A tall, looming skeleton with arms spread open reveals its scrap metal rib cage and welcomes its guests as they shuffle silently through the Haitian art gallery. Read more...
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Shown above is a statue from the Fowler Museum’s “In Extremis,” an exhibit that celebrates life and death in 21st century Haitian art.
Seated in a small venue enclosed by narrow black walls, the stage is dark with white fluttering projections of the famous telltale moth. Read more...
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(Courtesy of Michael Lamont)
A couple of young recovering addicts, an actor dealing with the pressures of success and a mother who vowed to abstain from drug use to save her children make up a small part of the audience. Read more...
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The Dionysus Project is a “town hall” panel discussion that uses content from Euripides’ Bacchae and relates it to modern-day addiction.
For 35 hours a week, Jessica Felix works diligently as a barista in Brentwood and saves up her tips in an old pickle jar, relabeled "Hopes and Dreams" "“ not to pay for a Eurotrip or a new car, but for comedy lessons. Read more...
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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna, Jessica Felix, has been writing and performing monthly with her sketch comedy team, Brute Squad, at Improv Olympic West in Hollywood.
As a young girl, fourth-year theater student Danielle Rosario suffered from a common adolescent knee condition but she refused to let it keep her from dancing. Read more...
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Fourth-year theater student Danielle Rosario played Diana Morales in the UCLA film school’s production of “A Chorus Line” this quarter.
The members of the video production company Extremely Decent adorn their walls with an antler-bearing can of Keystone Light, dual guitars, a large starfish and the plush head of a snow leopard mounted above a mistletoe. Read more...
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Ian McQuown (center) and his roommates David Crane (left) and Nick Smith (right), all fourth-year theater students, are a part of short-film production company Extremely Decent.
Gwenna McKee went into the audition determined to do her best. Read more...
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“A Chorus Line,” this year’s musical put on by the UCLA Department of Theater and playing at the Freud Playhouse, closely examines the lives of 17 dancers vying for only eight spots on a Broadway chorus line.
