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- Rutgers Theater Department ranked among The Hollywood Reporter’s “25 Best Drama Schools in the World” for 2025
- Nancy Yunhwa Rao named Board of Governors Professor of Music
- Ellen Bredehoft named interim dean
- Dance alum uses movement skills in her career as a social worker
- Best in Class: Five of Our Favorite Courses at MGSA
Rutgers at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center: Spring 2020
See the full list of Mason Gross events at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center for the spring 2020 semester.
Dance chair performs with “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith
The New York Times singled out Dance chair Gerald Casel in their review of Oliver Tompkins Ray's spoken-word opera Woolgathering, based on singer-songwriter and author Patti Smith's memoir about growing up in South Jersey. "Mykel Marai Nairne and the veteran dancer...
Arts Online director’s theater and social justice project wins award
Kevin Bott’s Ritual4Return is a 12-week program that establishes a public storytelling ritual for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to their lives outside the prison system. R4R has won the NJ Council for the Humanities’ Katz Prize.
Alum Sebastian Stan nominated for two Golden Globes
Theater alum Sebastian Stan (BFA’05) is garnering rave reviews for his star turns in “The Apprentice,” in which he stars as former President Donald J. Trump, and for “A Different Man,” as an actor whose face changes after an experimental treatment.
Student with disabilities works to expand access in arts spaces
Art & Design student Gabrielle Carmella says seeing the work of “artists who are like me” on view at the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum has been a revelation.
Alum’s Paul Robeson mural to be unveiled at SHI Stadium
Art & Design alum Alonzo Adams (BFA’84) is set to unveil a massive mural depicting 1919 Rutgers alum Paul Robeson October 19 at the Rutgers’ homecoming football game against UCLA.