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Room DFA 3.200, University of TexasLyn Koenning, vocal coach & musical director in the Department of Theatre and Dance, discusses developing storytelling through song and dance, as in popular TV shows “Glee” and “Smash.” Her students demonstrate with a live performance of some their spring musical theatre revue Curtain Up! Hats Off to Broadway.
UT and Texas State Offer New Musical Theatre Workshop June 10 - 30
The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Texas State University-San Marcos, is offering the inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, a three-week, pre-professional summer intensive for high school students exploring a potential career in musical theatre. This unique program brings New York’s Broadway talent to Texas, providing students the very best in musical theatre training by industry professionals. Teaching artists include Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa, director Matt Lenz, Broadway performer Joyce Chittick and university faculty members.
Texas Musical Theatre Workshop (TMTW) was founded by university faculty members Lyn Koenning, Kaitlin Hopkins and Jim Price. As a collective, these artistic directors bring more than 75 years of industry experience to the workshop. Head of the Texas State University playwriting program, Price is a veteran Broadway performer (Les Miserables, The Civil War). Hopkins, a Broadway performer and director, heads the nationally renowned musical theatre program at Texas State University. University of Texas at Austin faculty member Lyn Koenning is an award-winning music director, vocal arranger and voice and acting coach whose students have appeared on Broadway, regional theatre, television and film.
“We have a huge network of performers, directors, composers and playwrights ready to share their experiences, skills and insights with the next generation of artists," Koenning says. "We’re delighted to bring Broadway’s best to Texas.”
TMTW’s roster of teaching artists includes Andrew Lippa, Tony Award nominee and composer of the Broadway musical The Addams Family. Lippa’s work on The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics) was recognized in 2000 with the Drama Desk Award for best music. Broadway director Matt Lenz served as the associate director for the original production of Hairspray on Broadway and was recently the associate director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway. And performer Joyce Chittick has starred in nine original Broadway casts, including Anything Goes, Jersey Boys and Cabaret.
At TMTW, students work side-by-side with these teaching artists and university faculty members. The program offers studio and master classes in acting, voice, dance, audition technique and performance.
“There is tremendous talent in Texas but few options for comprehensive training in all aspects of musical theatre by industry professionals,” Hopkins says. “At TMTW, we give them the added bonus of having our top faculty help prepare them for their colleges’ auditions as well as their careers."
Registration for the 2012 workshop is under way. For more information on Texas Musical Theatre Workshop, visit www.texasmusicaltheatreworkshop.com.
The Michener Center for Writers of the University of Texas
presents
Sherry Kramer
reading from a work in progress
7:30 pm • Thursday • March 22, 2012
Avaya Auditorium, ACE 2.302
southeast corner of 24th & Speedway on campus
MICHENER CENTER FOR WRITERS • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw • 512-471-1601
Sherry Kramer's readings are always wildly entertaining, like her work—a fearless melding of humor, pathos, and intellect. Kramer’s plays have been produced in theaters across the country and abroad. She is a recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the NY Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Foundation. Her other honors include the Weissberger Playwriting Award and a NY Drama League Award (WHAT A MAN WEIGHS), the LA Women in Theater New Play Award (THE WALL OF WATER), and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH). She was the first national member of New Dramatists, former head of the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, and is on the permanent faculty at Bennington College.
presents
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Preview Performance by the Shakespeare at Winedale Spring Class Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM, UT Student Activities Center
Winedale barn performances Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28 @ 7:00 PM, near Round Top, Texas
TICKETS: General Admission - $10; Students/UT ID Holders - $5
Available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, the Shakespeare at Winedale Spring Class will give two performances of Julius Caesar at the Winedale Theatre Barn on April 27 and 28 at 7:00 and one preview performance on the UT campus at the Student Activity Center on April 24. These performances will be the culmination of a semester of coursework focusing on ‘Shakespeare and Politics in Performance.’
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most political play, Julius Caesar tells the story of a great military leader who seems destined to rule Rome, but whose assassination by a republican faction led by Brutus plunges the nation into civil war. Shakespeare's focus is on the conspirators and their complex motives, and the way their highest ideals sometimes lead to disaster.
