It’s 1944 in Los Angeles. A couple dressed in glittery evening wear strolls into the glamorous Carnesale Club, where they are greeted by four detectives in the midst of an investigation: catching the killer of a Hollywood legend. This play, “Murder in the Key of G” – the first completely student-run murder mystery program from […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
arTistic Attention: TA Nick Johnson brings passion for stage to playwriting
Taped above Nick Johnson’s desk is the Kurt Vonnegut quote: “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” Johnson said this quote embodies what it feels like to face writer’s block, a situation he tries to teach his playwriting students to overcome. Now in his final quarter […]
Opera UCLA to perform West Coast premiere of ‘I Due Figaro’
More than 150 years ago, “I Due Figaro” by Saverio Mercadante vanished from the opera scene. On Friday, Opera UCLA will perform the West Coast premiere of the Italian opera in collaboration with the School of Theater, Film and Television’s theater department and the Herb Alpert School of Music. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin) Originally written in […]
Zimbabwean author to speak at Fowler Museum on award-winning novel
NoViolet Bulawayo describes Zimbabwe through the lucid eyes of 10-year-old Darling, who hungrily scours wealthy streets looking for guavas in the novel “We Need New Names.” Unapologetic and direct, Darling eventually leaves her conflict-torn home for Detroit, where she faces wintry suburbia and the disorienting immigrant experience. The first black African woman to be shortlisted […]
Balloon & Panel: Format, pacing of comic panels changes perception
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. New creators are dealing with issues every month in ways that couldn’t be done in other formats – […]
CAC’s Hip Hop Congress, Art Series showcase cultural exhibit
Swirls of water and ice flow from the turban of a purple Erykah Badu as she rises from a pool of darkness. Badu, neo-soul musician and activist, painted in oil on canvas will be mounted on the wall of Kerckhoff Art Gallery until Friday as part of the Undergraduate Students Association Council Cultural Affairs Committee’s […]
Hip Hop Congress holds freestyle dancing, cyphering workshop
Dancers crowd in a circle, encouraging a lone performer in the center. For the solo dancer, the circle – called a cypher – represents a safe space where he can express himself through hip-hop music and improvised movements to tell a story. As part of Hip Hop Appreciation Month, Cultural Affairs Commission’s Hip Hop Congress […]