(Carson, Calif.) – Nationally-renowned novelist and American Book Award winner Will Alexander will be the featured speaker for California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) 2019 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Loker Student Union Ballroom. The free lecture is hosted by CSUDH’s Department of English and is open to the public. Alexander has written more than 30 books and chapbooks, including Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, which won the American Book Award in 2013, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome and Across the Vapour Gulf, recent collections of poetry from New Directions Press. He was also honored ... Read More
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CSUDH Presents Shakespeare’s Beloved Comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will present Shakespeare’s most beloved comedy of love gone wild, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as the final play of its 2018-2019 season. The show opens April 12 at 8 p.m. and will run multiple dates through April 20 in CSUDH's Edison Theatre. Directed by CSUDH theatre lecturer Kelly Herman and choreographed by dance lecturer Sarah Cashmore, Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. What: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” When: April 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m., and April 14 and 20 at 2 ... Read More
CSUDH Play ‘No Exit’ Explores Guilt as the True Nature of Hell
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) production of Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 existentialist play “No Exit” explores how human interaction can reveal who people truly are and the debt they owe to themselves because of it. The show opens March 1 at 8 p.m. and will run multiple dates through March 17 in the CSUDH Edison Theatre. “No Exit” is set in the afterlife, where two women and one man are sentenced to live together for eternity. They are forced to face their earthly misdeeds and discover the true meaning of Hell. There is no torturer or fire and brimstone. There is only their own guilt to punish them. It is in“No Exit” that Sartre coined the phrase, ... Read More
CSUDH Hosts Ensemble Concert by LA-based Brightwork newmusic
Brightwork newmusic ensemble(Carson, Calif.) “Lost and Found . . . again,” a free concert at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) performed by the Brightwork newmusic ensemble, musically explores what it means to be “lost over and over again, only to be found, albeit for a fleeting moment.” The concert will take place on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in CSUDH’s newly renovated Marvin Laser Recital Hall, located in LaCorte Hall, room A103. What: Brightwork newmusic ensemble concert “Lost and Found . . . again” When: Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. Where: Marvin Laser Recital Hall, room A103 in LaCorte Hall at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Information: The ... Read More
Campus Opens Newly Renovated Marvin Laser Recital Hall
Music students at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) got an extra bonus when they returned to campus for the spring semester – a redesigned and refurbished Marvin Laser Recital Hall. The project of turning the campus’s original music venue into a state-of-the-art performance space has been the works for more than 18 months, and everyone involved is excited and proud of the results. As Music Department Chair Scott Morris says, “We finally have a space that represents what we’re doing here. We’re doing high-quality work, and now we have a high-quality hall.” Named after the founding dean of what is now the College of Arts and Humanities, the facility was in disrepair ... Read More
