“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.

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.

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 painful images narrated
by glossy newscasters.

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 this out there,
do you?

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 means a party.

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.

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 experience as a
producer.

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.

“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 quickly realizing
that marketing ability is just as important as talent in an
actor’s path to success.

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 of excuses, such as
age and inexperience, silencing these desires.