After a long delay, one of Philip K. Dick’s unreal worlds just became slightly realer. Amazon has finished filming a pilot for an online ongoing series based off of Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” after years of languishing in pre-production, including a canceled Syfy miniseries. It’s being produced by Ridley Scott, of “Blade […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
UCLA New Play Festival features coming-of-age story ‘The Other Town’
With a little more than 100 pages, playwright Nick Johnson, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film and Television, sheds light on the adversities of growing up. Johnson’s play, “The Other Town,” will be featured in the New Play Festival at UCLA, which showcases full-length productions of students’ thesis plays, written for their […]
Dance, TFT students collaborate on performance ‘Hidden Choreographies’
World arts and cultures/dance Regents’ ProfessorLea Anderson sees the movements of our daily lives as a type of choreography, including simply getting dressed in the morning.
TFT undergrad students to present ‘The Laramie Project’
Standing on the wooden platforms in The Little Theater, Brette O’Brien, a third-year theater student, runs through the library of characters she has accumulated. She mentally flips between Catherine Connelly, Zackie Salmon, Alison Mears, Juror No. 1 and Judy Shepard. After weeks of rehearsals, O’Brien can finally speak as Connolly without accidentally talking like any […]
Act III Theatre Ensemble to open first sketch comedy
Just a few days before opening night, the Act III Theatre Ensemble rehearses in a Humanities building classroom. The actors’ voices and laughter echo off the blank walls that will soon become the walls of an auditorium, when they move from the classroom to the stage in Schoenberg Hall. With a long history of musical […]
Hip-hop dance group Foundations Choreography teaches basics to beginners
Dancers Alexander Tang and Vincent Tang started out with virtually no dance experience. After much practice, they eventually joined ACA Hip Hop and VSU Traditional, respectively. Now, they teach aspiring dancers the same fundamentals that got them first moving, through a new organization in UCLA’s dance community: Foundations Choreography. Foundations Choreography is concluding its fall […]
Passion for dance motivates UCLA students to form Happy Feet
It started in Ackerman Student Union, in the textbook buyback center. Last fall, fourth-year world arts and cultures/dance student Kevin Belisario met his coworker, fourth-year sociology student Mike Wamungu, at their job at the student union. One day at work, after hearing Wamungu could dance, Belisario invited him to come to a dance studio on […]