Larry Cedar converted Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground” from a dense 48,000-word novel to a 15,000-word one-man show. “It’s like they always say that when a sculptor has a big block of stone and he wants to make a sculpture of a beautiful woman, he just cuts away everything that isn’t the woman,” Cedar said. Read more...

Photo: Alumnus Larry Cedar spent nine months adapting Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel “Notes from the Underground” into his own one-man show. Cedar will perform the final performance of his adaptation Thursday night. (Courtesy of Lauren Conoscenti)

“Great Scott! And Other Above-Average People” will feature three plays in one show. Six UCLA students of the LCC Theatre Company directed three one-act plays for the student-run, Asian-American theater company’s first production this fall. Read more...

Photo: Kady Le, a fourth-year film and television student, directed “Seoul Occupant,” a one-act play that features a family’s response to a housing crisis in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)

Vanessa Guzmán had her first panic attack in the middle of a high school math exam. Guzmán said she felt the walls closing in on her, and all the noises around her magnified. Read more...

Photo: Vanessa Guzmán, a third-year art student, suffered from anxiety and panic attacks when she was a high school student. After being homeschooled and overcoming a two-year-long state of social isolation, she began exploring new mediums of art at her community college, such as performance art. Her exhibition “Ellos” was recently displayed in the Broad Art Center. (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)

The “Black is Beautiful” exhibit in Kerckhoff Art Gallery featured portraits of black students taken by seven black photographers in an effort to showcase the beauty of the black community at UCLA, according to the event’s Facebook page. Read more...

Photo: (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)