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)
TRANSCRIPT NABOR: For five days in July, geeks come from all over the world to downtown San Diego for Comic-Con International. This year, two of those geeks were UCLA staff members. Read more...
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The Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors announced Thursday that Gil Cates Jr. will take over as the new executive director as the playhouse moves into its 20th anniversary season. Read more...
Photo: Gil Cates Jr. was named the executive director of the Geffen Playhouse on Thursday. (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)
