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| Actor Cliff DeYoung Los Angeles, CA -- Cliff DeYoung, highly-acclaimed film actor and television star, will perform his one-man show, Cliff DeYoung in the works of SAMUEL BECKETT, an Anthology of the Works of SAMUEL BECKETT, to celebrate the grand reopening of the Â99-seat Arena Theatre on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, beginning Friday, November 1, 2002. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, the play is a composite script drawn from many Beckett works, including the plays Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and KrappÂs Last Tape, novels such as Malloy and Malone Dies, and several short stories. DeYoungÂs return to the stage stems in part from an offer by Stephen Rothman, chair of Cal State L.A.Âs Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, to help celebrate the reopening of the Arena Theatre, which has been dark since June 2000, when a lengthy remodel of the facility was undertaken. A 1968 graduate of Cal State L.A., DeYoung was honored last year as a Cal State L.A. ÂDistinguished Alumnus for his extensive and prestigious accomplishments as an actor in film and television. DeYoung has received special permission from the Estate of SAMUEL BECKETT to perform the piece, which was originally written by Beckett and the famous Irish actor Jack MacGowran and has not been performed in the United States for more than 30 years. Cliff DeYoung started his career as a rock singer with the band ÂClear Light, and appeared on Broadway in the original production of Hair and the Tony-Award winning drama Sticks and Bones. He first gained national recognition in the television film Sunshine and in the subsequent television series. A star of countless television movies and miniseries and a wide variety of feature films, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Charles Lindbergh in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case with Anthony Hopkins, as Robert F. Kennedy in King, and as John F. Kennedy in Robert Kennedy & His Times. DeYoung was most recently seen opposite Mia Farrow in the Lifetime Network production of The Secret Life of Zoey and Masterpiece TheatreÂs American Collection, Almost a Woman. According to department chair Stephen Rothman, ÂThe Arena Theatre was for many years one of the most active of our performance spaces, therefore we felt it was important to celebrate its reopening with an all-alumni production. As we look to the future of this historic space we honor its past by putting together a production that is performed, directed and designed by those talents who have been responsible for so many wonderful shows performed here throughout the years. Cliff DeYoung in the Works of SAMUEL BECKETT will open on Friday, November 1, and play a limited engagement through November 16, running Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m.
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