Author Archives: Fay Gordon

Good as Golda

Picture a dinner party with Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead and Golda Meir. It’s interesting to imagine their conversation, and Tovah Feldshuh probably has a keen sense of what the evening would be like. In her acting career, Feldshuh has portrayed each of these historical figures, and most recently brings former Israeli Prime Minister Meir to […]

Hammer exhibit helpsshape alumni’s careers

Few students would place “exhibit at a major museum,” at the top of their post-collegiate to-do list, as this lofty goal is rarely attainable during someone’s lifetime. But four UCLA graduates are checking off this milestone just a few years after graduation. The UCLA Hammer Museum’s THING exhibit, an exploration into the Los Angeles sculpture […]

Restoring Values

Perhaps the UCLA theater department knew who the most influential voters would be in the 2004 election when it chose its lineup of plays for the winter. A month before the election, students in the graduate theater program began rehearsals on a play about a man who pledges allegiance with a moral majority and the […]

An L.A. story

It’s the first Friday afternoon of winter quarter, the first clear day in Southern California of 2005, and several theater students are buzzing around Macgowan Hall. Like a scene out of a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie, they enter the theater courtyard on skateboards, and with the sun soaking their confident faces, one could easily forget […]

Breaking the mold

It’s normal to leave a performance of “The Nutcracker” wanting to waltz to Tchaikovsky’s Grande Pas de Deux, but most renditions of this Christmas classic do not leave audiences hungry. Matthew Bourne’s “Nutcracker!” might just change that. Described by its dancers and host as delicious and scrumptious, and by its host, UCLA Live, as a […]