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From stage to street, theater has been a way for people to express their innermost thoughts and emotions. See how this long-lasting art form has changed over time and how it mirrors society's innermost questions.

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From Zacatecas to Los Angeles, his parents made a dramatic move to start a new life.
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From Charlie Chaplin to Phil Spector, Black Dahlia to the Hillside Strangler, the dark allure of L.A. noir lives on.
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Laurie O'Brien's acting career took a detour into mental health and humanitarianism in the 1970s. Her new one woman show, "I Am Chrissie", draws directly from her experience conducting theatrical workshops in Denver mental institutions.
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"It was the discovery of both an incredibly innovative and progressive cultural life, as well as a fantastically enthusiastic attitude to the arts, that first made me consider making L.A. a home."
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Elementary schools in "the Southeast" area of San Diego have implemented innovative arts integration programs that have begun to energize schools in neighborhoods that were once left behind.
A scene from Katselas Theatre's remount of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992  Photo Credit: Heather Wynters
I consider the George Holliday video of Rodney King's beating and the subsequent news footage of the L.A. Riots to be my first American reality show. Instead of an elimination ceremony, ring ceremony, or final weigh-in, it was the acquittal of four po...
The 10 Freeway is indispensable to this Cal State L.A. student from San Bernardino County.
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A trio of art establishments ranging from theater and poetry to public art and screenwriting anchors itself on Venice Boulevard.
For this installment of Arrival Stories, we hear from playwright and acting teacher Stacey Martino and actor René Rivera.
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My point of view and sense of humor is not based on being Asian American, it is about me just being who I am.
Audience and performers inhabit a prison simulation | Photo by Anne Maike Mertnes
California prisons have faced over-crowding for the past 20 years. The U.S. Supreme Court is now discussing the constitutionality of these conditions. In…
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Meet the secretive Department of D.I.Y., the group said to be behind the sharply-designed, wheat-pasted posters throughout Los Angeles that urge caution between bicyclists and automobile drivers.
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