"It is a fascinating story that has lost none of its power in the 400 years since Shakespeare wrote it, or the 2000 since the events depicted actually took place," said Shakespeare at Winedale director James Loehlin. "This tragedy raises timeless questions about competing systems of government, about the ethics of different methods for effecting political change, and above all, about the way rhetoric is employed to get people to act against their own interests. These are all subjects that are sure to come up in the current election year, and it is exciting to explore Shakespeare's views of them."
Shakespeare at Winedale, part of the University of Texas English Department, invites students from all disciplines to learn about Shakespeare through the experience of performing his works. Since 1970, hundreds of students have taken the stage in the Winedale Theater Barn, using all their intelligence, creativity, and passion to bring these plays to life. The spring class is a course on the University campus, where students spend class periods studying plays, exploring their challenges, and working collaboratively to perform scenes. The course also includes three weekends at the Winedale Historic Center, where students immerse themselves in Shakespearean study surrounded by the beauty of the Texas countryside.
Presented by the University of Texas at Austin’s English Department, Shakespeare at Winedale, SHOUT, the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment in the Plan II Honors Program, the School of Undergraduate Studies, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the study of Core Texts and Ideas, the Center for European Studies, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
'Almost Blasphemy' tour performs
by John Ford
UT Student Activity Center Black Box Theater, Rm 2.304, 2001 Speedway (click for map)
Thursday, February 23, 7 p.m.
General Admission - $15 - tickets available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org or (512) 471-4726.
The theatre will open for seating at 7:00 pm. At this time, live pre-show music will also begin. The performance will begin at 7:30 pm. Seats for the performances are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so audience members are encouraged to arrive early, take their seats, and enjoy the music.
John Ford’s brilliant re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet leads audiences deep into a story of passion, lust, vengeance, greed, incest, and murder. After almost 400 years, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’s tale of forbidden love remains controversial, shocking, and theatrically spellbinding.
Click for an undated review by Adrian, "The Mid-Atlantic Traveler"
NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR : This Is Not a Dark Ride
(edited notes I sent the actors before we started rehearsals)
It ought to be easy, it ought to be simple enough:
Man meets woman and they fall in love.
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough
You’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above
If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love
Bruce Springsteen
— I believe that seeing humanity (warts and all) allows us tochoose paths toward being our best selves. The Sopranos, Oedipus Rex, Pulp Fiction, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Scarface, The Duchess of Malfi are (at least in part) twisted tales that reveal the nasty, ugly, darkness of the soul. With a few laughs along the way.
— We need art that explores the dark sides of humanity because that darkness is part of the human experience.
— We need to see the things we DON’T want to be to help us know what we DO want to be.
— ‘Tis Pity is worth doing because it is a shocking exploration of these darker parts of humanity, because these characters and their journeys are remarkably “modern,” because of the multiple hopeless love stories intertwined with bad luck, villainy, and a rotting society are too fascinating not to watch with an on-the-edge-of-your-seat horror and with the hope for redemption and that something will happen to “make everything turn out all right.”
— What is love?
— What is sin?
— What is marriage?
— What should marriage be?
— The incest at the center of the play is not glorified or glamorized, but it is explored and dissected and judged.
— Giovanni pursues Annabella like Romeo goes after Juliet; she later repents, but it’s a big hot mess from beginning to end.
— This play starts like it could be Romeo and Juliet; except for the fact that this star-crossed couple is a brother and his sister.
— The secret love/consummation of the Giovanni/Annabella relationship implodes and splatters body parts all over the place.
— Each of the stories within the story are framed by a society that blasphemes the sacred and feeds the profane in ways only hinted at by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.
— (spoiler alert for those who don’t want to know that “Rosebud” is the sled) The buddy relationship of Bergetto and Poggio combined with the love of Philotis and the death of Bergetto should be funny, beautiful, and heartbreaking.
— Hippolita’s attempted revenge, Soranzo’s outrage, Richardetto’s secret voyeurism, and Vasques as the in-the-shadows puppetmaster wannabe are all amazing pieces of this masterful play filled with complex characters, relationships, twists, and turns.
