drama

UCI Illuminations contest showcases student creativity during COVID

With scholarship support, first-gen student pursues second passion: performing arts

The festival’s artistic director, Eli Simon, discusses this summer’s productions and the enduring appeal of Shakespeare

Tara Rodman, UCI assistant professor of drama, has won a 2018 Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $60,000 grant will enable her to research and write a book about the international career of Japanese dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961). The Fellowships for Advanced Social […]

Comedian alum Jon Lovitz to perform at Irvine Barclay Theatre

A successful and wide-ranging arts program means a growing number of alumni are thriving on Broadway

Cross-disciplinary course explores role of neurobiology in performing arts

Sixth season of UCI Shakespeare festival features ‘Tempest’ and ‘Taming of the Shrew’

Clayton Garrison, founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine, died July 27 at the age of 93. He was a visionary stage director, choreographer and theater professor who left a lasting imprint on UCI and what’s now known as the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

Alumnus Windell D. Middlebrooks, an actor and popular pitchman for Miller High Life, takes our questions