A 14-year-old boy left home for Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an actor. A 16-year-old boy wore hearing aids for the first time and
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Bright and strong like a diamond
Pursuing her own dream of going into theater and becoming a director isn’t what Roya Row expected after she immigrated to Los Angeles six years
Review: “Clue” is funny whodunnit
During Halloween what could be more fitting than murder and malice at Pierce College? But don’t worry. This isn’t the kind of morbid murder that
Preview: “Clue” to premiere this weekend
Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick? Or was it Mrs. White in the lounge with a knife? Get a clue
Review: “American Alien” is a story of fear, hope and refuge
American poet Maya Angelou said, ”There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.” It is for this reason that the show’s director, Shaheen
Live and back in action
After standing empty for an entire year, the Pierce College Performing Arts Building was filled with prop graffiti walls, hanging lights and the laughter and
Six degrees of social justice
The sound of police sirens approaching from a distance may comfort some, but to others it’s a noise associated with anxiety of potential brutality. This
Artistic response to racial violence
Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old, was killed in 2012 by George Zimmerman, who was a part of his local neighborhood watch. In response to Zimmerman’s
Finding your voice after it’s gone
There’s a lot of Amy Solano in the Nina character from “In the Heights,” the role she played this month at Pierce College. Like Nina,
‘In the Heights’ does it right
Now considered a revolutionary writer, Lin Manuel Miranda, before his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed “Hamilton,” took the Broadway stage with “In the Heights.” Though the