Claire Trevor School of the Arts

In The Spotlight

• DRAMA PRESENTS ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS  Mark your calendars -- and reserve your tickets -- for the limited run of Escape from Happiness, a play that is making its UC Irvine debut this Thursday, Nov... More >>
  
  
• LAST DAYS FOR THREEPENNY OPERA   The ThreePenny Opera has only a few performances left at the Claire Trevor Theatre -- catch it while you can!  This play may have been written a hundred years ago, but the characters' struggles with joblessness, homelessness, love and revenge are themes that are just as timely in today's cultural environment.  The jazz masterpiece, written by Bertolt Brecht and based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, is a saga about late Victorian London that was the forerunner of the delectable decadence seen later in Caberet, Chicago, Sweeny Todd, and countless other brash and brassy spinoffs.  This is UC Irvine's third revival of the Tony Award-winning show thanks to its audience-pleasing, finger-snapping score that ranges from lyrical arias and tangos to stirring anthems and bawdy ballads.  The interdisciplinary production features performers from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts' Dance, Drama and Music departments.  Evening and matinee performance are scheduled through Nov... More >>
  
  
• DANCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS NEW SLATE DEC... More >>
  
  
• RENOWNED SOUTH KOREAN ARTIST'S WORK AT BEALL CENTER  An exhibition by legendary new-media artist Nam June Paik kicks-off the new season of the Beall Center for Art + Technology... More >>
  
  
• NEW DEAN NAMED FOR CLAIRE TREVOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS   Joseph Lewis III has been named dean of UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts.  He will take his new post at the beginning of the spring term next March, ending a five-year tenure as dean of the School of Art & Design at Alfred University in upstate New York.  Lewis is a former chair of Cal State Northridge's art department who also supervised the public art projects for L.A.'s Cultural Affairs Department. He is an accomplished artist whose work has appeared in many exhibitions, including solo shows at The Durst Corporation and Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; and the Substation, Singapore; and group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; A9 Space, Beijing, China; the Studio Museum, Harlem; the New Museum; and the Museum of Arts & Design, New York... More >>