From Bollywood to Broadway: UVA Alum Brings Musicals to Life
An almost-forgotten app changed Anant Das’s life.
https://theconversation.com/hip-hop-can-document-life-in-america-more-reliably-than-history-books-249532
https://hyperallergic.com/994202/virginia-museum-receives-transformative-gift-of-haitian-art/
https://drama.virginia.edu/uva-drama-present-spring-dance-concert
https://news.virginia.edu/content/breaking-algorithms-rhythm-these-students-give-music-human-touch
An almost-forgotten app changed Anant Das’s life.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/bollywood-broadway-uva-alum-brings-musicals-life
Before stepping into the halls of the University of Virginia School of Law, first-year student Michael Napoles had already worn many hats: business owner, entrepreneur, stand-up comic and father.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/comedy-canines-and-courtrooms-uva-law-students-unconventional-journey
Arts on the Hill will be held at Carr's Hill, home of President and Mrs. Ryan, on Monday, February 24 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm (doors will open at 5:00 pm). All UVA faculty, staff, and students are eligible to enter the lottery. The deadline to enter the lottery is 11:59 pm on Thursday, February 20. Winners will be notified by no later than 5:00 pm on Saturday, February 22.
The Incident, Amuse Bouche and The Whethermen — a triumvirate of prominent comedy groups on Grounds — joined forces Friday night for their debut performances of the semester.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/01/comedy-holy-trinity-delivers-a-divinely-hilarious-start-to-the-semester?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured
The University of Virginia Department of Drama is opening its new season with a retelling of the tale of Theseus and the Minotaur through the wit and complexity of the Spanish comedia tradition and the talent of a woman whose face is on Mexico’s 100-peso bill.
https://dailyprogress.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/greek-myth-with-spanish-twist-opens-uva-drama-season/article_3cf35608-9bb7-11ef-b0bb-eb5aa8b69b94.html
The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences celebrated the promotions of 151 faculty members to higher ranks among our tenured and academic general faculty with a Sept. 17 reception at UVA’s Colonnade Club in Pavilion VII on the Lawn.
https://as.virginia.edu/colonnade-club-celebration-recognizes-three-years-faculty-promotions
Former professor Lois Garren started the Historic Clothing Collection in the 1970s when she realized that some garments in the department’s costume collection, too fragile or valuable to be worn onstage, still offered insight into the past.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/stitch-time-see-fashions-evolution-over-100-years
Jacquie Walters never thought she would be a writer.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-alumna-turns-stage-screen-print-debut-novel
The UVA Department of Drama will kick off its 2024-2025 season with 'Love is the Greater Labyrinth', by the celebrated 17th-century Mexican playwright, philosopher, poet, feminist, and nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated from the Spanish by the UCLA Diversifying the Classics Project / Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance.
At the beginning of each academic year, the University community has the opportunity to participate in an emergent part of the on-Grounds arts scene — the U.Va. Arts Welcome Picnic.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/09/the-u-va-arts-welcome-picnic-kicks-off-another-year-of-arts-on-grounds?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured
Through their plays, musicals, camps and workshops, Live Arts connects people of all ages, all across Charlottesville as they direct, produce, build sets for and perform in some simply incredible shows.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/09/live-arts-continues-to-promote-theater-education-among-charlottesville-youth?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest#google_vignette
In early 2020, University of Virginia associate drama professor Doug Grissom was looking to buy some recording equipment. He had found a set of plays that female playwrights had written nearly 100 years ago, that begged to be adapted as audio dramas. He planned to do it on his own. But then the general manager of UVA’s WTJU radio station, Nathan Moore, reached out asking if he had any podcast ideas. Grissom pitched adapting the plays as audio dramas.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/she-wrote-plays-and-wtju-streaming-them