The Conservatory of Music Artist-in-Residence, mezzo-soprano Milena Kitic, will be the featured soloist for the Beethoven 9th Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall under conductor Charles Dickerson on Monday, August 26 Monday at 7:30 pm. It is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Founded by associate professor of theatre Tamiko Washington, OC-centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival returns to campus for its third straight year. OC-centric brings Chapman theatre majors together to work alongside professional actors and directors. The festival is promoted across the Southland and is quickly becoming a destination for exciting new theatre. Tickets
Assistant professor of theatre Donald Guy and associate professor of dance Alicia Guy co-taught the TH351 theatre travel course in June and July 2013. Twenty-one College of Performing Arts students joined them on a 23-day long journey that included visiting 5 countries and 19 cities. The course afforded the students the opportunity to tour many ancient
John Benitz, associate professor of theatre, has won a $10,000 Community Stories grant from Cal Humanities to travel throughout California with his production of If All the Sky Were Paper by Andrew Carroll. The grant will allow the California War Letters Preservation Project to identify, film, and post on the web the stories of California veterans, in
Bella Staav (’13) has been hired to act as the 2013 Summer Coordinator for Orange County’s Pacific Symphony. She has served in several different roles in the organization over the past several years, from Education Intern and Musical Playground Coordinator to Operations Intern most recently. Congratulations Bella!
The TH 329: Dramaturgy class taught by Dr. Jocelyn L. Buckner received a Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival for their dramaturgical work on the Department of Theatre’s spring production of Stage Door , by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber and directed by Dr. Nina LeNoir. B.A. Theatre major Stephanie
Theatre majors Michael Lee (’13), Katey Phillips (’14) and Francesca Muscolo-Arlt (’15) have recently been awarded Cirque du Soleil internships. Michael will take an internship on the production of O at the Bellagio in Lighting and Automation, Katey will be a wardrobe crew intern on Zarkana at the Aria, and Francesca will be a wardrobe crew intern
Eternal Thou by Matthew McCray (’98) will be presented at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA from June 6-9, 2013. Framed by the spiritual philosophies of the mystic Martin Buber, Eternal Thou is a high-tech science fiction drama about the future of the Internet and man’s search for spiritual enlightenment. In Eternal Thou, the
In March 2013, assistant professor of theatre Jocelyn Buckner presented the paper “’The History of America is the History of Private Property’: The Politics of Home, Humor, Hate, and History in Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun ,” and served as panel chair for “Staging the Nation: Three Centuries of Constructing
Music alumnus Brett Sprague (’10) has been accepted into the competitive apprentice program at Chautauqua Opera for the 2013 summer season. He will perform Rector Adams in Peter Grimes . The Chautauqua Opera Young Artist program was formally established in 1966, followed by the creation of a Studio Artist program in 1981. In