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. 19 at 8:00 p.m. in the Little Theatre (on the Humanities campus).
Escape from Happiness revolves around a single family in their kitchen. This absurb, dark comedy is hilarious and heart warming.
Evening performances are on Nov. 19, 20 and 21 at 8:00 p.m.; Matinees are on Nov. 21 and 22 at 2:00 p.m. Call the Arts Box Office at 949/824-2787 for tickets. And don't miss the post-performance Talk Back on Nov. 20, where ticketholders will have the chance to meet the play's cast and creative time after the show!
- 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. 21. Tickets are $28 general admission; $25 seniors and groups; $12 UCI students, and can be purchased through Ticketmaster. com or the Arts Box Office at 949 824 - 2787. Viewer discretion is advised due to adult theme and content.
- DANCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS NEW SLATE DEC. 3-5
Reserve your tickets now for the highly anticipated return of New Slate,where graduate choreographers premiere their new dance works! Jodie Gates, the event's artistic director, says that audiences are in for some phenomenal performances.
New Slate runs Dec. 3-5 at Winifred Smith Hall. Evening performances begin at 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 3, 4 and 5; a matinee is scheduled for Dec. 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Call the Arts Box Office 949/824-2787 or Ticketmaster.com to reserve your seats NOW!
- 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. "Media Alchemy of Nam June Paik" runs through Dec. 5 and highlights works done by the South Korean-born artist toward the end of his life, including the rarely see piece "Gulliver" (2001).
The internationally renowned artist played a pivotal role in introducing other artists and audiences to the possibilities of using video for artistic expression. His first video sculptures, using TV sets as sculptural forms and a custom-made synthesizer to create images seen on the screens, was exhibited in the early '60s.
This exhibit at the Beall will include "Gulliver," "Internet Dweller," and "Neon TV."
The Beall Center is at 712 Arts Plaza on the Claire Trevor School of the Arts campus. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Wednesdays, noon to 5:00 p.m., and Thursdays through Saturdays, noon to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (949) 824-4339 or visit www.beallcenter.uci.edu.
- 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.
Additionally, he has written for Art in
- SEASON BROCHURE & EVENTS CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE
The 2009-10 Season Brochure for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts is hot off the presses. Those who are already on our mailing list should have received their copies in the mail. Anyone whose copy hasn't arrived or is not on our mailing list, please email us at elmartin@uci.edu. We have a great season of entertainment waiting for you.
In addition to our Season Brochure, you can always find our Events Calendar here on our web site a www.arts.uci.edu/events. Whether you're in the mood for an original musical or an art exhibition by an internationally renowned artist -- there's always something fun to do at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.