Los Angeles Pierce College Theatre is a dynamic, transformative program with multidisciplinary classes, award winning productions, diverse stage opportunities, hands-on experience, and industry internships. Our curriculum is a two-year program offering an Associates of Arts degree and an Associates of Arts Transfer degree with specializations in acting, technical theatre and costume design. We train the next generation of theatre artists at LAPC Theatre.
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The Mousetrap
by Agatha Christie
directed by Shaheen Vaaz
October 18-27, 2024, Performing Ars Mainstage
Brimming with intrigue, sophisticated humor and surprising twists, Agatha Christie's iconic murder mystery – about a group of strangers trapped during a snowstorm – is the world’s most successful and longest-running play, having opened in London’s West End in 1952, where it is still playing today.
Clyde’s
by Lynn Nottage
directed by Esdras Toussaint
December 6-15, 2024, Dow Arena Theatre
In Clyde’s, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
KCACTF Region 8
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving 18,000 students annually from colleges and universities across the country. KCACTF aims to:
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Encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs;
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Provide opportunities for participants to develop their theater skills and insight, and achieve professionalism;
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Improve the quality of college and university theater in the United States; and
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Encourage colleges and universities to give distinguished productions of new plays, especially those written by students; the classics, revitalized or newly conceived; and experimental works.
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LAPC Theatre students participate in The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival competing for scholarships in Acting and Directing and earning honors and real world experience
Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography.
Disciplines
KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers student artists individual recognition through awards and scholarships in: