September 4, 2026
UTA Theatre and Dance students and alum work featured at SheDFW Summer Theatre Festival. The Other Side of the Shore by Tilda Grace, directed by London Crawford, and Hamill, TX by Analisa Salinas run September 8-13 at Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth.
August 7, 2026
Theatre Education Area Head Alice Nelson spent the summer leading an Applied Theatre project in partnership with the Creative Community Experience, a company of actor-creators with intellectual and developmental disabilities supported by Community Living Windsor in Ontario, Canada.
July 30, 2026
UTA students London Crawford, Miracle Craig, Aerie (Lailah) Ford, and Myriah Elam are leaders with Urban Arts Center’s summer camp production of Matilda.
June 26, 2026
Repertory shows from our most recent season are featured in an in-depth cover story by UTA Magazine.
June 1, 2026
UTA's trilingual (ASL, Spanish, and English) musical for young audiences Mamá Goose is a featured performance as part of Amphibian Stage's Sparkfest in Fort Worth June 6 & 7, 2026.
May 11, 2026
Theatre Arts and Dance professor Austin Eyer guest-directed a staged reading of a musical at the Fringe Festival in collaboration with Ohio University this spring.
May 7
Downtown Arlington’s First Thursday puts UTA student talent in the spotlight with performances from our recent production of HAIR.
April 30, 2026
Adjunct Assistant Professor L. Archer Porter has published Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media with the University of Michigan Press.
April 26, 2026
Broadway World highlights our spring dance offering: Dance in Flux.
April 21, 2026
Undermain Theatre in Dallas opens Season of Solace, with scenic design by assistant professor Leah Mazur and dramaturgy by alum Gwen Mowdy.
April 7, 2026
Members of UTA receive awards from Live Theatre League of Tarrant County.
April 3, 2026
Broadway World runs a story about UTA's production of the Rock Musical HAIR.
March 24, 2026
Sound Designer Bill Eickenloff brings DPA microphones to the forefront of theater production during UTA's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
March 6, 2026
2025 Alumnus Ben Ashcraft is set to make his Broadway debut in the play Stranger Things: First Shadow later this month in the role of Alan Munson.
January 6, 2026
BA Theatre Arts student Toni Colbert's 10-minute play, The Job, was selected for the American College Theatre Regional Festival.
January 6, 2026
UTA Musical Theatre Students earn American College Theatre Festival nominations.
January 5, 2026
Former UTA Theatre Arts student Sam Bullington featured in new season of Fallout.
Broadway World runs a story about UTA's Dance Deconstructed.
November 14, 2025
Talkback with UTA's Center for Mexican American Studies.
November 10, 2025
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Miss You Like Hell - Staged Reading.
October 31, 2025
UTA Department of Theatre Arts and Dance hosts an all-department panel discussion with two Dallas Theater Center artists. Join us in the MainStage Friday, October 31 from 12-12:50.
October 21, 2025
Libby Hawkins assistant directs Mac Beth, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, at Fort Worth's Circle Theatre. Starring current BFA Acting student Allison Marshall as Macduff and BFA Musical Theatre alum Nina Jaraczewski as Witch 3. Scenic design by DT Area Head Leah Mazur. Runs October 9-November 1, 2025.
October 16, 2025
Broadway World runs story about UTA's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
September 4, 2025
Dr. Anne Healy and Dr. Brandi Andrade present at the University of Turku in Finland.
August 21, 2025
Official press release for the 2025-2026 Season of performances at UTA Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
July 28, 2025
Assistant Professor Leah Mazur's work is featured in an Arts and Culture Texas story about innovative Texas designers.
July 7, 2025
Professor and Chair for the Theatre Arts and Dance department, Jeanmarie Higgins, has published a performance review in the June issue of Theatre Journal.
June 23, 2025
Kate Thompson (BA Theatre Studies '25) has been awarded a UTA UROP Fellowship for Fall 2025.
June 05, 2025
Welcome Assistant Professor Alice Nelson as the new area head for the BA in Theatre Arts with Teaching Certification.
May, 2025
UTA Musical Theatre students take a six day trip to New York City to meet industry professionals, participate in workshops and see Broadway shows.
