Both Chinese and Western After receiving a doctorate in theater from Berkeley in 1983, Lai returned to Taiwan at the invitation of Yao Yi-wei, dean of the college of drama at the National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts), to teach at the school.
不中不西，又中又西一九八三年，賴聲川取得柏克萊大學戲劇藝術博士學位，應國立藝術學院（現國立台北藝術大學）戲劇系主任姚一葦之邀回台任教，從副教授、教授、系主任，直到他創辦了戲劇研究所。