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”

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