Dear Theatre + Dance Community,

Tickets for the Fall 2024 season are LIVE!

UCSD's Theatre + Dance Department invites you to enjoy our upcoming season of LIVE performances at The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theatre District!

Theatre Productions

Opens Tonight!

Hedda Gabler

November 7 - 16

Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre

Written by Henrik Ibsen

Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz

Directed by Dept. Chair Lisa Portes

Hedda is a bad girl. She's mean. She's manipulative. She likes to burn things. She's also a visionary trapped outside of her time. If Freud is right and all that mentally ails us stems from an individual’s mandate to conform to societal expectations, Hedda Gabler is a master class in what happens when we try to contain a force of nature.

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Vinegar Tom

November 22 - December 7

Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre

Written by Caryl Churchill

Directed by Allie Moss (MFA 3)

Vinegar Tom is famously described by Caryl Churchill as “a play about witches with no witches in it.” Instead of magic this play explores misogyny and how society punishes women who dare to resist social control. Peppered with modern punk songs, this story of 17th century women accused of witchcraft for rejecting social norms, hits remarkably close to home.

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All Area Dance Sharing

FREE EVENT

Epstein Family Amphitheater

November 13

4-6PM Sharing

6-8PM Connection Jam on Stage

Join us for a powerful evening of dance, sharing, and community as all of our (TDMV) movement classes share what they are working on and learning. Meet the professors and students and then end the evening with a hip-hop connection jam on stage led by dr. grace shinhae jun and a live DJ.

Free Event

CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theatre | joyUS justUS

November 22 - 23

Mandeville Auditorium

Choreographer/Director

Ana María Álvarez

Conceived and directed by Ana María Álvarez the piece includes choreography by Álvarez and each company member who contributed their unique ideas and richly diverse movement styles, music by Las Cafeteras, whose powerful East L.A. sound and socio-political message closely compliment our own, d. Sabela grimes, whose soundprints were the heartbeat of Agua Furiosa, Charlese Antoinette, whose costumes help our dancers radiate joy and power, Emily Orling whose altar quilts create a beautifully sacred visual environment and Tuce Yasak, whose technical direction has literally brought light to so many of our stages.

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