It’s the ship that launched a thousand theatrical retellings. Friday night in the Freud Playhouse, UCLA’s Hooligan Theatre Company opens its production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Titanic.” The musical version highlights different passengers’ vantage points during the catastrophe. Read more...
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UCLA is moving in forward fashion with the addition of a student-facilitated fashion history and design course this quarter. The seminar course, Theater 88S: “Designing Century: Fashion Design Introductory Course,” was created by fourth-year computational and systems biology student and self-taught designer Jennifer Lee, who said it was the first of its kind. Lee will teach a weekly seminar on the history of 20th-century fashion by analyzing design techniques of distinguished fashion designers like Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Today will be the class’s first session. Read more...
Director Shola Lynch stated that if she were to write a scripted, narrative film in which a 26-year-old philosophy student became an international political icon, Hollywood would strike the film down as unbelievable. Read more...
Photo: Director Shola Lynch’s new documentary “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners” chronicles Angela Davis’ imprisonment and trial in the 1970s. Davis was a UCLA professor and a member of the Communist Party.
The video game is on the rise. Gone are the days of the shunned gamer, playing alone in the dark, Mountain Dew at his side, fingertips orange with Cheetos dust. Read more...
Katie Neipris did not start crying when she initially found out the pitch for her novel was one of the 25 selected for a literary contest. Read more...
Photo: Third-year English student Katie Neipris submitted her currently unfinished and untitled novel to The Book Doctors’ Third Annual NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza. Neipris won a one-hour consultation with The Book Doctors, two authors who are experts in the publishing industry.
Fine lines are in overabundance: good and evil, clever and stupid, love and hate. As distressing as it is to see people walking around with incompatible opinions, it’s equally distressing to never explore the depths of such differences. Read more...
Spring is a beautiful time of year for movie theaters, where big budget sequels bloom and blockbusters flourish. Among this quarter’s crop of aspiring hits are comedies of epic proportions like “The Hangover Part III” and “This is the End,” a remake of horror classic “Evil Dead,” and a 3D re-release of acclaimed sci-fi horror “Jurassic Park.” And those are just the honorable mentions. Read more...
