Atlantic "Hedwig and the Angry Itch" will show this week
at Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
Upcoming activities with Campus Events Punk
rock band Strung Out will perform a free concert at noon today at
Westwood Plaza. Strung Out’s latest release, “Element
Of Sonic Defiance,” is available from Fat Wreck Chords. A
UCLA Bands Showcase will appear at noon in Westwood Plaza on
Wednesday, May 30. Admission is free. Tickets are now available at
Kerckhoff 319 for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,”
screening at Ackerman Grand Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Drawing
on such influences as “Cabaret,” “This is Spinal
Tap” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,”
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” tells the story of an East
German rock musician, now relocated to a trailer in Kansas. Back in
East Berlin, Hedwig was the victim of a botched sex-change
operation, leaving her in a state of perpetual sexual confusion.
The cast includes John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor
and Andrea Martin. There will also be a sneak screening of
“Evolution” at 7:30 p.m. at the Avco Cinema in
Westwood. Aliens arrive on Earth and go through Earth’s
entire 5-billion-year evolutionary process in a month. Havoc and
hilarity ensue. The cast includes David Duchovny, Julianne Moore,
Orlando Jones and Sean William Scott. Tickets will become available
on Thursday for “The Fast and the Furious” screening on
Tuesday, June 5. Students can pick them up at Kerckhoff 319. In the
film, a novice cop goes undercover as a racing-team member to
investigate a jewelry heist. At first, he is accepted by the
team’s leaders, but the other members soon begin to suspect
an imposter within their ranks. The cast includes Vin Diesel, Paul
Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez and Hill Harper. For
more information on any of these Campus Events activities call
(310) 825-1958. “˜MacBett’ comes to UCLA
stage “MacBett” will premiere on Saturday,
June 2 at 8 p.m. at the Macgowan Freud Playhouse. Eugene
Ionesco’s retelling of Shakespeare’s
“Macbeth” will be directed by master of fine arts
candidate Adame Shive. In surrealist fashion, it uses absurd
situations to comment on the corruption of power. Tickets are $15
for general admission, $10 for faculty, staff and senior citizens
and $7 for UCLA students. For more information contact the Central
Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101. Student showcases photos
from abroad Photographer and UCLA student Lynn Misa
Nishimura will present “Images Abroad,”
a collection of photographs from France, Italy, the Czech
Republic, Scotland and Japan. The exhibit will feature
nontraditional travel images that focus on unique details that
characterize each location. The compilation is the result of a
four-year project from Nishimura’s year abroad at the Paris
Center for Critical Studies. Lynn Misa Nishimura is currently a
photographer for NOMMO and Pac Ties and has also done freelance
work for Rafu Shimpo, Stress magazine and many other publications.
While in Paris, she worked as an assistant to fashion photographers
at Studio Zero. This event is sponsored by the UCLA Cultural
Affairs Commission and paid for by USAC. The exhibit shows through
June 2, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Kerckhoff Art Gallery. For more
information call (310) 824-2272 or e-mail [email protected].
Briefs compiled from wire reports by Michael Rosen-Molina, Daily
Bruin Senior Staff.