{"id":830,"date":"2013-05-31T01:11:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/?page_id=830"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:31:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 900px\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-528 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/11\/March-4th-Rally.jpg\" alt=\"March 4th Rally\" width=\"216\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/11\/March-4th-Rally.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/11\/March-4th-Rally-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><b>MICHAEL A MUFSON<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0(Professor of Theatre) Michael has a long history in the professional theatre,\u00a0\u00a0beginning at the age of sixteen, when he was an apprentice at the Provincetown Playhouse in Massachusetts.\u00a0\u00a0Michael, however, traces his theatrical roots back to his family\u2019s close association with E. Y. Harburg, the lyricist of\u00a0<i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Finian\u2019s Rainbow<\/i>\u00a0and \u201cBrother Can You Spare a Dime\u201d, who has been one of Michael\u2019s constant role models.Michael has worked his way through all levels of the theatre labyrinth positions at some of the Nations most acclaimed regional and summer stock theatres including Arena Stage, StageWest and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. <a title=\"Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/\">more..<\/a>.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 290px;border: 1px solid #ffffff\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><b>NEXT PRODUCTION<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>The Every 28 Hours Plays<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A collection of 76 one-minute plays, by a diverse range of playwrights, responding to the crisis of state-sanctioned violence against Black people and all people of color in the United States of America. It is produced nationally by Calling-up Productions and Claudia Alick. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.every28hoursplays.org\/&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1551061174096000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHW6DA7ipzli3zmwCcJa_b649QimQ\">https:\/\/www.every28hoursplays.org\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Today, in the United States of America, black people are killed by police at a sharply higher rate than other Americans. We have trouble talking about it, let alone addressing it. We have to NOW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Locally, our goal is to produce these plays throughout the region in as many formats and venues as possible. Using a grass roots model, we are growing this project from the ground up; hoping to inspire more participation with each public engagement. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palomarperforms.com\/the-every-28-hours-plays\/\">Click here to get involved<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"border-color: #ffffff;border-width: 0px;width: 900px\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\">FEATURED PORTFOLIO PRODUCTIONS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/productions-2\/wireless-city\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/wcpostcard.jpg\" alt=\"wcpostcard\" width=\"399\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/wcpostcard.jpg 550w, https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/wcpostcard-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff\"><a title=\"Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/angels-in-america-part-one-millenium-approaches\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/AiA-Two-Perrestroika-web.jpg\" alt=\"AiA-Two-Perrestroika-web\" width=\"343\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/AiA-Two-Perrestroika-web.jpg 755w, https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2013\/05\/AiA-Two-Perrestroika-web-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 450px\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Classes\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/classes\/\">CLASSES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TA 100 Intro to Theatre TA 113 Improvisational Theatre TA 115 Acting One TA 116 Acting Two TA 119 Voice and Speech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palomar.edu\">Palomar College<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palomarperforms.com\">Performing Arts Department<\/a> | <a title=\"Palomar Performs Flickr Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96559104@N08\/albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHAEL A MUFSON\u00a0\u00a0(Professor of Theatre) Michael has a long history in the professional theatre,\u00a0\u00a0beginning at the age of sixteen, when he was an apprentice at the Provincetown Playhouse in Massachusetts.\u00a0\u00a0Michael, however, traces his theatrical roots back to his family\u2019s close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":1041,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-830","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/mmufson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}