The Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon generally features film directors who are crossing over into theater. But Michael Aspinwall, the director of the musical “High School!” said “(his) background is shady.” Aspinwall graduated from UCLA in 2004 with a degree in theater performance and is currently working on his masters degree in theater education and critical studies. Read more...

As bizarre as it reads in print, in his new work “Caroline, or Change,” playwright Tony Kushner has written perhaps the first stream-of-consciousness musical. The difficult literary style associated with modernism, made famous by James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Read more...

The sheer mention of the high school homecoming parade usually either invokes euphoria or promotes apathy. But playwright Katherine Ruppe wants to rekindle an interest in the topic. Read more...

“Bad Education” Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Sony Pictures Classics At the risk of being criticized by film students everywhere, Pedro Almodóvar is the modern-day Federico Fellini. Read more...

The enigmatic formula of the Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon merges the efforts of a playwright and a film director into a collaboration that is beyond the reaches of one medium. Read more...

A Perfect Circle “eMOTIVe” Virgin Records Cover songs often get a bad reputation for not being as good as the original, mostly because they’re usually the same exact song performed by a different musician. Read more...

It’s a little early, and it probably won’t be recognized in most states, but Nov. 13 should be designated Ol’ Dirty Bastard Day. Since he passed away on Saturday, ODB fans across the country have been reminiscing not only about his contributions to the musical world, but also about how endearingly crazy the guy was (not in any clinical or legal sense of the word, of course). Read more...