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Seven women in business attire stretching the arms forward with the mouths open
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Jeff Liang
Selina Fillinger’s “POTUS” has been one of the most produced American plays of the past few years, including a hit production on Broadway

When the president loses it, it’s women to the rescue

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dancer in black and white striped dress
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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.

The exiles who shaped the contours of modern dance
Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season

Keep on ‘Trockin’’ in the free world
Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.

Noel Coward’s comedy of bad manners
Two male dancers perform on a blackened stage
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2023 show, “The Ties that Bind/Los lazos que unen.”

Celebrating diverse voices, identities and perspectives with dance
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Renowned dance artist Alice Condodina connects students with dance lineage 
The Naked Shakes theater company in full dress for "The Death of Kings"
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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

Performance group Naked Shakes takes a royal thrill ride through Shakespeare’s England, and lands on a prestigious stage in Italy
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
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