The Hero Twins: Blood Race tells the story of Moth and Cricket, twins in the Freed tribe. We follow the twins as they navigate a world where the Privileged tribe is given many advantages over them. We see them tackle the Blood Race, an ancient tradition that must be run by our heroes in order to change the world. The world of the play is inspired by the politics and culture of classic Mayan society and influenced by Mayan mythology recorded in the Popol Vuh.
Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning student dance company, presents new work from professional and student choreographers in Fall For Dance.
Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood as a group of young people struggle with questions of morality, sexuality and self-identity. Set to a punk rock score, this groundbreaking musical personifies the struggles of growing up and finding your own unique voice.
Returning to the Texas Theatre and Dance stage, The Method Gun explores the life and techniques of Stella Burden, actor-training guru of the 1960s and 70s, whose sudden emigration to South America still haunts her most fervent followers. Burden's training technique, The Approach (often referred to as "the most dangerous acting technique in the world"), fused Western acting methods with risk-based rituals in order to infuse even the smallest role with sex, death and violence.
Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water, dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
Evolution is a collaborative design laboratory facilitating cutting-edge interdisciplinary experimentation in live dance performance. Choreographers from the Department of Theatre and Dance join with concert and event lighting designers and visual programmers from the School of Design and Creative Technologies to push the physical and virtual boundaries of today's definition of contemporary performance. Collaborative teams have partnered with composers throughout the university to produce short dance works for the concert stage.
Live Design Showcase 2019 presents work created for theatre, dance and other performance mediums by the M.F.A. candidates in the UT Live Design program at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance. Areas of work include costume design and technology, lighting design, integrated media design and scenic design.
After three years of rigorous training in Austin, our actors have spent this past semester in Los Angeles studying with Howard Fine, Loren Chadima and Caroline Liem and engaging with a number of industry professionals. We are excited to present their work and hope you can join us.
The Cohen New Works Festival is a biennial, week-long showcase of new work created by students at The University of Texas at Austin held in various locations in and around UT campus. It is not just an event, but a celebration of a continuously ongoing process–the creation of new work.
Performed in collaboration with the audience, a place called the middle is a participatory journey to a mythical hometown called "the middle," a place where the earth moves so slowly that its inhabitants live for only half a day. The performance explores the idea of remembering, returning and reliving. Are we always traveling? How do we see and help each other in the middle of our own stories?