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For the 20th year, an informal affiliation of local arts critics has recognized the year’s most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, the visual arts, and theatre. Department of Theatre and Dance productions, students, faculty, alumni and friends are well represented on this year’s list of nominations. Winners will be announced of the Critics’ Table Awards will be announced on June 4.

Congratulations to the Department of Theatre and Dance productions, students, faculty, alumni and friends named as top picks of 2011 in The Austin Chronicle’s annual list of standout performances.

Selections from “Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011”

“You make the stories. You make the play.”

Starring UT MFA in Acting candidates Geoffrey Barnes, Jason Ko and Alexis Scott and featuring the lighting design work of associate professor Michelle Habeck with assistance from MFA in Design candidate Cheng-Wei Teng.

With an exciting weekend of dance behind us, here’s another look at what folks are saying about Catalyst.

This award marks yet another recognition of the extraordinary artistic achievement and national reputation of Susan Mickey.

The Children's Theatre Foundation of America is recognizing Jennings' work by awarding him the Orlin Corey Medallion, a prestigious award that honors individuals and institutions for their significant achievements in theatre that have contributed to the cultural enrichment of children and youth.

Professor Charlotte Canning receives Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award Recipient

Two Austin friends are celebrating their brand new positions as the respective Education Directors at The Paramount Theatre and ZACH Theatre, two of the city’s most influential cultural arts institutions.

She is drawing from a number of disciplines and scholarship in her work and that “provide other angles to those larger debates about the peace process in Northern Ireland and what’s at stake." Read more about Eleanor and her dissertation here.