While the University’s department of drama offers many traditional classroom-based courses, several classes take students outside of the classroom setting, giving them a hands-on space to experiment with new media.
From student-formed bands that elevate nightlife, to individual art exhibits on display at the University’s Ruffin Gallery, the arts community at the University is filled with a plethora of passionate creatives.
The works of William Shakespeare have been performed for hundreds of years, with endless variations on modernizing the themes and setting.
Technical Director of Drama Steve Warner, along with architecture instructor and fabrication lab director Melissa Goldman and studio art technician Eric Schmidt started the Art of the Moving Creature course in 2012, a two-semester sequence that culminated in the first Festival.
Swallow and Seol returned to Grounds at the end of April for an artist residency that included visits to multiple UVA Drama classes, workshops with students, and a public question-and-answer session with Virginia Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Wales, who was a classmate of theirs in the UVA Drama Department.
The Virginia Theatre Festival has announced casting for its upcoming production of the beloved cult-classic musical Little Shop of Horrors. Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Jeffrey Meanza, will run from July 11-21 in Culbreth Theatre.
The Virginia Theatre Festival has announced casting for the 50th Anniversary season-opening production 50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue. Set to run June 27-30 in Culbreth Theatre, 50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue will be directed by the Theatre’s longtime former Artistic Director Robert Chapel. The production features a cast of 10 VTF alumni performing some of musical theater’s most beloved and show-stopping songs from musicals VTF has produced over the last half-century, including Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Ragtime, Spamalot, and more. Founded in 1974, VTF is the Commonwealth’s longest-running professional summer theatre company and was formerly known as the Heritage Repertory Company, Heritage Repertory Theatre, and Heritage Theatre Festival before renaming as the Virginia Theatre Festival in 2022.
Spectrum Theatre, one of the University’s student-run theater organizations, launched their spring 2024 production of Steven Sater and Jessie Nelson’s musical, “Alice by Heart” in the Student Activities Building Thursday.
University students eagerly gathered at 1515 Thursday for the University Program Council’s Stand-Up Comedy Show.
On the lower level of the Drama Building on Culbreth Road exists a treasure trove of historic clothing, aptly named the Historic Clothing Collection.
This year, the entirely student-run Contracted Independent Organization will put on the beloved musical “Legally Blonde,” continuing its tradition of giving first years and new transfer students the chance to perform.
Comedy lovers at the University showed up in droves to Crozet Pizza Buddhist Biker Bar Tuesday night for the return of UVA Stepmom’s fun-filled “Step Comedy Jam,” with musical guest Loose Champagne.
