By Christopher Piehler
Directed by Jack Rowe

The Triangle Factory Fire Project is the first of two productions presented during the 2009-10 academic year that will showcase our second-year M.F.A. in Acting students.

Thursday, November 5, 7 p.m.
Friday, November 6, 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 7, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 8, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 11/05/2009 - Sunday 11/08/2009; All day

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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Film, dance and discussion mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

November 9, 2009, is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. While many have forgotten the impact of living with the wall for a quarter of a century, it was a constant reminder of the Cold War and the threat of atomic war.

Choreographer Nejla Yatkin was a teenager in Berlin living with the reality of the divided city. She experienced the threat of imminent conflict in the battle between East and West, and saw the world open up when the wall went down. For the first time in decades, people had a chance to communicate, share, move and get to know each other, without feeling the oppressive threat.

This event will draw on these observations and experiences, exploring the role that physical and political boundaries play in society.

The event will include a screening and a short performance of a contemporary dance piece by Yatkin that reflects, embodies and subverts the interaction between individuals, movement and the emotional impact of barriers. Following the presentation, Carola Weil, Annenberg associate dean for planning and strategic initiatives, will moderate a discussion with Yatkin and Annenberg faculty members Sandy Tolan, Josh Kun and Roberto Suro. They will link the Berlin Wall to other physical borders, such as the U.S.-Mexican border and the fence between Israel and Palestinian territories. While these boundaries can act as national or international assets, they can also act as impediments that restrict the flow of resources, commerce and intellectual property, isolating people and dividing nations.  

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 6:30 PM

University Park Campus Annenberg Auditorium

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This American classic, rich in language and bold of vision, is adapted by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks.

Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m.
Friday, November 20, 7 p.m.
Saturday, November 21, 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 22, 2:30 p.m.

Daily: Thursday 11/19/2009 - Sunday 11/22/2009; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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USC students visit the Broad Stage in Santa Monica for the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre production of the romantic classic.

“Dominic Dromgoole’s zestful production succeeds in captivating the audience to a degree that I would not have thought possible ... . It’s a treat.” — The Independent

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company, direct from London, will perform Love’s Labour’s Lost. Shakespeare’s celebration of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal — from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups and pratfalls. It’s also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody.

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 Tuesday, October 27, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 4:45 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 5:30 p.m. and will return to campus at 11 p.m.

Dinner will be provided.

Saturday 11/21/2009: 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM

The Broad Stage 1310 11th Street Santa Monica CA 90401

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Featuring a panoply of characters who speak with abandon, Michael Kearns’ landmark piece is theater that will rock you.

Twenty years ago, Michael Kearns, an openly gay and publicly HIV-positive theater artist and activist, wrote and performed Intimacies. Join us this World AIDS Day for the 20th anniversary production of this groundbreaking theatrical piece.

In Intimacies, we meet Fernando, a macho flamenco dancer; Big Red, a black female street hooker; Patrick, a Hollywood pretty boy; Phoenix, a homeless man living under the freeway; Marilyn (as in Monroe); and Father Anthony, a Catholic priest who confesses and then some.

In 2002, Kearns received the prestigious Playwrights’ Arena Award for Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre, which acknowledged three decades of work as an actor, writer, producer, director and teacher.

Organized by David Román (English and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Richard Meyer (Art History). Co-sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center.

Tuesday 12/01/2009: 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Ground Zero Performance Cafe

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The performance, directed by Miranda Garrison, will range from celluloid classics to some current flicks that you've never imagined as dance films.

Daily: Thursday 12/03/2009 - Friday 12/04/2009; 7:00 PM

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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The USC arts schools offer an exciting array of hands-on workshops in art, photography, theater, dance, music, architecture and film.

In response to popular demand, the USC arts schools team up once again to present a daylong festival, an exciting opportunity to get your hands dirty with the arts. Learn how to salsa dance, make a sculpture, play guitar or take architectural photos. Join us, get your hands dirty, and experience the creativity and thrill of making art!

Organized by the USC arts schools

Saturday 01/30/2010: All day

University Park Campus

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The graduating M.F.A. in Acting students from the USC School of Theatre take on these works:

Pericles
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrei Belgrader

Orestes 2.0
By Charles Mee
Directed by David Bridel

Fisher King
By Don Nigro
Directed by Andrew J. Robinson

Daily: Saturday 02/06/2010 - Sunday 03/07/2010; All day

University Park Campus Scene Dock Theatre

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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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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.

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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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, movies and museums 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; longtime Time movie reviewer Richard Schickel; 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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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.

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

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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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)

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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.

Thursday 04/01/2010: 7:00 PM

24th Street Theatre 1117 West 24th Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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

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

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

University Park Campus Bing Theatre

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