Theatre

Award-winning actor, writer, and director Roger Guenveur Smith will come to the UNC Charlotte campus on January 10 to work with students in the Department of Theatre and perform his one-man show, Rodney King. Smith, who has a successful career in film (American Gangster, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, The Birth of a Nation), […]

Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Andrew Hartley is the editor of Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader, recently released by Bloomsbury Publishing. Issued in the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides series, the reader surveys the performance history, major themes, and critical reception of Shakespeare’s tragedy in a detailed timeline and eight essays: Julius Caesar Timeline (Andrew […]

Noma Dumezweni, the African-born English actress who recently made headlines as Hermione Granger in the London West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will narrate the audiobook version of Steeplejack, a new young adult novel by Dr. Andrew Hartley. Hartley, who is the Robinson Distinguished Professor of Theatre, first met Dumezweni when […]

Jeanmarie Higgins, assistant professor of dramaturgy in the Department of Theatre, has published an article in the inaugural issue of PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research. The article, “Rehearsal Skirts: Undergraduate Research and Hamletmachine‘s Chorus of Dead Ophelias,” considers the rehearsal and performance practices of the spring 2016 Department of Theatre production of Heiner […]

Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner recently published an essay on the dance critic John Martin in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Dr. Conner is an expert on the early years of dance criticism in the United States and has written extensively about the relationship between newspaper dance criticism and the development of the field […]

Jill Bloede, part-time acting professor in the Department of Theatre, has won the Best Actress award in Creative Loafing’s “Best of Charlotte” edition. The citation reads: “Jill Bloede takes the laurels for her astonishing performance as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. Bloede was such a majestic tugboat from the moment she entered […]

The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre presents The Aliens, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, in an innovative outdoor production October 14 -23. One of four plays that Baker has set in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, The Aliens peers in on the conversations and interactions of three young men in the alleyway behind […]

Nina, a play by Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner, has completed a successful run at the Theatre Project in Brunswick, Maine, opening the company’s 45th anniversary season. Nina focuses on the lives of two concentration camp survivors whose 50-year friendship is being challenged by the death of a daughter. Set in the mid-1980s, the […]

Professor of Theatre Bruce Auerbach is the guest lighting designer for a current production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the University of South Carolina (USC). The production is presented by the USC Department of Theatre and Dance and runs September 30-October 8. Directed by Robert Richmond, the artistic director of the theatre program, […]

A production designed by Assistant Professor of Scenic Design Tom Burch has been selected for the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase, to be held in Madison WI in January 2017. The showcase will present 16 shows from seven countries. The design, for Journey to Oz, was created for a production presented in February 2016 […]