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New Swan

New Swan production of “The Comedy of Errrorrs” at the New Swan Shakespeare Festival.

Setting the stage

UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Festival returns next month with ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Measure for Measure’

The pop-up New Swan Theater is modeled after Elizabethan stages where Shakespeare’s plays were first performed.

Shakespeare under the stars

New Swan returns to its open-air playhouse for its 11th season

UC Shakespeare Trial – ‘Julius Caesar’

Is Brutus guilty of high crimes?

Behind the scenes at the New Swan

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

Shakespeare is alive and well at UCI

For more than 400 years, William Shakespeare’s plays have endured. They’ve been studied, performed, remixed and celebrated across generations and geographies. As we celebrate his April birthday, we also celebrate the three-year anniversary of the launch of the UCI Shakespeare Center. Co-directed by Julia Reinhard Lupton, professor of English and associate dean for humanities research, and […]

New Swan again takes flight

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

The show will go on

Loss of beloved actor lends poignancy to this summer’s New Swan Shakespeare Festival

Richard Brestoff

Quite the character

Whether he’s performing for film or in UCI’s intimate New Swan Theater, actor Richard Brestoff breathes life into a script