Author Archives: Colleen Koestner

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once barred female actors from the stage.

Most UCLA students may recall the anxiety of breaking the umbilical cord upon going away to college, but at least this transition didn’t last 150 years.

Dancer, performer and UCLA student Sheetal Gandhi once went a year without shampoo. Standing in a supermarket aisle, she found herself despairingly confounded by a bottomless variety of choices in the product.

As a scenic artist in the entertainment industry, Bridget Duffy has painted around wild animals, worked in Japan, and even helped to create a banner that broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on a NASA shuttle. But this past month she was given a much different artistic opportunity

Those familiar with the streets of Los Angeles may recognize countless museum banners that line the sidewalks, enticing potential museum-goers. However, the Fowler Museum prefers a more active form of advertisement.

Bose headphones replace flimsy blue- and red-lensed glasses in L.A.’s newest revival of The Who’s “Tommy,” a production that features 3-D sound for the first time in theatre history.

The script of “Little Miss Sunshine” called for “violent pelvic thrusts.”