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UVA Drama to Introduce New MFA Acting Company In Death Of The Author And God Of Carnage
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UVA Drama to Introduce New MFA Acting Company In Death Of The Author And God Of Carnage

The UVA Department of Drama will introduce its new MFA Acting company in two one-act plays that will stream April 22-25, 2021 on the ShowTix4U platform. Death of the Author by Steven Drukman and God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, will be video recorded live on the Culbreth Theatre stage without an audience and with all actors masked and following protocols in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performances are components of graduate course DRAM 7400: Mentored Study: Acting.

April 14, 2021
Marianne Kubik Theater Movement Class

Student Performance Groups Keep Their Art Alive in COVID-19 Pandemic

Acapella concerts on the Lawn, dance showcases, live theater productions – student performances have long graced the University of Virginia. In the past year, as coronavirus brought in-person shows to a halt, UVA’s performance groups adapted to create virtually and keep their art alive. Some groups are taking advantage of technology like Zoom or TikTok to allow students in different places to create, practice, or learn together virtually, while others have met in small groups with a lot of precautions in place. UVA Today reached out to a number of student arts groups across Grounds to find out how they survived the past year.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-performance-groups-keep-their-art-alive-covid-19-pandemic

Old Cabell Hall Exterior

Double Take: Life Lessons from a 4-Year-Old, a Beloved Single Dad, and 1970s Tumult

This year’s Double Take speakers were, in order of appearance, former Cavalier football player and member of the Class of 2020 Charles Snowden, UVA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis, first-year student Taylor Curro, community member Paul C. Harris Sr., his son and ’13, ‘16 ‘double Hoo’ Paul C. Harris Jr., UVA Hospital Cafeterias sous chef Eryne Zerihun and Joel Gardner, a ‘70, ‘74 ‘double Hoo.’

https://news.virginia.edu/content/double-take-life-lessons-4-year-old-beloved-single-dad-and-1970s-tumult

(L-R) Nicholas Rupert, Gabby Fuller, Jody Kielbasa (Vice Provost for the Arts), Savannah Hard, Amy Dalrymple, David Shim, Greatchen Tibbits (then Chair of UVA Arts Council), & Tim Michel (UVA Arts Council Member and creator of the UVA Arts Council Distinguished Artist Awards program) | Image by Tom Daly

The UVA Arts Council Celebrates 30 Years!

Anyone involved with the UVA Arts Council over the last 30 years will tell you that their efforts on behalf of the University and its arts-oriented students are about more than numbers. After all, it’s hard to put a price on the inspiration the members of the arts council have unleashed since its founding in 1990 and the dizzying spectrum of art that has made its way to the world with their support.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/the-uva-arts-council-celebrates-30-years