Women are stealing the spotlight this weekend in the UCLA production of Tony Award-winning writer Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Read more...
Photo: Three performances of Tony Award-winning writer Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” will cap off the V-Day campaign at UCLA.
It’s not every day you find an old ventriloquist’s dummy, only to realize later that it’s demonically possessed and wants to make you its slave for all eternity. Read more...
White noise and dances to contemporary classical music are a few of the sights and sounds that will be performed at this year’s Graduate Composers Concert. Read more...
Nineteenth century opera, often thought of as old-fashioned and obsolete, is definitely not on a list of trendy music for the modern age. The chairs of UCLA’s musicology department and comparative literature department said they hope to change that perception. Read more...
Twenty thousand hysterical fans cry out in a star-struck ecstasy. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Karen Chuang landed a job as a backup dancer for Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday: RELOADED” tour, moving away from her younger Disney roles and validating her talent as a mature and versatile performer.
It’s a public school art student’s worst nightmare: the moment a school tells that student it no longer has the grant money to fund his or her artistic endeavors. For UCLA world arts and cultures students, this nightmare became their reality. Read more...
Photo: WacSMASH’d is the largest annual student-produced showcase put on by the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Students present original dance, film, music, art and spoken word pieces in this three-day free event held at Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater. Historically, the WAC Undergraduate Society has been able to fund the show using only on-campus funding, but because of budget cuts, they had to fundraise this year.
Known for “Braid,” one of the most popular and successful independently created games to date, as well as for his somewhat controversial views on the mass video game market, independent game developer Jonathan Blow is currently developing his next game “The Witness.” Read more...
Photo: Jonathan Blow, creator of independent video game “Braid,” is developing a new game, “The Witness,” and is speaking at the Hammer.
