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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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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

The Place To Be
Playwright Idris Goodwin

New Plays Promise Laughs and Substance

‘A Medusa Thread’

Determined to Rebound

‘Theater for Social Change’

A ‘Magic Flute’ Like No Other
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