Thursday, July 2

Q&A: Alumna talks band Smoke Season tour, Spring Sing performances

Three and a half years ago Gabrielle Wortman stood on a stage at the Los Angeles Tennis Center and performed for a crowd of thousands at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. At the time she was a music media and management student at UCLA. Now she, along with her new band Smoke Season, is traveling in a tour van on an seven-city tour up the West Coast. Read more...

Photo: Jason Rosen (left) and UCLA alumna Gabrielle Wortman (right) comprise the band Smoke Season. Having played twice at Spring Sing, Wortman said her performances at UCLA prepared her for her musical career. (La Famos)



Q&A: Composer Eric Tanguy talks music, paying homage to Henri Dutilleux

Eric Tanguy’s catalog of more than 100 musical compositions has resonated with audiences in more than 25 countries at major venues like Carnegie Hall and earned him designation as “Composer of the Year” twice in France. Read more...

Photo: French composer Eric Tanguy is a guest lecturer of a composition seminar at the Herb Alpert School of Music. The UCLA Philharmonia will perform Tanguy’s homage to composer Henri Dutilleux, “Affettuoso,” Thursday. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)


UCLA New Play Festival features coming-of-age story ‘The Other Town’

With a little more than 100 pages, playwright Nick Johnson, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film and Television, sheds light on the adversities of growing up. Read more...

Photo: The New Play Festival will feature “The Other Town,” a play written by UCLA TFT graduate student Nick Johnson. The play’s cast includes TFT students Lila Gavares (left) and Sarah Yarkin (right). (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)


Samurai exhibits at LACMA

http://youtu.be/NbyAGrtylmw Samurai: Japanese Armor and Art of the Samurai are two exhibits currently on show at LACMA. The first exhibit focuses on Japanese Armor, and showcases armor and weapons spanning seven centuries of Samurai warfare, and is available for viewing until Feb. Read more...

Photo: (Matthew Hernandez/Daily Bruin)


Dance, TFT students collaborate on performance ‘Hidden Choreographies’

World arts and cultures/dance Regents' ProfessorLea Anderson sees the movements of our daily lives as a type of choreography, including simply getting dressed in the morning. Read more...

Photo: “Hidden Choreographies,” a collaboration between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, will take place Thursday and Friday at Glorya Kaufman Hall. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)


Students perform gender-swapped rendition of ‘The Revenger’s Tragedy’

Students perform gender-swapped rendition of ‘The Revenger’s Tragedy’ "radio.revenger". Released: 2014. "Students perform gender-swapped rendition of ‘The Revenger’s Tragedy’"

UCLA’s Department of Theater is running a gender-swapped rendition of “The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Director Lisa Wolpe and actors Zuri Adele and Edward John Cabasal express the challenges of producing a gender-swapped play. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Lisa Wolpe)