The musical “Frozen” is technologically and visually stunning, but entirely unnecessary. While Disney Theatrical Productions may have set out to build a snowman – and does with Olaf being given new life by his puppeteer – the end result still presents a six-year-old story with not enough new elements to justify its existence. Read more...
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Joy Gong said her play doesn’t have a beginning, middle or end. “Everything Between Me and My Abstract Desires” debuted Sunday in Macgowan Hall as part of the Shakespeare Company at UCLA’s new works division. Read more...
Photo: First-year theater student Tobias Echeverria (left), second-year theater student Achintya Pandey (middle) and second-year theater student Violet Morris (right) play Grey, Blue and Red, respectively, in Joy Gong’s newest production, “Everything Between Me and My Abstract Desires.” Gong, a second-year theater student, said the staged reading explores the idea of emotions as both colors and people. (Courtesy of Fiona Liu)
Dylan Han’s 3D-rendered pieces experiment with balancing classical artistic critique and pragmatism. The fourth-year art student has been studying photography and painting since junior year of high school, but said he only recently made a switch to 3D modeling and rendering for more creative freedom. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year fine arts student Dylan Han has studied fine art and photography since high school, but while at UCLA he began to explore 3D modeling and rendering. Now, he balances his more traditional artistic training with futuristic rendering abilities. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Costume design is more than just crafting clothes for a show. Alexa Weinzierl discusses the collaborative process involved with all the members of the play “Juana.” Read more...
The main attraction of an opera may be the music, but in “Juana” the actors’ costumes are equally vital to the story. Opera UCLA’s production, based on professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s novel “Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” runs from Nov. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Alexa Weinzierl served as the costume designer for Opera UCLA’s production of “Juana,” which follows the life of 17th-century feminist Sor Juana. (Natalie Tsang/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 22 at 6:08 p.m. The rising sea levels have affected thousands of people, yet little is heard from them. But postcolonial populations – particularly those in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands – are being most directly affected by climate change. Read more...
Photo: English professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey will discuss her book “Allegories of the Anthropocene” in Kaplan Hall on Nov. 21. The book highlights allegories as a tool to comprehend the enormity of the climate change crisis by decreasing the scale in consideration. The book aims to unravel post-colonial issues through the lens of art. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)
Playwright Bertolt Brecht mimicked the tactics of early Nazis in his gangster play, but UCLA cast members grounded their characters in modern-day parallels. “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” was written in 1941 in Germany as an allegory for Hitler’s rise to power and follows gangster Arturo Ui’s treacherous ascent to becoming head of a Chicago cauliflower mob. Read more...
Photo: Robert Arriaga (pictured), a third-year theater student, stars in “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” alongside third-year theater student Michael Bauer. (Courtesy of Michael Lamont)
