Author Archives: Alexis Matsui

A Night of Cultura will be presenting its second annual show this year, “América Herstory,” bringing together a rich combination of storytelling, acting and dance in a celebration of Latin American culture. The show’s structure will revolve around a central story line involving an older woman and her incredible lifetime of travels. By visiting the […]

Daniel Gary Busby has been up to some saucy things since leaving UCLA last year, and he’s got a lot more on the way. The former UCLA professor, who taught in the musical theater program, has gone on to take a tenured assistant professor position in UC Irvine’s drama department. “I’m teaching music theory for […]

When Janelle Dote graduated from the theater department in 2003, her interest in acting was just emerging from backstage to front and center. In the Geffen Playhouse’s revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s “Paint Your Wagon,” Dote will get to hone in on all aspects of the stage skills she learned at UCLA. […]

Hundreds of Los Angeles celebrity magazines won’t give you half the intimate details of watching some of the most important artists of the country in their open conversations at the UCLA Hammer Museum. The Hammer Conversations series, which occurs about once every month, presents two interesting people and lets the magic create itself. First, primary […]

When Sarah Kane committed suicide in 1999, she was considered to be the “most prominent young playwright in Britain,” according to famed Royal Court director James McDonald. With the success of her rampantly controversial first play, “Blasted,” Kane was well on her way to making stage history as both a writer and a director before […]

The arts have always been used to express opinion, and with such a heated political climate surrounding citizens this fall, there’s no better time for the art department to embrace and cultivate students’ abilities to use art to communicate political views. W.H. Lucas, professor of a Design | Media Arts class titled “UCLA! VOTE,” and […]

California dreamin’ might not be quite as light and breezy anymore, at least according to the featured artists in this year’s art department show, “Dark Side of the Sun,” curated by some of UCLA’s graduate art students. The show, which surveys MFA student work from schools across California, features various mediums and a wide variety […]