UCLA alumna Sara Bareilles serves up a sweet story about a waitress who finds joy in baking pies. Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics for the musical “Waitress,” based on the movie of the same name. Read more...
Photo: In alumna Sara Bareilles’ “Waitress,” expectant mother Jenna (pictured, as played by Jessie Mueller) works at a diner baking pies. (Courtesy of Joan Marcus)
Jayongela Wilder is tired of seeing women in film and theater portrayed as fragile wives, submissive maids or incompetent lovers. Wilder, a graduate student in theater, seeks to change the stereotypical depiction presented in film and theater by directing “Eclipsed,” a play that tracks the tribulations and survival stories of five Liberian women during the Second Liberian Civil War. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Jayongela Wilder will direct “Eclipsed” at UCLA. An all-female African-American cast will present the play about the Second Liberian Civil War. (Sihui Song/Daily Bruin)
Although Los Angeles doesn’t get snow, the stage production of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” provides plenty of holiday spirit and song. “White Christmas,” which opened Tuesday at the Pantages Theater and runs until Sunday, revels in the classic song and dance of 1950s Broadway musicals, providing a lighthearted way to ring in the holiday season. Read more...
Photo: “White Christmas,” based on the 1954 musical of the same name, follows the story of army buddies-turned-music recording stars who fall in love with a pair of singing sisters. (Courtesy of Hollywood Pantages Theater)
A swelling grand piano and silky strings echo behind the scene as a man in a glittering jacket softly serenades a woman dressed in a leotard. Read more...
Photo: Music Director Rebecca Wade coordinated rehearsals between the 26 students in the orchestra of HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s “Pippin.” (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Elijah Green no longer had time to watch cartoons when he entered the adult world. But adult pressures often contribute to great artistic works, Green said. Read more...
Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s fall musical, “Pippin,” is a show within a show. All characters but the titular Pippin openly portray actors messing with Pippin’s life. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
UCLA art faculty awarded the art department’s Undergraduate Art Scholarship award in spring to 28 student artists whose works range in medium from photography to ceramics to sculpture to film. Read more...
Photo: Nilo Goldfarb, Penelope Uribe-Abee, Oscar Peña and Gabe Pine (left to right) are four of twenty-eight undergraduate students that won an art scholarship in spring. The students’ work will be displayed in the Broad Art Center until December. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)
“Avatar” film fans can use 3-D glasses to immerse themselves in the fantasy realm of Pandora. But in Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk – The First Flight,” viewers can plunge into Pandora and experience its inhabitants twist, teeter and tumble firsthand. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Errisson Lawrence Costumes/Kym Barret/Cirque du Soleil)
