UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now in its twelfth season, this showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many continuing on to be professionally produced across the country.
When Flo has a psychotic break in her first year at college, her itinerant uncle Ira shows up believing he has the cure for her illness. Ten months later, Flo is hiding out in her mom’s shed while she rethinks life with a new diagnosis, her parents Harriet and Matthew are navigating their “unrequited” divorce and Ira is trying to help Flo recover with his own idea of treatment. Flora Circular is a darkly comic family drama that spans from Amherst to Istanbul and back in search of a cure for the past.
Inspired by Euripides' The Women of Troy, The Women of _______ (a song not song) invites the audience to join nameless ghosts on a multilingual journey through poems and tales. As a partially-devised work collecting voices of historically marginalized peoples, the play explores trauma and our political and personal battles against ourselves.
Teatro Vivo, the Latinx Theatre Commons and The University of Texas at Austin present the 2019 LTC Theatre for Young Audiences Sin Fronteras Festival, a three-day celebration of theatre for young people, featuring five plays from throughout the US and Latin America.
Presented in partnership with ZACH Theatre, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing is a modern-day fairy tale told through an imaginative blend of creative puppetry, live music and fantastical storytelling.
In the not-too-distant future, a group of survivors huddle around a campfire trying to retell an episode of The Simpsons from memory. As the years pass, this episode and other snippets of pop culture become the live entertainment of a post-apocalyptic society sincerely trying to hold onto its past.
In Venice, a Jewish businesswoman tries to join a clique of power-brokers, a wealthy merchant tries to buy a young man's love and an heiress attempts to escape her dead father's will. Combining elements of satire, comedy and thriller, The Merchant of Venice asks us how far we're willing to go to achieve happiness.
Amber and Tom are two freshmen at Princeton struggling to find their way. They spend a night together that alters the course of their lives. They agree on the drinking, they agree on the attraction, but consent is foggy, and if unspoken, can it be called consent? Actually investigates gender and race politics, our crippling desire to fit in, and the three sides to every story.
In 1916, a series of fatal shark attacks terrorized the New Jersey Shore. Further inland, a polio epidemic plagued Philadelphia, while the cloud of World War I loomed. Matawan follows the humans who struggle against these forces, as well as the story of the shark - a creature whose constant evolution has led to years of survival.
The Performance as Public Practice Graduate Student Association is proud to present a locally-inspired production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, drawing parallels between colonization and gentrification.