What's Current in
Theater and Dance
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![A side-by-side image of a female dancer in motion and a woman playing tennis](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-06/arnhold-gift-composite-dance-tennis-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=BJO7LH9f)
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Left: Dario Calmese; right: Jeff Liang
The arts and humanities, including UCSB Arts & Lectures, and UCSB Athletics, are key focus areas for the Arnholds' generosity to the university.
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![Three costumed actors - two men and one women - on a darkened stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-05/indecent-press-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=9-mI9kja)
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Jeff Liang
“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.
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![people on stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/mothers-press-fritz-olenberger-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=_Ikjr_Vl)
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Fritz Olenberger
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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.
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![Female dancers in costume circled in motion on a darkened stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-03/ucsb-dance-company-performance-full-circle-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=D7QYYgRS)
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Stephen Sherrill
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![Playwright Jacqueline Lawton sits at a desk holding a pen above a red notebook](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-02/jacqueline-lawton-play-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=GSyWWCFu)
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Playwright Jacqueline Lawton's “Freedom Hill” will be featured in the LAUNCH PAD Amplify Reading Series Festival.