts
* At least ~40 mins long
* To be read in the back room of a bar
* SoCal playwrights preferred
* Playwrights are requested to attend reading

Open to the Institute- Performance by Beto Araiza on Thursday, January 14th at 2:00 p.m. in MOD Theater

On Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. enjoy an interactive performance by renowned spoken-word artist, Alberto “Beto” Araiza in the MOD Theater. This event is sponsored by the First Year Experience program. We hope that the CalArts community will enjoy this presentation of, “Life of the Artist: The Passion Point/Part Two”.

VSA arts Playwright Discovery Call for Scripts

The VSA arts Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. Playwrights may write from their own experience or about an experience in the life of another person or fictional character. Scripts can be comedies, dramas, or even musicals—be creative! Young playwrights with and without disabilities are encouraged to submit a script. Entries may be the work of an individual student or a collaboration by a group or class of students.

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