Department of Theatre and New Dance, Cal Poly Pomona

Talkback is tomorrow, January 30 at 11am! There's still time to sign up, watch the show and join us for the chat. Grab your + - it's time to talk Shakespeare and gender! Sign up here: https://class.tix.com/Event.aspx

We are so excited to share Lisa Wolpe's Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender is coming up THIS WEEK! It's presents by Southern California Shakespeare Festival's A YEAR OF LEAR! You can see the solo show from 10am PT Jan 28 through 11am Jan 30 - PLUS, join us for a talkback with writer/performer Lisa Wolpe on Jan 30! Sign up here! http://ow.ly/A3ra50Dh234... This one-woman show explores Lisa Wolpe's experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, equity, a ccess, and promoting women's rights and racial equality. It features stories about her family, focusing on her father, Hans Wolpe, a hero in WWII, as well as pieces of Shakespeare, including Shylock, Hamlet, Richard III, and more, elucidating life lessons earned through playing male characters in the Shakespeare Canon.

Happening tomorrow Sunday, January 17 at 10am LA / 1pm NY / 6pm Ireland! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhbCzrnq-DQ

Our production of MEN ON BOATS goes LIVE starting this Friday! Tickets are free, but you have to reserve your on-demand spot in order to view. Visit http://ow.ly/Okpm50BWAVj for your ticket (Use pre-sale code "Boats" for reservations before Friday) . . Read more of playwright Jaclyn Backhaus' 2016 interview with The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: https://brooklyneagle.com//an-interview-with-bushwick-bas/

Coming soon! MEN ON BOATS is coming to your HOME. Tickets are free and on-demand. Make your reservation today with presale code: Boats.

Mark your calendars for our second VIRTUAL PRODUCTION OF FALL 2020: ZORRO X2! . The classic tale of Zorro gets a 21st century update, complete with immigrant laborers, a sadistic chief of security, and an ineffective computer geek who’s taken in by a homeless man who claims to be the original Zorro. . You can catch the show ON DEMAND November 20-24! For FREE! Grab your spot: http://ow.ly/qXDT50BMZ6N

We're BACK. Mark your calendars for our first VIRTUAL PRODUCTION OF FALL 2020: MEN ON BOATS! . Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men On Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. .... You can catch the show ON DEMAND October 23 - 28. For FREE! Grab your spot here and use code "Boats" for Pre-Sale: https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/41056 See more

Rest in power. #RBG #RIPRBG

East West Players has some AMAZING writing classes coming up this fall, and one of them starts TOMORROW! Are you interested in writing plays in different theatrical spaces? Then sign up for the class taught by Lisa Sanaye Dring! . If you're interested in signing up or have any questions, reach out to EWP at: [email protected]

Are you interested in translation of writing and drama? Then check out this livestream on HowlRound TV, partnering with PEN America, the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library to present Translating Trauma. . It's going live Tuesday 8 September 2020 at 10:30 a.m. PDT! . Featuring a conversation with translators with Ellen Elias-Bursac, Aaron Robertson and Julia Sanches, moderated by Que...enie Sukhadia. . Learn more here: https://howlround.com//livestreaming-translating-trauma-li See more

The first lesson for the start of the school year. THE lesson for this year.

Classes are starting! This fall will be a predominately virtual semester, but we're committed to keeping our students safe, building community, and creating THEATRE. . It's going to look different. But we're theatre kids. We aren't afraid of different. . For notes on COVID safety for the Fall, check out: https://www.cpp.edu/safety/safer-return/