This year, the Cultural Affairs Commission and Campus Events Commission decided that one UCLA student DJ will be given the opportunity to open Bruin Bash 2013 with 45 minutes of his or her own music.

It’s hard enough for some people to pick out their own outfits in the morning, yet UCLA’s costume designers have to pick out the outfits for an entire cast.

Traditional plays give actress Kelly Lester two hours to find her character’s arc. “Ionescopade” gives her a couple of minutes.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Lester has to utilize all of her acquired performing talents in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade,” a musical revue created as a tribute to the playwright Eugéne Ionesco, one of the foremost figures of the theater of the absurd.

Kalua pig for the taste buds, ukulele for the ears, and Tahitian, auana and kahiko dances for the eyes.

It’s the ship that launched a thousand theatrical retellings.
Friday night in the Freud Playhouse, UCLA’s Hooligan Theatre Company opens its production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Titanic.” The musical version highlights different passengers’ vantage points during the catastrophe.

The stage drips with irony as four actors and a slew of crew members trying to put on a show about trying to put on a show.

It takes over 4,500 employees to put on the Grammys each year, and most of them aren’t celebrities or performers.
This year for the 55th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the Grammy Producers and Engineers Wing reached out to the Daily Bruin offering a backstage tour of the technical side of the Grammys, so that the Bruin could bring secrets about what goes on behind the camera and below the stage to UCLA students.

It’s a public school art student’s worst nightmare: the moment a school tells that student it no longer has the grant money to fund his or her artistic endeavors. For UCLA world arts and cultures students, this nightmare became their reality.

Eighteen performers, three band members, two producers and one stage manager, armed with microphones and character shoes, take the stage to fight AIDS.

Theater and film viewers often argue over whether special effects, ultra-realistic settings and more affordable ticket prices make up for shabby vocals and characters trapped behind the pre-recorded restraints of the silver screen.