The Los Angeles Ballet’s “Swan Lake” found its wings after a rocky start. The ballet performance Thursday at Royce Hall featured elegant costuming and special effects that transported the audience into Odette’s world. Though the dancers occasionally struggled with timing, the production delivered the story with just enough pageantry as to not distract from the […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
MoMa to display UCLA alum’s work exploring identity, portraiture
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photos of cameras, mirrors and fragmented bodies will take over the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The six photos are a part of MoMa’s “Being: New Photography 2018” exhibition, which opens Sunday and runs until Aug. 19. The exhibition assembles works of 17 photographers that express the […]
Romantic play explores class and gender roles, Latin American culture
A single onstage bed becomes the center of multiple different settings through the use of lighting effects in UCLA’s rendition of “Mala Hierba.” The play, which features an all-Latinx cast and focuses on Latin American culture, opens Thursday at Macgowan Hall. It uses visual and auditory design elements, including props and lighting, to further explore […]
Student duo’s company sells doodle-inspired posters, T-shirt designs
Runny noses may not be the typical inspiration for a company name, but Colin Tandy felt otherwise. “I grew up in San Diego, I was by the beach, and picking my nose and playing in the sand was like my childhood,” he said. The third-year English student teamed up with his friend Chris “Chuff” Kim, […]
Theater review: ‘Sell/Buy/Date’
“Sell/Buy/Date” features an elderly woman, a Jamaican sex worker and a former pimp, all played by the same person. Running March 7 through April 15 at the Geffen Playhouse, “Sell/Buy/Date” is set in a futuristic society in which a British university professor named Serene Campbell teaches a class about people’s experiences as sex workers from […]
UCLA student layers historical and societal nuance in “Steel Pier” costumes
Caitlin Kagawa created an outfit specifically designed to be soaked with water onstage. The outfit is part of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s mainstage production of the musical “Steel Pier.” The show, which opens Friday at the Freud Playhouse, takes place in 1933 during the Great Depression and tells the story of lower-class […]
Student art exhibition paints personal pictures of mental health
This article was updated March 5 at 2:30 p.m. Tami Chalom once ran a ruler over one of her self-portraits in frustration, smearing her image across the canvas. But the outburst made the painting even more powerful, she said. Chalom, a second-year communication student, will display her marred self-portrait, “Broken Not Bent,” on Monday in […]