After four weeks of training, I felt ready to take on my first story. After the Arts & Entertainment section’s intern party, I felt like I had found my college family.
Author Archives: Daniel Boden
“˜A Chorus Line,’ running at the Freud Playhouse, mirrors lives of UCLA theater students
Gwenna McKee went into the audition determined to do her best.
UCLA professor shares award-winning novel, “˜Memoirs of a Porcupine’
Alain Mabanckou’s career has led him out of his native Republic of Congo to France and onward to the United States.
Theater Review: "I've Never Been So Happy"
Austin-based theater troupe Rude Mechanicals brings its over-the-top, yet extremely knowing, antics to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a second time this year, with just such a musical, “I’ve Never Been So Happy.”
Theatre review: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
A powerbomb of a play that effectively satirizes politics, power and race in the United States is in its West Coast debut in Westwood.
Nuanced emotions, Spanish roots of the classic 'Blood Wedding' stripped away on Odyssey Theatre's stage
“Blood Wedding”
_Odyssey Theatre
Through August 14_
In the world of theater, a classic is everything that the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Blood Wedding” is not.
Theater Review: "The Method Gun"
On July 30, 1975, a troupe of five actors opened their production of Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Their version, however, was without the leading roles of Stanley, Stella, Mitch or Blanche.