While many of us reserve spring break for partying, tanning, or tackling chores, each year a group of UA theatre students fly to New York to participate in the opportunity of a lifetime — a showcase known as Bama on Broadway. Bama on Broadway is designed to highlight the strengths of each student’s skill as they perform for an audience that includes Broadway talent agents and often ends with performers signing contracts or being called back for auditions. “We get […]
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10 Years of SummerTide Theatre
Summer Pre-Professional Experience Highlights Musical Theatre Program From the 2013 Celebrating Excellence | Theatregoers in Tuscaloosa are familiar with the quality of performances in the Allen Bales and Marian Gallaway Theatres on The University of Alabama campus, but there is one more place to see world-class musical theatre from the College’s Department of Theatre and Dance: Gulf Shores, Alabama. Each summer, the department takes a musical to the George C. Meyer Performing Arts Center. For the last 10 years the annual event, […]
Seniors Earn Dance Scholarships to NYC
Funds Raised by Arty Party Bring Talent Scout to Tuscaloosa, Pivotal Career Opportunity for Dancers From the 2013 Celebrating Excellence | Many people think they know who the most demanding coach is at The University of Alabama. If you guessed the coach who wears a straw hat during spring practice and has three crystal trophies, you would not be wrong. But you wouldn’t be totally right. In fact, one of the most demanding “coaches” at UA is not a coach at all, […]
Students Earn UA Study Away Scholarships
From the May 2013 Desktop News | Three students in the College will continue their studies outside of UA this summer with the help of UA Away scholarships, an initiative that supports student study away opportunities and promotes a commitment to global citizenship. Two additional UA students were awarded scholarships, which are sponsored by UA’s Division of Student Affairs. Hailah Saeed, a senior criminal justice major from Coldwater, Mich., will be interning in Washington, D.C. in the public and non-profit areas of […]
UA’s Othello Puts a Creative Twist on a Classic
“I hate. I hate the Moor.” So spoke Iago during UA’s February 2013 production of Othello. From there, the show picked up speed, racing through each of Iago’s machinations to destroy the title character. “I wanted to transport the audience into the minds of Othello and Iago,” said director Seth Panitch, “so I turned to movement and music to assist us in that concept.” Panitch, who has been directing plays since 1996, included these modern twists on Shakespeare’s classic […]
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Theatre Production of “Show Boat” Heads to Mobile with Cast and Crew of 70
From the March 2013 Desktop News | Some 70 student actors, set designers, and theatre technicians will travel to Mobile next month to present a production of “Show Boat,” at the Mobile Civic Center Theatre on April 11. Considered to be one of the most influential musicals of the 20th century, “Showboat” will be presented in Mobile by the Department of Theatre and Dance before bringing it to the stage at the Marian Gallaway Theatre on The University of Alabama campus. This is […]
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Mystery of Multiplicity
Series celebrates diversity of perspectives in the liberal arts, across the University The College of Arts and Sciences is home to 22 academic divisions, 100 programs of study, 534 faculty members, and 9,250 students. That’s a lot of specialties, personalities, and interests — and Creative Campus’s Object X discussion series wants to celebrate them. By drawing together faculty and students from the College’s many academic divisions, Creative Campus hopes to “highlight the multiplicity of perspectives present in our daily lives.” […]
Seamless Performance
Spotlight on the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre’s spring show The lights dim; the audience waits for the first glimpse of the first dancer onstage. In this way, the hours of practice, the tiniest detail of choreography, every stitch in a costume and note in a song come together: the ARDT is performing again. The Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre features the best talents of every level at UA. Undergraduate students perform pieces choreographed by faculty in the dance department. MFA graduate […]