September 23, 2014
All 156 Indonesian students who are currently attending Extension’s English Language Institute are also members of a cultural performance troupe that celebrates the art, music and culture of their native land.
November 4, 2021
…Jolla Playhouse Brings in Theatre and Dance Talent, Expertise for their Latest World Premiere Lora K. Powell is a stage management faculty member at UC San Diego. Photo courtesy Department of Theatre and Dance. Stage Management faculty member Lora Powell says she’s in the right place at the right time…
June 6, 2013
…Department’s Four Decades of Theatrical Education True to form, Arthur Wagner stole the spotlight at celebration of his 90th birthday at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, where a crowd gathered to both pay tribute to a grandfather of theater at UC San Diego and to celebrate the department’s 40 years…
February 11, 2021
…San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance production of "Much Ado About Nothing." Photo by Manny Rotenberg Theatre and Dance Student One of 15 Selected for National Diversity-Focused Scholarship ‘Changemaker’ undergrad seeks to increase Asian American representation both on stage and behind the scenes Alex Luong is one of 15…
October 19, 2017
…San Diego Department of Theatre & Dance and Sledgehammer Theatre Company When: Thursday, Oct. 19 at 8:15 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 21 and Sunday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. Where: Bread & Salt, Logan Heights “And Then You Wait” By UC San Diego MFA students…
April 25, 2019
…Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District Tickets for the 2019 Wagner New Play Festival at UC San Diego are going fast, and guests have five world-premiere productions to see: each one written by current students in the Department of Theatre and Dance MFA playwriting program. The 2019 festival runs in…
December 11, 2014
…of a style of theatrical writing called hyper-realism, Shank brought the same innovative spirit to her teaching. She joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1981 as a lecturer, when the department was still called the department of drama, and became permanent faculty in 1984. Shank served as chair from…
February 22, 2012
…Broadway, UC San Diego theatre and dance major Brian Bose was astonished to learn that he had received the James Avery Scholarship to help support his educational studies at UC San Diego. The fund was established by UC San Diego alumnus and acclaimed actor and poet, James Avery ’76. “James…
October 28, 2016
Faculty and students from UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance excel on Broadway, in theaters nationwide, and in the film and television industry. Playwriting alumna Rachel Axler ’04, who just won her third Emmy Award for the critically acclaimed HBO show “VEEP,” is one example.
April 14, 2016
…division’s departments of music, theatre and dance, and visual arts invite undergraduate applicants to submit arts portfolios showcasing their creativity. Since 2014, when the Arts Portfolio Option was initiated in partnership with the Office of Admissions on campus, applications to the Division of Arts and Humanities have nearly doubled. “It…
