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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

Students in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts in front of the Contemporary Arts Center.

Flourishing this fall: UCI arts

Upcoming performance season includes such bold and ambitious programs as a modern take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Actors working with South Coast Repertory perform a reading of an in-development play for an audience of UCI students at the campus’s Winifred Smith Hall.

Getting in on the act

UCI drama students participate in a play’s creation through South Coast Repertory’s NewSCRipts program

UC Shakespeare Trial – ‘Julius Caesar’

Is Brutus guilty of high crimes?

Lucas Hilderbrand, UCI professor of film & media studies and visual studies standing in front of am image of a film reel

What’s next: The future of film

COVID-19 is likely to permanently alter the production, distribution and viewing of movies

A Midsummer Night’s Zoom

Beloved Shakespeare play transformed for a virtual world

Shawna Jackson

From ball to ballet

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

Collecting stories

UCI professor documents the diversity of the Asian American community

Holiday gifts, Anteater-style

Our 2018 guide can help you shop for everyone on your list

UCI interactive game a hit at IndieCade festival

“Magia Transformo: The Dance of Transformation,” a game created by a team led by Josh Tanenbaum, UCI assistant professor of informatics, debuted in early October at the prestigious IndieCade festival in Los Angeles. Selected from more than 1,000 entries to be one of just over 100 titles to be demonstrated at the event, the mixed-reality […]