What's Current in
Theater + Dance
Image
Photo Credit
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
Image
Photo Credit
Courtesy UCSB Library
The exhibit features a poster, left, for a 1970s Liza Minnelli vehicle originally titled “Shine It On” when it played in San Francisco. By the time it came to New York, it had a new, much bolder poster, and a new name, “The Act,” right.
Image
Photo Credit
Fritz Olenberger
UCSB's Santa Barbara Dance Theater
Image
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
UCSB's Naked Shakes
Image
Photo Credit
Courtesy
Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.
Image
Photo Credit
Luca Meyers
A play about young women on the cusp of their teenage years, “Dance Nation” portrays their conflicting impulses to stand out and blend in.
Image
Photo Credit
Courtesy LAUNCH PAD
The Amplify Festival brings together veteran and emerging artists to workshop news plays and present public readings.
Image
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
Risa Brainin, right, on stage with a student actor during rehearsals for LAUNCH PAD’s production of “Strange Birds”
Image
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
UC Santa Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance is mounting a new production of 1928 play “The Threepenny Opera”
Image
Photo Credit
Courtesy
Wynton Marsalis
Image
Photo Credit
Jeff Liang
“Indecent” tells the story of the 1906 play, “God of Vengeance,” by Sholem Asch.
Image
Photo Credit
Fritz Olenberger