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The prolific director/playwright Stan Lai comes home to the Berkeley campus to talk about contemporary theater, culture and creativity in Asia and the United States — and what the world would be like without theater.
Tag: theater
Cal Performances kicks off 2013-14 season
April 23, 2013:
Next week: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Handel and Haydn Society.
Desdemona takes the microphone: A conversation with Toni Morrison
November 17, 2011:
In conjunction with Cal Performances’ recent U.S. premiere of “Desdemona,” the Townsend Center for the Humanities brought together the project’s collaborators — director Peter Sellars, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and singer/songwriter Rokia Traoré — in conversation with faculty members Abdul JanMohamed (English), Tamara Roberts (music); Darieck Scott (African American Studies). Video of the event is now available.
Costume shop creates period wardrobe for Oscar Wilde play
October 31, 2011:
For the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies production of “An Ideal Husband,” staff and students are creating 19th-century period costumes from scratch, based on designs by Cal alum B. Modern. The student production runs Nov. 11 through 20.
Coming attractions: A short list of the campus’s enticing fall events
August 30, 2010:
This semester’s rich range of cultural offerings includes a daylong cornucopia of free arts performances, as well as appearances by violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff, the much-loved Mark Morris Dance Group, director and outside-the-box thinker Peter Greenaway, and bestselling writer David Sheff.
Coming attractions: A short list of spring’s enriching experiences
January 25, 2010:
This semester’s calendar includes visits from a host of celebrated musicians, filmmakers, artists, and authors, and worldly thinkers.
