Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform the first of Shakespeare’s late romances, a strange and powerful tale of loss and recovery.

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrei Belgrader

Performances

Saturday, February 6, 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 7, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, February 17, 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 21, 2:30 p.m.
Friday, February 26, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 8 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Saturday 03/06/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform Charles Mee’s play, which reinvents the classic Euripides work on a modern-day battlefield.

By Charles Mee
Directed by David Bridel

Euripides after-war play Orestes is reset in today’s world. Veterans return from the Trojan War, only to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home with them and rendered their homeland in ruins forever.

Performances

Saturday, February 6, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 7, 2:30 p.m.
Friday, February 19, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 20, 8 p.m.
Thursday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 28, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 3, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Saturday 03/06/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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Graduating M.F.A. in Acting students perform Don Nigro’s play about Arthurian legends reborn in the Civil War era.

By Don Nigro
Directed by Andrew J. Robinson

Fisher King earned Don Nigro a Playwriting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performances

Saturday, February 13, 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 14, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 18, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 20, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 24, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 8 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Saturday 02/13/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre (SCD)

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Music from Thornton faculty members Veronika Krausas, Kristy Morrell (French horn) and Dennis Trembly (bass).

The performance will feature writer André Alexis, actor John Payne, dancers Bianca Sapetto and Daniel Passer, and the photos of James Jacobsen and Thaddeus Holownia. Also featured will be Thornton School D.M.A. students Debra Penberthy (voice), Nick Terry (percussion) and Laura Odegaard (clarinet).
 
Veronika Krausas’ works have been described as possessing an “organic, lyrical sense of storytelling [which is] supported by a rigid formal elegance [that] give her audiences a sense that nature’s frozen objects are springing to life” (The Globe and Mail, Canada).

Sunday 02/21/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Alfred Newman Recital Hall

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In a phenomenal show, America’s most acclaimed tap dancer reveals the essence of tap.

The trailblazing Savion Glover will present Bare Soundz, “a remarkable explosion of steel on wood” (The Washington Post). Glover and two additional dancers perform without musical accompaniment; the dancers themselves become the musicians, creating a thrilling and hard-hitting performance of music through dance.

Savion Glover is a Tony-winning winner, hoofer, choreographer and producer who has danced on stages throughout the world. His numerous credits include the Broadway shows The Tap Dance Kid; Black and Blue; Jelly’s Last Jam; and Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk, and the films Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.; Bamboozled by Spike Lee; and Happy Feet, an Academy Award winner choreographed by Glover.

Tuesday 02/23/2010: 7:30 PM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium

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Based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Adapted by Frank Galati
Directed by Stephanie Shroyer

This epic tale of the Joad family's fated trip from the dust bowls of Oklahoma to the "promised land" of California captures Steinbeck's feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country was not so much lost as waiting to be rediscovered.
 
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30  p.m.

Daily: Thursday 03/04/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus McClintock Building

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By Lanford Wilson

Directed by Dan Bonnell 

In rural Missouri just after the Vietnam War... A group of friends who spent their college years together as activists, joined in the idealistic fight for a more peaceful and better world, are now grown up and must reconcile real life with their dreams.

Performance Times:
Thursday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 7, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 03/04/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Cornelius Schnauber’s play imagines composer Richard Wagner in the final hours of his life, conversing with the ghost of Felix Mendelssohn.

Richard Wagner at the window along the Canale Grande. The final hours of his life. He hears the music of Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, dead since 1847, appears from the other side. A dramatic dialogue ensues. Cosima Wagner enters the conversation.  In an erotically bold scene, Wagner’s last lover appears. Once more, Wagner meditates on his life and that terrible knowledge Mendelssohn seemed to have about the future: Hitler, the Nazis? Wagner begins another revision of Tannäuser… and dies.

