Past Events

With powerful new choreography to align with the emergence of spring, Dance Repertory Theatre returns to the stage in EQUINOX. Showcasing dance performances that question our sense of self, identity and connection, EQUINOX presents a series of new works by artists from Austin, the United States and around the globe. 

A high school typing teacher, who prides himself on never failing a student, has a new student who threatens to end that streak. While trying to keep the new student from failing, the teacher learns to confront the past harm of focusing on this self-imposed competition and not on the students. On top of learning how to use proper typing techniques, the other students in class deal with all the end-of-year obligations as seniors: prom, graduation, and the inevitability of adulthood. It's a play about dealing with the past, and present, so a better future won't be out of reach.

A group of outcasts inside a medieval convent obsesses over a young girl famous for theatrical exorcisms. But as the exorcisms turn more and more violent, the obsessions become a new kind of devil, haunting them all. A play about envy, longing, loneliness and what being trapped does to the soul. 

The Equitable Arts Infrastructure Research Group and The University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts are hosting a national symposium focused on the enduring challenge of cultural, economic and racial equity in the nation’s performing arts sector. Over two days, through conversations with cultural professionals and humanities scholars, this convening will address gaps in understanding about how performing artists in the U.S. work and how their work is supported systemically. By defining, theorizing and historicizing new methods and approaches to an equitable arts infrastructure, this symposium will create a foundation for new understandings of how educational institutions and cultural professionals can support each other.

UTNT (UT New Theatre) presents newly developed works from playwrights of Texas Theatre and Dance and Michener Center for Writers. Now celebrating its 18th 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) 2025 will feature three fully produced plays by graduate playwrights, in addition to new play readings and workshops.

Hello! It’s 1895. A young writer on a Russian estate recruits his crush to perform his new play for his mother, her boyfriend and the estate workers. It goes badly, but he refuses to give up. It’s also 2025. A company of actors in Austin, Texas performs a new play for you. It’s a cacophony of animals living and dying before your very eyes. But can anything truly be “new”—art, our lives, our problems? If not, then what do we need to feel whole? Come spend a thousand years with us in just one night trying to find out.

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 a conversation with Henry Castillo, PhD, a Research Fellow in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

this all really happened (i made it all up) is a performance choreographed by M.F.A. candidate Leo Briggs, in collaboration with movement artists Clara Bolivar, Avry Carraway, Gillian Gordon, Riza Hernandez, Emma Safier, IvyCamille Sampson and Katherine Vaughn. The work uses the phenomenon of alien abduction as an entry point to explore embodiments of narrative, spectacle and transformation. Connecting the experience of abduction to Briggs's own experience of transition, this all really happened (i made it all up) hovers on the border between spectacular tall tale and mundane reality, asking how the stories we tell ourselves become truths. 

Award-winning student dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre, returns to the stage in a series of new works of choreography by students and guest artists. Centering around the spirit of the cypher, this unique dance performance (performed in the round) weaves through unique dance styles including ballet, modern, hip-hop, African and ballroom to create space for a sense of community and catharsis. Choreographers include Meredith Rainey, Le'Andre Douglas, Love Muwwakkil and Megan Davidson.