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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Exhibit showcases sketches from life drawing classes

February 16, 2012

By Elana Zeltser Munching on complimentary mini muffins, students, faculty and parents took a last look at the senior Life Drawing exhibit in Feldman-Horn during a closing art Jan. 30 at break. The...

Alumnus stars in film

February 8, 2012

By Abbie Neufeld "Black Rock" featuring Jay Paulson ’96 premiered on Jan. 21 the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. This is the second film Paulson has been in that has premiered at Sundance. The...

Artists display work at CSUN

February 8, 2012

By Meagan Wang Six students’ artwork was exhibited at the 15th Annual High School Art Invitational at California State University, Northridge’s Main Art Gallery from Jan. 9 to 28. Artwork...

Senior designs flexible costumes

February 8, 2012

By Claire Hong Ruby Boyd ’12 faced a new challenge while trying to design the costumes for the actors of the upper school play "The Laramie Project." Boyd had to find costumes that would appropriately...

Stage crew is ‘in charge’

February 8, 2012

By Jamie Chang When lights rose on the stage of the upper school production of "The Laramie Project" last weekend, the director and other adults who had helped create the play sat in the audience as...

Picture perfect

December 15, 2011

By Allison Hamburger Four student-designed murals will be painted on the walls of the Skid Row Homeless Shelter after winning the Volunteer of America Los Angeles High School Mural and Art Contest....

Michele Spears, Unscripted

December 15, 2011

By Megan Ward Without a script or any idea of what the plot will be upper school perfroming arts teacher and Scene Monkeys adviser Michele Spears steps on stage with other members of the Impro Theatre...

Choirs perform holiday-themed songs at Santa Monica church

December 14, 2011

By Carrie Davidson The lights dimmed in the Santa Monica Presbyterian Church on Dec. 10 as all upper school choir members filed in towards the risers holding a small plastic candle. The annual Winter...

‘An Evening of Jazz’ features jazz classics, Radiohead covers

December 3, 2011

By David Lim "Call the concert Radio-jazz-head," Studio Jazz Band pianist Nick Healy '13 said of the Radiohead-infused Winter Jazz Concert. Two ensembles played covers of Radiohead songs "Paranoid Android"...

Hidden pit orchestra performs music behind the play’s stage

November 16, 2011

By Abbie Neufeld The last time Matthew Lucas ’14 acted in a play was in sixth grade, when he played the role of Demetrius in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." In the opening act of "Fiddler...

‘Theater geek’ turns to costume design

November 16, 2011

By Sydney Foreman Costume design teacher Lisa Peters has been "holding a needle and stabbing it through things" since she learned how to read, she said. "You wear a costume every day," Peters said....

Actors to play multiple roles in winter ‘Laramie Project’

November 16, 2011

By Jessica Barzilay and Jamie Chang The director of "The Laramie Project," this year’s winter theater production, plans to cast 16 students for more than 50 roles. Instead of auditioning each...

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