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.
The B.F.A. in Acting degree program provides an opportunity for senior acting students to spend their final semester in residence at our Los Angeles campus, otherwise known as The University of Texas Semester in Los Angeles Program (UTLA).
Dance Repertory Theatre returns in the spring with a series of new choreographic works that speak to our collective resilience, adaptability and lived experience. PIVOT features work by renowned faculty and student choreographers.
The Performance as Public Practice graduate area of the Department of Theatre and Dance celebrates its 20th anniversary with a year-long celebration of engaging the arts. Beginning this spring, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. The second in this series of virtual discussions will feature alum Dr. Jac I. Pryor (Ph.D. 2011), current Assistant Professor of Theater and Head of Theater and Performance Studies at Penn State Abington.
Ten years ago, following a botched case, the members of our favorite Saturday-morning-cartoon teenage-mystery-solving team went their separate ways. Now as crisis descends on Coolsville and one of their own is swept into the spotlight, accused of a heinous crime, the gang must reunite to solve one last mystery - But the question remains; Where is The Dog?
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. Kicking off their Fri@2 Spring 2022 series is a talk with alumnus Dotun Ayobade (Ph.D. 2016), who currently serves on faculty in Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Murky as Hell is based on the stories of women who aided Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and Terry Richardson, among others. What began as an exercise in imagining fitting punishment for these women turned into a meditation on the violence we inflict on each other and the systems that teach us how to do it. Darkly comic and brutally over-the-top, Murky as Hell examines notions of guilt and complicity in the biggest flesh-eating, spine tingling, scale-balancing match of the century. Buckle up.
UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 15th season, this showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the country.
Set at San Antonio's famous haunted train tracks, Tiny Fingerprints explores grief, the nature and power of belief and the lies we all tell ourselves to make life worth living. In this play, Bobby believes that the spirit of his dead child lives with the "ghost children" at the haunted train tracks. As Bobby falls deeper into grief and delusion, his ex-wife urges him to seek help, a famous psychic medium encourages his fantasies and a science YouTuber attempts to destroy his world with reason. As mischievous ghost children and a troubled playwright meddle in the action, Bobby's fantasies become the foundation of his life, and the destructive potential of the truth grows.