Displaying items by tag: department of theatre
ArtPlay offers arts classes for all age groups, including dance, acting, musical theater, creative writing, photography, spoken word, improv comedy, music sampling and more.
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Stories from survivors in these workshops will become part of the Stuart Pimsler Dance Theatre performance March 14 at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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An all-female cast is rare in theater. Theatre UAB is featuring just that with “The Wolves,” and adding an all-women creative team, too.
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A girls’ indoor soccer team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles like a pack of adolescent warriors. “The Wolves” features an all-women cast and design team.
During his visit, Greyeyes will also give an audition workshop for students in the CAS Department of Theatre.
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Burning Man is shaped by self-expression, community, inclusivity and equality, themes that are also prevalent throughout “Hair,” says senior Austin Helmers.
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Exploring ideas of identity, community, global responsibility and peace, “Hair” remains relevant as it examines what it means to be a young person in a changing world.
The season includes musicals “Hair” and “The Secret Garden,” with “The Wolves,” “The Glass Menagerie” and a world premiere collection of plays by Alabama playwright Audrey Cefaly.
ArtPlay drama camps introduced Marissa Hebson to Theatre UAB. Now she is graduating with a degree in musical theater.
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From the United States to Europe, these professors from the departments of Art and Art History, Music, and Theatre are in demand.
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Booker is not going to miss her shot. She wants to perform now and is planning a move to New York to pursue her theater career, then train in a medical profession later.
Theatre UAB brings the story to life with an elaborately crafted elephant puppet, original music, dance, a dazzling array of costumes, artistic projections that whisk the action from St. Louis to the Congo and more.
Walker, who is originating the role of Ota Benga in the play, will graduate with a degree in musical theater April 27.
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“Savage” tells the story of Ota Benga, a Mbuti man taken from Africa in 1904 to be exhibited and exploited in the United States.
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Since UAB’s first festival in 2003, these roller-coaster evenings have featured a variety of short comedies and tragedies, each performed in about 10 minutes.
Misunderstandings and tantrums abound when the four members of the self-absorbed Bliss family each invite a guest for the weekend.
“Tell Me Something Good” will receive its world-premiere performance by Theatre UAB for its 2019-2020 season.
After co-directing Theatre UAB’s production of “Angels in America,” Hayley Procacci will graduate Dec. 15 and head to New York to make a movie.
Strong student involvement as part of the production team makes this Theatre UAB production unique.
Join Theatre UAB for this hilarious show, and perhaps be chosen from the audience to come on stage and compete.
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