Productions

TDPS 2019–2020 Season explores complexities of modern society, community building

June 4, 2019
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 theater, two new plays with local roots, and a highly collaborative iteration of Berkeley Dance Project, the annual TDPS dance concert.

Mina Morita, director of ‘Snowflakes, or Rare White People,’ addresses changing production’s format (The Daily Californian)

May 29, 2020

Mina Morita has been the artistic director of San Francisco’s Crowded Fire Theater for five years. Earlier this year, she began working with UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS) to bring Dustin Chinn’s play “Snowflakes, or Rare White People” to the stage.

As was the case for many working in and around Berkeley, everything changed March 9, when the chancellor’s office announced the suspension of in-person classes at UC Berkeley due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the time, Morita said, she had a sore throat and was directing rehearsals from home,...

https://www.dailycal.org/2020/05/29/mina-morita-director-of-snowflakes-or-rare-w…

Radio dramas make theater between your ears, in your bathtub, during shelter-in-place (Datebook)

May 13, 2020

Degree-granting theater programs are also making use of audio theater, including the American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program, which performed Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s “Rough Magic” as an audio play, presented internally only under the direction of M. Graham Smith (though cast and crew made what they’re calling a green show, or a video riff on the show’s themes, for the public). UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater,...

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/radio-dramas-make-theater-between-your-…