What's Current in

Theater + Dance

A women in a black sweater and pink top sits on a chair, pointing, as another women in jeans with long grey hair looks her direction
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
Playwright Melinda Lopez, left, with director Risa Brainin, during a rehearsal of "Standing Still."

Time to roll up your yoga mat and take a stand

Read Article

Female dancers in costume circled in motion on a darkened stage
Photo Credit
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
Photo Credit
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
Photo Credit
Courtesy photo
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

The Place To Be
Playwright Idris Goodwin

New Plays Promise Laughs and Substance

‘A Medusa Thread’

Determined to Rebound
Subscribe to Theater + Dance