May 7, 2025
UTA Assistant Professor of Dance, Laurie M. Taylor led a session at Downtown Arlington's First Thursday celebration.
April, 2025
UTA develops Mamá Goose, a trilingual play with music for young audiences to tour DFW.
April 25, 2005
Adjunct Assistant Professor Kelley Smith stage managed the All Stars Project's Hip Hop Cabaret, a high-energy fusion of hip-hop and cabaret featuring music, dance, and spoken word by Bombshell Dance Project, Lejin, and Boogieland, directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander, in Dallas on April 25-27. Professor Smith teaches stage management in the Design and Technology program at UTA.
April 25, 2025
The Theatre Arts and Dance Department in collaboration with the Sound Studies Minor in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts will host a post-show response session on Friday evening 4/25/25 after the 8:30pm...
April 15, 2025
After winning top honors in the 10-minute play category in their regional festival, Theatre Arts students Edith Lara and Allison Marshall will attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival during the week of April 15 in Washington, DC. There they will collaborate with and compete with regional winners from KC/ACTF's eight regions. UTA's Theatre Arts and Dance Department teaches Playwriting in its BA Program and for Creative Writing majors across COLA.
April 22, 2025
On Tuesday, April 22, a group of nineteen UTA musical theatre students opened the annual conference for OMNI hotels in Dallas with a show-stopping performance of "The Greatest Show" from the movie The Greatest Showman. The theme of this year's conference was Achieve New Heights, so OMNI wanted a large production number to kick things off. The performance featured Broadway performer Jeff Kready in the Hugh Jackman role, as well as local circus performers Kelli and Julio Ramazini. The cast rehearsed for two weeks for this event, and they were led by a creative team of Theatre Arts and Dance faculty: Austin Eyer, Sarah Fagan, Cody Dry, and Kristina Ortiz Miller.
April 02, 2025
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Treasure Island.
February 23, 2025
UTA Theatre Arts and Dance students and alumni put their stage management, design, and production management skills into action on February 23 at the 7th Annual Irma P. Hall Black Theater Awards under the supervision of UTA professor, Jiles King.
February 1, 2025
Paloma Magaña, Edith Lara, and professor Libby Hawkins are receiving the COLA Dean's Accolade for their work on developing a new Theatre for Young Audience bilingual musical and building a TYA partnership with Theatre Arlington's Education and Outreach Program!
February 26, 2025
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.
November 22, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Dance Deconstructed.
November 06, 2024
The Shorthorn takes On the Town viewers behind the scenes.
November 06, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's On the Town.
October 28, 2024
Madeline's Magical Adventures in Chicago, which Professor Kelley Smith produced and starred in this past summer, has been officially selected for the Social Justice Film Festival at Olive-Harvey College in Chicago, Ill. The festival featured the first episode and was chosen from 1600 entries.
April 19, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and Black Theatre Society's concert reading of three new plays: The Bridge by Dallas playwright Erin Malone Turner; Eat the World, Baby by Wren Latham; and Ama & Coltrane: Beware, Beware! by Raven Monroe. Latham and Monroe are Charlotte, NC based playwrights.
April 19, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Dance in Flux.
March 25, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder.
February 29, 2024
Dallas Voice runs feature on UTA's Head Over Heels.
February 27, 2024
The Shorthorn spotlights UTA's Head Over Heels.
February 14, 2024
Broadway World runs story about UTA's Head Over Heels.
October 20, 2023
The Shorthorn documents the weeklong residency with actor and UTA Theatre Arts alumnus Lou Diamond Phillips.
October 19, 2023
Dallas news WFAA covers Lou Diamond Phillips week-long residency with UTA's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, and Cinematic Arts.
October 22, 2023
Dallas Fox4 News covers Lou Diamond Phillips weeklong residency with UTA's Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, and Cinematic Arts.
April 15, 2022
Playwright Octavio Solis spent time at UTA during the Festival of Ideas and sat in on rehearsals for his play Lydia.
May 1, 2021
Design/Tech Faculty Kris O'Brien has been commissioned to create a short for Amphibian Stage inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Common Things. This selection of works was featured in CULTUREHUB's ReFest.
February 15, 2021
Appliqúe, an animated short created by Design/Tech faculty and students is jury selection at NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival and Cannes Shorts.
