Critically-acclaimed Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company will present Storyteller/Performance Artist/Def Poetry Jam Performer Robert Farid Karimi in his hip hop play self (the remix) as its next full production, running from February 25 - March 21, 2010, at The 10th Avenue Theatre in Downtown San Diego. Press opening will take place on Friday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m.
From September 24 to 26, 2009, the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice is presenting a three-day event to highlight the ability of the arts to transform individuals and reconcile communities who have suffered conflict and violence. Titled Bearing Exquisite Witness, the festival will showcase playwrights, filmmakers, poets, musicians, visual artists and academics from the fields of theater arts and conflict resolution who are using the creative power of art to raise awareness, prevent violence, help communities recover, change policies of exclusion and heal trauma.
From September 24 to 26, 2009, the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice is presenting a three-day event to highlight the ability of the arts to transform individuals and reconcile communities who have suffered conflict and violence. Titled Bearing Exquisite Witness, the festival will showcase playwrights, filmmakers, poets, musicians, visual artists and academics from the fields of theater arts and conflict resolution who are using the creative power of art to raise awareness, prevent violence, help communities recover, change policies of exclusion and heal trauma.
From September 24 to 26, 2009, the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice is presenting a three-day event to highlight the ability of the arts to transform individuals and reconcile communities who have suffered conflict and violence. Titled Bearing Exquisite Witness, the festival will showcase playwrights, filmmakers, poets, musicians, visual artists and academics from the fields of theater arts and conflict resolution who are using the creative power of art to raise awareness, prevent violence, help communities recover, change policies of exclusion and heal trauma.
Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego's community-focused, socially-conscious, Equity theater company, today announced The James Irvine Foundation has awarded the Company a $30,000 grant over two years to commission a new play by Chantal Bilodeau. This grant is made as part of the Irvine Foundation's Creative Connections Fund, which was designed to reach small and midsize arts organizations pursuing a diversity of projects and ideas.
The Lark Play Development Center was one of five theaters selected for the first-ever NEA Distinguished New Play Development Project. Each theater receives $20,000 to support early development activities for a new play which the Lark will be using to implement a national, multi-theater development strategy for Aditi Brennan Kapil's AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP, A FAIRY TALE.
The Lark Play Development Center was one of five theaters selected for the first-ever NEA Distinguished New Play Development Project. Each theater receives $20,000 to support early development activities for a new play which the Lark will be using to implement a national, multi-theater development strategy for Aditi Brennan Kapil's AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP, A FAIRY TALE.
Louis Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award®-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's 2008-2009 Winter Season. In the Old Globe Theatre, a large-scale revival of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women (September 13 - October 26, 2008), directed by Resident Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak will launch the season.
Louis Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award®-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's 2008-2009 Winter Season. In the Old Globe Theatre, a large-scale revival of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women (September 13 - October 26, 2008), directed by Resident Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak will launch the season.
La Jolla Playhouse is proud to announce the launch of a new initiative, the Resident Theatre Program and welcome Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company as its very first Resident Theatre Company. The newly appointed company will be in residency at La Jolla Playhouse, located on the campus of UC San Diego, from August 18 through September 21, 2008 and May 12 through June 14, 2009.
La Jolla Playhouse announces the launch of a new initiative, the Resident Theatre Program and welcomes Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company as its first Resident Theatre Company.