Ofelia Marquez Stephens recently worked on some coffins. She filled in cracks, resewed fabric and reapplied a missing piece for her job as an art restorer. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Ofelia Marquez Stephens has been working as an art restorer for seven years and plans to work in the field even after graduation. (Hannah Johnson/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated June 8 at 9:55 a.m. Practicing in UCLA’s concrete parking lots has become status quo for UCLA’s dance community because of a lack of available space. Read more...
Photo: ICARUS Contemporary Dance Company practices hip-hop, contemporary and jazz in Parking Structure 4 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The student dancers wear tennis shoes instead of dance shoes to protect themselves from the concrete floor. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
Eileen Matthews has created advertisements using national brands including Kleenex and McDonalds. However, her ads aren’t meant to sell tissues or burgers – instead, they’re a form of art and activism. Read more...
Photo: Eileen Matthews created “100 Days of Feminist Ads” in April. The Instagram project releases daily art pieces styled as ads for different well-known brands with a feminist twist, addressing topics like the pay gap and consent. (Courtesy of Eileen Matthews)
Nick DeGruccio wants audience members to jump and maybe even wet their pants when watching his latest production. Based on Stephen King’s work, the pop-rock musical “Carrie” centers on an awkward teenager, who is bullied by her overly religious mother and her high school peers. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s production of “Carrie: The Musical” will feature blood, telekinetic powers, a high school prom dance and spooky special effects. (Courtesy of Sam Sherry)
Sara Gilbert cried before anything happened onstage the first time she stepped into a Broadway theater to see “Miss Saigon” in New York. The second-year theater student and musical theater-lover will embody a character this weekend who shares her dreams of performing on Broadway. Read more...
Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “Stage Door” will feature women who live in a boarding house and aspire to make a name for themselves on Broadway. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)
Davia Schendel wrote her first play on the back of her eighth-grade school notebook. Since then, she’s written three more plays, two during her freshman year at UCLA and one this year. Read more...
Photo: The Shakespeare Company at UCLA is putting on “Fourteen Lines,” a play written, casted and directed by second-year theater student Davia Schendel. The show is based on Shakespearean characters and sonnets, and it searches for the meaning of love across centuries. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Consent or rape: A play in Westwood implies it isn’t so black and white. “Actually,” a two-person play at the Geffen Playhouse, realistically depicts modern hookup culture and the difficulties of defining consent; it shows two sides of an often ambiguous situation. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)
