In the 11 years since the original "Bring It On" (starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union) came out, studios have milked the peppy cash cow for all its worth. Read more...

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Courtesy of Craig Schwartz

Teenage sexuality, masturbation and abortion will take center stage tonight at Schoenberg Music Hall. Read more...

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Members from the Hooligan Theatre Company on the set of “Spring Awakening.” The show will be
premiering in Schoenberg Music Hall tonight and runs through Sunday.

The brightness of day filters through a large window onto a matte black typewriter, the dimples of its glossy keys forming multiple pools of reflective light. Bookshelves, standing as sentries of the published word, line the walls before it. Read more...

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

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Fourth-year global studies student Amy Lettau, second-year art history student Linda Fernandes and third-year psychobiology student John Le participate in an improv skit called “Interrogation” for LLC Theatre Company.

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

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Speaker William Germano delivers a conference to the attendants of Shakespeare Opera in Royce Hall. The event focuses on the issues that arise when the words of Shakespeare are edited to fit the melodies of an opera.

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. Read more...

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Courtesy of Michael Lamont

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. Read more...

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Julia Cho, Scott Keiji Takeda, Steve Hu, Ken Narasaki and Helen Ota star in the comedic “Ching Chong Chinaman,” which deals with the idea of Chinese American identity and will run through Nov. 20.