“Audition! The Musical” Sunday, Nov. 5 Santa Monica Playhouse A review of “Audition! The Musical” at the Santa Monica Playhouse would be incomplete without mentioning the play’s setting. In fact, a night at the Santa Monica Playhouse is more of an event, rather than just a night at the theater. In Los Angeles, a city […]
Author Archives: Fay Gordon
Dancing in the streets
After June 18th, many new Bruin alumni might spend the summer starting their first jobs, working on graduate school applications, or awkwardly making the transition into life back at home. Right now, Vanessa Verdoodt’s primary post-graduation concern is deciding on the most efficient way to go from dancing in Senegal to teaching conflict resolution in […]
Staging real Iraqi culture
Heather Raffo looks at Iraq and sees beauty. This may seem bizarre for the majority of Americans, whose sole portal to the country is a constant stream of violent and painful images narrated by glossy newscasters. But Raffo, who wrote and stars in “Nine Parts of Desire,” a play that opens Sept. 6 at the […]
Hard work key for “˜Milk’ author
Having recently published her novel, “Milk,” Darcey Steinke decided to take a brief vacation with her daughter off the coast of Connecticut. “You don’t have a lot of days like this out there, do you? You know, where it’s hot, but not sunny, kind of wet, and it’s just that buggy, buggy weather?” she asked […]
Show sends MFA grads off in style
For most students on the cusp of graduation, spring quarter means frantically searching Craigslist for job openings, e-mailing resumes, and hopefully landing interviews. For MFA design and costume graduates, it means a party. Well, a showcase to be more specific. This past weekend was the third annual Design Showcase West, a final weekend of art […]
Role playing
Most descriptions of “I Am My Own Wife” illustrate the show with an image of a black dress and pearls, the costume Jefferson Mays wears to play Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. With this image in mind, I was curious to see what this Tony Award-winning actor would wear for everyday interviews, when he’s not playing an […]
Student producer gets feet wet
How does someone become a producer? “I’ve had no direction and no guide. It’s been, “˜Get your feet wet and jump into it,’” Sandra Mucke said about her recent first experience as a producer. Mucke, a fourth-year communication studies student, has just finished producing her first major play, “Friends with Frank,” at the Stella Adler […]