Recent News

The inaugural Texas Performing Arts/Fusebox Festival residency program provides invaluable artistic resources to four local performance groups, all of which have ties to UT Theatre and Dance, including Charles O. Anderson's (Re)current Unrest and Gesel Mason's burst!.

A group of dance students created movement-based responses to Score for 7 Solos, an exhibition created by visual artist Madeline Hollander. Their responses to Hollander's unique artwork can be seen projected in the window overlooking the Visual Arts Center's south lawn every evening Wednesday through Saturday until March 27, 2021.

Alumnus Michael J. Love (M.F.A. 2020) was recently named on of three Princeton University Arts Fellows for 2021-2023. Selected from a pool of over 700 applicants, this prestigious honor gives Love the chance to become an active member of Princeton University's intellectual community by leading classes and choreographing work for undergraduate students. 

Faculty member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will write co-executive produce and write the pilot for an upcoming adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's influential novel Kindred for FX. 

Faculty member Roxanne Schroeder-Arce is hosting LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections' 19th annual ¡A Viva Voz! Celebration of Latina/o Arts and Culture, featuring JoAnn and Rupert Reyes, founders of Teatro Vivo. This free, virtual event will take place on April 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

In a recent article by The Austin Chronicle, choreographer and faculty member Gesel Mason shared more about the process of creating burst! with the goal of giving her students an outlet to wrestle with their current world and past experiences.

Gesel Mason discusses the process of transferring what she calls a “methodology of undoing” to a group of UT students for burst!, a piece that has grown into a process of discovery and observation; of holding space and acknowledging the messiness of our current moment.

Faculty member James Glavan and co-author Beverly Gore Norcross were selected as winners of the 2021 Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award for their book Stage Makeup 11th Edition. This award, sponsored by USITT and our very own Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism, honors an outstanding publication surrounding the topics of theatrical design or production.