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Theater + Dance

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dancer in black and white striped dress
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Photo by Walter E. Owen. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Janet Collins in "Chain Gang," 1949.
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Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024
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Dancers from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo posed in red dresses
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is celebrating their 50th anniversary season
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Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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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Three actors on stage, one in a sea captain's hat, one in pajamas, one dressed as a security guard
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Roni Ragone's “Night Night, Roger Roger”
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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.