Typically, doctors don't prescribe laughter when you're ill.
However, according to Gwendoline Yeo, a '97 UCLA alumna who has guest starred on "Desperate Housewives" and has done voice work for "Family Guy," laughter is the best medicine. Read more...

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Alumna Gwendoline Yeo plays the Chinese zither in her theatrical debut, “Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open” at the El
Centro Theatre. Yeo plays a total of 12 different characters in the semi-autobiographical one-woman performance.

courtesy of ZUZANA KENDROVA

Like many members of the theatre troupe Lapu the Coyote that Cares, Taylor Vickery is a South Campus student who doesn't plan on pursuing acting after college. Read more...

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Trinh Tran, a fourth-year psychobiology student and producer of “Of Mice Sans Men,” acts as a stand-in for a dress rehearsal with recent graduate Jerry Fang. The event, titled “I

It's a Friday evening at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, Calif. Read more...

As the house lights dim, old footage of Leonard Bernstein's television program, "Young People's Concerts," projects onstage, and the maestro teaches the audience how to prepare to conduct a symphony. Read more...

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Credit: Geffen Playhouse

Think back to what life was like in high school. Whether you were the class valedictorian, the class clown, the quarterback, the band kid, the popular kid or the book worm, UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television will allow you to revisit the halls of high school in the fall production "Is There Life After High School?" Read more...

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The cast of “Is There Life After High School?” rehearses Monday night in the Little Theater in Macgowan Hall.

Knocks can announce any of a number of things: people clamoring to be let in, jokes or even Mr. Opportunity making his presence known. Read more...

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Second-year theater student Adam Epelbaum was a finalist in the first-annual Laugh Bowl competition against USC. Laugh Bowl II begins Friday.

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.