“The Long Christmas Ride Home” cast members did wall sits and pushups in preparation for their latest role: puppeteering. Students from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television will perform in playwright-in-residence Paula Vogel’s “The Long Christmas Ride Home” on Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Autumn Sylve stars in “The Long Christmas Ride Home,” which follows three children on a road trip with their parents during the Christmas season. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
The Hillman Photography Initiative chose Andrea Polli for a project-based partnership, even though she is not a photographer. Polli, an artist and professor of art and ecology at the University of New Mexico, creates technology-based art pieces to bring attention to how people use and manifest energy. Read more...
Photo: Andrea Polli, who will lecture at the Art|Sci Center on Tuesday, creates projects that visualize environmental energy. Her project “Energy Flow” was a wind-powered light display on the Rachel Carson Bridge. The work’s light animations were based on the weather conditions in Pittsburgh. (Courtesy of Christopher Litherland)
An ornate coffin that stands open upon a stage is the impressive opening image of “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.” An eerie haze dances under sapphire lighting, signaling the wintry tale that will ensue. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)
“Desert Rats” places a group of often underrepresented people on the stage. The play, staged at the Los Angeles Theatre Center through Nov. 18, follows brothers Frank and Jesse as they kidnap Amber, the daughter of a wealthy man, in an attempt to escape their economically precarious situation. Read more...
Photo: Alumni Walt Gray IV, Lila Gavares and Derek Chariton star in “Desert Rats,” a dark comedy in which two brothers kidnap a wealthy, young girl in order to extract a ransom from her father. (Courtesy of Giovanni Solis/bracero)
Some of the dancers featured in “Kreatur” come from backgrounds like Cirque du Soleil, while others have performed together for the past 20 years. “Kreatur,” a dance production captured on film over the period of four live performances, made its American debut in The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Monday. Read more...
Photo: The Center for the Art of Performance presented “Kreatur” on Monday, a dance performance captured on film. The production features members of the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests, and focuses in on certain characters in between wider shots. (Photo courtesy of Sebastian Bolesch)
In case anyone was wondering, Far Far Away isn’t actually that far away. It’s about an hour’s drive from campus, located in Thousand Oaks, California, to be specific. Read more...
Photo: (Andrea Grigsby/Daily Bruin contributor)
UCLA recently acquired a historic theater in Westwood. The UCLA School for the Arts and its performing arts program, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, announced its acquisition of the Crest Theater in Westwood on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of CAP UCLA, helped acquire the Crest Theater. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
