About a dozen celebrity judges grace the Spring Sing stage each year to flash a smile in the spotlight and determine the best performers. Paula Abdul, Kathy Bates, Dennis Quaid and Beth Behrs are just some of the celebrities who have officiated in the past few years. Who are the celebrity judges for Spring Sing […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Comedy ensemble Company fuses individual talents for Spring Sing 2016
Brandon Papo was editing video footage around 2 a.m. in Melnitz Hall. He had not slept in four nights and was beginning to doze off. He eventually fell asleep Monday night – or rather, Tuesday morning – with his head on one rolling chair and his legs on another. Papo, a third-year film student, filmed […]
Playing a role away from the spotlight
Members of stage crew flit from one side of the stage to the other in darkness setting up microphones and plugging in amps, as a spotlight shines on the skit being performed on stage. The skit ends and the performers enter the stage, all of their equipment placed exactly as required. The stage crew exists […]
UCLA student-curated art show explores stereotypes of the Black body
The pieces were set and the theme decided, but Hanna Girma still couldn’t think of a name for her debut art show. The fourth-year world arts and cultures student had worked with eight artists, some of whom were acquaintances of her professors and some her personal friends. They had responded with disparate works, such as […]
First-years take theater into their own hands
First-year musical theater students are not allowed to try out for the spring musical – so they created their own. Last Sunday, seventeen first-year students debuted their cabaret, “Hello My Name Is …” at the Improve Space.
Show Review: ‘In & Of Itself’
Nothing is as it seems and hardly anyone is who they say they are. The man sitting next to me is a wizard, the woman in the front row is an exotic dancer and Derek DelGaudio is the daring “roulettista.” “In & Of Itself,” which opened last Friday at the Geffen Playhouse, is magician DelGaudio’s […]
‘An Evening of Magic’ to fuse magicians’ personalities with performance
Alan Chien remembers being astonished by magic. Out on the schoolyard in 2007, he stood among a crowd of excited elementary school students. He witnessed one of his classmates transform four different playing cards into the same card: the king of spades. Chien asked the classmate how he performed the card trick, but he refused […]