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Pace University’s Musical Theatre Class of 2015 presented a cabaret on May 4th and 5th at at Joe’s Pub. The show, entitled Hatched, was a presentation of notable composers’ works written in the past three months. (Left: Tony Clements)

The Hollywood Reporter polled theater insiders and top casting directors to find the best training grounds for aspiring actors and Pace University’s The Actors Studio came out in the top 25 drama schools in the country.

The New Works Initiative (NWI), a project of PACE PERFORMING ARTS, launches this weekend with a developmental workshop of THE AGEE/EVANS PROJECT featuring words by Molly Rice, music by Stephanie Johnstone and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Three performances will be held at Pace University’s Lower Manhattan Campus across from City Hall at 8:00pm on Friday/April 27, Saturday/April 28 and Sunday/April 29 in the Layton Student Union, B-Level (use the side entrance at 3 Spruce Street). (Left: Rachel Chavkin).

The premiere screening of Batttle Behind the Bottle: A Documentary on the Cork Question” will be Wednesday, May 2 at 7:30pm, Pace University, 861 Bedford Rd., Pleasantville, entrance 1, Willcox Hall auditorium. The student filmmakers and their professor Maria Luskay will hold a panel discussion on the making of the film.

Pace communications students in Maria Luskay’s and Andrew Revkin’s Producing the Documentary course were featured in an article in Education Outlook, a supplement of The Journal News.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! Week Four of The Actors Studio Drama School’s 2012 MFA Repertory Season brings scenes from THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE (a young actress who has sworn off love gets stuck entertaining a soldier on leave), ORANGE FLOWER WATER (infidelity and the consequences of a romantic affair) and RED LIGHT WINTER (college buddies take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle). Free admission. Reservations: (212) 501-2099; ASDSRep@pace.edu

The Record newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey featured Pace communications professor Diane Cypkin in an article on an upcoming show.

Ryan Murphy and the cast incorporated “Inside the Actors Studio,” Bravo and, most important, our school, into a development toward which “Glee” has been building since its first day. At the climax of an episode in which the show’s principals, facing graduation, shared their post-graduate dreams, the final holdout was Finn, who was wrestling with uncertainty about following Rachel to New York. After fifty minutes of music and drama, a scene occurred in which “Glee” reached a significant milestone in Finn’s and Rachel’s – and the series’ – history. As millions of young people in the “Glee” audience watched, “Inside the Actors Studio” and The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University became an organic part of the “Glee” story!

Put on your dancing shoes this weekend and head to the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts to experience ballet, jazz, modern, theater dance, tap, contemporary, hip hop and aerial arts like you’ve never seen it before! BroadwayWorld reports that Pace is one of the only universities to offer aerial arts (dancing while suspended in air!).

Pace Performing Arts presents Dance Out Loud 2012 with a Dancing in Air “Bad Boy” number (aerial arts) and Singing Artist/Pace Commercial Dance Student Angelica Salem performing her pop song “We Rock the World.” Friday, April 20th @ 8 pm, Saturday, April 21st @ 3 pm matinee and 8pm, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.