‘Laugh Lines’ cracks up audience

“Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed the show. Goodnight,” director Whitney Rydbeck said to loosen up the crowd before the start of the show.

Laugh Lines, directed by Will Ahrens and Whitney Rydbeck, is the first set of One Act shows in which students perform a selection of one-act plays. The seven plays were chosen from a book of the same title with a collection of short comic plays written by Shel Silverstein, Paul Dooley, Jonathan Rand and more.

Universal Horror Nights to give scares with new maze

Entering the front door of a two-story house, hair stands on end as a baby walker next to the stairs starts to come alive and moves across the floor. A woman screams for her son to run as strobe lights send visitors running for the exit. This is just the first room in the newly added “Insidious: Into the Further” maze at Universal Studio’s Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights.”