Growing up is already a difficult process, but when no one is there to help guide or protect, the odds of succeeding become very slim. Such is the situation for blue-collar, South Boston native Margaret “Margie” Walsh in David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People.”
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Artist Meredith Monk returns to UCLA for a weeklong residency
Equipped with the power of voice alone, Meredith Monk mimics the sounds of acoustic percussions and creates haunting vocalizations, techniques that have gone on to influence musicians like Bjork, DJ Spooky and Lukas Ligeti.
UCLA Arts Party to feature interactive activities inspired by current exhibitions
Museums tend to have a reputation for being cold, boring buildings with artifacts, sculptures and paintings that should be admired from a distance and not touched.
Play confronts issue of race relations, with goal of challenging audiences' views
If the title “The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King,” grabs someone’s attention, then it has fulfilled its goal. The play doesn’t actually feature Martin Luther King or his mistresses ““ it’s simply meant to provoke a reaction.
Graduate student Alan Patrick Kenny makes his LA directorial debut in "What the Butler Saw"
Rape, incest and the phallus of Sir Winston Churchill ““ three things which, combined, will take up about three minutes of stage time.
Horror, beauty coexist in Polish artist’s “˜Sculpture Undone’
In some ways, the Hammer Museum’s newest exhibition looks like the poetic debris of an apocalyptic event.
Students’ production uses dance, comedy and film to question the world
With a sprinkle of Ellen DeGeneres stand-up comedy, a pinch of ’70s aerobics moves and a dash of film experimentation, the winter dance production of “Sweet Moves” was created.