Ofelia Marquez Stephens recently worked on some coffins. She filled in cracks, resewed fabric and reapplied a missing piece for her job as an art restorer. Stephens has been working as an art restorer for about seven years. The graduate student in art is finishing her two-year master’s degree with a specialization in sculpture and […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Dance community looks to UCLA to improve studio availability
This post was updated June 8 at 9:55 a.m. Practicing in UCLA’s concrete parking lots has become status quo for UCLA’s dance community because of a lack of available space. The university is home to more than 20 dance organizations that each practice around 10 hours per week. But with a shortage of space to […]
Instagram project gives feminist twist to major brand ads
Eileen Matthews has created advertisements using national brands including Kleenex and McDonalds. However, her ads aren’t meant to sell tissues or burgers – instead, they’re a form of art and activism. Matthews, a Los Angeles-based freelance advertising copy writer, created the Instagram project “100 Days of Feminist Ads” on April 4, a form of creative […]
Theater department delivers eerie production of musical “Carrie”
Nick DeGruccio wants audience members to jump and maybe even wet their pants when watching his latest production. Based on Stephen King’s work, the pop-rock musical “Carrie” centers on an awkward teenager, who is bullied by her overly religious mother and her high school peers. But Carrie exacts revenge when she learns of her telekinetic […]
HOOLIGAN’s ‘Stage Door’ taps into students’ own life experiences
Sara Gilbert cried before anything happened onstage the first time she stepped into a Broadway theater to see “Miss Saigon” in New York. The second-year theater student and musical theater-lover will embody a character this weekend who shares her dreams of performing on Broadway. Both she and her character believe theater is not just a […]
UCLA Shakespeare company explores meaning of love in ‘Fourteen Lines’
Davia Schendel wrote her first play on the back of her eighth-grade school notebook. Since then, she’s written three more plays, two during her freshman year at UCLA and one this year. Her latest play, “Fourteen Lines,” will open Saturday at the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden with Shakespeare Company at UCLA and will run […]
Theater review: “Actually”
Consent or rape: A play in Westwood implies it isn’t so black and white. “Actually,” a two-person play at the Geffen Playhouse, realistically depicts modern hookup culture and the difficulties of defining consent; it shows two sides of an often ambiguous situation. The play compels active thought and emotional engagement with the story of two […]