In the short video “Upside Down,” an older woman makes makloubeh, a traditional Palestinian food dish. The last shot shows the completed product: separate and distinct layers of chicken, rice and vegetables piled on each other, but combined to form something bigger than its individual parts.  Similarly, the widely-varying world of Arab video shorts piles up into a more complete vision of Arab society. Read more...

Comedies and spoofs are central on this year’s menu of UCLA’s theater department play series. Kicking off their 2002-2003 series, third-year master of fine art students in the theater department present Christopher Durang’s “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” and Caryl Churchill’s “Cloud Nine,” directed by professors Larry Arrick and April Shawhan, respectively, starting tonight and running through Nov. Read more...

I recently had an out of this world experience. No, I didn’t use my millions of dollars and boyish good looks to buy my way onto a Russian spaceship like that guy from *NSYNC. Read more...

Jacqueline Ramirez-Johnston, a recent graduate from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media has decided to stick with filmmaking for the long run despite the career’s difficulties. Read more...

In the rapidly changing world of theater, there are certain classics that remain on Broadway and continue to travel the national theater scene because of their timeless appeal. Read more...

When musicians become actors, what happens? Is it like when basketball players become baseball players (let’s hope not)? Or more like when actors run for political office (eek!)? Read more...

The conductor who received enthusiastic applause from students in the UCLA Wind Ensemble after a rehearsal last week was not the ensemble’s veteran band director Thomas Lee. Read more...