— AND, there’s some darn funny stuff in this play too. The tragedy is deepened by the lightness (one of Shakespeare’s favorite secret weapons). Bergetto’s death should matter more because the banter between Bergetto and Poggio makes us fall in love with them. That banter should make us fall in love with them because their appearances in the play often provide a great relief/release from the suffocating tragedies unfolding in front of us.
— But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough as we pray for love to save the day.
I’m here without a name
In the palace of my shame
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
U2
JIM WARREN
ASC Artistic Director and Co-Founder
STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN THE PLAY
Stuff that happens BEFORE the play
Giovanni and his tutor, Friar Bonaventura, return home to Parma after many years away at university.
Stuff that happens IN the play
Giovanni reveals his incestuous love for his sister, Annabella, to Friar Bonaventura. The Friar urges Giovanni to repent.
Annabella and her tutor, Putana, discuss the numerous suitors attempting to woo Annabella, including the foolish Bergetto, the Lord Soranzo, and a Roman soldier, Grimaldi.
Giovanni tells Annabella of his “hidden flames” for her; she reciprocates his passion by saying, “love me, or kill me, brother.” Giovanni replies, “let’s learn to court in smiles, to kiss, and sleep.”
Florio (Giovanni and Annabella’s father) encourages his friend Donado that Bergetto may still win Annabella, “if she like your nephew, let him have her.”
Annabella reveals her consummated incest to Putana, who calmly replies, “if a young wench feel the fit upon her, let her take anybody, father or brother, all is one.”
Soranzo’s mistress, Hippolita, refuses to accept his rejection and vows, “my vengeance shall give comfort to this woe.” Vasques, Soranzo’s servant, pretends to help Hippolita with her revenge.
Hippolita’s supposed-dead husband, Richardetto, returns to Parma disguised as a doctor while his niece, Philotis, meets Annabella and befriends Bergetto.
Annabella rejects Donado’s proposal that she marry Bergetto.
Soranzo comes to court Annabella and she falls ill. Putana realizes that Annabella is pregnant with her brother’s child. Giovanni confesses to the Friar, who advises Annabella to marry Soranzo. Annabella agrees.
Wedding plans, murderous plots, and broken hearts ensue.
SERIOUS SHOCK.
Cast
Florio, a citizen of Parma Daniel Abraham Stevens†
Giovanni, Florio's son Patrick Earl
Annabella, Florio's daughter Denice Mahler
Putana, Annabella's tutor Bridget Rue
Friar Bonaventura, Giovanni's tutor Kevin Hauver
Soranzo, a nobleman Jake Mahler
Vasques, his servant Eugene Douglas
Grimaldi, a Roman gentleman and soldier Michael Amendola
Donado, a citizen of Parma Kevin Hauver
Bergetto, his nephew Rick Blunt
Poggio, Bergetto's servant Stephanie Holladay Earl
Richardetto, a disguised nobleman Ronald Peet†
Hippolita, his wife Stephanie Holladay Earl
Philotis, his niece Bridget Rue
Cardinal, envoy to the Pope Rick Blunt
Banditti Michael Amendola, Stephanie Holladay Earl
DIRECTOR Jim Warren
Costume Designer Erin M. West
Assistant Director Glenn Schudel
Fight Director Colleen Kelly
Dramaturg Clara Giebel††
Production Interns Asae Dean††, Alicia Hynes, Mika Nesbit,
Grace Trapnell, Monica Tedder
†ASC professional acting-apprentice.
††Mary Baldwin College MLitt/MFA intern.
by Thaïs Hinton
Everyone knows how Dorothy Gale came to Oz and killed the Wicked Witch of the West. Judy Garland and pals in the 1939 film by MGM dwell deep in American cultural consciousness, none of them more than Margaret Hamilton as the vengeful Wicked Witch of the West.
In the Oz depictied by the touring company of Wicked currently at UT's Bass Concert Hall we get hear another side of the story, adapted from the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. The script, lyrics, and score by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzmanare clever. I have read the novel, and I liked the show. Their extreme care with their source material shows through.
Wicked runs through February 12 and was playing to well populated house on the first Thursday evening. A beautiful map of Oz covers the stage and the stage action begins as the Munchkins are celebrating the death of the Witch.
