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Moore Featured in Gallery Podcast

On Feb. 22, Maurice Moore, Ph.D. candidate, performance studies, will be featured in the podcast “Converge” created by the Verge Center for the Arts in Sacramento.  

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Bogad Recognized by U.S. Dept. of Arts and Culture

Professor Larry Bogad, Department of Theatre and Dance chair, has been recognized by the U.S. Department of  Arts and Culture as one of the 25 creative practitioners who will deepen and support the building of our People’s WPA platform.

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Bay Area Media Spotlights Bogad’s Activism

Prior to the recent presidential election, Professor Larry Bogad, Department of Theatre and Dance chair, spent the fall spearheading the creation of Delivering Democracy, a cohort of dancing mailboxes first deployed in Pennsylvania in order to encourage voting by mail. His efforts along with those of other arts activists are the focus of “The People’s WPA Isn’t Waiting Around for a Future ‘New Deal’” featured on the KQED website. 

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Graduate Student Featured In The New York Times

Graduate student Jennifer Grace is among the actors, who have played the iconic role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” interviewed in a New York Times article. 

Upcoming Events

Seasonal Event

“A Bee In A Jar”
Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank

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The Department of Theatre and Dance and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank (C3T) present ”A Bee in a Jar,” a play by Andrew Nicholls, on February 19 and 20 at 6 p.m. The virtual production is free.  

In the play, three men with very different temperaments try to figure out why they were seized a month earlier and locked together in a featureless room.  

Seasonal Event

“FOOD”
Winter Quarter Production

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A multi-sensory performance piece, FOOD will be performed March 4, 5 and 6 as the Department of Theatre and Dance winter quarter production. The production is co-devised and directed by Geoff Sobelle, Granada Artist-in-Residence.  

The free performances live stream at 7 p.m. PST.

Seasonal Event

“Juliet and Romeo,” A New Musical
Spring Quarter Production/Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank

A Shakespearean tragedy gets a contemporary musical comedy makeover when the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank (C3T) present “Juliet and Romeo” in a free virtual production June 3-5 at 6 p.m.

“Juliet and Romeo” is developed in special collaboration with Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts Administration with support from the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

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