My year as a failed dropout
Off the Beat
I never wanted to look back, to imagine myself returning to the study of economics, head hung, tail between my legs. That would have felt like failure.
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‘Noura’ is a heartrending tale of loss, rebirth in an Iraqi American family
Torange Yeghiazarian, the cultural consultant of the play, deserves special recognition for maintaining historical accuracy and conveying the nuances and details of Iraqi culture.
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UC Berkeley student Drew Woodson talks Native representation, ‘colonial demons’ in his play ‘Your Friend, Jay Silverheels’
Beyond a few “side projects,” as he called them, at high schools, Woodson didn’t have his first real acting experience until he went off to college.
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7 reasons why you should take a theater class in college
Why don’t you challenge yourself by taking a class unlike your normal classes? Here’s why you should take a theater class before you graduate.
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‘Waitress’ at SHN Golden Gate Theatre satisfies sweet tooth
The act of baking a pie lends itself to pitfalls. The filling can’t be too watery; the crust can’t be overbaked; the result can’t be too sweet or too bitter. But in “Waitress,” now playing at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, the recipe is simple: sugar, butter, flour.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury rattles the notion of spectator in ‘Fairview’
The show, which opened at Berkeley Repertory’s Peet’s Theatre last weekend, began in the home of an upper-middle-class Black family preparing for a big family dinner. The play took place where most plays seem to: inside the homes of the upper-middle class.
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‘The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ stomps its way into political discourse
When going to a 1970s musical about a “whorehouse” in Texas, one expects big hair, cowboy boots and slightly regressive attitudes toward lesbians. What one might not expect is a well-aged and upsettingly timely musical that seems to be in direct conversation with the headlines of today.
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Student set designer Alexandra Grabow talks love of design, process for TDPS’s ‘70 Scenes of Halloween’
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, or TDPS, hired a group of Bay Area professionals for its design team on its upcoming production — with the exception of one. That exception is senior theater and art practice double major Alexandra Grabow — the only student designer for the show.
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Roger Grunwald works to keep Holocaust survivor stories alive in ‘The Obligation’
The Holocaust may have happened more than 70 years ago, but Roger Grunwald is making sure it continues to be talked about. At least, that’s one of his main motivations in creating “The Obligation.”
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Our beat reporters say what they love
Every semester in The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department, we welcome a new batch of beat reporters. While they will spend the semester reporting on a multitude of different projects and exhibits specific to their expertise, they rarely have the opportunity to focus on their topics on a small scale.
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