You Need to Start Paying Attention to the Performing Arts at UCLA
It didn’t take long for Kristy Edmunds to restore the school’s programming to its former glory
Los Angeles Magazine profiles CAP UCLA Director Kristy Edmunds and compels Angelenos to stay attuned to the center's impressive performance schedule.
"Kristy Edmunds is sort of like the Mr. Miyagi of the performing arts world—not so much in the karate-master-moonlighting-as-a-maintenance-man kind of way but in the all-knowing-sensei kind of way. The 51-year-old director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, who took over in 2011 after top-dog stints at New York’s Park Avenue Armory and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, is at once formidable and approachable; she’s deeply in tune with a citywide cultural aura most of us can’t see, yet she invites us into her world through the Miyagi-esque idea of balance (in this case, diverse programming). This season alone features acts including Egyptian politico and comedian Bassem Youssef (January 18) and the first local staging since the 1950s of Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars (January 28-29). 'Audiences become literate about the things they have repeated exposure and access to,” she says. “The liberty and irrationality that lives in L.A. is fantastic for a creative ecology.'"— , December 16, 2016
Read the full article at the Los Angeles Magazine website.