Playwriting instructor Kirk Lynn's Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra to receive a world premiere as part of the popular Off Broadway company Playwrights Horizons.
UTNT brings to stage dynamic works by Andrew Hinderaker, Kevin Kautzman, Gabrielle Reisman, and Sarah Saltwick. Curated by Steven Dietz and Brian Kettler, the four stories delve into family, desires, hauntings, faith, and miracles.
The prestigious journal Theatre Research International offers articles on theatre practices in their social, cultural, and historical contexts, their relationship to other media of representation, and to other fields of inquiry.
Alum Travels from England to Perform in Cohen New Works Festival
March 28, 2013
The University of Exeter's Drama Department is performing their original show, More than the Sum, as part of the Cohen New Works Festival. UT alum, Avital Stolar (B.A.T.D. 2011), is now working on her Masters in Theater at Exeter and traveled from England to her alma mater to perform. Stolar explained, “Through connecting the two universities, we have engaged in a cultural exchange in which masters theater students from UT and Exeter share ideas from across the world and explore them in rehearsals. Meeting together in Austin will enable our collaborators from UT to see the final product they helped to create. As applied theater students, we all have an interest in developing artwork with the community and are excited to learn from each other about different ways of working with young people."
If baseball is America’s pastime, then football is her guilty pleasure. Sure, it’s thrilling. But it’s also really violent. It encourages players to muscle through concussions, and it encourages them to hate. Colossal, the spectacular play premiering at the Cohen New Works Festival, tackles these skeletons head-on. - Review by The Austin Chronicle's Jillian Owens
The Chronicle's Jillian Owens describes the production as "devastating and beautiful." The Women of Juarez, part of The Cohen New Works Festival, honors the stories of the women who live with fear and loss in the corrupt border town of Juarez, Mexico.
Steven Dietz’s Rancho Mirage will receive four productions through the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2013/14 season.
Every two years, the UT Cohen New Works Festival presented by the University Co-op excites and surprises Austin audiences with innovative art and performance work by University of Texas students. This year, UT has gone far beyond the campus borders to pull together talent from across the world. The 2013 festival schedule includes the affiliate production More Than The Sum, featuring theatre artists from southern England in the historic city of Exeter.
Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life. The Austin Chronicle's Jillian Owen's visits with the playwright behind The Cohen New Works Festival's The Priceless Slave.
