News & Press

Faculty Spotlight: Patrick Russell

Announcing the 2025/26 Season

Staff Spotlight: Megan Lowe, Program Associate

Remembering Ben Dillon

Faculty in the Field: Winter/Spring Performances & Publications

January 21, 2025

Philip Kan Gotanda brings new opera to UC Berkeley, Feb. 15–16

December 20, 2024

Faculty Spotlight: Jessica Berman, Voice & Dialect Coach

December 13, 2024

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Robert Goldsby, 1926–2024

December 2, 2024

TDPS opens 2024/25 season with 'Everybody' by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

September 26, 2024

TDPS Media Mentions

November 14, 2025

Nov 14

UC Berkeley faculty discuss ‘threshold of war’ between US and Venezuela (The Daily Californian)

October 20, 2025

Oct 20

‘The Trials’ brings bizarre, darkly funny climate drama to Zellerbach Playhouse (The Daily Californian)

October 13, 2025

Oct 13

Theater is more than bringing a director’s vision to life—it’s a laboratory for social exchange

September 22, 2025

Sep 22

The Playwright Who Found His Stage (Alta)

August 1, 2025

Aug 01

A revival production of Philip Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die

February 10, 2025

Feb 10

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera. (Berkeley News)

Feb 10

Rising Stars: Meet Megan Lowe (Performance Studies '12)

September 24, 2024

Sep 24

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’ (Berkeley News)

July 24, 2024

Jul 24

Professor Abigail De Kosnik on "What is lost—and gained—when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?" (Berkeley News)

July 23, 2024

Jul 23

Professor Abigail De Kosnik on "How Kamala Harris became part of Charli XCX's 'Brat' summer" (NBC News)