Randall Arney’s job as a director is to take stories and retell them, incorporating his own actors and visions into the script. He has grown fond of Irish plays in particular, he said, because of their prose and emotion. Read more...
Photo: Geffen Playhouse artistic director Randall Arney’s (left) latest production, “Outside Mulling,” premieres Tuesday night. The play stars Dan Donohue (center) and Jessica Collins (right) as two lifelong neighbors in rural Ireland. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Brilliantly clad circus performers standing in a circle clasp their hands tightly, raising their voices as they chant “Good, safe, fast show!” three times, each louder and faster than before. Read more...
Photo: At age 12, first-year political science student Hannah Brenchley joined the Great All American Youth Circus of Redlands, California alongside her younger sister. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Amalia Ledesma and Ernesto Martinez had danced together a few times before at Thursday night Street Salsa at the Bruin Bear, but the natural cadence of live music sparked something new between them at an open invitation salsa social in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...
Photo: Fifth-year civil engineering student Ernesto Martinez (left) and second-year biology student Amalia Ledesma (right) dance a salsa together in front of the Bruin Bear. The pair both attend Street Salsa on Thursday nights, where they learn different techniques and styles including salsa and bachata. (Korbin Placet/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The costume designer pulls the corset strings as tight as they will go around the actor’s torso, restricting his breathing but allowing him to catch a glimpse of being a 19th-century woman for a moment. Read more...
Photo: Actor Jack Shulruff stars in “Cloud 9,” a play which features gender swapping among the characters and actors. The two-act play begins in 1880 colonial Africa in the first act, then transitions to 1979 London in the second. Even though nearly 100 years pass in the play, the characters themselves only age 25 years, allowing for a comparison of societal norms in the two time periods. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Six naked male strippers stood with their backs to the audience, each clutching a small hat over his genitals. As they turned around, one of them dropped his hat and gave the spectators more of a flash than they had expected, before dazzling stage lights blinded the room. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Will Collyer will star as Smith in the world premiere of “Breaking Through” at the Pasadena Playhouse. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A dancer in a black shirt moves slowly, silhouetted against a dim gray background and surrounded by performers in khaki trench coats. In an instant, the dancer is indistinguishable from the other performers – he is now draped in a khaki trench coat, cloaking his identity from the audience. Read more...
Photo: Kuan-Ling Tsai, a professional dancer from Taiwan, illustrates the concept of displacement. The piece was part of the dance showcase “My Dear and Displacement II,” choreographed by world arts and cultures/dance Professor Cheng-Chieh Yu and Taipei National University of the Arts dance Professor Hsiao-Mei Ho. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Ben Ellerbrock had the choice between either cooking or acting class in high school. When the speech and debate team was full, he arrived at theater his freshman year only after his counselor told him that cooking would not fit in with his class schedule. Read more...
Photo: Theater student Ben Ellerbrock won a National Youth Arts award this summer for his role as Piggy in “Lord of the Flies.” Now he is focusing on comedy in ComedySportz and Rapid Fire Improv at UCLA. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
