To have fun the tenth anniversary of its roving Without Walls Festival in 2024, La Jolla Playhouse has introduced that WOW will return to the University of California San Diego campus subsequent yr, the place the primary two WOW fests have been held in 2013 and 2015.
The 2024 competition dates shall be April 4-7 and, like all earlier festivals, it should characteristic a mixture of native, nationwide and worldwide immersive theater firms creating site-specific work, on this case across the UCSD campus.
As conceived by La Jolla Playhouse inventive director Christopher Ashley, WOW was all the time meant to maneuver to new places from yr to yr to provide audiences — and artists — new environments to current and attend the competition exhibits. Over the previous decade, the competition has been offered in Downtown San Diego, at Liberty Station and on the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. During the pandemic the competition was offered completely on-line or by cellphone and postal mail.
A efficiency of “Hedda-ing” at artist Do Ho Suh’s “Fallen Star” public artwork piece at La Jolla Playhouse’s 2013 WOW Festival.
(Courtesy of Jim Carmody)
“Returning to UC San Diego, the site of our very first Without Walls Festival in 2013, is a wonderful full-circle moment,” Ashley mentioned, in an announcement. “Over the past decade, the WOW Festival has grown to become one of major immersive theater events in the country, as well as a highlight of the San Diego cultural calendar.
At the same time, UC San Diego has experienced explosive growth with the addition of new Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood, the Epstein Family Amphitheater, and much more, and we couldn’t be more proud to partner again with the University on this thrilling free annual event,” Ashley mentioned.
More particulars on the 2024 WOW competition shall be shared on-line within the coming months at https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival.
Danielle Bunch, the director of social media administration for the San Diego Black Artist Collective, poses contained in the inexperienced room of her home at Spring Valley on Thursday, May 18, 2023.
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S.D. Black Artist Collective plans audition lab for Black actors
To tackle a scarcity of variety in native performing arts areas, the San Diego Black Artist Collective has teamed up with 5 native skilled theaters to launch an audition lab for Black performers and performers from different traditionally under-represented communities.
The occasion is open to actors of all expertise ranges. No advance registration is required however SDBAC’s Danielle Bunch is available for questions at [email protected].
The SDBAC Audition Lab shall be offered at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, at Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd ., Suite N, in San Diego. Attendees shall be taught the fundamentals in easy methods to audition for roles, easy methods to put together and create self-tapes, resumes, headshots and different emergency supplies and a mock dance name shall be offered. The occasion may also provide networking alternatives with theater professionals, panel discussions and community-building alternatives.
Two of the key recurring points that SDBAC plans to deal with on the lab are the assertion by predominantly White-run theater firms that they don’t know of or have any Black actors to forged of their productions, and the query from Black and Brown actors that they don’t know easy methods to break into the audition circuit.
The occasion begins at 10 a.m. with a presentation on basic audition abilities, adopted by a presentation by Disney Live. Following an hourlong lunch break, the occasion resumes at 1 p.m. with a workshop on getting ready monologues, adopted by a singing/musical theater workshop at 2:30 p.m. and a dance name at 4 p.m.
At 5:30 p.m. there shall be a moderated panel dialogue that includes inventive leaders from a number of native theater firms, together with Jacole Kitchen of La Jolla Playhouse, Kim Heil of The Old Globe, Kian Kline-Chilton of Diversionary Theatre, Jill Lewis of San Diego Musical Theatre and Desireé Clarke of Moxie Theatre. They will talk about their imaginative and prescient for the way forward for San Diego’s theater scnee, how they’re investing in variety on and offstage and the way they’re working to demystify the casting course of.
The occasion concludes with a mixer occasion for networking at 6:30 p.m.
Admission to the occasion is free, although a $20 instructed donation is appreciated. Also, actors who wish to get a headshot taken on the occasion ought to deliver $50 to pay the photographer.
For extra, go to instagram.com/SD_BAC or contact [email protected] and [email protected].
Justin Huertas will carry out at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, at Diversionary Theatre’s Clark Cabaret.
(Courtesy of Bronwen Houck)
‘Lizard Boy’ star returns for live performance
Justin Huertas, the Seattle-based creator and star of the musical “Lizard Boy,” which made its San Diego debut at Diversionary Theatre in 2015, is returning to Diversionary for a cabaret present on Oct. 8.
Huertas is on the town to see his buddy and fellow Seattleite Sara Porkalob in her solo play “Dragon Mama,” which is now in manufacturing at Diversionary by means of Oct. 15. Huertas will carry out a few of his authentic songs in Diversionary’s Clark Cabaret at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8. Tickets are $20. For particulars, go to diversionary.org/occasions/sunday-sessions.
