performing arts

Matthew Puckett’s original story about a young Albert Einstein is the latest production from UCLA’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program.

Jazz trumpeter Daversa won three awards and jazz performance professor Wayne Shorter won best jazz instrumental album.

The free performance on Feb. 14 will begin at 5:30 p.m. and be held in Macgowan Hall. It will be followed panel discussion about gun violence

The funds provide full-tuition scholarships for students at the School of the Arts and Architecture and the Herb Alpert School of Music.

Strempel is an opera singer and professor of voice in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She will start as inaugural dean of the music school effective July 8.

Works by Tony-nominated composer Elizabeth Swados, and Compose LA: The Future of Music are among the featured events.

The event marks the 50th anniversary of the UCLA Institute of American Cultures and its four ethnic studies centers.

Meredith Monk, Allen Ruppersberg, Batsheva and Lars Müller are among those featured among the 150-plus events, which include exhibitions, lectures, screenings and performances.

“The Passion of Yeshua,” by Richard Danielpour, will be performed for free on Dec. 9 in Royce Hall.

The institute will continue to provide full two-year scholarships for six to eight international musicians participating in a prestigious master’s degree program.

It includes two plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and Maria Bello’s virtual reality presentation, “The Sun Ladies Project.”

The bonus version of the hit song ‘Pressure’ was recorded on campus in June in the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center at the Herb Alpert School of Music.

Vogel has been named the school’s inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Visiting Playwright-in-Residence.

In this Q&A, Dan Froot extolls the virtues of interdisciplinary scholarship and the importance of art as a tool for justice.

The venue will be transformed to host live performances and breathe new life into a neighborhood landmark.

Q&A with theater professor Tom O’Connor, who performs in and was responsible for bringing “Blue Moon Over Memphis,” a play in the Noh theater tradition, to campus.

Jade Elliott, who studied jazz at UCLA, earned the opportunity of her young career: an all-expenses paid trip to Switzerland to perform at the high-profile event.

In the past decade, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television has transformed itself into a true 21st-century entertainment school.

Featured among the 150-plus events: Taylor Mac, Theaster Gates, Fran Lebowitz, Monika Baer, Judy Baca and Juliana Huxtable.

The legendary musician has been a part of the faculty since 1978; Dean Judith Smith said the chair will extend his “tireless advocacy work for jazz as an American art form.”

New major is an extension of the jazz studies concentration, established in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell.

UCLA group presents “LA Escena,” the city’s first Hispanic classical theater festival Sept. 21–23.

The legendary bandleader sparked serious conversations about race, politics and music by performing with an integrated band.

The schedule, which runs from September 22, 2018, to May 10, 2019, offers 42 events and 59 performances, with one U.S. and seven West Coast premieres, plus two exclusive programs.

Singer-songwriter Eva B. Ross, a UCLA alumna, will perform at the closing concert, as will the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble at UCLA and Superdevoiche, the UCLA Balkan Women’s Choir.