The room goes pitch black. The small stage lights flicker as the author takes her position at the podium. In place of her book lies a laptop. In place of the table with her books on it lies a projector. And now the audience stares, not at the author, but at the screen behind her […]
Author Archives: Siddarth Puri
UCLA Live and EdgeFest: friends or foes?
Two theater festivals, both alike in dignity, in fair Los Angeles, where we lay our scene “¦ Unlike the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s tragic play, the Edge of the World Theater Festival and UCLA Performing Arts’ first International Theater Festival are not explicit rivals, but rather are working together to bring a cutting-edge collection of […]
“˜Junebug Symphony’ presents audience with night of surprises
Mimes and contortionists and sopranos, oh my! James Thiérrée’s “The Junebug Symphony” employs everything from carnies to Spanish opera singers in a dream-like extravaganza at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Born into a family of circus folk with a prominent lineage including grandfather Charlie Chaplin and great-grandfather Eugene O’Neill, Thiérrée began performing as a “walking suitcase” (managed […]
Art exhibit examines world with new lenses
If art can truly be said to imitate life, then in a new age filled with impending war and other political tensions, museums have begun to adapt their exhibits to focus on new media such as film and documentary. The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s new fall exhibition titled, “Art and Film in the Age […]
With “˜Genesi’, viewers can reinterpret Biblical creation tale
Step aside, Adam and Eve, here comes a new version of creation. Romeo Castellucci directs the Societas Raffaello Sanzio group’s “Genesi: From the Museum of Sleep,” loosely based on the biblical book of Genesis, which reveals a different view of creation. Born in Cesena, Italy, a small town in the mountains, Castellucci was trained in […]
Birth of the Punk
No, “Lipstick Traces” is definitely not about make-up. In fact, it’s about the punk revolutionary Johnny Rotten and the aftershocks of the Sex Pistols. It’s a time-travel play exploring the punk movement through the ages. The journey is traced from 16th-century heretic John of Leyden (whose name is a precursor to John Lydon, Rotten’s real […]
Birth of the Punk
No, “Lipstick Traces” is definitely not about make-up. In fact, it’s about the punk revolutionary Johnny Rotten and the aftershocks of the Sex Pistols. It’s a time-travel play exploring the punk movement through the ages. The journey is traced from 16th-century heretic John of Leyden (whose name is a precursor to John Lydon, Rotten’s real […]