“Creditors” is a 95-minute performance of concentrated dramatic action. Plot events unfold so quickly that audience members can hardly keep track of which characters are manipulating who before the play’s shocking ending. The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and The New American Theatre present David Greig’s modernized translation of August Strindberg’s play “Creditors,” directed by David Trainer, […]
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Graduate acting program’s new head sets stage for recalibration of curriculum
It’s been two years since UCLA’s graduate department at the School of Theater, Film and Television accepted any actors into its program. In the wake of Tony Award-winning Professor Mel Shapiro’s retirement as the head of UCLA’s graduate acting program, Michael Hackett, chairman of the Department of Theater, and other faculty members of the graduate […]
‘When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney’ debuts at UCLA
Writer Dean McClure was watching his daughter perform in a parade at Disneyland 20 years ago when he asked himself why a musical had never been made to highlight the life of Walt Disney. On Friday, the musical “When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney,” presented by McClure and Pat Boone, opened at UCLA’s […]