The show begins with Glinda entering via bubble, mechanically suspended from the flies. The bubble floats all the way down and Glinda steps off as she takes the audience back in time to earlier years.The Good Witch Glinda explains that she knew Elphaba, the bright green witch, from their college days.
I thought that actress Tiffany Haas was safely strapped in to that bubble, so I was shocked when she stepped off, apparently unsecured. Even though I was ardently suspending my disbelief, I was genuinely afraid for Haas, who of course made it look just like magic. The special effects were expertly done by Chic Silber.
Following a link provided by the Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas, an announcement from the
December 29, 2011
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig named 2011 Wasserstein Prize winner
December 29, 2011
Emerging playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig will receive the 2011 Wasserstein Prize in recognition of her work to date and her promise, as exemplified in part by her play 72 Transformations. 72 Transformations is about a woman's attempt, in modern China, to define herself in relationship to her family and to her changing country. The Wasserstein Prize is given by the Educational Foundation of America (EFA) to encourage the work of a young woman playwright in honor of the late Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright, Wendy Wasserstein, who died in 2006. The $25,000 prize is awarded to a young woman who has not yet received national attention. The Wasserstein Prize is funded by the Educational Foundation of America (EFA) and administered by Theatre Development Fund.
Established in 2006 by the Educational Foundation of America and the Dramatists Guild of America in memory of their friend and board member, Wendy Wasserstein, a strong advocate for emerging women writers, the Wasserstein Prize is intended for a writer for whom the prize will make a substantial difference in her professional life. It is hoped that the prize, which was first awarded in 2007, will provide her with encouragement and national exposure.
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s play Lidless received the Yale Drama Series Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Keene Prize for Literature, and the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize. She has been a finalist for the Blackburn Prize, received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, and the Santa Fe Art Institute, and is under commission from South Coast Rep and Seattle Rep. Her plays have been produced by Trafalagar Studios 2 on the West End, Page 73 Productions in New York, Interact Theatre in Philadelphia, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in West Virginia. They have been developed at the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Seattle Rep, PlayPenn, the Alley Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Playwright’s Foundation and Yale Rep. Frances received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, a BA in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble Created Physical Theatre from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Her work has been published by Glimmer Train, Methuen Drama, and Yale University Press. Frances was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei and Beijing.
The previous winners of The Wasserstein Prize were Linda Ramsey (2007), Laura Jacqmin (2008) and Marisa Wegrzyn (2009).
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (EFA) was founded in 1959 by Richard Prentice Ettinger and his wife, Elsie. The foundation's giving is currently focused on the following four areas: the arts, education, population control and reproductive freedom, and the environment. For more information, go to: www.efaw.org.
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presents
Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare
B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas
April 13 - 15, 18 - 22; Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Winship Drama Building (WIN), near 23rd and San Jacinto (click for map)
Tickets: $20 for adults, $17 for faculty/staff, $15 for students with ID
Contact: Theatre and Dance Info Line via inquiry@uts.cc.utexas.edu or telephone 512-471-5793
Four men swear an oath to scholarship, only to find that they are distracted by their affections for four ladies. Shakespeare's comedic gem related the trials and tribulations of young romance and the obstacles one encounters on the path to true love.
Love's Labour's Lost is part of the B. Iden Payne Season, which presents full-scale, dynamic productions by renowned artists and by Department of Theatre and Dance students.
Parking is available in the San Jacinto Garage on San Jacinto near Dean Keeton.
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presents
a new music theater piece about life during the Civil War
Rappahannock County
Ricky Ian Gordon, composer; Mark Campbell, lyrics and concept
Kevin Newbury, director; Rob Fisher, musical director
Wednesday, September 21 and Thursday, September 22, 8 p.m.
McCullough Theatre $10.00/23.00/28.00 Purchase tickets on-line
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This moving new music theater work was co-commissioned by Texas Performing Arts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. Renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon (creator of the Obie Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice and the acclaimed opera Grapes of Wrath) has composed music for 20 songs with stories and words created by celebrated librettist/lyricist Mark Stephen Campbell ( Volpone, Later Same Evening, and Songs from an Unmade Bed). Drawn from diaries, letters, and personal accounts, this fictional song cycle explores war’s impact, from secession to defeat, on a community of Virginians—black and white, rich and poor, soldiers, nurses, widows, and survivors.
