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Summer under stars: New Swan Shakespeare Festival opens at UCI

The New Swan Shakespeare Center is centered in Orange County and maintains extensive links to campus. UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts and...

Female rage comes out in all forms during ‘Quit Bitchin’

As a part of the UCI Department of Drama’s main stage season for the 2024-25 school year, the workshop play “Quit Bitchin’” made its...

‘Twelve Angry Jurors’ finds power in the minority

From Feb. 6 to Feb. 9, a question of justice, ethics and innocence was at play in the hands of a collaborative production of...

Theater Thursday: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s masterpiece ‘Fleabag’ comes to the Irvine Barclay Theatre

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s devastatingly witty one-woman show, “Fleabag,” came to the Irvine Barclay Theatre for a one-day-only screening on Oct. 27. Fans gathered for the...

South Coast Repertory bewitches crowd with ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

South Coast Repertory introduced their rendition of the 1982 musical theater classic “Little Shop of Horrors” on Sept. 27. Director Jenn Thompson sprinkled her...

12th Season: New Swan Shakespeare Festival

Each season, the New Swan theater company at UCI performs two Shakespeare plays rotating on a nightly basis throughout July and August. This season...

The Legacy of Bollywood’s Baadshah: Shah Rukh Khan

Born into a middle-class family in New Delhi, India, Shah Rukh Khan, known by his initials SRK, was an academically brilliant child and had...

Presenting: Studying Drama in the Pandemic

ACT 1 SCENE 1.  The pandemic is a blow to the college experience.  That worn-out thought has been integrated somewhere in nearly every conversation involving a...

UCI’s “The Penelopiad” Brings New Narrative to a Classic Greek Epic

Directed by Sara Rodriguez, “The Penelopiad'' takes the audience through the life of Odysseus’ wife Penelope as she examines themes of injustice, female identity and responsibility with regards to her own life.

Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” Finds Its Way Into Audience’s Hearts

The Costa Mesa Playhouse started the year off right with a production of Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers.” The story takes place in Yonkers, New York in 1942, depicting the dilemmas of a dysfunctional family during World War II.

An Evening With David Henry Hwang

Students and faculty members gathered and filled the Crystal Cove Auditorium to enjoy a night of paying homage to the timeless Asian American playwright on Nov. 14.

Honoring Shakespeare’s Legacy with the UCI Shakespeare Center

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...

Take A Look: Theater Edition

With the new year comes a whole new slate of shows touring the nation and playing at local theaters for us to enjoy. The...

Spotlight to Projector: Live Theatre on the Silver Screen

By Hubert Ta Curtains obscure the stage, and the theatre is quiet. People steadily file into their seats, with the sounds of whispers, popcorn being...

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