It can be difficult to stand out in the swarming theater scene in New York City, with countless aspiring actors and playwrights struggling to make themselves seen and heard.
Author Archives: Jennifer Bastien
Show connects graduate students with art community
In a perfect world, college graduation would alert companies from a chosen area of interest to take notice. For most students this is only a dream, but for UCLA graduate students earning their master of fine arts degree, it is a reality.
Improv sculptor comes to Hammer
The spontaneous aspect of improvisation can create a pressure-filled and nerve-wracking environment.
Writer garners personal praise
During her lifetime, erotic writer Anais Nin’s eccentricities were criticized and ridiculed. But like many artists of the past, she is now being honored for her achievements.
Playwright urges us not to hate the player
Guys who date and shamelessly dump woman after woman are regularly called womanizers, jerks and players. However, no one really thinks to consider their side of the story ““ until now. One of these supposed jerks is “Guy,” the main character of Neil LaBute’s play “Some Girl(s),” which opens at the Audrey Skirball Theater at […]
’20s blues hits stage
When it comes to writing papers and essays, few UCLA students have time for a rough draft. Dee Jae Cox, however, wrote about 37 drafts of her latest play, “Prove it on Me,” before starting production.
Theater Review: “The Grand Delusion”
The reverberating sound of a gunshot jolts the audience to attention as “Grand Delusion” gets underway. It is the year 1914, the gunshot is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The audience is about to get a look into the plotting and scheming on the dawn of World War I.