Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts

When UCLA alumni David Lee, Derek Mateo and Randall Park were students in 1995, they participated in the summer UniCamp program.

Hollywood has a thing for Shakespeare, as is evidenced by more than 400 film and television adaptations of his plays.

Despite such conventions, the Geffen Playhouse’s newest production “Next Fall” offers a sad, yet hopeful meditation on the way people’s obsession with overarching life philosophies often distracts them from the life they are living ““ a message the audience may ironically (or fittingly) miss if it becomes blindsided by its own premature assumptions about the play.

Playing at The Actors Company and presented by theater collective Artists at Play, the comedic and controversially titled play “Ching Chong Chinaman” deals with the Wongs, a Chinese American family completely assimilated into American culture ““ so much so that the members don’t recognize their ignorant behavior directed toward their newly immigrated indentured servant, Jinqiang.

A typical play rehearsal takes place indoors on a stage with decent lighting, but UCLA alumni Michael Perl and John Cogan have spent the last couple weeks running through graveyards, getting tangled in spiderwebs and slinking through underground vaults, all under the cloak of night.

“Completeness,” the L.A. Theatre Works new radio theater production, attempts to answer questions about love and relationships through the story of a romance between a molecular biologist and a computer scientist.