Performances will take place Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

Dates: 03/26/2010, 03/27/2010, 03/28/2010, 04/02/2010, 04/03/2010, 04/04/2010, 04/09/2010, 04/10/2010, 04/11/2010, 04/16/2010, 04/17/2010, 04/18/2010, 04/23/2010, 04/24/2010, 04/25/2010: All day

MET Theatre 1089 North Oxford Avenue Hollywood CA 90029

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A satellite broadcast of The Metropolitan Opera’s unforgettable new production of Hamlet, starring Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay.

This event is part of an ongoing series of broadcasts presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.

Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conducted by Louis Langrée. Presented in French with English subtitles.

The opera will be preceded by a discussion hosted by the USC Thornton School of Music.

The opera is presented as a rebroadcast of a live performance taking place at The Metropolitan Opera in New York at 10 a.m. that day.

Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in association with The Metropolitan Opera.

Saturday 03/27/2010: 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre Frank Sinatra Hall

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By the year 2020, will the seductions of virtual worlds triumph over our desires for communal forms of entertainment?

A panel discussion moderated by Martin Kaplan, director of the USC Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, will ask whether people will still go to the theater and movies as home entertainment becomes more sophisticated. In turn, how will this affect the business of entertainment and our culture as a whole?

The discussion will feature Mark Murphy, executive director of REDCAT, an interdisciplinary arts center housed at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Richard Schickel, film critic, historian and documentary-maker; and Tracy Fullerton, associate professor in interactive media at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab.

Organized by the USC Libraries and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities

Monday 03/29/2010: 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Room 233

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By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Jason Robert Brown

Written in the tradition of early Greek tragedies, The Alcestiad tells the story of Admetus, King of Thessaly; his wife, Alcestis; and the triumphs and tragedies they endure as favorites of the god Apollo.

Daily: Thursday 04/01/2010 - Sunday 04/04/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by John Rubinstein

A childless couple goes in search of the materials necessary to lift a witch's curse. A seamless fusion of fairy tale characters and what happens after "happily ever after," Into the Woods is a music lover's delight from start to finish, featuring songs such as Children Will Listen and No One Is Alone. What begins as a lively, irreverent fantasy becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 2 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 PM & 8:00 PM
Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 PM
Thursday, April 8 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 10 at 2:30 PM & 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 11 at 2:30 PM
 

Daily: Thursday 04/01/2010 - Sunday 04/11/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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USC students visit the Ahmanson Theatre to see Dreamgirls, a powerful story of heartbreak and success in show business.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. Due to high demand, tickets will be distributed on a lottery basis. Check-in for the event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 6:15 a.m. and will return to campus at 11:15 p.m.

Dinner will be provided.

The dynamic production Dreamgirls has won six Tonys, two Oscars and two Grammys since its Broadway premiere in 1981. Drawing inspiration from such R&B acts as The Supremes and James Brown, the show follows the tumultuous career of Motown girl group The Dreamettes as it climbs to the top of the charts, revealing the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. This revival of the show, launched at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in November 2009, will include new costumes, innovative set design, and new and revised songs.

Friday 04/02/2010: 6:15 PM - 11:15 PM

Ahmanson Theatre 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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USC students attend the first production in the Western hemisphere of an opera by Franz Schreker, whose career was suppressed in Nazi Germany.

This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited, and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Thursday, March 25, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:30 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12:15 p.m. and will return to campus at 6:15 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

The groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, led by L.A. Opera music director James Conlon, unearths and features works unheard since their suppression by Nazi Germany. Franz Schreker, creator of The Stigmatized, was a well known and respected composer throughout Germany before National Socialist pressure ended his career. The story of this late-Romantic tragedy follows Alviano, deformed but possessing a beautiful soul; beautiful Carlotta, whom he loves; and handsome but predatory Tamare, who offers Carlotta the possibility of a more perilous affair.

Prior to the opera, James Conlon will present a preshow lecture.

Sunday 04/18/2010: 12:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 North Grand Avenue Los Angeles CA 90012

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The talented students of the Thornton Opera Program and the Thornton Chamber Orchestra present their spring production.

