Are you ready to experiment? This month brings us the fruition of the collaboration between Whit MacLaughlin, Artistic Director of Obie award-winning New Paradise Laboratories, and the third and second year MFA students. Cold Empty Terrible opens the season on Friday, October 17. We invite you to take a sneak peak and then join us at the theatre.
But first up, Professor Odai Johnson kicks off the third-annual Performing Arts Lecture Series with his exploration of "the predatory practice of Celebrity as a many-headed beast feasting on its host." Don't miss this lecture tonight!
Performing Arts Lecture Series
From Helen of Troy to the Kardashian sisters, celebrities, or (in Joseph Roach’s definition) “abnormally interesting people,” have fascinated the public imagination over the centuries. This series of lectures considers why certain historical figures or fictional characters have possessed a special power to fascinate their public.
Celebrity and Its Discontents is a three-part series, and the first lecture is tonight! Odai Johnson, professor of theatre history and the head of the… Read more
Season Opener: Cold Empty Terrible
Cold Empty Terrible Devised by Whit MacLaughlin & the Ensemble Previews: Wednesday and Thursday, October 15-16 Opening Night: Friday, October 17 at 7:30pm Runs through Sunday, October 26 Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Created in collaboration with and directed by… Read more
UTS Presents: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom By Jennifer Haley Directed by: Michael Joseph Hanley October 23-November 2 Cabaret Theatre, Hutchinson Hall
In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash… Read more
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Cold Empty Terrible opens our season on Friday, October 17. Are you ready to experiment? Join us at the Jones! We look forward to seeing you… Read more
Alumni News - October 2014
In July, Michelle Granshaw (PhD 2012) was awarded the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Vera MowryRoberts Research and Publication Award for her Theatre Survey article, “The Mysterious Victory of the Newsboys: The Grand Duke Theatre’s 1874 Challenge to the Theatre Licensing Law.” She also won the ATDS Faculty Travel Award for summer research in New York and Belfast.
Tlaloc Rivas (MFA 1999) received the … Read more
The Man Who Can Forget Anything at On the Boards
Two of the co-creators of legendary Seattle ensemble Run/Remain return to On the Boards with a next-generation familial mash-up of film, music, theater, and dance. Features PATP alum Annette Toutonghi.
Murphy/Lachow CompanyThe Man Who Can Forget AnythingThursday-Saturday, October 9-11On the BoardsMore information and tickets online