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• Theater Review: “Audition! The Musical”

  Nov. 8, 2006 at midnight

  “Audition! The Musical” Sunday, Nov. 5 Santa Monica Playhouse A review of “Audition! The Musical” at the Santa Monica Playhouse would be incomplete without mentioning the play’s setting. In fact, ...

• Dancing in the streets

  June 12, 2006 at midnight

  After June 18th, many new Bruin alumni might spend the summer starting their first jobs, working on graduate school applications, or awkwardly making the transition into life back at home. ...

• Staging real Iraqi culture

  Aug. 29, 2005 at midnight

  Heather Raffo looks at Iraq and sees beauty. This may seem bizarre for the majority of Americans, whose sole portal to the country is a constant stream of violent and ...

• Hard work key for ‘Milk’ author

  July 25, 2005 at midnight

  Having recently published her novel, “Milk,” Darcey Steinke decided to take a brief vacation with her daughter off the coast of Connecticut. “You don’t have a lot of days like ...

• Show sends MFA grads off in style

  June 13, 2005 at midnight

  For most students on the cusp of graduation, spring quarter means frantically searching Craigslist for job openings, e-mailing resumes, and hopefully landing interviews. For MFA design and costume graduates, it ...

• Role playing

  June 9, 2005 at midnight

  Most descriptions of “I Am My Own Wife” illustrate the show with an image of a black dress and pearls, the costume Jefferson Mays wears to play Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. ...

• Student producer gets feet wet

  May 26, 2005 at midnight

  How does someone become a producer? “I’ve had no direction and no guide. It’s been, ‘Get your feet wet and jump into it,’” Sandra Mucke said about her recent first ...

• The most tolerant show on earth

  May 19, 2005 at midnight

  Teatro Revolver’s production, “Circuses without Bread,” features a giant, a hairy woman and a spoof of “American Idol.” Oh, and it also grapples with themes of racism, feminism and homosexuality. ...

• Selling a name for themselves

  May 5, 2005 at midnight

  “It’s a market.” Christian Barillas is not summing up Wall Street, but defining the reality of the entertainment industry. With graduation fast approaching, his class of MFA theater students is ...

• Late bloomer

  April 28, 2005 at midnight

  After watching a stunning dance performance, most people have a brief desire to be like the superhuman dancers they just saw on stage. Quickly after this thought comes a list ...