Kristin Aoun

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• Theater Review: "Time Stands Still"

  Feb. 23, 2009 at 1:49 a.m.

  The Geffen Playhouse’s world premiere of “Time Stands Still” engages viewers so entirely that they experience what the title suggests: being captured in the moment.

• ‘Barefoot diva’ comes to Royce

  Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:10 a.m.

  A chance encounter with strangers can change a life forever: It can cause a future Grammy winner to sing out loud for the first time.

• On the classroom stage, he’s the star

  June 9, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.

  There is always that one popular guy in school who knows everyone, rebelliously joking his way through classes and entertaining those around him.

• Weekend Review: "Flora, the Red Menace”

  May 12, 2008 at 12:11 a.m.

  April showers bring May flowers. But this May is bringing distinctly different flora.

• Donating from the art

  April 25, 2008 at 12:44 a.m.

  Lately, it seems like everyone at UCLA is using the arts to fundraise for a worthy cause. Events like Dance Marathon and Shakespeare at UCLA’s 24-hour musical make humdrum fundraisers a thing of the past.

• The dancers who lunch

  April 10, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.

  Lunch does not usually include a heaping side of dance, but the world arts and cultures department is serving them as a combo. Today at noon, dance and lunchtime will come together with “Talking Dance,” performed by Simone Forti and Carmela Hermann, as part of WAC’s In The Garden series.

• ‘Bat Boy’ production gives insight into human nature

  April 3, 2008 at 12:59 a.m.

  The common conception of the American musical is little Austrian children running through fields, chimney sweeps tap-dancing on rooftops, and the ever-present rain in Spain, but HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “Bat Boy: The Musical” features blood, violence, incest and an interspecies orgy.

• Ballet company finds audiences

  Feb. 19, 2008 at 1 a.m.

  The phrase “Dance like no one is watching” is commonly used to inspire confidence in performers. However, for the State Ballet of Georgia, this phrase possessed an unfortunate truth.

• Smaller-than-life site picks up

  Jan. 22, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.

  For most students, college is a logical step on a career path. However for former UCLA student Sizhao “Zao” Yang, college actually got in the way of his career goals.

• Poetry reading will mix words, electronic music

  Jan. 9, 2008 at 12:12 a.m.

  “Christopher Robin had wheezles and sneezles, they bundled him into his bed,” recited little Alice in front of her third grade class. Now, years later, Alice Fulton is returning to her third-grade roots Thursday with her own poetry – no longer A. A. Milne’s – at the Hammer Museum in Westwood as part of the Hammer Poetry Readings series.