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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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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
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

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
Fullbright Award recipients

Research on the Road
Actors dressed in black posed onstage

Romeo and Juliet, Our Contemporaries
Playwright Idris Goodwin

New Plays Promise Laughs and Substance

Perspectives on Juneteenth
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