Jeff Janisheski, Chair of the Theater Arts Department and Artistic Director of CalRep, was flipping through the March 2017 issue of Dig Magazine. An article, “Choosing Education Over Incarceration,” caught his eye. As someone whose job is to bring diverse communities together through storytelling, the article struck a chord with[Read More…]
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Theatre Department Chair Jeff Janisheski talks upcoming season and ‘Ghost of Lote Bravo’
During the fall semester, California Repertory, the theatre company at Long Beach State, will host a variety of diverse productions. The first show that Cal Rep will be putting on this semester is “Ghosts of Lote Bravo,” which will be on campus from Sep. 20-30. The Daily 49er had a[Read More…]
Cal Rep is “Proud to Present” a new meta performance
History can be hard to grapple with. The tragic decisions of ancestors and cultures laid out in precise moments of flawed reasoning, especially at the expense of others, can be difficult to confront. California Repertory addresses present-day issues and confronts the way history is portrayed in its play premiering 8[Read More…]
CalRep’s 2018 spring schedule is set for stage
The upcoming spring schedule from the California Repertory Company and University Art Theater will include plays of cultural exploration, a modern telling of a Sophocles story and a humorous imagining of the rapture. CalRep will kick off the semester with “Dreamers: Aqui y Alla,” directed by Andrea Caban and Julie[Read More…]
CSULB Theatre Arts fall schedule set to wow
Dynamic new works will take center stage at Cal State Long Beach in the upcoming fall semester theatre season. The California Repertory Company, a theatre company comprised of CSULB undergraduates, graduates, faculty and special guests, has been launched in a new direction. Stories of resistance will be the central theme[Read More…]