Claire Trevor

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a big-time name here. On the West Coast, Alonzo King Lines Ballet is a key player in the San Francisco dance scene. Most dance fans would be happy enough to score tickets to see either of these famous companies perform. But...

Since Golden West College director Tom Amen embarked on his Ahab-like quest to trace the route of Herman Melville's obsessed captain in the classic novel "Moby Dick," audiences have been awaiting the promised outcome on the GWC stage. Well, the good...

At Bella Terra, it's Kids Club time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Monday. Singer Jamie Shaheen will entertain children with sing-a-longs as she plays the piano. The Kids Club takes place at the outdoor amphitheater near the movie theater and Johnny Rockets....

She was a movie star from the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood celebrating life in her eighth decade. I was a 30-something former network TV producer writing a column for the Daily Pilot. It was an unlikely alliance, but in spite of the obvious...

UC Irvine's dance production based on "The Rite of Spring" may jolt the audience in places, but it won't have nearly the impact that the original did in 1913. And there are several people to blame for that. Lenny Bruce. Hugh Hefner. The Sex Pistols....

Light boxes. Electrophoresis gels. Enzymes. DNA images. No, we aren't taking inventory of laboratory equipment. These are components of Paul Vanouse's "Evidence…Works," which will be exhibited at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts...

If you step into the costume storage room in UC Irvine's Contemporary Arts Center, you may think you've stumbled into the dry cleaners. The room, which became fully operational last spring as part of the building's renovation, stocks nearly 7,000...

When Madeleine Barker's fellow cast members handed her the Oscar in the Claire Trevor Theatre, she felt excited for herself and a little sad for Judy Garland. Barker, who plays Garland in UC Irvine's upcoming musical "Tinseltown Christmas," had been...

I'm a big fan of juicing, so I recently checked out Ritual Juice Box at The Camp, which opened a couple of weeks ago. Ritual Juice Box originated as an online juicing cleanse business, Ritual Wellness, started by Lori C. Kenyon and Marra O. St. Clair....

UC Irvine will present an informal showing of choreography by Alonzo LINES Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on Friday and Saturday at the university's Claire Trevor Theatre. During the companies' UCI residency, LINES artistic director Alonzo...

UC Irvine's drama department will soon realize a 40-year-old dream, when its inaugural season of "Shakespeare Under the Stars" opens next month at an open-air theater, which production staff and technical theater students built by hand. The festival will...

WEDNESDAY 'Do the Right' Woody's Wharf and friends will host "Do the Right," an auction in memory of Kirk Howe to benefit Jenny and Jillian Howe, at 6:30 p.m. at 2318 Newport Blvd., Newport Beach. Twenty percent of Woody's Wharf proceeds and 100% of...