“Creditors” is a 95-minute performance of concentrated dramatic action. Plot events unfold so quickly that audience members can hardly keep track of which characters are manipulating who before the play’s shocking ending. The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and The New American Theatre present David Greig’s modernized translation of August Strindberg’s play “Creditors,” directed by David Trainer, […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Q&A: UCLA professor discusses work on ‘Yulan’
Paul Chihara, UCLA professor of theory and composition and head of the Visual Media program, composed the score for the Chinese dance-acrobatic ballet “Yulan: World of Love,” which premiered at East Los Angeles College this week. The ballet will be showing at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Oct. 25 and 26. Daily Bruin’s Natalie Chudnovsky talked to […]
Graduate students showcase their multifaceted art pieces
Robots, video clips and superhero characters have come together at the New Wight Gallery. Students of the Design | Media Arts graduate program are currently presenting their work in a week-long exhibition entitled “Prefix.” The gallery includes multifaceted pieces, including displays of film, performance and computer engineering. The exhibition provides an opportunity to portray the […]
Graduate acting program’s new head sets stage for recalibration of curriculum
It’s been two years since UCLA’s graduate department at the School of Theater, Film and Television accepted any actors into its program. In the wake of Tony Award-winning Professor Mel Shapiro’s retirement as the head of UCLA’s graduate acting program, Michael Hackett, chairman of the Department of Theater, and other faculty members of the graduate […]
UCLA CAP to host spectrum of creative talent at Royce Hall
Every year, every quarter, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA welcomes talent from fields across the creative spectrum. From theatrical performances to musicians to authors, this fall proves no different, hosting and bringing diversity to Royce Hall, with guests including a Peruvian singer and multi-instrumentalists. The Center for the Art of Performance […]
‘When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney’ debuts at UCLA
Writer Dean McClure was watching his daughter perform in a parade at Disneyland 20 years ago when he asked himself why a musical had never been made to highlight the life of Walt Disney. On Friday, the musical “When You Wish: The Story of Walt Disney,” presented by McClure and Pat Boone, opened at UCLA’s […]
Fowler Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary
Over 5,000 globe beach balls are entwined around the front entrance and tower of the Fowler Museum. Like vines, they coil out of the heart of the Fowler building, the inner courtyard, both separating and uniting the building. Why? Because this fall, the Fowler Museum turns 50. The Fowler Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary […]