If Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is a cautionary tale for anything, it would be that no one should ever go into the woods unless they want to be chomped up by wolves or get stuck in a castle with a man-beast. Read more...
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(Courtesy of Joan Marcus)
The need to tell the story of Jane Eyre and her romance with her brooding employer Mr. Rochester is an itch that has been scratched time and again. Read more...
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World arts and cultures associate Professor Cheng-Chieh Yu gave six of her students the task of rehearsing a choreographed dance with the aim of waving the necktie wrapped around their foreheads as much as possible. Read more...
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Joseph Small (left), a graduate student in world arts and cultures, and Bryan Zavala, a fourth-year world arts and cultures student, rehearse for “Culture Crossing,” a professor-led quarterly production put on by UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures.
The people of Hawaii have a phrase that they use to refer to the time of day when all of one's work is finished and time is spent with family and friends: "Pau Hana," or "end of work."
Every quarter, the world arts and cultures department comes together for the Pau Hana performance to showcase what various classes have been doing over the quarter. Read more...
Where do humans come from? A clam. Read more...
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“How the Raven Stole Fire and Other Stories” uses actors and shadow puppets to tell Native American legends. The play will debut at the Geffen Playhouse on Saturday.
Though Anton Chekhov's classic play "The Cherry Orchard" has been interpreted as both a tragedy and a comedy, UCLA theater graduate students bring out the lighter side of Russian history. Read more...
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Graduate theater students Colin Simon, left, and Catherine Leong play Peter Trofimov and Charlotta in the upcoming play “The Cherry Orchard,” which opens Friday night in Macgowan Little Theater.
Correction: The original caption for this photo misidentified Colin Simon.
Jeffrey Hastings, a third-year graduate student in art, once created a to-scale replica of a baseball pitcher's mound out of two tons worth of unfired clay and decomposed granite. Read more...
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Third-year graduate student in art Meleko Mokgosi poses with his work at the art MFA Exhibition #1.
