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.
Better Mr. Burns presents The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainable and Equitable Theatre, a symposium event offering a selection of panels, workshops and roundtable discussions open to the UT and greater Austin community. Using the zero-waste production of Mr. Burns: A post-electric play as a launchpad, we invite you to join us for critical conversations around sustainable theatrical design and construction, ethical rehearsal room practices, environmental justice and the history of sustainability efforts on UT’s campus.
A thrilling combination of projection design, film editing, real-time graphics and music, this show is a seamless flow of sights and sounds generated by the College of Fine Arts student communities, including featured performances by José Martinez, Michael Bruner, Millie Heckler and Dance Action.
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.
Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning student dance company, presents new work from professional and student choreographers in Fall For Dance, including works by Gregory Dolbashian and Sidra Bell.
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.