Theatre

A new book by Professor of Theatre and Film Mark Pizzato was published earlier this year by Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies draws together the diverse disciplines of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, aesthetics, and performance studies to examine […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre CarlosAlexis Cruz will present at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) annual conference, which will be held in Chicago, August 11-14. Cruz will present the paper, “The Importance of Having a Stage Movement Practitioner: How a theatre program strengthens and benefits from stage movement courses and the teachers that […]

The Department of Theatre welcomes Dr. Lynne Conner as its new chair. Dr. Conner comes to UNC Charlotte from Colby College, where she served as a professor and former chair of the Theatre and Dance Department. Dr. Conner is a theater and dance historian, cultural policy theorist, and playwright. Her publications include the books Audience […]

Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt has received praise for direction of Wastwater at Chicago’s Steep Theatre. The play, by contemporary British playwright Simon Stephens, runs through August 13. In a review on July 19, the Chicago Tribune called Witt’s direction “fearless,” while the Chicago Sun Times praised her “tightly wired direction” and the “superb” […]

A group of UNC Charlotte theatre and music faculty and alumni will perform Cherry Jackson’s play, In The Master’s House There Are Many Mansions, at the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) in New York City, August 12-18. Performing as the Twilight Repertory Company, the ensemble is led by Associate Professor of Theatre James Vesce, […]

A new book edited by Caridad Svich, the Department of Theatre 2016 Distinguished Alumna, will launch on June 25 at the Theatre Communications Group national conference in Washington, D.C. Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field presents perspectives on audience engagement and performance spaces from a wide range of theatre practitioners, including playwrights, directors, and actors. […]

Andrew Hartley, Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare in the Department of Theatre, has written a new young adult fantasy-adventure-mystery for young adult readers. Steeplejack: A Novel will be released by Tor Teen on June 14. Set in 19th-century South Africa, the book has already received glowing reviews, particularly for its young female protagonist. The monthly […]

For the second year in a row, Assistant Professor of Theatre Robin Witt has won a Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Award, honoring non-Equity Chicago theatre, in the category of “Best Director (Play).” Witt won for the production London Wall, which also won the award for “Best Production (Play).” London Wall was presented by Griffin Theatre Company […]

What is the relationship between the food we eat, or the clothes we wear, and the earth? Assistant Professor of Theatre Education Beth Murray led a multidisciplinary arts education initiative in 2015-16 that brought together 15 teachers from six local schools to address that question through arts and storytelling. The project, Cotton & Collards: Unearthing […]

The online theatre journal, HowlRound, has recently published an article by Assistant Professor of Theatre Jeanmarie Higgins that describes the work that dramaturgy students do in the Department of Theatre at UNC Charlotte. “The Youngest People in the Room: Dramaturgy in Undergraduate Theatre Programs” presents the challeges and opportunities that undergraduate theatre students encounter as […]