English Professor Deborah Banner teaches a literature class titled “Rocket’s Red Glare: 20th Century American War narrative.” Her syllabus includes the tribal rock musical “Hair.” Daily Bruin: Why are people today still so wildly interested in seeing “Hair”? Deborah Banner: It’s part of the whole ’60s nostalgia. People look back at culture from the ’60s […]
Author Archives: Nick Rabinowitsh
Let your hair down
When the name of the rock-musical “Hair” comes up in any ordinary context, your mind immediately deviates to an entire cast of beautiful dancers ““ yes, stark naked, flag-burning and tripping on acid. The play’s reputation precedes it. It was this controversy that helped make it so well-known in the ’60s and early ’70s, and […]
The big idea
Some people see a room as purely functional. Others see it as a blank canvas. And no, this isn’t about interior designers, but a few students in the UCLA art department. From April 29 through May 3, Master of Fine Arts students in UCLA’s art department will put on a show often using entire walls […]
Night of Nigeria
If you’re Nigerian, you’re family. If you’re not Nigerian, you can be family too. This Saturday, a completely new way of celebrating Nigerian culture is coming to UCLA: the Nigerian Student Association Culture Show. So get ready for fried plantains. Get ready for beef skewers. Get ready for chin-chin (dangerously addictive; you’ll have to go […]
The bullet train to Broadway
The Twentieth Century Limited, one of the fastest trains of the 1930s, could make the journey direct from Chicago to New York in 16 hours. Unfortunately for passenger Oscar Jaffey, a once fantastic theater director, this means that he has only 16 hours left to regain his reign over Broadway in the Reprise! Broadway’s Best […]
The insane theater Trilogy
Somewhere behind a dildo-obsessed vixen, a pair of secret agents, a hairy pedophile, a 117-year-old evil billionaire, and a narrator who’d rather be hitting the reefer, lies the crown to the kingdom of Athenius. This weekend will herald the third and final installment of the “Secure the Crown!” trilogy, a play written, directed, and co-produced […]
Script show “˜Buck Naked’ traces life of ’80s rocker
Ah, the ’80s. When else could a straight man wear nothing but a pink cowboy hat, matching boots and a strategically-placed toilet plunger? The real life story of the scantily clad 1980s rocker Buck Naked of the band Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys will be brought to the UCLA stage tonight in a […]