An open letter. To those whom it concerns: Living in a nation where people are already starting to think about Christmas, I’m no longer surprised when people set up for holiday celebrations long before they should. Read more...

In a time when popular culture embraces the ever-increasing obscene and overtly sexual, a former UCLA theater student is trying to push the envelope even further. Read more...

“28 Days Later” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Today, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Title aside, this isn’t a movie about February. It’s a scary zombie movie from Britain. Read more...

Somewhere in the middle of Theatre 40’s spirited performance of “Twelfth Night,” the servant Fabian (Rachael Lyerla) steps up to the audience, cheekily pulls down her character’s elasticized beard, and declares, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Director Steven William, abetted by a more-than-able cast, seizes upon this line, one suspects, and turns his rendition of the play into a festival of metadramatic madness. Read more...

At first he seems like your typical college professor. In the film “The Human Stain,” Anthony Hopkins portrays Professor Coleman Silk, a Classics professor at a prestigious Ivy League university. Read more...

In the Scottish play, a flabbergasted Macduff, not knowing what to make of the two sides he’s just witnessed of the exiled Malcolm, famously utters, “Such welcome and unwelcome things at once / ‘Tis hard to reconcile.” Macduff’s lines neatly sum up the Shakespeare’s Globe production of “Twelfth Night” now playing to sold-out houses at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Read more...

Christopher Gorham has UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television to thank for his marriage. The star of UPN’s new show “Jake 2.0″ met his wife in an acting class when he was attending school here about 10 years ago. Read more...