The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) at the University of California, Berkeley will present five main stage productions in its 2019–2020 Season. The season, which broadly explores the complexities of modern society and community building, includes two classics of modern...Read more about TDPS 2019–2020 Season explores complexities of modern society, community building
UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) continues its 2018–19 season with Tartuffe, a daring and witty comedy that tells the story of a crafty trickster who uses religion as a guise to flatter the vulnerability of a wealthy patriarch. Initially...Read more about TDPS presents modern take on Moliére's daring comedy 'Tartuffe'
Melvin Irwin Gordon, who was a member of the University of California, Berkeley, faculty from 1990 until his retirement in 2017, died on March 22, 2018, at his home in Richmond, California, as a result of complications due to renal failure. He was a versatile, maverick historian of drama and...Read more about In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Mel Gordon, 1947–2018