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A black and white graphic for the PPP Fridays@2 graduate colloquium, a speaker series addressing the creation and study of live performance
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F. Loren Winship Drama Bulding, room 2.180 (map)
Free

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 an artist talk with Eiko Otake about her current project, I Invited Myself

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WIN 1.134
Performances are free and open the public. Reservations are encouraged as seating is limited.

A theatre-making workshop with Kirk Lynn. Harness inspiration, direction, community and chaos through a deep engagement with the play spirit. We'll write and play games in the hope that we might lose ourselves and find some meaning. 

Graphic for the UTNT (UT New Theatre) reading of SPAYCE BOYS
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Scheduled
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
$5-10

IGGY and OÑIO are two middle school boys who have a hard time fitting in with nearly anyone around them – peers at school, family at home and even each other. But, one night OÑIO decides to take IGGY on an intergalactic adventure into outer-spayce to figure out if they can actually become friends after constantly ignoring each other at school. Traversing through planets with friendly aliens, stardust meteor showers and even a lunar encounter, the boys start to see each other for who they really are and, in the process, see themselves too.

Graphic for the UTNT (UT New Theatre) reading of TASTE BUDS: THE ADVENTURES OF CAKE AND BROCCOLI
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Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
$5-10

When Cake and Broccoli are unexpectedly rejected, they must learn to be good so the humans will eat them. But will these unlikely buds find the answer before they face the unmentionable fate of being thrown in the trash? Or is the meaning of “good” more elusive than it first appears? By complicating harmful narratives classifying food as “good” or “bad,” this play for ages 6 and up prompts us to reflect on the meaning of worthiness and the value of food in our lives.

Graphic for the UTNT (UT New Theatre) production of PRETEND IT'S PRETEND
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Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
$10 - $26

Playgrounds are designed to be dangerous enough for experimentation, yet safe enough to allow experiments to fail without serious injury. This play is a playground. When Arthur is asked to design a bulletproof playscape for his daughter’s old school, he confronts an unsettling reality: that the world does not operate by the same rules as playgrounds. At a time when dangers beyond the playground are overwhelmingly present, this is a story about the endurance of care. It is a play about learning, growing up, and grown-ups learning to play.

Graphic for the UTNT (UT New Theatre) production of CHOREOMANIAC 1518
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Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
$10 - $26

It's 16th century France and everything is horrible! There's bubonic plague, major agricultural collapse and the leadership is corrupt as all hell.  When a dancing plague breaks out, a group of potato farmers cue the strobe lights and reach towards hope. These are the choreomaniacs. This is their (mostly) true story.

Graphic for UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2024, featuring two fully produced plays and two staged readings
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Oscar G. Brockett Theatre (map)
$10 - $26

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 17th season, this showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country.

Event Modern Movements Claudia Lavista Screening
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WIN 2.112
Performances are free and open the public. Reservations are encouraged as seating is limited.

Celebrate the works of Mexican choreographer and dancer Claudia Lavista (2024 Fulbright Scholar). "If we want to talk of the great figures of Latin American Contemporary Dance, the name of Claudia Lavista is unavoidable." (Valerio Cesio; Danza Magazine, Madrid)

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Lab Theatre
$5-10

An ensemble-driven drama based on the Jena Six (2006); six Black students who were originally charged with attempted murder for a school fight after being provoked with nooses hanging from a tree on campus. This play examines the miscarriage of justice, racial double standards and the crisis in relations between men and women of all classes and, as a result, the shattering state of the Black family. 

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WIN 2.180
Performances are free and open the public. Reservations are encouraged as seating is limited.

Egg Discourse is a movement meditation on the machinations of transness. The "egg," an internet-born term for trans people who do not yet realize they are trans, becomes a framework for investigating, questioning and disrupting the "born in the wrong body" narrative and other identity-based narratives of transition. Instead, the performance turns its gaze towards transition by choice, transition by contagion, transition as inescapable process and transition as life itself.