Past Events

Do you, or have you ever: Carried a carabiner? Worn flannel? Gifted or been given a bouquet of violets? Had an undercut? Driven a U-haul?

If you said yes to any of the above, meet us at 11:00 a.m. on March 8, 2026. Bring a "friend." Combat boots optional.

We’re on an island far from America, where complicated realities take root and uproot one another: An immortal rabbit speaks from the past. A girl digs beneath a mulberry tree. A returning American brings a gift that unsettles the ground. Through myth, memory and migration, the island remembers—and refuses to forget. We ask: What does it mean to call a place “home”? And when those who once lived here remember it differently—whose version becomes the story we carry forward?

Gentlemen. This Emergency Session of The United States Congress has begun. FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS: WE HAVE TO pass a budget for the next fiscal year by midnight tonight. We currently have a 487 quadrillion dollar deficit. Everyone in this room tonight needs to look inside their hearts and collectively find or raise 487 quadrillion dollars by midnight, which AGAIN is within the next… 82 minutes or we’ll all be executed gangland style in the back alley. Ok? (A play about why we’re the greatest country in the world.)

When a member of their community disappears, an order of Benedictine monks is forced to reckon with their conceptions of loyalty, identity, justice and Godliness. Ordinary Time is a durational, experiential performance that asks us to weigh the costs and benefits of silence.

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 19th season, this festival exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country. UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2026 will feature four new works by graduate playwrights.

When a prickly Old man demands a sky burial – an ancient ritual in which vultures consume the dead – his estranged son Small Fry accompanies him to a faraway land to see it through. But when they discover that only two vultures remain on Earth, the funeral arrangements spiral into a visceral, personal, diabolical reckoning with extinction. Vulturine is a father-son Home Depot trip from hell, dripping with entrails, climate guilt and dark comedy.

Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning student resident dance company at The University of Texas at Austin, returns in the fall with genre-bending choreography that pushes the boundaries of dance performance. An exploration of connection and community, this dance concert will showcase original works that pull from a variety of aesthetic influences and movement traditions, including West African, European folk dance and contemporary dance forms. 

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany descends into fascism. 

Three sisters are left in the forest by their woodcutter father. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made – one sister will walk one way, one sister will walk the other and the third will stay right where she is. Twenty years later, having circumnavigated the globe, and fought vikings and crossed oceans and tamed wilds and achieved greatness the three meet again, as women.

The Cohen New Works Festival is a biennial celebration of new, bold, risk-taking, future-thinking, cutting-edge, no-holds-barred, adjective-filled, original performance! The festival welcomes and encourages artists from any discipline to join us in a week-long celebration of student-led performance.