The organizers behind this year's Ray Bolger Musical Theater production from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television refuse to let the recession put a damper on the perfectly sunny, breezy remaining days of the school year. Read more...
Arts
|
May 28, 9:00 pm
Cole Porter’s “˜Anything Goes’ to open this week
Arts
|
May 28, 9:00 pm
Horns, 33 cowbells, a squeegee and paint
A barrage of horns, a xylophone, a string base, organ pipes, a bass drum, 33 cowbells "“ and just one man to play them all. Read more...
Photo: Norton Wisdom’s painting “Mickey Rat” is one of several works to be featured at today’s Hammer Bash! event.
Arts
|
May 27, 11:58 pm
Audio slideshow: UCLA FAST presents “Unleashed”
Watch a slideshow of this year's FAST fashion show pieces and listen to the designers talk about their artistic inspiration. Read more...
Arts
|
May 27, 9:20 pm
Scripts reflect reality on stage
Reality television can easily be deemed as one of the most vapid and fabricated things in the entertainment world today. Read more...
Photo: The performance group The Neo-Futurists will perform at the Hammer tonight, blending sport, poetry and experience in 30 short plays. These 30 plays change weekly, and the members who are performing write something new for each week. This has allowed the Chicago Neo-Futurists to produce more than 6,000 two-minute plays.
Arts
|
May 27, 9:14 pm
Dodgeball is a nostalgic hit
Never under any circumstances would I choose to return to elementary school P.E. class. Do you remember that bespectacled girl who always got hit in the face during soccer only to start crying out on the field and have to be sent away from the game to put herself together again? Read more...
Arts
|
May 26, 9:47 pm
Bestselling writer discusses historical fiction
Studying history so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past is reasoning grade school students repeatedly hear. Yet what, then, is the purpose of fictionalizing history? Author Glen David Gold would argue that fictionalizing history does not necessarily mean ruminating upon the past but rather using historical figures and places as characters and settings for compelling storytelling. Read more...
Photo: The author of the bestselling historical fiction book “Carter Beats the Devil,” Glen David Gold, will read from his upcoming novel “Sunnyside” at the Hammer tonight.
Arts
|
May 26, 9:43 pm
Preservationist revives L.A. films
Los Angeles is often the cinematic setting for million-dollar blockbusters and film student projects alike, as well as providing rich material for independent, experimental films. Today, two distinctly L.A. filmmakers will be screening their off-beat, artistic work at the Billy Wilder Theater in the program "Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde." Read more...