REDCAT and USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announce a special talk with Hilton Als, theater critic for The New Yorker. As the keynote speaker for the 2010 NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater conference, Als discusses the role of the critic in contemporary theater and art as well as how the approach to theater criticism varies in comparison to other artistic mediums.

Als was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-2003 and has been a theater critic since 2002. This event launches the sixth National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC Anneberg. Twenty-five arts journalists from 16 different states who were chosen to particpate on this 11-day program which includes writing workshops and one-on-one master classes with theater critics, reporters, editors, and general arts and entertainment journalists.

Tickets are $10 and $5 for students (make sure to bring your student IDs!) The show starts at 8:30 pm, be there early.

For more info, go to: www.annenberg.usc.edu/nea

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