When Nero, the last emperor of Rome, realized that he has a public relations problem, he summoned Scribonius to write a play that would turn the public opinion of him around immediately. What followed is Amy Freed's "You, Nero," an eye-pleasing spectacle about the events in Nero's palace during the declining years of the Roman Empire as extravagant as the Roman Coliseum itself.
There is perhaps no time in our country's history more vital than now for Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," the 2003 Tony Award winner for best play that encapsulates so much of America's inner psyche. Much like America, the play focuses on issues of racism, masculinity, homosexuality and religion while still making room for something as "insignificant" as baseball. The catch: Baseball isn't so insignificant.
There are few people in today's rap game that are as easy to hate on as T-Pain. He runs around with overly extravagant clothes, refuses to let go of his vocoder and Auto-Tune, and even worse, he sings the hook to everybodys' songs. So it's no surprise that he sounds like a featured artist on his own album.
On Halloween, the UC Irvine Drama Department showed how it celebrates the holiday. There was no candy or "monster mash" to be found, but blood was definitely present in the department's Oct. 31 production of "Titus Andronicus."
In 1994, Oasis burst out of Manchester and took British pop music by storm with its hit debut album "Definitely, Maybe" and its sophomore smash "What's the Story? (Morning Glory)." Thirteen years and seven albums later, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are back with a vengeance on their latest album, "Dig Out Your Soul."
When choosing a script for the next production he was to direct, Robert Cohen looked no further than to the man who gave him the initial spark of inspiration that began his professional career as a director and scholar: Samuel Beckett.
The Claire Trevor Theatre became a pretend "hotbox" this past weekend and will remain so until June 7 as the drama department presents Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy's "Reefer Madness."
