Recent News

During the world premiere run of her play John Proctor is the Villain at Studio Theatre, alumna Kimberly Belflower (M.F.A. 2017) spoke with Washingtonian about the themes that course through her work, re-examining the American classic The Crucible through the lens of high school students in the post-#MeToo era.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.