Paul Chihara, UCLA professor of theory and composition and head of the Visual Media program, composed the score for the Chinese dance-acrobatic ballet “Yulan: World of Love,” which premiered at East Los Angeles College this week. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professor Paul Chihara composed the score for “Yulan: World of Love,” a dance-acrobatic ballet that was named after a sacred flower in Chinese folklore.
Robots, video clips and superhero characters have come together at the New Wight Gallery. Students of the Design | Media Arts graduate program are currently presenting their work in a week-long exhibition entitled “Prefix.” The gallery includes multifaceted pieces, including displays of film, performance and computer engineering. Read more...
It’s been two years since UCLA’s graduate department at the School of Theater, Film and Television accepted any actors into its program. In the wake of Tony Award-winning Professor Mel Shapiro’s retirement as the head of UCLA’s graduate acting program, Michael Hackett, chairman of the Department of Theater, and other faculty members of the graduate theater department spent two years in search of a new head of acting to recalibrate the program. Read more...
Photo: The graduate department at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television launched its recalibrated acting curriculum under the leadership of a new head of acting. The program focuses on ensemble building and training students for the contemporary world.
Every year, every quarter, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA welcomes talent from fields across the creative spectrum. From theatrical performances to musicians to authors, this fall proves no different, hosting and bringing diversity to Royce Hall, with guests including a Peruvian singer and multi-instrumentalists. Read more...
Writer Dean McClure was watching his daughter perform in a parade at Disneyland 20 years ago when he asked himself why a musical had never been made to highlight the life of Walt Disney. Read more...
Over 5,000 globe beach balls are entwined around the front entrance and tower of the Fowler Museum. Like vines, they coil out of the heart of the Fowler building, the inner courtyard, both separating and uniting the building. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Fowler Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary with eight exhibitions. Most of the Fowler’s new exhibitions will be open until Jan. 26, with others running an extended showcase until March 2.
A new theater production is once again giving voice to the story of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City during the early 1980s. Originally written by Larry Kramer in 1985, “The Normal Heart” has since become a success on Broadway, as well as in theaters in Los Angeles and London. Read more...
Photo: The L.A. revival of “The Normal Heart,” a theater production about the onset of AIDS in the 1980s, features UCLA alumnus Verton R. Banks as the hospital administrator, Tommy Boatwright.
