Texas Theatre and Dance 2015-2016 Season Brochure

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Texas Theatre and Dance is a world-class educational environment that serves as the ultimate creative incubator for the next generation of artists, thinkers and leaders in theatre and performance.

Texas Theatre and Dance Subscription Series

Choose three or more performances from the following Subscription Series offerings: The Diary of Anne Frank The Wild Party Twelfth Night Dance Repertory Theatre presents

Bodies & Souls

Texas Theatre and Dance Subscription Series Plus

Upgrade your subscription and save 30% on tickets to one or more of the Series Plus offerings, including: Fall For Dance The Silent Woman Dead Leaves Home Stretch Girls in Cars Underwater

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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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The Diary of Anne Frank

By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

A story known across the world, The Diary of Anne Frank is the haunting, yet inspiring account of a young Jewish girl and her family’s lives during World War II. Seeking refuge from Nazi persecution, Anne, along with seven others, hid in a “secret annex” in Amsterdam for two years. Told through recordings in Anne’s cherished diary, the play stands as a timeless reflection of her fear, hope and faith during one of the darkest periods in history.

Presented in recognition of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps by Allied forces, this production is the centerpiece of a two-day event that both commemorates this unspeakable tragedy and celebrates the poignant works of artistry and intellect that will continue to endure for generations.

Photo: Lawrence Peart

October 8–18

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

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What we are is all we are after midnight dies.

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The Wild Party Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa Book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March

Set in Manhattan in the Roaring Twenties, vaudeville dancer Queenie and her volatile partner, Burrs, host an evening of excess for their guests; a collection of the unruly and undone. The jazz and gin-soaked party rages to a mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are stripped away. When midnight debauchery leads to tragedy at dawn, this dark and decadent musical reminds us that no party lasts forever.

Photo: Lawrence Peart

November 20–December 5

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

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If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me.

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Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare

Following a shipwreck on a strange shore, Viola fears her brother dead and is forced to build a new life on her own. Masquerading as a man in order to procure a job with Duke Orsino, she finds herself in the midst of a topsy-turvy love triangle.

Magic, mayhem and mistaken identities come to the stage in Shakespeare’s cherished romantic comedy of revelry, reunion and love.

Photo: Lawrence Peart

February 26–March 6

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

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Only in the dance do I know how to tell the parable of the highest things…

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Dance Repertory Theatre presents

Bodies & Souls Under the direction of Charles O. Anderson, Erica Gionfriddo and Lyn Wiltshire, the award-winning dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre, returns to the stage in Bodies & Souls. A celebration of emerging voices and visions of contemporary dance, Bodies & Souls features new works by Alvin Rangel, Johnnie Cruise Mercer and Jun Shen.

Photo: Lawrence Peart

April 8–17

B. Iden Payne Theatre

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Upgrade your subscription and save 30% on tickets to one or more of these Series Plus offerings.

Dance Repertory Theatre presents

Fall For Dance

Exploring the genre of contemporary ballet, Fall For Dance features works by former San Francisco Ballet

Four new plays presented as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre)

dancer and artistic director of The Foundry, Alex Ketley; former dancer with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and

Established in 2007, UTNT (UT New

guest artist with La La La Human Steps, Manuel Vignoulle;

Theatre) presents newly developed

and Texas Theatre and Dance faculty members David

works from playwrights of Texas

Justin and Andrea Beckham.

Theatre and Dance and the Michener Center for Writers. This showcase exists as an incubator for new work, with many plays continuing on to be professionally produced across the

November 12–15

B. Iden Payne Theatre

country. The 2016 UTNT (UT New Theatre) plays under consideration include the following:

April 14–24

Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

All UTNT (UT New Theatre) titles, artists, venues and dates are subject to change.

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I. The Silent Woman

II. Dead Leaves

By Lydia Blaisdell

By Joanna Garner

The strange, true tale of a painter living with an effigy of his ex-lover in 1919 Europe. Because the doll cannot dress herself, the painter enlists a young maid to help him, resulting in an intricate, erotic game of pretend. The Silent Woman is the winner of the 2015 Kentucky Women’s Playwriting Prize.

Pearle is dead, Benjamin is not, and Ella is somewhere in between. Dead Leaves is a tale of the living and the ghosts trapped in a small town — told through text, imagery and original mountain gospel, country and folk music.

Presented in co-production with ZACH Theatre

Tomás and the Library Lady

By José Cruz González Based on the book by Pat Mora

Tomás, a young son of migrant farm workers, spends the summer with his family following the crop north from Texas to Iowa, passing long days in the fields, listening to his grandfather tell stories and practicing English translations. A chance encounter brings him to the local Carnegie Library, where he meets a “library

III. Home Stretch

IV. Girls in Cars Underwater

lady” who recognizes his thirst for knowledge and encourages him to read. Based on the true story of Mexican-American author and educator,

By Gia Marotta

By Tegan McLeod

Ellen and Meg have kept their distance since their brother Henry’s death 25 years ago. When circumstances force Meg to live with Ellen and her son, David, for a month, the sisters are asked to reckon with the loss that drove them apart. Home Stretch is a rich and theatrical story about grief, memory and the harrowing work of forgiveness.

When newbie Dusty is hired at the most difficult bar in the city, she forms an unexpected bond with one of the old-timers.

But allegiances beyond the bar start to threaten Dusty’s new-found security — and in one terrifying night, everything changes. Girls in Cars Underwater is an unflinching exploration of love and loss and the power of both to ruin and remake our lives.

Tomás Rivera, this inspirational story suggests what reading—and selfrespect—can make possible.

Single tickets for Tomás and the Library Lady are available through ZACH Theatre beginning August 10. Purchase tickets online at zachtheatre.org or by phone at 512.476.0541 (ext. 1).

January 22–

Whisenhunt Stage

February 20

ZACH Theatre

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By mail With the enclosed form PURCHASE individual TICKETS Online JoinTheDrama.org By phone 512.477.6060 or 800.982.BEVO (2356) In person Texas Performing Arts Bass Concert Hall Box Office Located on East 23rd Street and Robert Dedman Drive, north of the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on the UT campus. Open Tuesday through Friday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

F. Loren Winship Building Box Office Located at East 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on the UT campus. Open one hour prior to the performance.

Outlets At all Texas Box Office locations including the Frank Erwin Center and most Austin area H-E-B locations SEATING Seating is reserved for all Subscription Series performances in the B. Iden Payne Theatre and Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

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ACCESSIBILITY To request accessibility assistance including sign interpretation, audio description, closed captioning and other services, please call 512.471.0611 no less than three weeks prior to the performance.

PARKING The B. Iden Payne Theatre and Oscar G. Brockett Theatre are housed in the F. Loren Winship Building at the corner of East 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard on the UT campus.

Parking can be challenging on campus. Please arrive early and expect to pay for parking.

Please visit utexas.edu/finearts/tad/season-tickets/map-directions-parking for the most up-todate information, including links to purchase discounted, pre-paid event parking.

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