Past Events

Students from multiple disciplines have been working together during the fall semester to devise new museum theatre pieces that explore themes of belonging, memory and community. As a culmination of this collaboration, their work will be presented in a series of free performances at the Blanton Museum of Art and Art Galleries at Black Studies.

Contributing to the fields of theatre, dance, performance, performance studies and arts leadership, "PPP" continues to support the next generation of leaders in arts, academia and beyond.

The American Girl Dolls are all grown up and gathered together for a televised Bachelor-style reunion to decide the fate of the company. But suddenly, the girls start disappearing; something glitches and we’re thrown into a glossy feminist co-working space on the brink of expansion. The progressive women at the helm are still perpetuating age-old oppressive practices, now just in a shade of millennial pink. In Sisters We Trust, or My F*cked Up American Girl Doll Play investigates how corporate feminism is repeating and rebranding mistakes of the past instead of finding new pathways to empowerment.

Come bear witness as the townspeople of Grover’s Corners move through their lives. In this actor centered production, a classic American play vibrates with love, tenderness, loss and lots of funny. Come and join us in Our Town.

Four ten-year-olds meet at a wedding. Little do they know, they will become the center of each other’s lives for decades to come. Jumping through time, we see these people only during important life moments such as prom, funerals, weddings, anniversaries and even divorces. …but you could’ve held my hand uses dance, music and poetry to explore sexuality, gender, race, love and blackness in a beautiful meditation on how love manifests in our lives as we experience life’s ups and downs.

UTeach Fine Arts presents a symposium celebrating Mexican American youth and fine arts education, with events taking place at the College of Fine Arts and various locations around Austin. Young artists from across Texas will be represented, including performers and visual artists from Austin ISD and Dell Valle ISD. Additionally, workshops and performances will be presented by UT Austin faculty, staff and students, as well as partner community organizations.

This is a free, ticketed event.

Showcase 2022 features works by UT Live Design and Production candidates (M.F.A. in Theatre) of the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. Student designers and makers display their work from the past two years of study, showcasing talents from across disciplines, including: lighting design, integrated media for live performance, scenic design, production design and costume design and technology. 

In celebration of their 20th anniversary in the year 2022, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area within the Department of Theatre and Dance is hosting a year-long celebration, starting with a speaker series in Spring 2022 and culminating in an in-person event in Fall 2022 featuring faculty, alumni and current students. Closing out their Fridays@2 Spring 2022 series is a talk with alumna Dr. Abimbola Adelakun (Ph.D. 2017), current Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

In celebration of their 20th anniversary in the year 2022, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area within the Department of Theatre and Dance is hosting a year-long celebration, starting with a speaker series in Spring 2022 and culminating in an in-person event in Fall 2022 featuring faculty, alumni and current students. Next in their Fri@2 Spring 2022 series is a talk with alumna Dr. Christin Essin (Ph.D. 2006), current Associate Professor of Theatre History at Vanderbilt University. 

Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.

In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than 100 characters try to make sense of what they know.