Lisa Beebe

My LA Weekly cover story about WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring organization that works with teen girls in Los Angeles.

Even a pandemic can't stop Skylight Theatre Company in Los Feliz from making live theater. They're producing a free series of new short plays, happening every Thursday at 3pm, live on Zoom.

An interview with Heidi Duckler about her dance company’s new production, Underway, which takes place beneath the 7th Street Bridge in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District.

When making a business decision, it helps to have access to large amounts of data about the company and its customers—but only if you understand what the data is telling you.

What matters? UCLA Arts asked Ali Behdad, professor of literature and director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA; Kristy Edmunds, artist, curator, and executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA; and Michael Eselun, chaplain for the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology; to share their answers.

As part of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture's "10 Questions" series, astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, user experience designer Evan Sullivan, and choreographer Kyle Abraham talked about everything from what it means to be creative to how we can overcome creative fears.

Now that school is back in session, a plurality of impressive campus art galleries are in full swing as well, offering everything from current students’ works in progress, to sociopolitical exhibitions, to solo shows by emerging artists, to explorations of prominent artists’ cultural impact.

What is knowledge? What kinds of things do we know, and how do we learn them? At UCLA, philosopher and professor Tyler Burge, evolutionary biologist and podcaster Shane Campbell-Staton and theater artist Sylvan Oswald attempted to answer these questions.

Use improvisation to become better a communicator, team member, and leader.

Want to take your career to the next level? Start by boosting your business skills.

As the Hollywood Fringe Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, several longtime participants share how the festival has changed their lives.

L.A.’s bars and restaurants have reacted to the ban in all sorts of creative ways, but the public is still adapting to the change.

Morleigh Steinberg’s ‘Tucked In’ photography exhibit at Arcane Space in Venice captures the quietly courageous interior world of her daughter’s cancer journey.

L.A. has the largest county foster care system in the U.S., and an engaging new documentary explores it from the inside.

In the film "Frank Gehry: Building Justice," the famed architect and his team work with students from Yale School of Architecture & SCI-Arc on new approaches to prison design. I saw the LA premiere at the Architecture and Design Film Festival and wrote about it for National Academy of Design's NAD NOW.