Although Karen Eilbacher plays Joan in the musical “Fun Home,” she strongly relates to the character of Medium Alison, a college student coming to terms with her sexuality. Read more...
Photo: The musical “Fun Home” is currently running in downtown Los Angeles. Karen Eilbacher plays Joan and Abby Corrigan plays Medium Alison (left to right) as college students in the show. (Courtesy of Joan Marcus)
President Donald Trump’s potential budget cuts may take a toll on the UCLA arts community, directors and faculty said. The Hill reported Jan. 19 that the Trump transition team outlined a budget plan that would eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts, the latter of which is the only funder of arts programs nationwide. Read more...
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Polly Nooter Roberts woke up before dawn to drive with her parents to see African villages’ masquerades during the three years she spent growing up in Liberia. Read more...
Photo: (Harishwer Balasubramani/Illustrations director)
Grammy Award-winner Sara Bareilles gave UCLA students permission to perform the musical “Waitress” in concert on campus. “Waitress in Concert,” the second production by theater group Positivity Productions, opens Thursday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. Read more...
Photo: Third-year theater student Maeve Riley (center) directed a concert version of the musical “Waitress,” which features music and lyrics composed by UCLA alumna Sara Bareilles. Riley, who will perform as main character Jenna, received permission from Bareilles to perform the songs in concert this weekend. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
Cooper Reynolds will emcee Hedrick Hall’s first drag show as Lorelei, his blonde drag queen persona. Reynolds, the show’s host and executive producer, and other members of UCLA’s Hedrick Hall resident government council have been planning the Hedrick Hall Drag Show since the beginning of the quarter. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Hedrick Hall resident government council is hosting the Hedrick Hall Drag Show on Wednesday in the Fireside Lounge. The event will feature six two-minute performances by five UCLA students and one Los Angeles drag performer. The six drag performers will demonstrate their talents before a panel of judges including the Hedrick Hall resident directors and the faculty-in-residence. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
A Nikon 360-degree camera stood on a tripod, unattended, in the middle of Bruin Plaza. Anisa Bashiri and three of her classmates observed students passing the camera without a second glance. Read more...
Photo: Visiting Israeli artist Daniel Landau (left) will use props, such as a rubber hand, as part of his upcoming virtual reality study called “Time-Body Study.” Landau teaches the class “Topics in Video and Animation: Art and Science of Virtual Reality” in the Design | Media Arts department this quarter. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Opera UCLA set an enchanting princess fairy tale during a bleak time, when people were starving, freezing and struggling for food and clothing. Students have vaulted the 1697 story of “Cinderella” 250 years into the future – post-World War II France in in 1947. Read more...
Photo: “Cendrillon,” the French translation of “Cinderella,” is an operatic retelling of Charles Perrault’s 1697 classic fairy tale, and will debut Friday at the Freud Playhouse. Opera UCLA and the UCLA theater department collaborated to put on the show, which they set in post-World War II France. (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
