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5-Minute Update: Students design easy-to-use key, Explicit play opens this weekend
Mustang News anchor Julian Del Gaudio covers today’s top stories at Cal Poly.
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Theatre and dance department coming to a ‘CrossRoads’ with fall production
To prepare for the theatre and dance department’s fall production, “CrossRoads,” the cast went the distance … literally.
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Meet the men behind the blue
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net The Blue Man Group broke its silence April 8. In a rare treat, Cal Poly students were able to interact with the Blue Man Group unmasked and outside of character. Cal Poly Theatre and Dance Department, in conjunction with Expressive Technology Studios, hosted Blue Man Group performers Russell Rinker and Shane Andries […]
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‘A Year with Frog and Toad’ brings childhood out of the woodwork
Hannah Croft hannahcroft.md@gmail.com Childhood friends Frog and Toad are getting ready to emerge from hibernation, with the help of Cal Poly Theatre and Dance Department. For the next two weeks, Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre will turn forested for Tony Award-nominated “A Year with Frog and Toad.” The musical is based on the children’s books […]
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Welcome to the ’70s: ‘Watergate and Other Solid Gold Hits’
Mustang Daily Staff Report arts@mustangdaily.net As soon as the red, orange and blue circles of light illuminate the stage and the drum set starts tapping a beat, the audience of SLO Little Theatre’s latest production, “Watergate and Other Solid Gold Hits,” is transported into an era of political scandal, long gas lines, seriously groovy fashion and […]
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Fremont Theatre to close down
Fremont Theatre on Monterey Street will close after tonight’s 7:30 p.m. showing of “The Impossible.” Photo by David Liebig. Mustang Daily Staff Report arts@mustangdaily.net Fremont Theatre‘s 7:30 p.m. showing of “The Impossible” on Thursday might be the 70-year-old cinema’s last under its current ownership. Assistant manager Maryanna Espejo-Moses, who has worked at The Fremont for […]
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Winter quarter to offer array of events
Kelly Trom kellytrom.md@gmail.com New year, new quarter, new events to mark on the calendar. Cal Poly’s campus has a lot to offer this quarter, whether it’s a performance in the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC), an Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) program, or making something creative in the craft center. There will be many outlets […]
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Big musical comes to Little Theatre
Legendary Broadway musical “Oklahoma!” is returning to the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre for a 50th anniversary recreation of its previous performance at the venue. Last produced by the Little Theatre in 1961, “Oklahoma!,” a romantic musical based on Lynn Riggs’ 1931 play “Green Grow the Lilacs,” will reappear Oct. 7 to Nov. 6 at […]
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Huck Finn goes clean in new publication
A revised edition of the class American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is set to be published mid-February that is intended to be less offensive and “cleaner” for the classroom.
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José Rivera’s dark play ‘Marisol’ comes to Spanos for six shows
Cal Poly’s theatre and dance department will be presenting an original stage production of acclaimed Latino dramatist José Rivera’s dark and surreal play “Marisol.”