![CSUSB's Performing Arts programs provide students with the artistic integrity and professional skillset they need to advance toward a successful future.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_ODM_VideoPromo_07Sept2022.jpg.webp?itok=9Ih6j42B)
The performing arts programs at CSUSB shape students into well-rounded individuals, giving them the artistic integrity and professional skillset to advance to successful futures in a wide-range of careers.
![Campus art sculpture, Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Faculty-in-the-News-Art_5.jpg.webp?itok=-z7kgSrD)
Amy van Schagen (psychology) was awarded a grant to explore the potential of racial inequity and experiences in racism with the region’s early childhood workforce, and Eric Mulz (theatre arts) talked about student Isabel Peña, who he nominated for a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival fellowship.
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Isabel Peña is the first CSUSB student to earn the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) fellowship in stage management, both regionally and nationally.
![A rendering of the new Performing Arts Center](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Performing-Arts-rendering_CSUSB-Homepage-Slide_0.jpg.webp?itok=SCjK_x_z)
The nearly $127 million construction project will add a new Performing Arts Center and is scheduled to open during the 2024-25 academic year. The ceremony has been moved indoors due to extreme heat in the forecast, and is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, in the Santos Manuel Student Union South.
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Codi Lazar (geological science), Riguad Joseph (social work), Brian Levin (criminal justice), David Yaghoubian (history), Stuart Sumida (biology), Fadi Muheidat (computer sciences), Kristi Papailler (theatre arts) and Wagner Prado (kinesiology) were mentioned in recent news coverage.
![Yutong Liu using VR in the CSUSB xREAL Lab](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/EDUCAUSE-meeting-CSUSB-Homepage-Slide.jpg.webp?itok=vSujzu68)
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting is a premier event where faculty, IT personnel and industry partners explore different technology-driven approaches to broad learning issues and share expertise across institutions.
![Photo from the CSUSB opera presentation of “I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky.”](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Opera_Sky_03May2022.jpg.webp?itok=g5VqF2qn)
CSUSB’s Opera Theatre presents “I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky,” set in Los Angeles circa 1994 during the Northridge earthquake, on Thursday, May 5, and Friday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Recital Hall.
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Theatre arts professors Tom Provenzano and Kathryn Ervin are directing two productions in repertory through May 15 at CSUSB’s Barnes Theater. Provenzano is directing “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” and Ervin is directing “Lucky Stiff.”
![Cast of "Lucky Stiff"](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_TheatreArts_LuckStiff_Varona_20Apr2022.pg_.jpg.webp?itok=yKC3bu-Y)
From April 22 to May 15, the theatre department will run a futuristic adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” alongside the musical comedy “Lucky Stiff.”