Press Room

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.

Pace unveiled its new solar classroom, funded by Con Edison, and The Journal News, News 12 and The Daily Pleasantville reported on the event. (Left: Angelo Spillo, director of the Environmental Center at Pace, addresses the crowd at Thursday’s solar panel unveiling. Photo credit: Brian Marschhauser)

The Pleasantville Examiner ran a feature story covering two related Earth Month events at Pace. Both events explored a controversial environmental issue – hydro-fracking. The first event, entitled WTF? (What the Frac?), was a neutral debate with energy experts. The second event was a session with community groups decidedly against fracking.

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

A Pace student was featured in Staten Island Advance for winning the New York Women in Communications scholarship. She will be appearing live on The Today Show on Monday, April 23 along with the other scholarship winners.

Andrew Revkin, senior fellow at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace, said on NPR’s The Takeaway that this year’s record temperatures are an indication of what to expect in the future. (Left: A giant umbrella keeps a few fans in the shade as temperatures hit 90 degrees during an MLB spring training baseball game between in Peoria, Ariz., on March 31, 2012. Photo by Darryl Webb/Reuters.)