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Two people have a discussion on a stage
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Jeff Liang
Risa Brainin, right, on stage with a student actor during rehearsals for LAUNCH PAD’s production of “Strange Birds”

An intense thriller with feminist overtones

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Professor William Davies King with a collection of cracker boxes
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Matt Perko
William Davies King with part of his collection of Cheez-It cracker boxes

Expansive collections of ‘things of no value,’ nearly 10,000 items worth nothing, at heart of new Red Barn art exhibition
Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot
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Jeff Liang
The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”
Female dancers in costume circled in motion on a darkened stage
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Stephen Sherrill

UCSB Dance Company explores spectrum of human sensibility through the lens of female choreographers
Three actors on stage, one in a sea captain's hat, one in pajamas, one dressed as a security guard
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Roni Ragone's “Night Night, Roger Roger”

Theater and Dance premieres student-penned original production
Playwright Jacqueline Lawton sits at a desk holding a pen above a red notebook
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Playwright Jacqueline Lawton's “Freedom Hill” will be featured in the LAUNCH PAD Amplify Reading Series Festival.

LAUNCH PAD reading festival brings the Black American experience, family and community stories to center stage

Recording Latinx Dance Histories

Existing in Movement
Two men and one woman in traditional Russian clothes stand close together with sheepish grins on their faces

Greed Plus Corruption Equals Hilarity
Dancers posing dramatically in a group on stage

Delight in the Arts
Actors dressed in black posed onstage

Romeo and Juliet, Our Contemporaries

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Playwright Idris Goodwin

New Plays Promise Laughs and Substance
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