UVA Drama to Present Mary Elizabeth Hamilton’s '16 Winters, or the Bear’s Tale'. High-spirited Play with Music Imagines the 16 Years Between Acts of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Offers Springboard for Timely Issues Like Long-Term Isolation.
Drama Auditions: April 20-24 for Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen, directed by Marianne Kubik - opens October 20 in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.
Many of UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences alumni with degrees in studio arts, drama or music go on to successful careers in arts and entertainment, in the world’s great museums or educating the next generation of creative minds. However, the number of arts majors who become leaders in business, law, technology and other areas suggests that the skills they learned in the studio and on the stage are helping them thrive in a wide range of pursuits.
Heritage Theatre Festival Returns With a New Name and Exciting Season Including Kate Hamill’s Adaptation of Little Women; No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone, a Powerful One-woman Show Highlighting the Life and Art of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Artists; And a Staged Reading
UVA Arts Webinar: Transforming the Arts in Charlottesville | April 18, 2022 @ 1pm ET.
The 2021/22 reIGNITE Live Arts Season continues with Lucy Kirkwood’s provocative and chilling eco-thriller THE CHILDREN, opening April 15th.
The Force is strong with Ryan Kurtiak. The second-year University of Virginia School of Law student, who previously worked at Walt Disney World as a “Star Wars” villager and grew up wanting to design theme parks, saw law school as a way to channel his creative energy.
"Lip-sync or swim, baby!" Outrageous and campy, sweet yet spicy, THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE is a heartfelt valentine to drag queens, a celebration of divas and difference.
How To Live On Earth, Directed by Matt Radford Davies, is to Open on February 24 at the Ruth Caplin Theatre | The New Works Festival, Produced by Doug Grissom and Dave Dalton, is to Open February 25 at the Helms Theatre.
The UVA Department of Drama is returning in person to theatres in 2021-22 with a carefully curated season of plays that highlight the unique array of challenges we face in our lives and around the planet we call home – and celebrating the increasingly vital human power of resilience.
With a father hailing from a family of actors, Caky Winsett was exposed to the theater at a very young age. Yet she never had any interest in becoming an actor herself. However, as Winsett grew older, she realized that she had a love for all of the other elements of theater. That love then turned into a full-on passion at the University of Virginia.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, University of Virginia faculty scrambled to find ways to deliver a traditional college education online. But as faculty in UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences worked to educate their students despite the obstacles presented by COVID-19, they found themselves creating the foundation for changes to the practice of art education – changes that may make it just a little better than it was before.
