UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Building the Wall

UT Department of Theatre & Dance rushes to get Robert Schenkkan's timely political drama onstage

"...It's a brave playwright who writes about current events in 2017. The newsreel is running so..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Enron

This production of Lucy Prebbles' play smartly recounts and reframes the corporate beast's rise and fall

"...The rise and fall of Houston corporate monolith Enron was a stain on American..."

March 2, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

UT Department of Theatre & Dance's Spring Awakening

This staging of the hit musical blends the old and new, petticoats and punk, with a power and seductiveness that enraptures

"...In the opening moments of the UT Depart­ment of Theatre & Dance production of..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

UT Department of Theatre & Dance

The University of Illinois' Brant Pope is hired to lead UT's theatre/dance school

"...The University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance has a new..."

May 28, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Department of Theatre & Dance: Gotta sing! Gotta dance!

The new Musical Theatre Pilot Project aims to prepare UT undergrads for belting for Broadway

"...If you seek entertainment of the musical theatre variety in the Austin area, you..."

April 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Review: UT Department of Theatre & Dance's The Way of the World

Despite the script's dizzying mishmash of complications, student production transports you to another time and place

"...life are more complicated than love, and few styles of storytelling have made love more complicated than Restoration comedy...."

Dec. 1, 2006 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance’s The Crucible

The department manages to elicit tension from Arthur Miller’s familiar drama, but not without a few flaws

"...insert is tucked into the program for the University of Texas Department of Theatre & Dance's production of The..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance's In the Red and Brown Water

Multiple storytelling modes make Tarell Alvin McCraney's complex play operate as both theatre and ritual

"...In the Red and Brown Water delivers. The style of the play is so different from conventional Western storytelling..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

UT Dance Repertory Theatre’s Fall for Dance

Work after work in this program emphatically spoke to current events, to the here and now

"...The word was spoken by one of the dancers in a cluster of about a dozen..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

UT School of Music

Ernest and Sarah Butler make the largest-ever donation to a music school at a public university

"...Of the many beautiful sounds heard around the University of..."

March 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's 2019 Fall for Dance

In works ranging from tender to tense, the student dancers in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance embodied the spirit of "I can do anything"

"...The line was sung as a dozen women, all of them students in the University of Texas Department of..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

UT Hires Playwrights Annie Baker and Branden Jacob-Jenkins

MacArthur Fellows will teach in theatre department, Michener Center

"...Aspiring playwrights are about to have two new reasons to want to come..."

Jan. 30, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Diary of Anne Frank

Every element of this UT Department of Theatre & Dance production demands attention and respect

"...to focus on how Anne and her companions died, but rather (pardon the cliche) how they lived. The UT..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...The Austin Critics Table has named the fifth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Laboratory of Playmaking

Artists from different realms join forces to concoct new strains of performance in UT's New Works Festival

"...New Works Festival. This biennial event, organized by the UT Department of Theatre & Dance and named for the..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent

"...Sometimes universities feel like the most insular of places, ivory towers where eccentricities and pontifical discourse are..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Dance Repertory Theatre's Fortitude

In this spring concert, a profound and moving tribute to a missing member of the Theatre & Dance Department community

"...A hand fluttering over a chest. Such a simple gesture, and yet..."

March 22, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Treasures in Theatre of 2018

It was a year in which theatre making the political personal left the deepest impressions

"...Cullum marked her company's 30th anniversary with a celebration of everything Vortexian – its space, its artistic family, its..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires’ Top 10 Dance and Classical Joys of 2018

In this year’s dance and classical offerings, extraordinary depictions of loss and suffering continue to haunt

"...that whenever one left the group, we felt the profound loss he had...."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2011

Remembering a theatrical year with superheroes, The Tempest, and a mash-up of the two

"...1) 'BLACK WATCH' (Texas Performing Arts) The National Theatre of Scotland used every weapon in theatre's arsenal –..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Church of the Passionate Cat'

Underbelly Theatre takes you down some delightfully mean streets in its immersive noir adventure

"...In March of 2013, a room that I was sitting in suddenly..."

May 9, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...as they paced and pivoted, evoking the human machine of mass transit in Ellen Bartel's MFA thesis dance, "Watch..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Top 10 (plus one) Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2007

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2007, in the theatre

"...1) Present Laughter (Zachary Scott Theatre Center) "I've been to a marvelous party," sang Noël..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

As Theatre for Children Matures

In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too

"...Jennings hasn't been a child for many, many years, but he has devoted his life to the child in..."

April 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...Planet Theatre: Tomorrowland..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

TOP 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2010

A theatre year with a tipsy crew, a zoo, a shrew, and lots of cross-dressing

"...1) 'THE DROWSY CHAPERONE' (ZACH THEATRE) A speakeasy's worth of cocktails couldn't match the intoxicating..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT Joins Pioneering New Plays Initiative

The UT Department of Theatre & Dance will gain even more access to new drama through a new program from the Playwrights' Center

"...When it comes to new plays, the UT Department of Theatre & Dance means business. Not only..."

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin's Musical Theatre Scene

"...Braun ig and shiny and fun. Want the essence of stage musicals? That's it. Just ask a kid. When..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Reasons I Stayed in Love With Theatre in 2013

Austin thespians played for keeps, with boundless commitment and imagination, in the year's most memorable theatre

"...1) 'SLIP RIVER' (UT Dept. of Theatre & Dance/Cohen New Works Festival) Spiriting..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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