Fifty-one entries from 29 countries, along with 518 entries from students representing 105 U.S. colleges and universities, are in competition for the 2012 Student Academy Awards. The competition – now in its 39th year – will culminate in the awards presentation, on Saturday, June 9, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The presentation will include screenings of the winning films.

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards and corresponding cash prizes may be presented in each of five categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary, Narrative and Foreign Student Film.

Past Student Academy Award® winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards. At the 84th Academy Awards earlier this year, 2011 Student Academy Award winners Hallvar Witzø and Max Zähle were nominated in the Live Action Short Film category for "Tuba Atlantic" and "Raju," respectively. James Spione, a Student Academy Award winner in 1987, earned a nomination in the Documentary Short Subject category for "Incident in New Baghdad."

A complete list of schools and countries represented in the competition is available at: http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/entrants.html.

The 39th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony on June 9 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets will be available starting May 1, online at www.oscars.org, in person at the Academy box office or by mail. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.

“THE CONVERT”

NOW PLAYING AT KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE
Performances Continue Through May 19 at CTG’s Culver City Theatre

Danai Gurira’s powerful new play, “The Convert,” which was commissioned by Center Theatre Group, is playing at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. The world premiere production of “The Convert,” a co-production with McCarter Theatre Center and Goodman Theatre, is directed by Emily Mann. “The Convert” will continue with regular performances through May 19.
The cast of “The Convert” includes (in alphabetical order) Pascale Armand, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Zainab Jah, Kevin Mambo, LeRoy McClain, Warner Joseph Miller and Harold Surratt.
Set design is by Daniel Ostling, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Lap-Chi Chu and sound design by Darron L West. Alison Cote is the production stage manager.
Set amid the colonial scramble for southern Africa in 1895, “The Convert” tells the tale of Jekesai, a young girl who escapes a forced marriage arrangement by becoming the newest convert of a well-meaning black catechist for the Catholic Church. But when an anti-colonial uprising erupts she is torn by her loyalties to her family and her culture and is forced to decide which side of the conflict she will choose – and where her heart truly belongs.
With Gurira’s characteristic insight, vigor and humor, “The Convert” explores the cultural and religious collisions caused by British colonization in what is now called Zimbabwe, and the reverberating effects still felt in the region today.
Danai Gurira co-created and performed in the award-winning play “In the Continuum,” for which she won an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award, among other awards, which was presented in the 2006-2007 season at the Douglas. The West Coast premiere of her next play, “Eclipsed,” was presented at the Douglas in the 2009-2010 season. She co-starred in the Academy Award-nominated film “The Visitor” and on Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” She will also appear as Michonne on season three of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Born in the United States to Zimbabwean parents and raised in Zimbabwe, she has an MFA in Acting from New York University.
 

Photo: Pascale Armand and Zainab Jah in "The Convert". Photo credit T. Charles Erickson

GOTYE – April 19th, 2012 at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE at 777 Chick Hearn Court, between Figueroa Street and Georgia Street.

EXHIBITION: Annie Seaton "Slick”
Gallery II: Cynthia Greig "Nature Morte"

SHOW DATES: April 21 – June 2, 2012
RECEPTION: Saturday, April 21, 6 - 8 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm
 

dnj Gallery is pleased to announce two upcoming exhibitions that will be on display from April 21 through June 2, 2012. "Slick," by Annie Seaton will be exhibited in the main gallery space. Gallery II will feature "Nature Morte" by Cynthia Greig.
 

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Mana – April 19^th & 20^th, 2012 at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles on South Figueroa Street between 11th Street/Chick Hearn Court and Pico Boulevard.

TYLER PERRY’S MADEA GETS A JOB – April 20^th & 21^st, at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE at 777 Chick Hearn Court, between Figueroa Street and Georgia Street.  

IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR UPCOMING CENTER THEATRE GROUP SHOWS

“The Convert” Adds Public Performance and Four Student Matinees at the Douglas

New Dates for “War Horse” First Preview and Opening at the Ahmanson

Director Announced for David Mamet’s “November” at Taper

Center Theatre Group has announced updated information for three productions in CTG’s 2011-2012 season:
 
- Danai Gurira’s “The Convert” has been extended an additional week and will now have performances from April 17 through May 19, 2012, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Four student matinees have been scheduled in this additional week, plus a public performance Saturday, May 19 at 8 p.m. Opening is set for April 19.
- The National Theatre of Great Britain production of “War Horse” will now begin previews on June 14, and will open Friday, June 29 at 8 p.m. at the Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center. Performances will run through July 29.
- Scott Zigler will direct David Mamet’s “November” at the Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center, September 26 through November 4, 2012. The opening is set for October 7.

Photo: The cast of the 2011 London production of "War Horse". Photo credit: Bringhoff / Moegenburg

CELTIC WOMAN – BELIEVE – April 28^th, 2012 at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE at 777 Chick Hearn Court, between Figueroa Street and Georgia Street.

CAST IS SET FOR “RED”

AT THE MARK TAPER FORUM
JONATHAN GROFF JOINS ALFRED MOLINA

IN TONY AWARD-WINNING PLAY

Center Theatre Group has announced that “Spring Awakening” and “Glee” actor Jonathan Groff will be featured opposite previously announced Alfred Molina in the Donmar Warehouse production of the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Play “Red” by John Logan at the Mark Taper Forum, August 1 through September 9, 2012. The opening performance is scheduled for August 12.

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Check the Current Theatre Season in L.A.!

2011-2012 Ahmanson Theatre Season
 

2010 - 2011 Season at Kirk Douglas Theatre

2012 Season at The Mark Taper Forum

2011-2012 Falcon Theatre Season

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