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Dance Professor Receives Fulbright Specialists Award

December 5, 2012

Lyn C. Wiltshire has been selected by prestigious program to work in Mexico.

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The 2013 Cohen New Works Festival Roster Announced

November 12, 2012 | The Cohen New Works Festival

Thirty-four projects. Six days. Free Admission.

Reviving "The Scarlet Letter"

November 12, 2012

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

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Dance Professor Yacov Sharir Profiled

November 6, 2012 | The Daily Texan

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

Play Writing Alum Debuts Production in LA

October 31, 2012 | Examiner.com

The Fierce Backbone theater company, co-founded by alum Stephen Blackburn (MFA, Play Writing, 1997), had the world premiere of their work The Rock of Abandon on October 20th. Directed by Tiger Reel and written by Stephen Blackburn, The Rock of Abandon will run through November 18th at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA.

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From Nothing to Bounty

October 19, 2012 | The Austin Chronicle

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

Desires Discovered: "The Cataract" comes to the stage

October 15, 2012

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

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Rude Mechs Selected as Resident Theater Company

October 9, 2012

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.

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Playwriting's Next Big Thing: Pulitzer Finalist Lisa D'Amour

October 2, 2012 | The Alcalde

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.

MFA Playwright Andrew Hinderaker Takes Chicago by Storm

September 25, 2012 | Chicago Sun-Times

"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."