• May 26
    Broadway veteran Telly Leung comes full circle by guest-directing UCI Drama production of landmark 1996 rock musical whose themes particularly resonate in 2023.
  • June 3 - June 10 Claire Trevor Theatre
    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, friends in Manhattan’s East Village struggle to build the lives of their dreams. Pennilessness, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, social tension, and political unrest, among other hardships, challenge the group physically and ...
  • July 17 - July 28 Arts Campus
    Students will advance their triple-threat skills, learning from one of the top college musical theatre programs in the nation. Modeled on our undergraduate program, students experience life as a UCI Drama major.
  • July 17 - July 28 Arts Campus
    Students will strengthen their triple-threat skills, learning from one of the top college music theatre programs in the nation. Modeled on our undergraduate program, students experience life as a UCI Drama major.
  • July 10 - July 28 Arts Campus
    The Summer Academies in the Arts are college and career preparatory intensives in Art, Dance, Drama, and Music focused on practical and technical skill development for experienced high school and college arts students on campus at UC Irvine.
  • July 15 - September 9 New Swan Theater
    Join us all summer as New Swan Theater presents three pieces running in repertory!

There can be few subjects as broad, or as fundamental to human civilization, as those of Drama and Theatre. While Drama is rightfully considered an entertainment, it is an entertainment that begins with the greatest literature ever written – from the classics of Euripides, Shakespeare and Molière to modern Americans like Tennessee Williams, August Wilson and David Henry Hwang – as presented in the most sophisticated performance techniques from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas they have developed over three thousand years. And Theatre – the practice of Drama – is a hands-on collaboration that involves real-time interactions with other artists, and displaying the results of your work to real-life audiences.

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