HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “The Little Mermaid” will take place both under the sea and under the stars. Recreating the Broadway rendition of the famous children’s tale, HOOLIGAN will perform the show – along with its classic Alan Menken score – Thursday to Saturday at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Amphitheater. Read more...

Photo: First-year English student Sylvia Camacho plays Ariel in Hooligan Theatre Company’s production of “The Little Mermaid.” Despite never having taken formal vocal lessons, Camacho said singing has always been a part of her life and she identifies with Ariel’s attachment to her voice. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)

One student piece at Thursday’s upcoming Powell exhibit was inspired by an image of a woman beheading her enemy with a tent pole. The historical document “Judith Slaying Holofernes” was one of many manuscripts displayed in the Getty Center’s 2017 exhibition “Illuminating Women in the Medieval World.” After receiving a preview of the Getty’s exhibition, students of the summer 2017 course History 119D: “Sex in the Middle Ages” created reaction works as part of their final project. Read more...

Photo: Shreya Banerjee, a third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, will display her mixed-media work titled “Durga Slays Mahishasura: A Medieval Manuscript” at the Powell Rotunda exhibit “Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts.” (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)

Myra Aquino left a career in medicine to pursue filmmaking. But she used her experience as a medical student to direct a short film about a group of interns in a busy county hospital. Read more...

Photo: Actors Andre Jackson and Camille Harman play doctors in “Take Care,” an upcoming short film directed by graduate film student, Myra Aquino. Aquino used her experience as a former medical student as inspiration for the film, aiming to display on screen the pressures faced by doctors. (Courtesy of Camille Harman)