This year, the Cultural Affairs Commission and Campus Events Commission decided that one UCLA student DJ will be given the opportunity to open Bruin Bash 2013 with 45 minutes of his or her own music. The student DJ will be chosen through a competition in which current UCLA students will submit 35-to-55-minute mixes to be […]
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Costume designers display work at Design Showcase West
It’s hard enough for some people to pick out their own outfits in the morning, yet UCLA’s costume designers have to pick out the outfits for an entire cast.
UCLA alumna takes on absurdist theater in ‘Ionescopade’
Traditional plays give actress Kelly Lester two hours to find her character’s arc. “Ionescopade” gives her a couple of minutes. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Lester has to utilize all of her acquired performing talents in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade,” a musical revue created as a tribute to the playwright […]
Club’s 28th annual festivity brings a taste of Hawaii to UCLA
Kalua pig for the taste buds, ukulele for the ears, and Tahitian, auana and kahiko dances for the eyes.
‘Titanic’ musical embarks on stage through UCLA’s Hooligan Theatre Company
It’s the ship that launched a thousand theatrical retellings. Friday night in the Freud Playhouse, UCLA’s Hooligan Theatre Company opens its production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Titanic.” The musical version highlights different passengers’ vantage points during the catastrophe. The cast, composed of almost 40 people in a wide range of majors, fundraised for the […]
Act III Theatre Company presents musical comedy, series of workshops
The stage drips with irony as four actors and a slew of crew members trying to put on a show about trying to put on a show.
A look at the technical side of the Grammys
It takes over 4,500 employees to put on the Grammys each year, and most of them aren’t celebrities or performers. This year for the 55th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the Grammy Producers and Engineers Wing reached out to the Daily Bruin offering a backstage tour of the technical side of the Grammys, so that the […]