How to spell overrated: C-A-T-S Webber’s musical disappoints, lacks cohesive qualities By Denise Cruz and Robert Stevens Daily Bruin Senior Staff Here’s a money saving tip. Read more...

Crosspulse’s percussion skills visit UCLA By John Mangum Not many people can go from banging on pots and pans on their mom’s kitchen floor to being one of the world’s leading percussionists. Read more...

Martin’s comic antics paint ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ Bartender, patrons add extra fuel to comedic production at Playhouse By Jennifer Richmond Daily Bruin Staff Steve Martin. Read more...

UCLA prof dresses up the best Ramicova brings experience, insight to UCLA campus By Barbara E. Hernandez Daily Bruin Staff For being in a small and very competitive field like costume design, Professor Dunya Ramicova has done extremely well. Read more...

Seances lift ‘Spirit’ to comedic heights By Lawrence Sullivan Although written in five days during one of the darkest years of World War II, there is no darkening of manners among the pompous British upper-class characters of Noel Coward’s play, "Blithe Spirit." Poised against the mantelpiece, one hand in the double-breasted jacket pocket, the other gesturing with a dry martini, Don Shenk settles fastidiously but commendably into the smug role of London novelist Charles Condomine. Read more...

‘Islands’ offers six hours revulsion, not ‘revolution’ Six-hour play seems more like fluff than social commentary By Jennifer Richmond Daily Bruin Staff "Revolution creates hell for all the people involved," Osvaldo (Shawn Elliott) says of the torment he’s endured throughout his life. Read more...

‘Seduction’ adds new edge to spicy formula By Lael Loewenstein The dark and dangerous femme fatale has long stalked men in Hollywood films. In classics like Double Indemnity (1944) and Out of the Past (1946), beautiful and mysterious women lured unsuspecting men into committing crimes in the name of love, only to double-cross and kill them later. Read more...