Displaying items by tag: department of theatre student news
April 29, 2021
Musical Theatre grads look to the future
This academic year has been unlike any other. Students and faculty have navigated unprecedented complexity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, over the course of the past 14 months, they have exemplified resiliency and creativity.
April 19, 2017
Graduating Theatre UAB senior Russell Alexander II of Selma selected to Atlanta’s Aurora Theatre Company
Russell Alexander II will graduate April 29 and begin work with a professional acting company, after performing with Theatre UAB and garnering a national award from the Kennedy Center.
April 25, 2016
Showcase
The UAB Departments of Theatre, Art and Art History and Music are just a few areas creating learning experiences for students that go far beyond the classroom. And the community is benefiting as well.
April 19, 2016
UAB’s Nole Jones Wins Fellowship to One of the Best Graduate Music Programs in the Nation
Jones, of Prattville, graduates April 30 with a dual degree in music and theater with honors and heads to the University of Illinois for a Master of Music degree this fall.
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival awarded UAB student Russell Alexander II a national winner in Outstanding Performance by an Actor category, and nominated “SFB” for a host of awards.
November 18, 2015
Students Contribute to Creation of Musical at Hip Hop Writing Workshop
UAB students gathered for the "Exploring Racism through Hip Hop" writing workshop at the Department of Theatre's acting studio on Nov. 13 to add their voices to a musical in the works.
October 05, 2015
Senior Nole Jones Reaches National Semi-Finals
Nole Jones has sung his way to the top. The baritone, one of only 14 men in the country to make the semi-final round, competed at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) National Student Auditions.
Rising UAB senior and music and theatre major Nole Jones will compete at the National Association of Teachers of Singing National Student Auditions in Greensboro, North Carolina, on July 7.
Winner of the Tony Awards’ “Triple Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, “Avenue Q” is a hilarious, irreverent, sweetly satiric coming-of-age parable performed by “Muppet”-style puppets alongside human actors.
“Avenue Q” is a hilarious, irreverent, sweetly satiric coming-of-age parable performed by “Muppet”-style puppets alongside human actors.
February 19, 2015
March 9-14, Theatre UAB Presents 12th Annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays
The University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre will present its 12th annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays from March 9-14.
Explore female hysteria and the dawn of modern women’s sexual liberation through the eyes of playwright Sarah Ruhl as the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre presents “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play).”
Alumna Rebecca Harper will direct a new play, “Women of War,” to be presented Nov. 12-15 and Nov. 19-22 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre.
September 30, 2014
Theatre UAB Presents “Clybourne Park” Oct. 15-19
Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play “Clybourne Park” will open the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre’s 2014-2015 season, with performances Oct. 15-19.
September 12, 2014
Theatre UAB Presents Annual Freshman Showcase on Oct. 4
Students and the community are invited to cheer on new theater students at the fifth annual Freshman Showcase, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre.
August 19, 2014
Theatre UAB Announces Bold New Season for 2014-2015
This season the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre will tackle weighty and witty plays on race relations, warfare and sexual liberation, along with a coming-of-age musical puppet parable and the annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays.
April 30, 2014
Theatre UAB Awarded National Honors at KCACTF
Students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre and the company’s production of “Big Love” were honored with national awards by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Theatre will present the musical “Urinetown” April 9-13, with shows at 7:30 p.m. nightly April 9-12 and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the Sirote Theatre at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
