This post was updated Sept. 26 at 9:35 p.m. Espionage hijinks meet American history in “Our Man in Santiago.” After its initial debut was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the comedic play returns to Theatre West for a five-week run from Sept. Read more...
Photo: Written by Mark Wilding and starring alumnus Nick McDow Musleh, “Our Man in Santiago” follows the true story of CIA activity in 1973 Chile but remolds the narrative into a spy-thriller comedy play. (Courtesy of Charlie Mount)
LaRissa Rogers is resculpting her history with soil. In her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between,” the fine arts graduate student uses soil and other tactile elements to explore her relationship to land and belonging. Read more...
Photo: Fine arts graduate student LaRissa Rogers road tripped across the country, collecting soil at state borders to become part of her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between.” (Antonio Martinez/Daily Bruin)
Curatorial collective Durden and Ray is embracing viewers back in person. Alumnus Rebecca Niederlander is among the three artists invited to install site-specific work by Durden and Ray, a 24-member collective which collaborates with galleries internationally. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Rebecca Niederlander’s piece “Wald-en” is part of a site-specific installation at collective Durden and Ray. (Antonio Martinez/Daily Bruin)
Deceased migrant women are more than just dots on a map. In collaboration with a team of graduate students, Spanish and Portuguese professor Maite Zubiaurre, who also creates art under the name Filomena Cruz, is using multimedia art installations to raise awareness of migrant women’s deaths in the Sonoran Desert. Read more...
Photo: (Maddie Rausa/Daily Bruin)
The Hammer Museum welcomes Bruins back to Westwood with art worth writing home about. Works by Rembrandt and Henri Matisse are among the 68 pieces in “Shadows Fall Down,” the latest installment of the Houseguest series, in which an artist curates a Hammer exhibit from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts’ collection. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus, artist and UC Irvine art professor Monica Majoli curated the fifth exhibition of the Hammer Museum’s Houseguest series, titled “Shadows Fall Down,” for its analysis of themes such as melancholy. (Chelsea Rose Westman/Daily Bruin)
Rehearsals are underway in preparation for in-person classes this fall. After a year of fully online courses, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has prepared a variety of courses for a hybrid or in-person setting that will allow students to engage in an interactive environment. Read more...
Photo: After more than a year of adapting to Zoom classes and online learning, students and staff are preparing to return to more in-person settings. Three professors from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Wendy Kurtzman (left), Michelle Liu Carriger (center) and Perry Daniel (right) share their teaching plans for the upcoming school year. (From left to right: Courtesy of Wendy Kurtzman, Anika Chakrabarti/Assistant Photo editor, Courtesy of Perry Daniel)
A student-run theater group is bringing theater out of the blue and into the red of autumn. Out of the Blue – an experimental campus theater company – pushes the boundaries of theater through the synthesis of various mediums and unconventional ideas. Read more...
Photo: Out of the Blue, a student-run experimental theater company, is preparing for a new year of collaborative projects after a year of running fully online. The group plans to return with their upcoming adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” (Anika Chakrabarti/Assistant Photo editor)
