Recent News

Dr. Paul Reinhardt passed away on April 29, 2011, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Alumna Jolynn Hoffman Free’s career has led her from the university’s drama department, to a job as supervisor of cultural arts at the City of Austin, to director of development at Laguna Gloria Art Museum and finally into financial services. Find out how here. 

Innovative designs and projects reveal the secrets and talents behind theater productions and even beyond.

The exhibit celebrates the work of 38 emerging artists. In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a public lecture by alumnus and Tony award-winning designer Kevin Adams.

Premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater in September 2010, Detroit is described by the Pulitzer jury as “a contemporary tragicomic play that depicts a slice of desperate life in a declining inner-ring suburb where hope is in foreclosure.”

Not many people have the pleasure of going to work each day and making imagined contraptions functional, creating life-sized toys and trick furniture or perfecting optical illusions unless you're Sonja Rainey. Read a wonderful story about Sonja and the university prop shop.

The talents of The University of Texas at Austin M.F.A. Acting class of 2013 take stage in The Pain and the Itch and Clybourne Park at the Department of Theatre and Dance's Lab Theatre starting April 27.

Read the blog that documents the development of the new musical "Rosie."

Using the arts to engage students around issues of human rights, The Living Newspaper Project seeks to bridge the gap between the university and the greater Austin community.

The Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to participate in The University of Texas at Austin's annual open house extravaganza, Explore UT, on March 5.