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Adult Education
Our Classics Center will serve as a gathering place for public symposia and weekend “intensives,” which will include an ongoing lecture series, theater history classes, and a film series that corresponds with classical texts. Like an art museum, we’ll create a variety of programming for those who wish to expand their education as well as their aesthetic.
A Library for Professionals, Students, Young and Old Alike
Our Classics Library will be the centerpiece of this activity: For the first time our library of classic texts will be open to the public on an on-going basis. Our current collection includes 3500 single-play and collected-works editions, and hundreds of drama anthologies, theater history works, biographies, and periodicals, all currently accessible to our Company members and students. We will expand this to include an extensive collection of plays on video tape and DVD, with a viewing facility that allows Actor’s Equity protected viewing of a wide range of productions for theater students and professionals, and a much-needed archive of Los Angeles theatrical history and ephemera.
Underserved Populations
Along with students coming to the Classics Center, our commitment to facilitating access to quality theater will also bring our actors and Academy students directly into inner-city elementary, middle and high schools. We’ll work with educators to develop culturally specific programs that move from Euro-centric to multi-centric; giving students the opportunity to revel in the undiscovered classic gems of their unique culture.
We will create this program in tandem with ethnically diverse local, national and international classical companies, such as East L.A. Classical Theater Company, the Robey Theater, East-West Players and others. Structured programs will explore classical storylines and encourage students to relate them to what’s going on in the world today.