http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://calperformances.berkeley.edu/performances/ http://calperformances.berkeley.edu/performances/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:36:06 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34523 Next week: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Handel and Haydn Society.]]> http://calperformances.berkeley.edu/performances/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:10:24 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33893 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/25/playwrightalum-stan-lai-to-discuss-creativity-asian-culture-in-campus-visit/feed/ 0 http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/webcast_Desdemona-Panel.shtml http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/webcast_Desdemona-Panel.shtml#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:52:47 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=20671 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. ]]> http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/webcast_Desdemona-Panel.shtml/feed/ 0 http://tdps.berkeley.edu/blog/2011/10/tdps-costume-shop-hard-at-work-on-period-costumes-for-an-ideal-husband/ http://tdps.berkeley.edu/blog/2011/10/tdps-costume-shop-hard-at-work-on-period-costumes-for-an-ideal-husband/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:50:39 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19431 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. ]]> http://tdps.berkeley.edu/blog/2011/10/tdps-costume-shop-hard-at-work-on-period-costumes-for-an-ideal-husband/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:09:46 +0000 Wendy Edelstein http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1557 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/30/events/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/01/25/events-2/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/01/25/events-2/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:17 +0000 Wendy Edelstein http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=4137 This semester's calendar includes visits from a host of celebrated musicians, filmmakers, artists, and authors, and worldly thinkers. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/01/25/events-2/feed/ 0