Past Events

The American Girl Dolls are all grown up and gathered together for a televised Bachelor-style reunion to decide the fate of the company. But suddenly, the girls start disappearing; something glitches and we’re thrown into a glossy feminist co-working space on the brink of expansion. The progressive women at the helm are still perpetuating age-old oppressive practices, now just in a shade of millennial pink. In Sisters We Trust, or My F*cked Up American Girl Doll Play investigates how corporate feminism is repeating and rebranding mistakes of the past instead of finding new pathways to empowerment.

Come bear witness as the townspeople of Grover’s Corners move through their lives. In this actor centered production, a classic American play vibrates with love, tenderness, loss and lots of funny. Come and join us in Our Town.

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series on October 14 for a discussion with UT Austin Provost's Early Career Fellow in Fine Arts, Dylan McLaughlin.

Four ten-year-olds meet at a wedding. Little do they know, they will become the center of each other’s lives for decades to come. Jumping through time, we see these people only during important life moments such as prom, funerals, weddings, anniversaries and even divorces. …but you could’ve held my hand uses dance, music and poetry to explore sexuality, gender, race, love and blackness in a beautiful meditation on how love manifests in our lives as we experience life’s ups and downs.

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series on September 30 for a presentation by Ph.D. candidate Jeffrey Gan on his ongoing research surrounding time, food and the performance of nostalgia in the Indonesian diaspora.

Dance and percussion workshops featuring the talents of Freila Merencia and Miguel Bernal. This event is free and open to the public. 

Curated by siri gurudev, Ph.D. candidate from the Performance as Public Practice area, Compartimos Open Salon features nine participants that have been invited to share something (a song, a movement, their own or someone else's poems, a story, a reflection, photos, images) for nine minutes or less. Performers include students from Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the Department of Mexican and Latina/o Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature, among others.

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. PPP welcomes Ken Cerniglia, veteran dramaturg, writer, scholar and creative executive, as a guest speaker for their second Fridays@2 event this fall. 

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. PPP will kick off its speaker series for the fall with a talk by Lisa Scheps, founder and co-artistic director of Ground Floor Theatre.

UTeach Fine Arts presents a symposium celebrating Mexican American youth and fine arts education, with events taking place at the College of Fine Arts and various locations around Austin. Young artists from across Texas will be represented, including performers and visual artists from Austin ISD and Dell Valle ISD. Additionally, workshops and performances will be presented by UT Austin faculty, staff and students, as well as partner community organizations.

This is a free, ticketed event.