Theatre

Dr. Andrew Hartley, UNC Charlotte Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare and New York Times bestselling author, has released his latest science fiction novel, Cathedrals of Glass: A Planet of Blood and Ice. The book offers a foreword by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge and is now available for purchase or download. The novel explores the story of […]

The Department of Theatre will present Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour February 22-26 in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. Based on a true story, the play ignited a scandal when it was first produced in 1934; nevertheless, it won both critical accolades and financial success. Running on Broadway for two years, The […]

Costume Designer

Theatre faculty CarlosAlexis Cruz and Bruce Auerbach have work on Children’s Theatre of Charlotte (CTC) stages this winter. Commedia Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a retelling of the beloved fairy tale in the commedia dell’arte tradition directed by Professor Cruz, runs January 14-29 as part of CTC “WonderFest.” Junie B. Jones, with lighting design […]

Chicago Sun theatre critic Hedy Weiss named London Wall, directed by UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt, among Chicago’s top ten productions of 2016. The production also received mention in The Chicago Tribune “best of theatre” list for 2016. London Wall was presented by Griffin Theatre Company in January 2016 and received stellar […]

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 […]