Author Archives: David Chang

In the high-stakes world of competitive book collecting, everyone is a wild card and anyone can be a dark horse. Now that sounds like my kind of competition. Plus, it’s low on physicality and high on spending money. Thus, I have enlisted the help of fourth-year English student and book collector extraordinaire Carrie Wiita to […]

When it comes to the issue of misconceptions of Chinese culture and dance, Josephine Louie, artistic director of “Lotus Steps, 2004,” recounts the time when the bare midriff of a child dancer performing in the show was brought into question. “The mother came up to me and asked, “˜Do we need to show bellies of […]

In one of the rare instances where lip-synching is not only engrossing but also applauded, the child actors of the Belgium-based theater company Victoria proved captivating as copycats in last Saturday night’s performance of writer/actor/director Josse De Pauw’s “üBUNG” at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, drawing to an end UCLA Live’s second International Theatre Festival. The premise […]

As I sat in class pondering if Ferris, Sloane and Cameron ever developed into a love triangle, it suddenly occurred to me that I really should be paying attention to more pressing matters. No, not the professor’s lecture on Victorian manners. I’m talking about something far more imperative, something that requires my immediate attention. Yes, […]

It’s ironic that the actors in Evan Lorenzetti’s production of “Schoolgirl Figure” practice their dialogue exchanges by tossing a ball back and forth in a circle like a bunch of playful kindergartners. For a dark comedy about high school girls obsessed with their weight, they’re sure getting a lot of hearty exercise. It’s also the […]

It all boils down to how you define “like.” Meet Dan (I promised David that I wouldn’t use his real name), a cohort of mine since we loaded a dorm elevator with a bunch of caution cones as freshmen. Dan is a go-getter who goes (to class) much more often than he gets (As). In […]

If Bravo’s “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy” has taught viewers anything, it’s that proper lighting in a living room, much like a hit television show, can illuminate desirable qualities and obscure undesirable aspects at the same time. The often narrow portrayal of gays and lesbians in the media spotlight will be one of the […]