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Going's On - Week of May 12 Show your support and make a donation to the School of Theatre & Dance here.

 

Karen Stokes, Head of the Dance Program, was featured in Wednesday's edition of the Houston Chronicle. Read the full article here!

Check of the UH Dance Ensemble perform with Travesty Dance Group this Friday at Discovery Green, Houston's new downtown park. It's FREE!  

Location:  In front of George Brown Convention Center & Hilton Hotel, between McKinney and Lamar, one block east of Austin at La Branch.

Stay afterwards for an exciting film adventure with Aurora Picture Show at 8:15 p.m. In partnership with FreshArts Coalition and the Center for Choreography at the University of Houston.


ANNOUNCING THE 2008 - 2009 SEASON

Bridges by Nathaniel Freeman
Directed by Steven Wallace

October 3 - 12, 2008 in Wortham Theatre

No food, no water, no hope? A new play based on the oral histories of the Hurricane Katrina survivors that were stranded on the I-10 overpass during the days after their neighborhood was decimated. Interviews were gathered as part of the UH Surviving Rita & Katrina Project. This play is presented in collaboration with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Jack Young

November 7 - 23, 2008 in Quintero Theatre

Love, sex, loss, water. This stunning adaptation of some of Ovid's most humorous and heartbreaking myths takes place in and around a large pool, giving the feel of a modern Roman atrium. A masterpiece of contemporary storytelling, Metamorphoses follows an ensemble cast as they undergo the transformations that define the human experience.

"...successful fusion of word and image that grasps us on levels beneath consciousness." - New York Times

Emerging Choreographers Showcase

November 22 - 23, 2008 in Wortham Theatre

Energy and space, form and beauty. There’s always something dramatic, interesting and fun to see at this annual concert of up-and-coming choreographers.

Peter and Jerry by Edward Albee
Directed by Sidney Berger

February 13 - 22, 2009 in Quintero Theatre

America's greatest living playwright pairs his provocative classic A Zoo Story with a new prequel titled Homelife. Peter and his wife Ann engage in a confession that is long overdue in their 15-year marriage. Homelife ends with Peter going to read a book in Central Park, where a chance meeting with a stranger named Jerry will change his life in an alarming way. Experience the intensity and honesty for which Albee is known.

"...tight dialogue, a challenging premise and an unsettling ending." - New York Times

bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Kim Weild (The Good Woman of Setzuan)

February 20 - March 1, 2009 in Wortham Theatre

Experience live-action poetry that explores the American landscape in a play that one of our greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. It’s a delightful collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing. A quintessentially American play.

"brashly, unapologetically entertaining" - New York Times

Buy 1 Get 5 Free by Amy Lanasa
Director TBA

April 3 - April 19, 2009 in Quintero Theatre

What do you do when your sister is a convict, your momma can't kick her Bingo habit and your husband is still missing from your Honeymoon sky-diving trip two years ago? Lock yourself in your trailer, of course. This hilarious farce is by up-and-coming playwright Amy Lanasa, winner of the Best Short Play award at the 2001 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival.

Spring Dance Concert

April 24 - 26, 2009 in Wortham Theatre

An evening of contemporary work by faculty and guest artists that is set on the pre-professional dance company, the UH Ensemble. Come see why our faculty are some of the best talents in their field.

New Play Festival

April 30 - May 3, 2009 in Quintero Theatre

Do you like to be first?  Do you like to try everything new and venture into uncharted territory?  The New Play Festival is the freshest theatre being created anywhere in town.  Hear the playwrights of tomorrow on stage today.  

 

In addition to the subscription series, the School of Theatre & Dance will debut its new Theatre for Young Audiences program with a production that will run during the week for school children:

Holes by Louis Sachar, adapted for the stage by the author
Directed by Jackie Demontmollin

October 13 - 24, 2008 in Wortham Theatre

Stanley Yelnats is cursed. Thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealin' great-great-grandfather, he is sentenced to hard labor in West Texas for a crime he did not commit. Between dodging poisonous yellow-spotted lizards and trying to play nice with the juvenile delinquents of Camp Green Lake, Stanley solves a 100-year-old mystery and discovers the true meaning of friendship.

Louis Sachar is an award-winning author of over 21 fiction and educational books for children. Holes won the National Book Award and Newbery Medal. In 2003, Walt Disney Pictures released the movie starring Shia LeBoeuf as Stanley and Sigourney Weaver as the Warden.

 

Subscriptions go on sale June 1. Tickets go on sale September 2. If you would like to receive a season brochure in the mail, please contact Brandy Robichau.