Our country is physically sick from a ruthless virus and morally sick from persistent racism in all its forms. At LACHSA, we’ve already taken steps to address our health by closing the campus and implementing social distancing protocols. Now we must all line up together and demand radical and meaningful change to heal the insidious
For the past 11 Mays, the talented young finalists of the national August Wilson Monologue Competition have gathered from around the country to share their performances onstage at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. This year, with theatres closed due to the public health crisis, the competition hosted its first-ever virtual finals. Over the course of the May 2–3
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts seniors awarded prestigious honor Five students in Los Angeles County have been named as United States Presidential Scholars. The announcement was made by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on Thursday. The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was created in 1964 and has recognized more than 7,600 high
In a normal world, the sisters of Haim would be looking forward to doing what they love more than anything else. The Los Angeles trio’s new album, “Women in Music Pt. III,” is set to come out June 26, after which Danielle, Este and Alana Haim were planning to hit the road as they have
LACHSA Senior Sydney Guine `20 was featured in Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, television special that was simulcast on all major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Celebrities, activists, and artists including President Barack Obama, LeBron James, Ben Platt, Yara Shahidi, Lena Waithe, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams, Malala
In 2009, Phoebe Bridgers began attending the music program at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She started dyeing her hair unnatural colors, and, later, shaving it off. She was not an especially good student—“I just didn’t get far enough in school to where it was interesting,” she said—but remains grateful for
LACHSA in the News!! Check out the recent article in the LA Times about the challenges LACHSA is facing and how LACHSA students are tapping into their creative spirit, and all of the innovative ways to collaborate and perform during quarantine. Read the full article here.
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Theatre student Kyle Branch `20 performed one of the most riveting moments of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as part of Art Goes On. Branch, who placed first in this year’s August Wilson Monologue Competition Los Angeles Regional Finals, and our second-place finalist, Tyla Uzo of Ramón C. Cortines High
For many young people, teaching artists (like their arts teachers) are the first people who certified their passion for writing, or their tentative steps to being a dancer. A teaching artist may have escorted them out of the neighborhood, onto a bus, and downtown to their first-ever play or lent them a world class trumpet to audition for a jazz summer camp (Wolf & Rodriguez Pineda, 2019). Teaching artists are walking embodiments of the possibility that
Moving from big stages to little screens, artists reflect on what really matters “Since the age of five, I’ve been a storyteller,” said Josefina Lopez, author of the play Real Women Have Curves (later produced as a film starring America Ferrera), and founder of the CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Eastern Los Angeles. “And when I was
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