Recent News

To celebrate the launch of their Winter 2020 issue, The Paris Review is hosting a virtual table reading of faculty member Kirk Lynn's play The First Line of Dante’s Inferno, an excerpt of which is featured in the issue, followed by a discussion with guest theatre editor and faculty member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Charles O. Anderson, faculty member and creator of (Re)current Unrest, recently spoke to Dance Magazine about the creation of a virtual piece of its magnitude, touching on the upcoming (Re)current Unrest film premiere at Dance Place on December 5, 2020.

Charles O. Anderson's (Re)current Unrest has been transformed into a fully realized film thanks to Director of Photography Maggie Bailey, utilizing footage from our recent production as well as a video component featuring D.C.-based artists. The film will premiere at Dance Place in Washington D.C. on Saturday, December 5, 2020.

The Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research is awarded each year to the most outstanding book in dance published within the last three years. This recognition comes with a $1000 prize awarded with funds from the Oscar G.  Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism. Among this year's winners is alum Clare Croft (Ph.D. 2010) for her book Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings.

Repertory Theatre St. Louis's new Love & Kindness in the Time of Quarantine series, streaming until December 31, 2020, features the work of Theatre and Dance alumni Karen Rodriguez (B.A. 2013) and Isaac Gómez (B.A. 2013). Rodriguez is performing a short piece written by Gómez entitled "They Even Closed The Walmart."

Faculty members Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins are premiering their final plays under their residencies with Signature Theatre for its 2021-2022 season. Baker and Jacobs-Jenkins are both set to direct their new plays, entitled On the Uses of Pain for Life and Grass, respectively, at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre.

Faculty member Sven Ortel and recent graduate Jesse Easdon collaborated with ARTECHOUSE, Epson and multiple UT Theatre and Dance alumni and current students to create NHKS4220 Bar Illusion, a work of immersive digital art that is currently being showcased at ARTECHOUSE NYC.

Faculty members Sven Ortel and J.E. Johnson are involved in two of the multiple panels currently being voted on for the opportunity to be featured in the 2021 SXSW conference. Voting starts on November 10 and runs through November 20, 2020.