Recent News

The world premiere of A Million Alien Gospels, co-choreographed by faculty member Dorothy O'Shea Overbey, will be featured as part of Ventana Ballet and Austin Camerata's upcoming event Beautiful World. A segment of A Million Alien Gospels was previously performed as part of Dance Repertory Theatre's PIVOT.

UTeach Fine Arts, under associate dean and Theatre and Dance faculty member Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, to host Representation Matters Symposium, a celebration of Mexican American youth and fine arts education. Events and workshops will taking place at the College of Fine Arts and other locations across Austin on May 14-16, 2022.

Faculty member and co-curator Karen Maness and her colleagues discuss the importance of celebrating some of Hollywood's hidden treasures - hand-painted film backdrops. These backdrops are on display as part of the Art of the Hollywood Backdrop: Cinema’s Creative Legacy exhibit at Boca Raton Museum of Art until January 2023.

Graduate students Michael DeWhatley, Khristián Méndez Aguirre and Yunina Barbour Payne will be collaborating on Trinity Street Players' site-specific production of The Christians, on stage beginning May 1, 2022.

The Daily Texan caught up with undergraduate students Andrea Nuñez (ensemble), Alyssa Hernandez (ensemble) and Alex Titsworth (sound designer) about their roles and experiences while working on Caryl Churchill's Love and Information, presented as part of the Texas Theatre and Dance 2021/2022 Season. 

Fusebox Festival 2022's lineup includes Gesel Mason's Yes, And, which features multiple UT Theatre and Dance artists, as well as the installation Living Modernity, created by integrated media students under the guidance of faculty member Sven Ortel. Their work will be on display April 14-16, 2022. 

Love and Information director Mike Steele and dramaturg/movement director Molly Roy discuss the team’s interpretation of Caryl Churchill’s work and the movement, design and theatrical elements that bring lift to the technological underpinnings of the play.

The B.F.A. in Acting degree program provides an opportunity for senior acting students to spend their final semester in residence at our Los Angeles campus, otherwise known as The University of Texas Semester in Los Angeles Program (UTLA). The semester concludes with a digital showcase released through Breakdown Services/Actors Access. 

PIVOT, Dance Repertory Theatre’s spring 2022 performance, combines choreographic works by both faculty and graduate students, meditating on the many interpretations of the word “pivot.” To get a better idea of what audiences can expect, we spoke with each choreographer about the unique themes and dance styles that are incorporated into their work.