The talents of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance faculty and alumni are once again being showcased at Austin's ZACH Theatre.
Humorist, playwright and storyteller Kevin Kling, best known for his popular commentaries on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” visited campus recently to teach a graduate-level class and perform for a group of students and faculty.
Schmidt has been an administrator and faculty member at the university since 1982. Recently, he and his wife Penny created the Robert N. Schmidt Performance Design Endowment.
The Texas Medal of Arts Awards, the signature event of the Texas Cultural Trust Council, spotlights and celebrates the creative excellence, exemplary talents and outstanding contribution by Texans.
In the annual list of theatrical favorites named by The Austin Chronicle's Robert Faires, UT Theatre and Dance productions, students, faculty, alumni and friends are among the top picks of 2010.
Brooklyn-born and Method-trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Wallach left New York to attend the University of Texas at Austin. There he picked up a skill that would serve him well in the years to come – he learned to ride a horse.
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.
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.
