Department of theatre
Step into the world of fantasy role-playing games — filled with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and ’90s pop culture — in this heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
A playwright, a freedom fighter, a queen and a young assassin star in this girl-powered comedy of bravery and sisterhood, set during the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror.”
As stage manager for Theatre UAB’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” Juliette Sosa Valle is responsible for every part of the show, before the curtain comes up until after it comes down, to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Theatre UAB is up for the challenge of this big, deceptively complex production, an electropop opera inspired by genres of music.
In this 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Play, two upscale couples meet to discuss a playground fight between their children; but as tensions emerge, their polite veneer begins to break down.
Theatre students from UAB take the show on the road and travel to schools around central Alabama to perform. See their free showcases Saturday, Sept. 28, or schedule a visit.
Theatre UAB will present “God of Carnage,” “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” “The Revolutionists,” and “She Kills Monsters,” with Disney’s “Freaky Friday” in collaboration with Red Mountain Theatre Company.
This semester, at least 1,621 students are eligible to graduate, and 892 students are expected to walk in two ceremonies.
The UAB Excellence in Business Top 25 program, presented by the UAB National Alumni Society, each year recognizes the fastest-growing and most successful businesses owned or managed by UAB graduates.
UAB Media Studies students learn how to make documentary films focusing on communities and issues they care about in a semester.
Experience the arts on campus and in the community with this showcase of performances and events featuring students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
They have historic ties, but the co-production of “Sister Act” marks the beginning of a new era. UAB students, faculty and alumni make up two-thirds of the team uniting to present this show.
This fun and engaging performance of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is for children in grades 1 through 6, making it perfect for school field trips.
UAB Department of Theatre’s bodacious Bard: Two pals fall for the same girl in a reimagined John Hughes-meets-Shakespeare world — 40 years since first performing the play in 1984.
Kirkman, 20, a UAB junior from Florence, Alabama, studying musical theater, was awarded the Chip Hand Prize for Vocal Excellence in the NextGen National contest presented by the American Pops Orchestra.
The developing work, following the true story of the Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, will premiere at UAB in November.
This farcical stage comedy is an entertaining parody of the Alfred Hitchcock film, set with notorious characters, 1930s music and costumes, intrigue, and physical slapstick in a host of delightful classic spy story situations.
Grammy- and Emmy-winner Panion arranged and orchestrated the Blind Boys’ classic hits for this performance, featuring members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and a 300-person combined college choir.
The cast hopes this “brand-new story with classic roots,” portrayed by a black family, will humanize the black experience for audiences.