Arts & Culture – Cal Lutheran News

Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’ Comes to California Lutheran University

A posh dinner party with lovably goofy, bourgeois guests quickly spirals into a scandalous evening of confusion, mistaken identities and lies in this student production.

April 9, 2025

Swan Song

After an impressive 33-year tenure as a music professor at California Lutheran University, Wyant Morton is set to retire this May, leaving behind a legacy that has deeply influenced the university's musical landscape.

April 7, 2025

Making Their Marks

Cal Lutheran alumni are carving out impressive careers in Hollywood and using the values they honed as undergraduates.

December 12, 2024

‘The Doctor in Spite of Himself’ Prescribes Laughter

The California Lutheran University Theatre and Dance Department will perform the Molière satire Nov. 7-17.

October 24, 2024

William Shakespeare Inspires “The Season of Love”

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company will perform two of William Shakespeare’s most beloved plays: “Romeo and Juliet” and “Much Ado About Nothing.”

May 29, 2024

Spotlight: Love of language

It hurts to be haunted when no one can notice.from the poem “Lost, I Linger” by Cal Lutheran senior Jazzy Colbert, featured in the 2023 edition of Morning Glory All artists, no matter the medium, want people to notice...

April 4, 2024

Cal Lutheran’s Choral Christmas Concerts, Dec. 1-3

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Nov. 27, 2023) On Dec. 1-3, California Lutheran University will present “Love’s Pure Light,” a Christmas program performed by the school’s choral ensembles and instrumentalists, conducted by...

November 27, 2023

Cal Lutheran Presents Radium Girls Nov. 9-19

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Marie Curie was an international celebrity, and luminous watches were the latest rage — until the girls who painted the watch began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.

November 7, 2023

Student-Directed Play Opens at Cal Lutheran

“The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza” tells the story of two bickering narrators who attempt to share the most famous stories of Greek mythology.

October 16, 2023

After 41 years at Cal Lutheran, Michael Arndt starts his next act

Michael J. Arndt, MFA, wasn’t sure he wanted to run the theatre department at Cal Lutheran when he was offered the job in the early 1980s. The prefabricated, single-story steel structure that served as the university’s...

October 9, 2023

Q&A: The future of music

Michael Hart aims to prepare students to adapt their skills for future careers.

October 6, 2023

Setting the Stage

Cal Lutheran’s Theatre Arts and Dance program gives students a personal, well-rounded experience.

October 6, 2023

Works of Protest, Resistance at Cal Lutheran

The exhibit includes works of protest and resistance by 22 artists from different backgrounds who use the tools and techniques of printmaking in novel ways.

September 27, 2023

The Apocalypse Is Here in Kingsmen Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

The 26th season concludes with a novel twist on the play, which takes place in an abandoned shopping mall after an apocalyptic event.

July 17, 2023

A Novel Setting for “Gentlemen of Verona”

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival returns to California Lutheran University for its 26th season June 30 through Aug. 6 with “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

July 3, 2023

Cal Lutheran hosts its first-ever Women in Film Summit

An impressive lineup of women will be on campus for discussions of inequality in the movie and TV industry over two days.

March 3, 2023

Play explores all sides of Roe v. Wade

Cal Lutheran’s Theatre Arts and Dance Department will present a staged version of “Roe” (the updated version), directed by Red Patterson and Bianca Akbiyik, at 8 p.m. Oct. 19-21 in the Preus-Brandt Forum on the Thousand...

October 7, 2022

Caroline Kinsolving plays Lady Macbeth, and Matt Orduña is Macbeth. Photo: Brian Stethem

Director presents ‘Macbeth’ in new light

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — July 6, 2022) The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival is closing its 2022 season with one of the most performed tragedies in theater history, but under the guiding hand of a veteran director seeing...

July 6, 2022

Benjamin White portrays Orlando and Chloe Baldwin is Rosalind in "As You Like It." Photo: Brian Stethem

Festival marks 25th anniversary of debut

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — June 16, 2022) Twenty-five years after the first Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival was held, and following a two-year pandemic-caused hiatus, the event kicks off its joyous return to California...

June 16, 2022

Festivalgoers can wander through an authentic Viking village and a Sami siidastallan, or community gathering. Photo: Tracie Karasik

Scandinavian Festival back after 3 years

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — May 23, 2022) The largest Nordic festival in Southern California will return to California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks on June 4 and 5 after a two-year absence caused by the...

May 23, 2022

Topic: Arts & Culture