Fundraising Goal for the Center for the Arts Has Been Met
Chapman University has raised enough money to cover the cost of the $64 million Center for the Arts. President Jim Doti announced in his 2012 State of the University address that the center’s cost had increased from $50 million after Chapman realized it would need to place the center partially underground because of the City
Music and Theatre Alumni Touring Together in Les Miserables!
The College of Performing Arts reported last year Theatre alum Rachel Rincione (’02) landed a role in the ensemble in the new 25th anniversary U.S. touring company of Les Miserables. Now she is joined by Music alum Weston Olson (’04) in the role of Courfeyrac! The tour will stop
Elie Wiesel to Appear in the Waltmar Theatre
On April 16, The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and the Department of Theatre will present “A Readers’ Theatre Evening: Excerpts from The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel”, directed by Theatre Chair Nina LeNoir. Set in a Ukrainian village in 1649, following a pogrom in which all but two of the village’s Jews were
Artist-in-Residence Carol Neblett to Appear in Follies at the Ahmanson Theatre
Carol Neblett , Artist-in-Residence at the Conservatory of Music, will be playing the role of Heidi Schiller in Follies, The Kennedy Center’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, which will be transferring to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from May 3 through June 9, 2012. When
Dance Alumna Wins "Dance Under the Stars" Grand Prize
Dance alumna Elke Calvert (’11) won the Division II Grand Prize Award at the Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival with her original choreography, “Framed”, working with pre-professional dancers, at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert. The Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival is dedicated to the advancement of dance as an art form,
The Rimers of Eldritch: A Dark, Contemporary "Our Town"
The Department of Theatre had originally planned to produce the classic stage play Our Town this spring. When, unexpectedly, the rights were no longer available, the Department Chair, Dr. Nina LeNoir, had to find a replacement for the season. “I didn’t have to look very far,” she says, “as the Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson’s play,
Dance and Music Students Tour the Western United States During Interterm
The Chapman University Dance Touring Ensemble, directed by assistant professor of dance Alicia Okouchi-Guy, consists of an elite group of 14 dance majors who rehearsed throughout the fall semester for an interterm tour of numerous high schools in Southern California as well as throughout the San Francisco and San Jose area and Las Vegas. This
Theatre Majors Off to Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival!
The Chapman University Department of Theatre is fielding a team of 16 actors to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition at the Region VIII Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Ogden, Utah, February 7-11, 2012. Since 1972, the Irene Ryan Foundation has awarded scholarships to the outstanding student
Dance Major Spends Interterm Performing on Both Coasts
Current dance major Zak Schlegel (’13) has been hard at work over the winter break. Zak is performing with Backhausdance, the award-winning Orange County modern dance company formed by alumna Jennifer Backhaus (’94). First stop was New York City, where he danced in Backhausdance’s “Incandescent” for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference.
Meet Artist-in-Residence Carol Neblett
Internationally renowned operatic soprano Carol Neblett has been appointed Artist-in-Residence in the Conservatory of Music by Chapman University Chancellor Daniele Struppa. The College of Performing Arts is delighted that Ms. Neblett’s tenure with the institution has been recognized in this official capacity. Ms. Neblett will coach opera students, helping them to develop in their