Past Events

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Ph.D. candidates and performance scholars Yunina C. Barbour-Payne and Shannon Woods. 

Join us for the first public performance of Lightless, a new concert-style musical fairy tale written by multi-hyphenate artist Natalie Smith and directed by Ph.D. candidate Whitney Mosery. The performance will be followed by a quick feedback session at 4:00 p.m. 

Bellua, a young girl, wants to be a monster. She seeks out a cave teeming with foul and frightening monsters to ask them how she might go about becoming the monster she desires to be. What might the consequences of young Bellua’s monsterization be? What does it mean to be a monster? And is it so different from being human?

Dance Repertory Theatre returns in Fall For Dance, offering a celebration of movement and innovative choreography. Featuring works by faculty, guest artists and undergraduate choreographers, Fall For Dance presents a showcase of new and engaging work that speaks to our shared experience and illuminates the ways in which we connect with one another.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Dr. Minou Arjomand, PPP affiliate faculty and associate professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. 

One of William Shakespeare's most famous and cherished works, Hamlet tells the story of a young prince's pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Claudius, the new King of Denmark. After a visit from his father's ghost, Hamlet must avenge his father's death and confront the truth about what's "rotten in the state of Denmark." 

In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. A funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!

Through a multi-college collaboration, The University of Texas at Austin will host leaders from the Center for Theater of the Oppressed (CTO) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Join us at the Symposium where the artists, who also work with Black aesthetics, will facilitate workshops, perform original theater pieces and introduce the new methodology Teatre de las Oprimidas, systematized by Bárbara Santos. 

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. In this special Wednesday session, Dr. Shannon Steen will discuss her book The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Kiki Katese, founder of Rwanda's first-ever female drumming ensemble.