Jill Renner walked hurriedly to a black storefront on Venice Boulevard and, pulling back a large, wooden, ramshackle door, stepped into a small theater space. Read more...
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The cast of Pacific Resident Theatre’s “Island of Brilliance” features current UCLA students and alumni, working with longtime professional actors.
Though popular dance styles focus on individual, unorganized movement, attendees of a historical waltz event twirled together under the Powell Library rotunda on Saturday. [0:41]
"NEWS BRIEF: Historical waltz attendees dance through time with rhythm"Imagine a room filled with young ladies decked in Victorian garb and young men in tailcoats and top hats to match, effervescently dancing a waltz across the room. This isn't just a scene out of a Jane Austen novel. Read more...
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Monica Kracy, a fifth-year aerospace engineering student, is the president of the Historical Ballroom Dance Club.
Halloween is over, but a glimpse of the bizarre will remain on hand a while longer at the Hammer Museum. Read more...
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HAMMER MUSEUM
Artist Julian Hoeber’s structure “Demon Hill” is based on “gravitational mystery spots” and is currently installed on the Hammer’s Lindbrook Terrace.
Just about everyone has been exposed to "Hamlet" at some point, whether by watching "The Lion King" or reading the play in an English class. Read more...
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Hamlet (Terrence Colby Clemons) (left) spars with Ostricke (Matthew Wrather) (right) over King Claudius’ wager with Laertes over a sporting duel. Horatio (Joseph Tower) (center) observes the mismatched banter with the wit-challenged messenger.
Flannery Gregg was at dance rehearsal. Read more...
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Marissa Labog and Roberto “Rawbzilla” Lambaren are dancers in Collage Dance Theatre’s upcoming “Governing Bodies” performance at Los Angeles City Hall. The opening night gala will take place Saturday in the Tom Bradley Tower. (COLLAGE DANCE THEATRE)
UCLA graduate student Meg Gifford received the $15,000 first place prize in the 55th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for her script "Paint it Black" at a ceremony at the James West Alumni Center on Monday. Read more...
The Phantom is back and playing a somewhat different tune, or at least organist Steven Ball will be. Read more...
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UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Actors Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin play Erik the Phantom and Christine Daae, respectively, in the 1925 silent film, “Phantom of the Opera.” The vintage classic film will be featured at Royce Hall Saturday night at 8 p.m.
