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  • Theatre UAB announces 2023-2024 season, including partnership with Red Mountain Theatre
    Theatre UAB and Red Mountain Theatre will collaborate to present “Sister Act” in April 2024, bringing professional theater resources together with the next generation of musical theater talent for one incredible production.
  • UAB’s Valerie Accetta, Jenny Fine awarded $5,000 Alabama State Council on the Arts grants
    Head of musical theater Accetta is training to become an Estill Voice Training mentor and course instructor — the first in Alabama and one of only 12 in the country.
  • “SpongeBob” actor Troy Serena learned all his moves at UAB
    Voted Best Performer in a Musical by Birmingham Broadway World for his sensational performance as SpongeBob SquarePants for Theatre UAB, Serena will reprise the role for professional theater after graduation.
  • Theatre UAB presents “Into the Woods” in a new way, April 12-16
    Are we already in the woods? This production of Sondheim’s beloved play looks at the dangers society has created with sets inspired by Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces.
  • In April, explore UAB’s academic arts performances
    For “April is for the Arts,” the UAB College of Arts and Sciences highlights the extraordinary talent from across the college’s fine art academic units for a month of events.
  • Renita Lewis keeps taking steps forward
    When Renita Lewis enrolled in college in 2008, she was focused on two things: playing basketball and studying nursing. So, it might be a surprise to learn that she is now an accomplished actor earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Drama at The Julliard School and starring in a play at Lincoln Center in New York City. For Lewis, the pivot into the arts began with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Theatre.
  • Theatre UAB presents “Sanctuary City” from March 6-10
    Audiences are in for an unconventional experience in this brisk 90-minute show, which uses citizenship and documentation to speak on identity, belonging and privilege and is shaped by the actors’ own heritage.
  • See absurd comedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” from Feb. 22-26 at UAB
    Acclaimed as a post-modern dramatic masterpiece, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.
  • See “Sense and Sensibility” as never before, presented by Theatre UAB
    Theatre UAB presents a playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel, with glorious costumes, pop music and bright bursts of color, Nov. 9-12 and 16-19.
  • Kyle Adams and Ummu Bah are the 2022-2023 Mr. and Ms. UAB
    The Mr. and Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition is one of UAB’s longest-standing Homecoming traditions. Each winner will receive a $2,500 scholarship and serve as an ambassador of UAB.
  • Theatre UAB opens new season with musical “A New Brain,” from Oct. 12-16
    When we are on the brink of life, how do we choose to spend our time? This sardonic comedy is from the Tony Award-winning authors of “Falsettos.”
  • Theatre teaches soft skills
    Creative high school students find a home in theatre departments because they feel valued. But we also need to be thinking about the future.
  • UAB Department of Theatre announces new season of plays for 2022-2023
    Theatre UAB will present “A New Brain,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Sanctuary City,” and “Into the Woods” for its 2022-2023 season.
  • Theatre UAB grad wins national award, after starting career in costumes then pursuing her Ph.D.
    This year, Theatre UAB alumna Skye Geerts Strauss earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern, won a USITT Merit Award and will begin teaching this fall at Baylor University.
  • UAB student’s work recognized by Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
    Amanda Grace Waller, 22, was named a national finalist for the KCACTF’s Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design and was one of two students nationally given a special achievement award.
  • For The World Games 2022, Birmingham puts on its biggest shows ever — with help from UAB artists
    UAB faculty, staff and students are helping create, organize and perform in the massive opening and closing ceremonies, happening July 7 and July 17 at Protective Stadium.
  • Theatre UAB finds new synergy, collaboration with Red Mountain Theatre
    Opportunities for UAB theater students and faculty are booming with Red Mountain Theatre in its new 60,000-square-foot Arts Campus in the city’s burgeoning Parkside District.
  • Employees recognized at 2021 UAB Service Awards
    Twenty-seven College of Arts and Sciences employees who have worked at UAB for 20 years or more were recognized at the UAB Service Awards reception on April 11, 2022.
  • Graduating students make a splash while creating “The SpongeBob Musical”
    Lighting designer Bailey Dumlao and co-director Devin Ty Franklin are two of the artists behind the scenes of Theatre UAB’s “The SpongeBob Musical.”
  • See “The SpongeBob Musical” by Theatre UAB from April 13-17
    When the Mount Humungous volcano threatens to annihilate the town, the citizens of Bikini Bottom must come together in this zany musical, which makes use of recycled and repurposed props, scenery and costumes.