Reprise 2.0 will rise from its predecessor’s ashes with a production of “Sweet Charity,” pairing UCLA students with Broadway stars. Tony Awards winner Kathleen Marshall, director of “Anything Goes” and “The Pajama Game,” will direct the production, opening June 20 at the Freud Playhouse. The original Reprise, a theater company that ran from 1997 to […]
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UCLA art student creates pieces melding ancient myths, technology
Sarah Rosalena Brady drew inspiration from both artificial intelligence and ancient sculptures for her upcoming exhibition. The design media arts graduate student will debut “Coyotes in Two Directions,” an art gallery featuring three technological works, Thursday at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA’s Art | Sci Center gallery. Brady’s kinetic art pieces, “The Animist,” “Coyotes […]
Artist’s light-sculpture project offers lens to view consumption, sustainability
This post was updated June 5 at 12:07 p.m. Justin Lui’s optometrist switched his monthly disposable contact lenses to daily ones a few years ago. The ensuing plastic waste inspired a multimedia project aimed to convey the importance of environmental sustainability. Lui, a design media arts and architechture alumnus, spent more than three years creating […]
Theaterfest plays to feature immigrant stories, nature’s revenge against humans
Undocumented students’ experiences and jungle war zones will be featured in this year’s UCLA Theaterfest. “Just Like Us” and “Teenage American Nightmare” focus on elements of American society. Undergraduate actors, directors and playwrights will present these passion projects at the student-run festival. “Just Like Us” Playwright Karen Zacarías compressed 400 pages of a nonfiction book […]
Alumna’s play explores political turmoil, mother-daughter relationships
This post was updated May 31 at 3:35 p.m. A barrier between two neighbors will be torn down in “Houses Without Walls.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, an alumna and lecturer in UCLA’s Writing Program, wrote, directed and produced the play set during the tumultuous years of the Mariel boatlift in Cuba. The show will premiere Sunday […]
‘Hamilton’ costume designer to speak at UCLA’s Design Showcase West
Costume designer Paul Tazewell was mostly designing contemporary and naturalistic productions at the beginning of his career, rather than the more theatrical beaded dresses and extravagant hats he dreamed of creating. However, as time passed and the theater and television industry changed to value more diverse and interesting productions, Tazewell felt he was able to […]
Spectators act as patients and interact with cast in After Hours’ asylum play
Theatergoers put on light blue hospital gowns and transformed into psychiatric patients from 1963 as part of an immersive performance Friday evening. After Hours Theatre Company presented Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” based on the novel by Ken Kesey, in a Burbank warehouse decorated to look like a 1960s […]