Playwrights can’t capture light, but they come close by describing its mysterious presence. As the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cuban American playwright and director Nilo Cruz shed light on his creative process in an afternoon salon talk Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz gave a salon talk for the School of Theater, Film and Television, sharing his creative process and personal inspirations. (Harold Lee/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 23 at 6:52 p.m. Jupiter’s Plantarium revels in earthly creatures. A store run by second-year world arts and cultures student Chang Zhou, Jupiter’s Plantarium is named after her orange cat named Jupiter, who is frequently seen on the shop’s Instagram page. Read more...
Photo: Second-year world arts and cultures student Chang Zhou sells commissioned pet portraits and planters in her store, Jupiter’s Plantarium, run via social media platforms. (Photo illustration by Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff and Eunice Hong/Daily Bruin)
This weekend, UCLA’s center stage will be accessible to anyone around the world. The School of Theater, Film, and Television will be streaming its departmental play, “BFE,” Saturday and Sunday. Read more...
Photo: (Jocelyn Wang/Daily Bruin)
The Los Angeles-based theater company Artists At Play embodies Asian American resilience as it breaks through the hardships of virtual theater. In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Artists at Play is hosting free virtual performances starting with the play “ALLOS: The Story of Carlos Bulosan,” which ran from April 24 to May 7. Read more...
Photo: Julia Cho (left), Stefanie Lau (center) and Marie-Reine Velez (right) are the founding members of the theater company Artists at Play, which produces theatrical programming that focuses on the Asian American experience. (Chelsea Westman/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 5 at 7:32 p.m. to update the featured image. Dancers are unmuting their mics for the final time as they present their senior projects. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year dance student Julia Cheng will premiere her capstone dance project at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance showcase “Unmuted” along with five of her peers. Her project touches on how her life will change after graduation. (Courtesy of Julia Cheng)
A new virtual theater experience shows viewers the horrors of entering “Someone Else’s House” uninvited, especially when the residents are dead. The Geffen Stayhouse production of “Someone Else’s House,” running until July 3, immerses audience members in the horrors of the Mezzocchi family’s experience with living in a spooky, old New England home. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Geffen Playhouse)
For Rodrigo Valenzuela, photography goes beyond the camera lens. An assistant professor of photography at the School of the Arts and Architecture, Valenzuela was recently awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to fund his upcoming project. Read more...
Photo: Rodrigo Valenzuela, an assistant professor of photography at the School of the Arts and Architecture, was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to fund his upcoming project. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)
