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The world premiere of The Scarlet Letter opens November 16 at the B. Iden Payne Theatre.

Yacov Sharir talks about his work with interactive systems, virtual realities, wearable computers and computer animation.

Playwright Lisa D'Amour muses on the distance between Austin and 'Detroit'

The regional premiere of The Cataract by Pulitzer Prize acclaimed playwright Lisa D'Amour opens October 19 at the B. Iden Payne Theatre.

The nationally acclaimed, ensemble-based theater collective Rude Mechs has been appointed as the resident theater company of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance.

With her Pulitzer nominated play Detroit garnering rave reviews in New York, alumna Lisa D'Amour returns to Austin on the eve of the regional premiere of her play The Cataract.

"Perhaps more than any playwright now at work, Chicago’s Andrew Hinderaker (M.F.A. candidate, The University of Texas at Austin) has his finger on the pulse of our time in terms of our bedeviled (and bedeviling) relationship to capitalism and, by extension, the American dream."

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming production of The Scarlet Letter was named by the Austin Chronicle's arts critics as one of their top fall season picks.