With an old story and new storytelling techniques, Dutch performer Fedja van Huet will bring a bricklayer’s tale of bravery and rebellion to the Freud Playhouse Oct. Read more...

Those who say change is not a good thing haven’t seen the Cullberg Ballet perform its radical interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” This two-hour ballet performed Friday and Saturday night in Royce Hall went by in a flash of bald heads and men in tutus. Read more...

She has seemingly flawless good looks. She’s an import from Australia. She’s not Nicole Kidman. “Nicole’s a really good friend,” said Naomi Watts, star of “The Ring” and “Mulholland Drive.” “And she’s someone you learn a lot from just because you’re in the same proximity, but she never sits me down and says “˜this is what you must do in this experience and that experience.'” Since her award-winning role in “Mulholland Drive,” Watts has become a sought-after Hollywood commodity. Read more...

The room goes pitch black. The small stage lights flicker as the author takes her position at the podium. In place of her book lies a laptop. Read more...

For students in the music department, playing in the UCLA Philharmonia is a way to earn credits. For fourth-year biology student and Philharmonia member Ketan Shah, it’s a way to relax. Read more...

For the aging audience members who probably still remember a relevant Woodstock, and younger converts seeing him in the flesh for the first time, the last of Bob Dylan’s three shows at the Wiltern felt more like a reunion between old friends than a rock concert with a larger-than-life cultural icon. Read more...

Two theater festivals, both alike in dignity, in fair Los Angeles, where we lay our scene “¦ Unlike the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s tragic play, the Edge of the World Theater Festival and UCLA Performing Arts’ first International Theater Festival are not explicit rivals, but rather are working together to bring a cutting-edge collection of local and international theatrical arts to Los Angeles. Read more...