As American frontiersmen and pioneers pushed farther west in the late 19th century, they forged their way through some of the most inhospitable regions on the continent.
Author Archives: Daniel Boden
Game Lab presents first game carnival
King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone, Thor wielded his mighty hammer, and the UCLA Game Lab has the Eli Broad sword ““ or at least a couple drawings of it on its walls and door.
Theater review: "Four Clowns"
“Four Clowns,” a performance piece conceived and directed by Jeremy Aluma, perfectly understands this basic characteristic of the clown. During the roughly 90-minute production, staged at the Sacred Fools Theater in Los Angeles, the audience follows four archetypal clowns representing anger, anxiety, sadness and mischief on their journey from childhood to death.
Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble presents Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “˜Othello’
Tom Burmester had a mission statement. The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble, founded by Burmester in 2004 after he graduated from UCLA with a master of fine arts in directing, had a “commitment to strike a balance between … the works of new playwrights and revisiting timely and important classics.”
Shakespeare at UCLA’s “˜Richard III’ play set in Stalin’s Russia
Marisa Tate had been brewing her image of King Richard III for quite some time. To the massive Shakespearian text, she added a dash of Stalinist Russia, drawing out the violence and deceit of Richard’s world.
‘Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti’ exhibit at Fowler highlights Vodou collection
Little less than a year ago, Haiti weighed heavily on many people’s minds as the small nation on the island of Hispaniola that suffered a massive earthquake that devastated the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
Concurrent Felice Beato and modern Chinese photo exhibits at the Getty highlight China’s transformation
Pictures of war casualties in the 1800s hang next to modern nude portraits from China.