Originally choreographed and set on the Royal Ballet in April 2014, Christopher Wheeldon brings his vision of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” to life with...
UC Irvine’s Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative has brightened the UCI campus for 10 years with various events for students and community...
UCI’s New Swan Shakespeare Company hosted a reading of Yalda: An Iranian Twelfth Night, on Nov. 30.
Written by UCI anthropology professor Roxanne Varzi and...
UCI Drama performed its rendition of William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by Andrew Borba, at the Irvine Barclay Theatre from Nov. 10-13.
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To give William Shakespeare a belated birthday bash, UCI Drama and UCI Illuminations put together multiple, free showings of two shortened productions, “Comedy of Errors” and “Romeo and Juliet.”
Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” was recently performed at the Claire Trevor Theater, from Feb. 21-25. The director, Andrew Borba, made an ambitious attempt at incorporating Shakespearean prose in the style of a 1930s newsroom. The play’s original setting of Navarre is transformed into a newspaper publication, with King Ferdinand as the editor-in-chief.
UCI Libraries’ Thursday night gala, “Costuming the Leading Ladies of Shakespeare,” celebrated the women and men who played and decorated theater’s most iconic female...
By Emily Santiago-Molina
On My Block
The new Netflix show, “On My Block” stars 4 teenagers starting their first year of high school, committed to staying...
By Nicholas Oritz
The classics of English, poetry, and theater were all cultivated by the legacy of William Shakespeare’s pen. His writings were the height...
By Kevin Barnum
An English professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Jane Hwang Degenhardt, visited UCI last Thursday to talk about her current research...
Vengeance. Politics. War. Love. These elements have fascinated storytellers since the dawn of history. And arguably none other than the Bard himself, William Shakespeare,...
