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March 9-14, Theatre UAB presents 12th annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays

This year the festival includes six new plays written by students, plus one written by Shackleford commemorating the Voting Rights Act’s 50th anniversary.

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Theatre UAB presents “In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” from Feb. 18-22

A compassionate and stimulating study of sexuality and intimacy, the Tony-nominated play is set in late 19th century, middle-class America, when “female problems” often were dismissed as “hysteria.”

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Catch the spirit with “A Dickens Vest Pocket Christmas Carol” at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center, Dec. 19-20

In this retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, all the beloved characters appear to help Scrooge in his journey toward redemption and enlightenment.

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Theatre UAB presents student and professor’s original play, “Women of War”

Recent graduate Rebecca Harper of Valley Head wrote the play with Professor Karla Koskinen. Now she is directing the work, which evolved out of Euripide’s “Trojan Women.”

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Theatre UAB presents annual Freshman Showcase on Oct. 4

Burgeoning singers, actors, musicians, and production and technical students will take to the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, for the free showcase.

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Theatre UAB announces bold new season for 2014-2015

An exploration of race, a student’s original take on women and war, a stimulating study of hysteria, the annual short play fest, and a heart “felt” Tony Award-winning comedy are in store this season.

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ArtPlay offers new session of arts classes, season of community events

Registration is open now for ArtPlay’s fall session, with a variety of arts education classes for all ages set to begin Sept. 2.

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Theatre chair named to Alabama School of Fine Arts Board

ASFA students will have a guiding hand from UAB Department of Theatre Chair Kelly Allison, who has just joined the high school’s board.

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Theatre UAB awarded national honors at KCACTF

Student Rebecca Harper and graduate Markeitra Gilliam won a national directing fellowship and physical theater training scholarship, respectively.

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Composing a music career: Kevin Peek sets sights on sound

Enticed to UAB by a Computer Music Ensemble concert, Birmingham’s Kevin Peek is graduating with a music technology degree and an array of skills to make it in the music business.

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Odyssey at the Odess: UAB Music Technology students in concert

This Computer Music Ensemble spring show is focused on the “Odyssey” theme, and each student-composer created music that invokes the feelings and emotions of an epic quest.

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Urinetown: Theatre UAB presents big, irreverent, clean musical

“Urinetown” takes place in a mythical city with a water shortage where people have to pay to pee, until a hero takes a stand.

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UAB presents new Festival of 10-Minute Plays, “Gods and Monsters”

Theatre UAB's enormously popular festival from March 10-15 features eight new plays, all written, directed and acted by students, staff and faculty.

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Theatre UAB’s “Big Love” one of four productions chosen for competition

Theatre UAB’s production was one of approximately 180 entered productions from across KCACTF’s 10-state Region IV, and one of four selected from 42 contending entries.

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UAB arts faculty: working, playing around the world this summer

Here’s a round-up of what UAB’s talented Music, Theatre and Art and Art History faculty are doing in Alabama and across the globe while on break from classes.

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Theatre grad headed to Purdue for lighting design MFA

After beginning his theater career at UAB while still in high school, Corner’s Kevin Allinder is now graduating and moving forward to grad school.

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Theatre UAB presents comedy, horror spoof “Bat Boy: The Musical”

Ripped from the 1992 World Weekly News tabloid headline, “Bat Boy: The Musical” is a big-hearted satire, set to a peppy, pop-rock score.

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Theatre UAB presents actor, director, writer Adam Lazarre-White

Lazarre-White will speak about his new short film, “200 Years,” that honors the risks and sacrifices of Americans in pursuit of freedom and equality.

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Theatre UAB presents “greatest hits” at 10th Festival of 10-Minute Plays

See seven plays in one performance when Theatre UAB presents the 10th annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays, featuring super-short plays.

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Theatre UAB presents staged reading of “8 The Play” Jan. 26

The play, by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, is based on the case that overturned California's Proposition 8.

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