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Male Actors Needed for Collaborative Production of STOP KISS at UT Lab Theatre Austin
Diana Son’s award-winning play Stop Kiss, co-produced by UT MFA actor, Mykal Monroe and recent UT graduate, Lily Wolff, is to be included in the UT Laboratory Theatre’s fall 2011 season. This production is looking to combine the talents of undergraduate and graduate students, theatre majors and non-theatre majors, students and professionals to create a bold and explorative piece of theatre.
Rehearsal dates are September 27th – November 3rd (6-10.30pm approx. not all actors will be called at all times – rehearsals can be flexible) Performance dates are November 4th, 6th, 9th – 12th
We are looking for 2 male actors to play the parts of:
Detective Cole: late 30’s – mid 40’s. He's a New York detective investigating the attack on the two main women. He's manipulative and insensitive in his methods. He has all the answers and he knows exactly what box this crime fits in.
George: late 20’s – early 30’s. The leading lady's friend and fuck buddy from college. Neither has ever really moved on from each other, but neither is committed. It's a friendship/relationship of convenience that they both enjoy in its own right. He's a handsome guy's guy and life comes easy to him until new people and events cause things change.
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Remembering Dr. Oscar G. Brockett
Public Memorial Celebration at the B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas
December 11 | 4:00 PM
A public memorial celebration for Dr. Oscar G. Brockett will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. in the B. Iden Payne Theatre in the Winship Drama Building. Immediately following the celebration, there will be a reception in the Brockett Theatre/Winship Atrium.
Please know that there will be an opportunity at the reception for friends to speak, if they wish to offer a tribute or share a story about Dr. Brockett.
For more information visit: http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/brocket_memorial.cfm
Theatre and Dance Info Line
inquiry@uts.cc.utexas.edu
512-471-5793
Free, open to the public
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Emergency Prom
World Premiere Theatrical Event
December 2, 3, & 4 at 8 p.m.
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre , University of Texas
Tickets $10, limited seating. Tickets available at the Winship Box Office 1.5 hours prior to each performance. Map of the area.
A few days after the biggest night of the year, the students of Glen Burnie High face the fact that prom was a huge disappointment — especially for Gus and Corey, the school's resident couple, who broke up in spectacular fashion. But Gus refuses to let Corey go, so he stages a do-over of Saturday's dance — an “emergency prom” — to not only win Corey back but give the entire school a chance to correct the mistakes of the first prom. Emergency Prom is a comedy about expectation, disappointment, and the precarious threshold between high school and the adult world.
Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
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The Paramount Theatre Presents
Junie B. Jones in
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Sunday, December 5
2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre, South Congress Avenue
Purchase tickets online at www.austintheatre.com
or call (512) 474-1221 to purchase tickets by phone. ($12)
Everybody’s favorite first grader, Junie B. Jones, takes center stage—and just in time for the holidays! Based on the wildly popular books by author Barbara Park and adapted for the stage by Austin playwright Allison Gregory, the story guarantees hijinks that are both hilarious and heartwarming. Produced by the Paramount Theatre and the UT Department of Theatre & Dance.
UPDATE: Feature by Christopher Nguyen about The Broccoli Project, Daily Texan, November 9
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The Broccoli Project Presents
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Nov 6 & 7; Performances w/ Professorial Panel: Nov 11, 12 & 13 7:30 pm Calhoun 100 $5.00 @ the door.
Directed by: Victoria Hopper
Assistant Directors: Helena Stark & Reagan Tankersley
Welcome to the bustling streets of 1930's Moscow.
Performance dates are:
Saturday 11/6, Sunday 11/7 7:30 p.m.
PERFORMANCES WITH PROFESSORIAL PANEL:
Thursday 11/11, Friday 11/12, Saturday 11/13 7:30 p.m.
Published by the Austin Statesman, November 8:
Oscar Brockett, the world’s foremost theater historian and a former University of Texas professor, died early Sunday morning after suffering a massive stroke late Saturday.
