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UCI Arts 2025 Year in Review

December 20

UCI Arts 2025 Year in Review
Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa Confronts Injustice Through Performance

December 23

Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa Confronts Injustice Through Performance
New Swan Shakespeare Festival 2026

July 7 - August 30 New Swan Theater

Join us under the stars for a magical summer as New Swan Shakespeare Festival presents two beloved classics in running repertory.
at the very bottom of a body of water

May 28 - June 6 Robert Cohen Theatre

Through surreal storytelling and dreamlike sequences, the piece delves into themes of grief, spiritual disconnection and the enduring ties of family. At its heart is a striking moment, a fish gutted live onstage, serving as a visceral metaphor for ...
Noises Off

March 6 - March 14 Claire Trevor Theatre

Noises Off is a brilliantly crafted, side-splitting farce that pulls back the curtain on a theater company in total disarray. As the hapless cast and crew attempt to stage the fictional play Nothing On, everything that can go wrong does, from forgotten...
The Mutable Archive: A Cure for Immortality

February 12 - February 13 Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

Patricia Olynyk’s The Mutable Archive is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary multimedia installation that asks what an unstable narrative can reveal about truth. The project draws on photographs from anatomical museums—including the Narrenturm in ...
UCI Drama Alumni Chris Renfro ’14 and Justine Rafael ’21 Join Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum

January 9

UCI Drama Alumni Chris Renfro ’14 and Justine Rafael ’21 Join Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum

The Mutable Archive Brings Arts Research into Dialogue with Medical Humanities

Organized by Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson and Director for the Center of Medical Humanities, Dr. Kelli Sharp, the Feb. 12–13 xMPL program features Patricia Olynyk and Adam Hogan in a two-day expanded cinema event UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts will...

Alumni

UCI Drama Alumni Chris Renfro ’14 and Justine Rafael ’21 Join Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum

Center Theatre Group’s Here Lies Love brings an all-Filipino cast to Los Angeles, featuring UC Irvine drama alumni Two alumni from UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama have been cast in Center Theatre Group’s upcoming production of Here Lies Love at the Mark Taper Forum...