Staying power, the ability to perform at the same intensity level for a sustained amount of time, is vital for success in any circumstance ““ in the business world, on the soccer pitch or on stage.
Author Archives: Daniel Boden
The lion wakes tonight
Janss Steps on a Thursday night is silent compared to the muddled roar of Westwood North Village.
The Big Draw
We live in a world where grown-ups often confuse images of elephant-swallowing boa constrictors with simple pictures of a hat.
Artist’s spectre lingers in her art
Eva Hesse, dead at 34, lives again.
Although the artist of German origin died in 1970 of a brain tumor, her ghost is currently on display at the Hammer Museum in a phantasmagoric collection of early paintings from 1960.
“˜Cabaret’ revives a classic
It’s Berlin, 1931. Boys are kissing girls. Boys are kissing boys. And girls are kissing girls. Throw in a couple of love stories, the rise of Nazism, and a handful of songs and you have the perfect set-up for a musical.
Film, theater meet on the stage at Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon
Before Francis Ford Coppola completed his graduate studies in film at UCLA, he was a theater student. The writer and director, perhaps best known for “The Godfather” trilogy, got his beginnings at Hofstra University before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry.
Student’s senior honors thesis hits the stage
Jacqueline Hoang’s senior honors thesis quickly became more than a mere school project. Her theatrical adaptation of a John Keats poem became a personal mission in which she invested her time, a great deal of money and all of her effort.