About a dozen celebrity judges grace the Spring Sing stage each year to flash a smile in the spotlight and determine the best performers. Paula Abdul, Kathy Bates, Dennis Quaid and Beth Behrs are just some of the celebrities who have officiated in the past few years. Read more...
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 20, 10:43 am
How Spring Sing’s mystery celebrity judges are selected
Arts, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 20, 3:44 am
Comedy ensemble Company fuses individual talents for Spring Sing 2016
Brandon Papo was editing video footage around 2 a.m. in Melnitz Hall. He had not slept in four nights and was beginning to doze off. He eventually fell asleep Monday night – or rather, Tuesday morning – with his head on one rolling chair and his legs on another. Read more...
Photo: Comedy group Company will perform live skits and project videos in between talent acts at Spring Sing on Saturday. The performers teach each other their individual skills to prepare for the show. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 20, 3:42 am
Playing a role away from the spotlight
Members of stage crew flit from one side of the stage to the other in darkness setting up microphones and plugging in amps, as a spotlight shines on the skit being performed on stage. Read more...
Photo: Second-year psychology student Delanie Melbon (left), second-year nursing student Kathryn Yang (center) third-year political science and communication studies student Rachel Lea Fishman (left) are three members of the stage crew in charge of this year’s Spring Sing. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 18, 12:00 am
UCLA student-curated art show explores stereotypes of the Black body
The pieces were set and the theme decided, but Hanna Girma still couldn’t think of a name for her debut art show. The fourth-year world arts and cultures student had worked with eight artists, some of whom were acquaintances of her professors and some her personal friends. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year world arts and cultures student Hanna Girma curated a show with pieces from Black female artists. The show explored the Black female body, comparing it to the wax in a lost-wax bronze casting, and how its objectification, compared to the bronze, continues to perpetuate in modern society. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts, Video
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May 17, 1:04 pm
First-years take theater into their own hands
First-year musical theater students are not allowed to try out for the spring musical – so they created their own. Last Sunday, seventeen first-year students debuted their cabaret, “Hello My Name Is …” at the Improve Space. Read more...
Photo: (Daniel Lee/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 16, 12:00 am
Show Review: ‘In & Of Itself’
Nothing is as it seems and hardly anyone is who they say they are. The man sitting next to me is a wizard, the woman in the front row is an exotic dancer and Derek DelGaudio is the daring “roulettista.” “In & Of Itself,” which opened last Friday at the Geffen Playhouse, is magician DelGaudio’s latest illusion-based performance and is very difficult to critique without giving too much away. Read more...
Photo: Magician Derek DelGaudio performs a series of tales in “In & Of Itself,” which opened Friday at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. (Courtesy of Geffen Playhouse)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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May 9, 11:24 pm
‘An Evening of Magic’ to fuse magicians’ personalities with performance
Alan Chien remembers being astonished by magic. Out on the schoolyard in 2007, he stood among a crowd of excited elementary school students. He witnessed one of his classmates transform four different playing cards into the same card: the king of spades. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year psychology and economics student Mike Li (left), first-year economics student Carlos Suarez (middle) and first-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student Alan Chien (right) are members of the Magic and Illusion Student Team, which will perform its second annual “An Evening of Magic” on May 18 at the UCLA Northwest Auditorium. For Chien, performing magic became a way to let his personality shine. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)