Presented as part of Ring Festival L.A., a citywide cultural festival celebrating the first-ever presentation in Los Angeles of the four-opera drama The Ring of the Nibelung.
   
April 21, 6 p.m.
Pre-concert talk with Ken Cazan, conductor, and James Kincaid, resident stage director

April 21 and 23, 8 p.m.
April 25, 2 p.m.
Performances

Join us for a fun, funny, sexy, colorful and bright evening of Italian opera. Wagner’s second opera, Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), is based on Shakespeare’s thoughtful comedy Measure for Measure.

The West Coast premiere of Das Liebesverbot will be set in 1930s Sicily as a desperately needed Depression era party. Friedrich, the German interim governor of Palermo, has declared a ban on lovemaking, under penalty of death. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is Carnival, the wild, anything goes time of year in Italy! The young, upper class Claudio is the first to suffer under love’s ban, sentenced to death for getting his lover, Julia, pregnant. His sister, Isabella, leaves her life in the convent to try to persuade the adamant Friedrich to forgive her brother and repeal the love law. Isabella cleverly traps Friedrich in his own snare, and all ends up happily as the Italians resume their pre-Lenten festivities.
 
The April 21 performance is presented by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative. USC students, staff and faculty can reserve tickets through Visions and Voices by clicking here. For all performances, general public tickets will be available for purchase at the USC Ticket Office. To purchase tickets, go to www.usc.edu/tickets or call (213) 740-4672.

Daily: Wednesday 04/21/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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By Sonja Linden

Directed By: Robert Bailey

Finding themselves in situations that veer from the comic to the tragic, they try to make sense of the British way of life.

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 04/22/2010 - Sunday 04/25/2010; All day

University Park Campus McClintock Building

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David Schweizer directs a darkly satiric musical based on Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man.

The richly imaginative work of the great American novelist Herman Melville has inspired numerous contemporary adaptations, from the opera of Benjamin Britten to the performance art of Laurie Anderson. At this event, USC students will perform a work-in-progress by USC professor Joseph Boone and composer Benjamin Boone, based on Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. This tale unfolds on a Mississippi riverboat on All Fools’ Day, just before the War Between the States threatens to explode and expose the empty promises that lie at the heart of the American Dream.

The play will be directed by David Schweizer, who has won widespread acclaim for his productions in New York City and Los Angeles.

Organized by Joseph Boone (English)

Related Event
September 10-11, 7 p.m. And God Created Great Whales. Rinde Eckert reprises his 2000 Obie Award–winning performance as a monomaniacal composer desperately attempting to complete an opera based on Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Friday 04/23/2010: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Village Gate Theatre

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An exciting evening of dance by the award-winning School of Theatre Repertory Dance Company.

Artistic Advisor: Miranda Garrison

Performance Times:

Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 30 at 7:00 PM
 

Daily: Thursday 04/29/2010 - Friday 04/30/2010; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Join USC’s Max Kade Institute for two days of Richard Wagner-themed discussion, theater and song.

• Wotan’s Ring Parable (street ballad). Text, Cornelius Schnauber. Music, Tom Schnauber. Performance by Christina Linhardt, soprano, and Yulia Levin, piano.
  
• Stage reading: Die Nibelungen Saga. Richard Wagner’s original story of his Ring tetralogy, read by Eric Braeden.
  
• Lectures: “Inventing Germany: Wagner and the National Imagination” by Michael Meyer, CSUN, and “How Anti-Semitic was Richard Wagner?” by Cornelius Schnauber, USC. A panel discussion will follow.
  
• Fasold and Fafner Paint the Town, Ring Rhapsody for Two Wagner Tuben and Piano by Tom Schnauber. Performed by Yulia Levin, piano, and Wagner Tuben players to be announced.

Dates: 05/09/2010, 05/17/2010: 7:30 PM

Max Kade Institute 2714 South Hoover Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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