“Marisol” Feb. 28 ““ March 3, 2007 Macgowan 1340 The moon has gone missing. Coffee is extinct. Men bear children. As the lights dimmed and the eerie chords of Los Angeles band China Room permeated the theater, I was transported to this apocalyptic world when the UCLA department of theater’s undergraduates performed Jose Rivera’s “Marisol” […]
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Arts Review: Hammer Contemporary Collection, Part I
Hammer Contemporary Collection, Part I UCLA Hammer Museum Jan. 16 ““ April 8 The Hammer Contemporary Collection is state of the art ““ pun intended. Part I of the exhibition, unveiled Jan. 16 and on display until April 8, is the first public presentation of a selection of artwork from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. The […]
Innovative artist comes to the Hammer
Ask Angela Dufresne whose work she admires and you’ll find her biggest influence may be her own striking personality. “Bob Dylan a lot and Bruce Lee, too,” she answers at first. Then she’ll start quoting “Enter the Dragon” faster than you can follow, until you end up promising her you’ll rent the darn thing. Dufresne, […]
Students heed UCLA’s “˜Godfather’ of film
The School of Theater, Film and Television will satiate the appetites of theatergoers with its upcoming surfeit of three performances, onstage in June. Starting with the Coppola One-Act Marathon, film and theater graduate students serve up a palatable course of four original works, presented as staged readings in two double-bills. This annual production series began […]
Broken boundaries
Bisexual, black, woman ““ each classification fights to hold her back. But Taisha Paggett keeps walking, paving her own path. She has somehow managed to put one foot in front of the other in a series of steps that has enabled her to conquer the stage. As a graduate student in the world arts and […]