A mother and her baby stood watching ballet dancers practice behind the closed curtains of a Seattle opera house. The mother, Lauri-Michelle Houk, was still on leave from her career as a company ballet dancer to take care of her 8-month-old baby, Madeline. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year communications studies student Madeline Houk dances professionally with the Los Angeles Ballet. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Clifford Odets’ play “Awake and Sing!” features a struggling Jewish family torn between the parents’ lofty ambitions and the children’s fight to find a voice. The play premiered on Broadway in 1935 and 80 years later, its portrayal of economic strain on a family during the Great Depression resembles that which many endure today. Read more...
Photo: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Visiting Assistant Professor Marilyn Fox will star in “Awake and Sing!” The play features a struggling Jewish family torn between the parents’ lofty ambitions and the children’s fight to find a voice. (Courtesy of Ron Sossi)
Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and Shakespeare – an unusual combination for a play, but one which the creators of “These Paper Bullets!” think will prove a winning one. Read more...
Photo: “These Paper Bullets!,” a rip-off of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” will open today at the Geffen Playhouse. (Geffen Playhouse)
A Hercules-like hero and a rival princess secretly conceive a son, Sohrab, in an ancient Persian myth. Romance turns to tragedy when Sohrab is later killed by his own estranged father in battle. Read more...
Photo: “The Scarlet Stone,” a multidisciplinary show based on an ancient Persian myth, was performed at Royce Hall Saturday. Performer Gordafarid is the first female to play the role of the storyteller. (Courtesy of Jim Carmody)
Landowners and city officials commissioned nine-year-old Malathi Iyengar to decorate the entryways of the temples and festival halls in Bangalore, India with bright patterns made of colored flour, grains of rice and flower petals. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Malathi Iyengar is the founder and artistic director of the Rangoli Dance Company, a school of Indian culture and the South Indian classical dance called Bharatanatyam. Rangoli performed at the Fowler Museum Sunday. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy saw in 1967 the completion of 31 sculptures planted in UCLA’s North Campus. Forty-eight years later, along with its installations, the Franklin D. Read more...
Photo: In her final quarter at UCLA, Victoria Edsell developed “FDM: In the Garden,” an app designed to educate and inform visitors about the works in North Campus’s Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)
When playwright Wendy Graf watched news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, she noticed something unusual about reports on the wife of one of the bombers. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Wendy Graf’s new play, “All American Girl,” explores main character Katie’s tranformation from a fundamentalist Christian to a radical Muslim and the act of violence she commits to alarm people. Graf said viewers should focus on Katie’s evolution, not the politics behind the attacks. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