Brockett, 87, leaves behind hundreds of former students and colleagues around the world, as well as a daughter, Francesca Brockett, and her husband, Dr. James Pedicano of Austin.
“(He) was an absolute giant in the field of theater history,” said Doug Dempster, dean of the UT College of Fine Arts. “He defined it in many ways. His name is synonymous with the field across several continents. He was a prolific, meticulous scholar into the very last year of his long career. He leaves a legacy that will last as long again as his long life.”
In 1968, Brockett wrote “History of the Theatre.” It has since been translated into dozens of languages, including a suppressed version in Farsi. It is now in its 10th edition and has passed through the hands of almost every American theater student for four decades.
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Presented by UT at Austin - Department of Theatre and Dance at Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Theatre and Dance on Tour in Schools:
Br'er Wood
Conceived, Directed & Choreographed by David Justin
Book and Story by Gabriel Jason Dean and David Justin
November 19 at 7:00 & 9:00 PM
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Free. General Seating, first-come, first served.
Br'er Wood is a fantasy story, theatre, puppetry, dance and music that employs the characters from the “Uncle Remus” takes by Joel Chandler Harris. Threaded together with surrealism and metaphor, this comedy takes the shape of a child's imagination, playground rules, and the forces of good and evil. Set in and about the Br'er Wood, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, Miss Meadows, Sister Duck and all their friends come to life through the imagination of a young boy.
All in the Timing
by David Ives
presented by the Round About Players, University of TexasFriday, November 5 at 7 p.m.; Sunday, November 7 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Utopia Theatre, UT School of Social Work, 1925 San Jacinto Boulevard
Parking available at Trinity Parking Garage: 1815 Trinity St.
or Manor Parking Garage: 2017 Robert Dedman Dr.
Click for a parking map!
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Fight
Written by Kimber Lee
Directed by Charles Otte and Kimber Lee
November 12*, 14, 17, 18, 19 at 8:00 PM
November 14, 21 at 2:00 PM
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
*Join us November 12 for an Opening Night Reception immediately following the performance. Guests will be able to mingle with the cast, crew, and director of Fight while enjoying an assortment of light snacks and desserts.
Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students available online at www.texasperformingarts.org or by phone at 477-6060.
What does it take to be a fighter? Dani Perez is about to find out. On the run from the oppressive silence of her aunt's apartment, Dani starts training at the boxing gym where her estranged father once reigned supreme. Day after day she works to learn the sweet science of boxing, and finds that true victory in the ring comes not only through strength and speed, but also through persistence, hard work, and having the heart to stand, face your own worst fears and never give up.
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THE MICHENER CENTER FOR WRITERS
at the University of Texas at Austin
presents a reading of
The Happy Ones
by Julie Marie Myatt, Fall 2010 Michener Residency Author
Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m.
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302, southeast corner of 24th & Speedway on theUT Campus
Orange County, California, 1975. For appliance salesman Walter Wells, it’s the happiest place on earth. He has a beautiful wife. Two great kids. A house with a pool. Contentment. Until fate strikes a devastating blow, leaving Walter with no reason to put the pieces of his life back together. He resists attempts to help, especially the unexpected — and unwanted — o er from a Vietnamese refugee named Bao Ngo, who bears his own sorrows. Across a cultural divide, Walter and Bao each look to the other for a way back, if not to happiness, then at least to peace.
Julie Marie Myatt’s The Happy Ones is the winner of the Ted Schmitt Award from the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle honoring an outstanding new play . Her other recent work includes Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before being performed at the Kennedy Center in DC; My Wandering Boy; Sex Habits of American Women; and Boats on a River. Her plays The Joy of Having a Body, Zealot, and Mr. and Mrs. are all published by Playscripts,Inc.
A member of New Dramatists, Myatt lives in Los Angeles.
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The University Co-op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival is a celebration of new work created by UT students that culminates in a week-long showcase every other April held throughout campus. It is not just an event, but a celebration of a continuously ongoing process — the creation of new work.
The application for the 2011 University Co-Op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival is now available online at www.coopnwf.org. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday, October 20 at 12pm.
Also check out our Connect link on the website to find collaborators or a project. Be proactive, explore the possibilities and assemble your team!
