The San Diego Opera is reviving the drive-in experience, bringing its arias and overtures to an outdoor stage. The company’s latest comic opera, “The Barber of Seville,” is running from Apr. Read more...
Photo: (L-R) Tenor Carlos Enrique Santelli is Count Almaviva, mezzo soprano Emily Fons is Rosina, and bass baritone David Pershall is Figaro in San Diego Opera’s drive-in production of “The Barber of Seville.” (Courtesy of J. Kat Woronowicz)
Alexandra Overy is setting the fantasy genre ablaze. The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna released her debut novel, “These Feathered Flames,” on April 20. Read more...
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Comedy meets horror in alumna Gillian Wallace Horvat’s satirical thriller, “I Blame Society.” The film features Gillian (Gillian Wallace Horvat), a fictionalized version of Horvat herself, who goes on a killing spree after murdering her close friend Chase (Chase Williamson) and confronts the exploitative nature of the entertainment industry. Read more...
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The light of legendary drag queen International Chrysis still emanates within the LGBTQ+ community despite her passing in the early ’90s. To commemorate her legacy, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will hold a screening of the 1993 documentary “Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen” on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of “Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen”)
This post was updated May 2 at 10:43 p.m. With a 50-question survey, UCLA Marriage Pact pledges to find students’ perfect matches. Originally launched at Stanford University, Marriage Pact is a student-run organization that runs student responses to a one-time online survey through a matchmaking algorithm to find their single most compatible peer. Read more...
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Quarantine set a new stage for two UCLA Theater, Film and Television students – TikTok. Equipped with spare time during the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTokers and second-year theater students Ana Nguyen and Andrew Luff found a virtual audience of millions through acting and being themselves. Read more...
Photo: Second-year theater student Ana Nguyen uses TikTok to create content that connects them with their followers, their art form and themselves. Through the app, they have found a newfound sense of confidence in their expression and love for acting. (Katie Frei/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 2 at 10:44 p.m. New research is building a recipe for uniting the senses. As a new addition to the Herb Alpert School of Music, the Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research Lab explores the realm of creative practice through an experiential and experimental lens. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)
