What's Current in
Theater + Dance
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Jeff Liang
“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.
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Fritz Olenberger
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![dancer in black and white striped dress](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/Border-crossings-opt--Janet-Collins-Chain-Gang-1949.jpg?itok=t8D1_RSF)
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.
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![Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/uc-santa-barbara-Jody-Enders-perko.jpg?itok=y9inCsfT)
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024
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![Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/Les%20Ballets%20Trockadero-arts-lectures-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=VYuyOQ4S)
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Courtesy photo
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season
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![Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/hay-fever-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=7xygpX_M)
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.
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![Two male dancers perform on a blackened stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/sb-dance-theater-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=SC9lOITQ)
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2023 show, “The Ties that Bind/Los lazos que unen.”
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![The Naked Shakes theater company in full dress for "The Death of Kings"](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/death-of-kings2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=9eDIgrEX)
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Jeff Liang
"The Death of Kings" will play for three nights on campus before traveling to the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival
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![Professor William Davies King with a collection of cracker boxes](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/William-Davies-King-Cheez-It-UC-Santa-Barbara.jpg?itok=ZYX4vi91)
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Matt Perko
William Davies King with part of his collection of Cheez-It cracker boxes
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![Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-05/last-days-judas-jeff-liang-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=vse7bYyx)
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.