Live Arts Presents The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez
"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.
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UVA Drama to Present MJ Kaufman’s 'How to Live on Earth' and the 'New Works Festival'
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.
UVA Drama to Return to Theatres with a Diverse and Engaging 2021-2022 Season Examining Existential Challenges in Our Lives and for Our Shared Planet
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.
Watch Me’: How An Alumna’s New Play Sprouted From a Popular Media Studies Class
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.
Arts Education in a Post-Pandemic World
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.
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.
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.
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.’
Leslie Odom, Jr. to be UVA President’s Speaker for the Arts on January 19, 2019
Tony Award-winner Leslie Odom, Jr., as the 2019 UVA President’s Speaker for the Arts, will discuss his life and career, the impact of the arts on education, and on the world in which we live during a brief address followed by a moderated conversation with University of Virginia President Jim Ryan.
A New Home for the Arts at UVA: $50 Million Gift Sets Stage for Performing Arts Center
UVA President Jim Ryan announced at a Board of Visitors meeting a $50 million lead gift from Tessa Ader for the building of a performing arts center at the University.
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.