Alice Tuan wanted to engage with students of the new Internet generation to experiment with theater adapting in the digital age. As a playwright in The Two Cities Project, Tuan said the internet is allowing a global conversation and open rehearsal between artists. The Two Cities Project is a collaboration between the UCLA Department of […]
Author Archives: Lindsay Weinberg
Spring Sing 2015: Company
Landen Baldwin compared the role of Company to drinking a glass of water after each bite of ice cream. “It’s almost a palate cleanser,” said Baldwin, a third-year linguistics student and first-time member of Company. “It’s like, ‘This was pleasant, I enjoyed that, and now let’s get back to the real sweet stuff.’” Company is […]
Former UCLA professor, ‘Urban Light’ artist Chris Burden dies at 69
Former UCLA professor Chris Burden, the artist behind the iconic “Urban Light” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, died Sunday of malignant melanoma. He was 69. Since the installation of “Urban Light” in 2008, the 202 restored street lamps have brightened the entrance of LACMA and become one of the most photographed […]
Spring Sing 2015: Lashon Halley
Lashon Halley found out she was performing at Spring Sing, called her friend Xiomara Fambrough and said, “Yo Xi, I got in with the song I wrote for you.” A year ago, Halley wrote the song “Done with You” for Fambrough, who was having problems with her boyfriend. “She didn’t (write) it for her own […]
UCLA, USC to collaborate for sixth ‘Transforming Hollywood’ conference
This will be the sixth year that two rival film schools – UCLA and USC – have come together to discuss the evolving entertainment industry. The annual “Transforming Hollywood” conference was co-founded by Denise Mann, head of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Producers Program, and Henry Jenkins, the provost’s professor of communication, […]
Film and Television Archive project to restore Latin American movies
Alejandra Espasande was shown the Cuban film “Casta de Roble” after her grandfather died. Though her grandfather had worked on the drama, Espasande said she had never seen it before because many of these pre-revolutionary Cuban films were inaccessible to the public. Espasande, a film archivist who now works for the Academy of Motion Picture […]
‘Green Screens’ film festival aims to educate on environmental issues
Sports broadcaster and television host Angela Sun has traveled to Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in person. Over a period of eight years, the UCLA alumna created the documentary “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” to separate fact from myth about the notorious […]