performing arts

For almost a year, artist Ann Carlson has been observing and “collecting” the gestures of more than 100 students and employees at work across campus for “The Symphonic Body UCLA.”

The season will include performances of “Lainie’s Cabaret at UCLA: Celebrating Frank Sinatra … 100 Years,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel.”

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison is scheduled to be awarded the UCLA Medal — the campus’s highest honor.

The school has risen rapidly since its creation in 2007 with a visionary $30 million gift from the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

“Pitch Perfect 2” making you crave a cappella? Check out these performances by Bruin groups.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

Spring Sing, an annual showcase for talented students, features a top-tier selection of performers who compete for top honors. This year's event will be held May 16 at Pauley Pavilion.

India Carney, a senior at UCLA and a singer at major campus events, was selected as one of 20 finalists vying to win the eighth season of NBC’s “The Voice.”

Love of punk music and a passion for activism inspire a UCLA musicology professor who studies the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands and plays guitar in a band.

UCLA Arts’ spring calendar of more than 150 public events offers the public the chance to experience a wide diversity of creative programming.

With Nimoy’s death Friday, a planned April 10 artist talk in Royce Hall has been cancelled. Refunds are available.

A few days after host Neil Patrick Harris joked the Oscars honored “Hollywood’s best and whitest,” entertainment insiders addressed the lack of diversity in the industry.

UCLA analysis of movies and TV shows in 2012 and 2013 reveals that race and gender representation in Hollywood is out of step with the rest of America, its authors say.

Donation from philanthropist Elaine Krown Klein will support a distinguished faculty member as well as live performance, research, conferences and other schoolwide initiatives.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

For patients who have baffling problems with talking, breathing, singing or swallowing, the UCLA Voice Center for Medicine and the Arts can be an oasis in a desert of inconclusive tests, endless doctors’ appointments and despair.

The Center for the Art of Performance is presenting a week-long interactive art installation on Royce Quad to build understanding between veterans and civilians. It’s being offered in conjunction with a multimedia theatrical production, “Basetrack Live.”

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2014-15 theater season features 13 events, including The Two Cities Project, and the Francis Ford Coppola One Act Marathon.

From concerts by guest performers and student ensembles to stunning exhibitions, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture has more than 75 public events coming up this quarter.

UCLA's historic theater was the setting for a special performance by singer Jason Mraz, who chose the venue because of how it inspires the young artists who perform there.

Professor Donald Neuen, longtime director of choral conducting and choral studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, led his final concert on June 7 at Royce Hall.

It was a great night for UCLA TFT alum Robert L. Freedman at the 68th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8. His musical, "A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder," was a four-time winner.