CAP UCLA announces 2017–18 season filled with bold performers and provocative ideas

The sixth season proves to be the most diverse yet

June 6, 2017

“No matter where each performance takes place, every single one is elemental to the creative alchemy of CAP UCLA,” said Kristy Edmunds, CAP UCLA’s artistic and executive director who cultivated the new season. “Here’s to carrying the culture forward one performance at a time.”

"UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance unveiled its 2017–18 season, which features a cornucopia of icons and mavericks in contemporary performing arts disciplines.

Highlights in theater and performance include Canadian Stage’s “Helen Lawrence,” presented by CAP UCLA in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Taylor Mac’s complete “24-Decade History of Popular Music” presented by CAP UCLA and the Theatre at Ace Hotel. The concert slate spans the reunion of South African jazz pioneers Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela to John McLaughlin in his farewell tour to the return of CAP favorites Ludovico Einaudi and Ryoji Ikeda.

The season will also feature new dance works by award-winning choreographers Ann Carlson and Kyle Abraham. To showcase words and ideas the calendar includes Matt Groening and Lynda Barry, Eve Ensler and Anne Lamott, 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead and more."— Holly Wallace, May 4, 2017

Read the full article at the UCLA Newsroom website.