Past Events

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 16th season, this showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country.

Marfa, TX, 2022--Magna was likely abducted by aliens, but her friends don't believe her. She seeks out the fabled Marfa Lights hoping for answers, and discovers that the secrets of the cosmos are both monumentally far-reaching and disarmingly mundane. Very Blue Light is a play about isolation and doubt, revising relationships, and the implications of the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, some of which will be presented at OUTsider Fest, funding by the Andrea W. Mellon Foundation. The University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University. 

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Virginia Johnson, a founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem, right before the dance company's Austin debut at Texas Performing Arts on the evening of February 10.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Propelled Animals - a group of artists, dancers, scholars, musicians and designers, including faculty member and Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs Raquel Monroe.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next we feature jk jk, married couple khattieQ, a punk rocker and experimental theatre artist Jenny Larson-Quiñones.

A Director's Studio Presentation.
Eitan is 17. Avi is 35. Eitan loves Arsenal. Avi loves his wife. Eitan goes to school. Avi is trying for a child. Every Friday they immerse in the holy water of the Mikvah, participating in a traditional Jewish ritual. They talk about football. They talk about their synagogue. They talk about women. And as their bond deepens, a transformation begins that threatens to disrupt life outside the Mikvah. A play about joy, the courage it takes to confront our desires and how easily a heart can break.

Students from multiple disciplines have been working together during the fall semester to devise new museum theatre pieces that explore themes of belonging, memory and community. As a culmination of this collaboration, their work will be presented in a series of free performances at the Blanton Museum of Art and Art Galleries at Black Studies.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next, Ph.D. candidates Khristián Méndez Aguirre and siri gurudev will share their current doctoral research.

Award-winning student dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre, returns to the stage this fall with new works by professional and student choreographers. Featuring a range of interdisciplinary new and revised works, Fall For Dance showcases cross-disciplinary dialogue that invites the audience to consider what Pan-African, street, contemporary and technology-based movement forms have to say to one another and what we can learn by listening. Performances will include work by faculty members Erica "EG" Gionfriddo, Leah Cox and Joel Valentín-Martínez as well as Teena Marie Custer, Kevin Ormsby and work by emerging undergraduate choreographers.