If your inner 10-year-old rejoices at the thought of monsters fighting robots, then “Pacific Rim” is the film for you. “Pacific Rim” is Guillermo del Toro’s childhood fantasy brought to life, and the director has said he hopes it will reintroduce the Kaiju genre popular in the ’50s (“Kaiju” literally translates to “strange beasts”) to […]
Author Archives: Natalie Chudnovsky
Dancer’s choreography experience will aid teaching in Spain
Shortly after walking across the stage this June, Jacob Campbell will be packing his bags to move 5,834 miles around the globe.
Shakespeare at UCLA intertwines ‘The Winter’s Tale’ and 1960s Spain
Post World War II, Spain is still under the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. And apparently everyone’s speaking Shakespearen English as well.
Student, alter ego to take on second solo Spring Sing performance
The prospect of singing to 8,000 spectators in Pauley Pavilion would be terrifying for any UCLA student. But for ’40s vixen Ruby Lee, this kind of thing is old hat.
One-woman performance addresses faith, sexuality
The schoolteacher looks down at the empty desks around her and teaches her imaginary students about Jesus Christ. She then sits down at one of the desks and transforms into a schoolgirl thinking that Jesus wasn’t so different from her after all. He was a loner too. Writer and actress Karen Anzoategui’s “Catholic School Daze” […]
Artists express their take on ills of social, political issues
Create an art exhibition or write a paper – these were the final project choices Professor Paul Von Blum gave his Critical Vision class at the beginning of the quarter.
Shakespeare at UCLA’s production delves into marriage, comedy
Property disputes, shouted insults and a near death. It may be scripted, but it’s far from an ideal proposal. But then again, little goes according to plan when marriage is on the table.