UC San Diego Theatre and Dance

MFA alumnus Danny Burstein discusses his challenges since his bout of Covid-19 and the support he has given to his equally talented wife Rebecca Luker. This Coronavirus is a terrible monster both on a personal level and to our whole theatre & entertainment industry. As is ALS. Positive vibes to Danny & Becca for healthy days ahead. https://buff.ly/31xoc2o

Professor Lisa Porter, head of our Stage Management program, and her colleague Narda E Alcorn, head of the Yale School of Drama’s Stage Management program, penned this essay We Commit to Anti-Racist Stage Management Education.

MFA playwright Dave Harris' Tambo & Bones will be presented at Center Theatre Group in LA in 2021. 'Harris’ examination of American racism past, present and future unfolds while two characters are trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan involves making serious money and getting seriously even. A co-production with Playwrights Horizons in New York, Tambo & Bones will come to California after its off-Broadway run. It will be directed by Taylor Reynolds of New York’s Obie-winning Movement Theatre Company' An early version of Tambo & Bones was presented in the Theatre+Dance department's Wagner New Play Festival in 2018.

Campus safety requirements are detailed on this return to learn site: https://buff.ly/2ANV1iv

A reminder you have until July 19th to catch The Fatal Weakness by George Kelly, directed by PhD student Jesse Marchese and lighting design by MFA alumnus Christian DeAngelis for free at the theatre link below. The Fatal Weakness is reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. If the company itself is new to you, I suggest that you start with ‘The Fatal Weakness,’ which had a short Broadway run in 1946 but was never revived anywhere until the Mint exhumed it in 2014... This producti...on, lucidly directed by Jesse Marchese, is exemplary of the Mint’s house style. The cast couldn’t be better, with Cynthia Darlow clinching top honors as a compulsive gossip. The stage, as always, is tiny, but that merely adds to the intimacy of the proceedings, and Vicki R. Davis’s sitting-room set is finely and convincingly detailed. https://buff.ly/31ChslQ https://www.wsj.com//the-fatal-weakness-review-cheating-wi See more

Performance Studies professor Dr. Julie Burelle wins the 2019 CATR Ann Saddlemyer Award for her book Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec. The Canadian Association for Theatre Research presents the Ann Saddlemyer Award to the best book published in English or French in a given year. Dr Burelle's book also was the 2020 winner of the John W. Frick Book Award presented by the American Theatre & Drama Society.... https://www.atds.org/2020/07/06/2020-atds-award-winners/ https://buff.ly/2BzwFJu

The Mint Theater Company just announced they are going to stream current PhD student Jesse Marchese's 2014 production of THE FATAL WEAKNESS by George Kelly which was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and three Henry Hewes Design Awards. The stream will be available for FREE from July 6 - 19. The production was also designed (lighting) by UC San Diego Theatre + Dance MFA alumnus Christian DeAngelis (who received a Hewes nom for his work)! One of the other plays being streamed by the Mint also involves UC San Diego Theatre + Dance MFA alumni -- Steven Kemp (Sets) and Christian DeAngelis designed THE NEW MORALITY. Here is the press release about the two-week free streaming event:

If you are looking for a summer session I course please consider Indigenous/Native Film and Theatre. The code is 025571 and it will be Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00 am-1:50 pm PST summersession.ucsd.edu