First-year musical theater students are not allowed to try out for the spring musical – so they created their own. Last Sunday, seventeen first-year students debuted their cabaret, “Hello My Name Is …” at the Improve Space. Read more...
Photo: (Daniel Lee/Daily Bruin)
Nothing is as it seems and hardly anyone is who they say they are. The man sitting next to me is a wizard, the woman in the front row is an exotic dancer and Derek DelGaudio is the daring “roulettista.” “In & Of Itself,” which opened last Friday at the Geffen Playhouse, is magician DelGaudio’s latest illusion-based performance and is very difficult to critique without giving too much away. Read more...
Photo: Magician Derek DelGaudio performs a series of tales in “In & Of Itself,” which opened Friday at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. (Courtesy of Geffen Playhouse)
Alan Chien remembers being astonished by magic. Out on the schoolyard in 2007, he stood among a crowd of excited elementary school students. He witnessed one of his classmates transform four different playing cards into the same card: the king of spades. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year psychology and economics student Mike Li (left), first-year economics student Carlos Suarez (middle) and first-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student Alan Chien (right) are members of the Magic and Illusion Student Team, which will perform its second annual “An Evening of Magic” on May 18 at the UCLA Northwest Auditorium. For Chien, performing magic became a way to let his personality shine. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Stephan Wolfert first stumbled upon Shakespeare and his work while traveling through the western United States in 1991. He was on a leave of absence from the Army after suffering a breakdown when a friend was shot before his eyes during live-round training. Read more...
Photo: Stephan Wolfert found inspiration in William Shakespeare’s works to give voice to his experiences in combat. Wolfert drew from around three-quarters of the Shakespeare canon to express his emotions surrounding the pain of losing comrades and of combat. (Courtesy of Manuela Giusto)
Silvia Baker sat in a dark wooden studio filled with mannequin heads wearing wigs and masks placed on countertops. Among the makeup brushes, hairpieces and a Frankenstein head figure, the film and television hairstylist fluffs a blonde wig that was part of her Halloween costume as Harley Quinn from “Batman.” For her job, she works on hairstyles that contribute to the distinctive look of film characters seen on screen. Read more...
Photo: Silvia Baker is the 2016 MAC Cosmetics Artist in Residence in Make-up and Hair Design. For her Halloween costume, Baker fashioned a blonde wig to look like Harley Quinn’s hair from “Batman.” (Margarita Dreiling/Daily Bruin)
Luau performers scrambled to their rehearsal positions with the playful, nimble sound of the ukelele on one side of the room and the mighty beats of tribal drums on the other. Read more...
Photo: Hui O’Imiloa, the Hawaii Club at UCLA, will host its 31st annual luau Saturday in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, uniting students of different enthnicities to show authentic Hawaiian culture and dance. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
The Fowler Museum at UCLA announced Wednesday that it received a $1 million donation from longtime donors Jay and Deborah Last. The Lasts will also match up to $14 million from other donations. Read more...
Photo: The Fowler Museum at UCLA received a $1 million gift from longtime donors Jay and Deborah Last. The Lasts have donated to the museum since 1973 and participated in campaigning during the building’s opening in 1992. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
