Sunday, May 10

Alumna Gwendoline Yeo emphasizes family dynamics in her one-woman show ‘Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open’

Typically, doctors don't prescribe laughter when you're ill.
However, according to Gwendoline Yeo, a '97 UCLA alumna who has guest starred on "Desperate Housewives" and has done voice work for "Family Guy," laughter is the best medicine. Read more...

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Alumna Gwendoline Yeo plays the Chinese zither in her theatrical debut, “Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open” at the El
Centro Theatre. Yeo plays a total of 12 different characters in the semi-autobiographical one-woman performance.

courtesy of ZUZANA KENDROVA


J. Paul Getty Museum’s exhibition ‘Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500’ features historical French manuscripts from Middle Ages

These days, famous lines such as "let them eat cake" have made cultural icons out of historical figures like Marie Antoinette "“ despite the fact that they are historically false. Read more...

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“Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500″ features a rare collection of historical French manuscripts, created with
tempera on parchment. The exhibition will be on display at the J.

Paul Getty Center through Feb. 6, 2011.



School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Alex Cox to visit UCLA to teach master class, screen his films at Billy Wilder Theater

Once, at a party, UCLA professor and former dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television Robert Rosen turned to someone and said that if he were sitting in a studio and had a million dollars to give to someone, anyone, to do something creative, he would give it to Alex Cox. Read more...

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Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb star as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in the film directed by Alex Cox, a UCLA alumnus.

UCLA FILM AND TV ARCHIVE


Lapu the Coyote that Cares to put on dramas set in San Francisco written, produced, directed and performed by versatile students

Like many members of the theatre troupe Lapu the Coyote that Cares, Taylor Vickery is a South Campus student who doesn't plan on pursuing acting after college. Read more...

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Trinh Tran, a fourth-year psychobiology student and producer of “Of Mice Sans Men,” acts as a stand-in for a dress rehearsal with recent graduate Jerry Fang. The event, titled “I


Internationally acclaimed show ‘Pandemonium’, an orchestra with everyday objects, to be performed in Royce Hall

An assortment of sounds fills a hall full of viewers, some sounds whispering sweet melodies, others bellowing. Read more...

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The show “Pandemonium,” from the creators of the international smash hit “Stomp,” will be playing in Royce Hall tonight through Nov. 18. Musicians use everyday items as musical instruments to create a full-stage orchestra.

courtesy of STEVE MCNICHOLAS