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” […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Bruin wins $30,000 award for dystopian screenplay
While sitting in the UCLA library working on his screenplay, “Waking Hours,” Barnett Brettler began to cry. He had reached a solemn moment in the story when a character had to leave and, although people in the library stared, he could not help himself. “Writing is such a lonely pursuit that you begin to fall […]
‘Hammer Down Reprise’ takes off with story of transformation
A month is hardly enough time to invent and build an airplane, but bringing its invention to the stage is a whole other story.
Q&A: Archizines curator hopes to showcase innovative, independent architecture publications in world tour
UCLA is the 18th stop on the world tour of the international architecture exhibition “Archizines.”
Theater Review: American Buffalo
It is difficult to imagine that violence, conspiracy and the potential loss of a dear friendship are consequences of the pursuit of … a nickel.
Love or Hate: The philosophical films of Terrence Malick
If director Terrence Malick loved lattes, he would make them in the late morning with the sunlight casting dolorous hues. He would murmur, softly, “Espresso. Milk. How you wrestle within me so.” And the latte, crafted over two hours, would change a man’s life. Of course, there’s no way to know if the reclusive Malick […]
“Bodycast” performance focuses on artists’ influences
From age 13 to 15, Suzanne Bocanegra wore a body cast to treat scoliosis, drastically altering her body from month to month, one day having a spine curvy like the figure of Marilyn Monroe, while another day having it retain the flat form of a little girl. Bocanegra, an artist, tells this story in “Bodycast,” […]