Friday, April 10

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. Read more...

Photo: The New Play Festival will feature “The Other Town,” a play written by UCLA TFT graduate student Nick Johnson. The play’s cast includes TFT students Lila Gavares (left) and Sarah Yarkin (right). (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)


Samurai exhibits at LACMA

http://youtu.be/NbyAGrtylmw Samurai: Japanese Armor and Art of the Samurai are two exhibits currently on show at LACMA. The first exhibit focuses on Japanese Armor, and showcases armor and weapons spanning seven centuries of Samurai warfare, and is available for viewing until Feb. Read more...

Photo: (Matthew Hernandez/Daily Bruin)


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. Read more...

Photo: “Hidden Choreographies,” a collaboration between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, will take place Thursday and Friday at Glorya Kaufman Hall. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)


Students perform gender-swapped rendition of ‘The Revenger’s Tragedy’

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UCLA’s Department of Theater is running a gender-swapped rendition of “The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Director Lisa Wolpe and actors Zuri Adele and Edward John Cabasal express the challenges of producing a gender-swapped play. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Lisa Wolpe)


Q&A: Alum, screenwriting professor talks U.S. debut of ‘100 Days’

Splitting his time between teaching in Boston and Los Angeles throughout the year, UCLA alumnus and screenwriting professor Weiko Lin still finds the time to serve a plethora of filmmaking aspirations. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus and screenwriting professor Weiko Lin will screen his feature film, “100 Days,” at the Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena for its American debut. (Erin Ng/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Across the Pond: Rustie’s ‘Green Language’ speaks to trap fans

There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...

Photo: Scottish DJ Rustie has taken the American-born genre of trap music and made it his own through forceful drops and subtle, layered instrumentation. (Warp)


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. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s undergraduate department will present its latest production, “The Laramie Project,” from Tuesday through Saturday at The Little Theater. The play, written by Moisés Kaufman, examines the reactions of residents in Laramie, Wyo., to the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)