Bruin Bash has announced CupcakKe as the 2018 opener. The Cultural Affairs Commission and the Campus Events Commission took to social media Monday to inform students of the annual Bruin Bash, creating a Facebook event to share the Sept. 24 concert. Friday morning, the event page posted that the first performer in the lineup will […]
Category Archives: Arts
Graduate student’s play examines privilege, brutality and enduring injustice
Cary Simowitz’s law school colleagues skipped exams to protest the 2014 Darren Wilson verdict in the streets – he wrote a play about the issue instead. The graduate playwriting student further developed and staged a reading of his play “Djarum Vanilla“ at the annual Kennedy Center New Play Festival at the beginning of August. The […]
Alumna’s Harmony Project prepares to expand nationwide after repeated successes
A group of gang members walking through a Hollywood farmers market 21 years ago stopped to listen to a young boy playing the violin. The five-year-old violinist was the son of Margaret Martin, UCLA alumna and the founder of the Harmony Project. Martin said she was moved to tears as she watched the transfixed men […]
Q&A: Screenwriter Eric Roth on bringing history and fiction into harmony
Eric Roth doesn’t sleep very much and whizzes through two or three books a week. The “Forrest Gump” writer and UCLA alumnus said his voracious reading is often used as precursive research to develop characters in screenplays. Roth most recently served as executive producer on psychological thriller miniseries “The Alienist,” which garnered six Emmy nominations. […]
Alumnus to star in unique production of musical ‘The World Goes ‘Round’
Michael Starr viewed “Gigi,” one of the original Reprise company’s final shows, as a student. Now, the alumnus will star in Reprise 2.0’s production of “The World Goes ‘Round.” Opening Sept. 5 at the Ralph Freud Playhouse, the rendition of the 1991 musical is the second of three shows comprising the theater company’s inaugural season. […]
Album review: Troye Sivan’s ‘Bloom’ trades tempo for emotional sincerity
“Bloom” foregoes the all-too-common route of modern albums only including radio-friendly, upbeat songs. Instead, Troye Sivan’s latest album features more slow-to-mid-tempo numbers than fast ones. In a time when streaming continues to grow, having a song become a radio hit is not the only successful method to reach fans, so an album filled with a […]
Alumna moves to Spain to find balance between teaching and dance
Hayley Thompson’s first dance performance was in her elementary school multipurpose room. Nearly 14 years later, she choreographed routines for high school students in the same studio. The alumna said dance is the one constant in her life – from ridiculous performances on tiny stages to becoming the executive director of UCLA’s ICARUS Contemporary Dance […]