Recent News

The UTLA Program in Los Angeles offers senior B.F.A. in Acting majors a unique opportunity to complete their final semester in Los Angeles, learning among entertainment professionals and getting an inside look at what it takes to make it in the industry. 

Declared by Broadway World as a "near perfect musical treat," The Drowsy Chaperone is a "heart warming delight that...will make you forget the world outside and entertain you in high style."

Sanchez, associate professor and head of the M.F.A. in Directing program, will partner with the Intiman Theatre to bring inclusive and diverse stories to the stage in the upcoming season.

We sat down with Nick Mayo, a Central Texas native and the director of The Drowsy Chaperone, to discuss his life, career and the process of bringing this five-time Tony Award-winning musical to life on the stage.

Throughout the fall semester, Texas Performing Arts scenic studio supervisor, J.E. Johnson and scenic artist, Karen Maness, along with a team of students, have been developing the raptors of Lucy Prebble's ENRON, coming to the stage this spring.  

Franchelle Stewart Dorn stars alongside Beth Dixon (The Good Wife), Polly Draper (thirtysomething), Kathryn Grody (Top Girls), Ellen Parker (The Heidi Chronicles) and Charles Socarides (Sons of the Prophet) in Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner and two-time Obie Award-winning playwright, Susan Miller's 20th Century Blues, which opened Off-Broadway November 26. 

Dubbed the "high priest of hip hop," Rennie Harris is being recognized for his contributions to the field with a 2017 Dance Magazine Award. Harris begins his faculty appointment at the Department of Theatre and Dance in January 2018.

The Austin Chronicle celebrates Dance Repertory Theatre's Fall For Dance, which was on stage November 8-12, 2017, as a concert in which "work after work...emphatically spoke to current events, to the here and now" and one that "reflect[s] who we are in this time of social disruption."