Thursday, June 26

Virtual theater series turns tables on traditional Shakespearean performances

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance is bringing Shakespeare back to the virtual campus. From Sept. 17 to Nov. 15, CAP UCLA had been promoting Forced Entertainment’s online theater series, “Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home,” where the members performed abridged versions of four of Shakespeare’s 36 plays each week using household items as their cast. Read more...

Photo: UCLA writing programs professor, Tara Prescott-Johnson, is the winner of this year’s Table Top Shakespeare competition that was hosted alongside the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA’s online theater series, “Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home.” (Courtesy of Bills Costello)




Contemporary dance piece gracefully combines styles to share heavenly story

Choreographer Ronald K. Brown is providing lessons on salvation through dance in his piece, “Grace.” The three-day event showcasing “Grace” began yesterday, shown virtually over the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA’s online channel. Read more...

Photo: “Grace,” a piece choreographed by Ronald K. Brown, fuses traditional African American dance with contemporary styles to present a visual story of love and forgiveness. (Courtesy of Julietta Cervantes)


Required Taste: Understanding our relationship with food from farm to table

Food has become more than just fuel – alongside nourishing our bodies, it taps into our emotions and can infiltrate our minds. In a country known for its freedom, columnist Zinnia Finn will explore the extent to which American culture is tethered to food and the depths to which we each experience this relationship in everyday life. Read more...

Photo: (Ashley Kenney/ Daily Bruin senior staff)


Q&A: Actors discuss freaky twist to classic body-swap trope in new horror movie

Halloween is long gone, but a new teen slasher is bound to make this fall just a little freakier. Christopher Landon – writer of the “Paranormal Activity” sequels and director of “Happy Death Day” – joined television writer Michael Kennedy to create “Freaky,” a horror-comedy film that puts a spin on the classic body-swap trope. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Universal Pictures)