Kaneza Schaal News

From June 23 through 25, 2022, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles, proudly presents KLII, the new work from award-winning theater-maker and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Kaneza Schaal.

Awardees: Nancy García Loza with the National Museum of Mexican Art, Nabil Ince with the Harrison Center, Michael Manson with Living Arts, Aram Han Sifuentes with the HANA Center, and Pramila Vasudevan with Public Art Saint Paul

The Joyce Foundation today announced the 2022 recipients of the annual Joyce Awards which support the creation of innovative new work by pioneering artists of color working in collaboration with communities in the Great Lakes.

In announcing its 2022/23 Season today, Boston Lyric Opera has unveiled an expanded, year-round return to stages throughout Boston.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight: A Day of New Music will return Saturday, April 9 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, offering audiences LA’s most far-sighted ensembles in performances on the stage and in BP Hall of the iconic venue, anchored by an evening Green Umbrella concert focusing on composer Louis Andriessen.

The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of Frequency, a new performance by Justin Allen.

Spoleto Festival USA General Director Mena Mark Hanna announced today the programming for a robust 46th season of America’s premier performing arts festival, May 27 to June 12, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced the launch of BAC Open, an artist residency program providing critical support to six artists and their collaborators developing projects of dance, theater, music, and multimedia.

After an extensive national search, Geva Theatre Center has announced that the Board of Directors has voted to appoint Elizabeth Williamson as our new Artistic Director. She will partner with Executive Director Christopher Mannelli as Co-CEO of Geva Theatre Center beginning in June 2022.

Ringing in a hopeful 2022, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, will kick off a full year of live performance and art. Through performances, screenings, and exhibitions, REDCAT will once again welcome in-person audiences—as well as online audiences around the world—from January through June 2022. 

The French Institute Alliance Française celebrates the final week of its 2021 Crossing The Line Festival with Kaneza Schaal's KLII, a work-in-progress performance at FIAF's Florence Gould Hall (55 East 59th Street) in New York City.

The Flynn has announced the hiring of Jennifer Skinder as the theater's new director of education. Jennifer comes to the Flynn from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she is currently the director of the college's Center for Arts + Social Justice.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced its 2021/22 Humanities projects and festival curators. The LA Phil Humanities program began in 2019/20 as an outgrowth and consolidation of the organization's long-time commitment to curator-driven festivals, visual arts projects, publications and partnerships with area cultural institutions.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced its 2021/22 Humanities projects and festival curators. The LA Phil Humanities program began in 2019/20 as an outgrowth and consolidation of the organization’s long-time commitment to curator-driven festivals, visual arts projects, publications and partnerships with area cultural institutions.

TFANA and Saint Flashlight present The Will of the City, poems inspired by playwright and poet William Shakespeare, launching today and running through the fall. Spotlighting the work of over a dozen writers, this activation will transform the streetside and outdoor screens at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY)—Theatre for a New Audience's home in Fort Greene—into a bi-weekly updated anthology of poems inspired by Shakespeare's plays.

Tickets are on sale now to the public for all of the Flynn's currently announced 2021-2022 season shows. The Flynn's Grand Reopening Celebration kicks off the season on October 23 with a headlining performance from the sensational Afro-pop superstar Angélique Kidjo.

Celebrating 50 years, and the first full season under the artistic leadership of Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director Yuval Sharon, Michigan Opera Theatre is poised to mount its first fully staged opera in nearly two years.

The first full production in its 2021-2022 season, the opera company will present Tazewell Thompson’s powerful opera, BLUE for two performances, September 11 & 12 both at 7PM at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre.

Fall performance tickets will be available for presale to the Friends of the Center for the Arts on August 3 at 10 a.m. and to the general public on August 10 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available for purchase in person at the Center for the Arts Ticket Office (open Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.), by calling 703-993-2787, or through the Center for the Arts' website.

BLUE features a richly evocative libretto by playwright Tazewell Thompson (MOT's A View from the Bridge) and masterful score by lauded theatrical composer Jeanine Tesori (Broadway's Fun Home and Caroline, or Change).