The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Beth
Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds in winter quarter
2025. Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Peter J. Kuo,
the minimalist work of experimental theater that casts
the audience as voyeurs in an entertaining adventure that
gradually turns more serious.
The play opens at the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.
and performs Feb. 28, March 1, 6 and 7 at 7 p.m. and March 1 and
8 at 2 p.m..
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents a world premiere
work that reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Who’s There by Irish theatre director and acting teacher
Sinéad Rushe plays May 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 at 7 p.m. and May
25 at 2 p.m. in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Old Davis Road.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will hold auditions for
Sinéad Rushe’s Who’s There?, a reimagining of William
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, on March 11 and 12 in the Arena Theatre in
Wright Hall 5:30-8pm. Auditions are open to all UC Davis
students. This production replaces Our
Town which has been postponed.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will hold auditions for the
spring performance of (RE)Vision on Feb. 27 and 28
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Hickey Gym.
The auditions are for new works created by student
choreographers. The auditions are open to all UC Davis
students.
Students auditioning should be prepared to perform a solo piece
of less than 3 minutes.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will hold auditions for a
five-week workshop of material from a new Hip Hop musical
Smooth Criminal. The project is being developed
by internationally acclaimed Hip Hop performer/creator and
alum Dahlak
Brathwaite (B.A., English and theatre and dance, ’08).
Auditions are Feb. 2 at 6-8 p.m. in Arena Theatre in Wright
Hall.
(Re)Vision is an invitation to dream. At this moment where
ecological, political, and systemic structures are colliding with
violent force, revisioning is needed and
necessary. Revisioning conjures new worlds through
reorientation to the spaces and relationships with which we
move. Revising requires us to experiment, take risks, and
confront the limits of what we have in front of our eyes. This
evening of movement and performance asks audiences to remain
active in the call to see, and to move towards, what can be made
anew by reframing what exists around us.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present
[RE]Vision, the spring 2023 dance concert, May 31,
June 1 at 7 p.m. and June 2 at 2 p.m. in the Main Theatre,
Wright Hall.
Triggered by a hate crime which brought attention to
the lack of hate crime laws nationwide, The Laramie
Project is a riveting contemporary drama that
challenges the inhabitants of a rural American community.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents the play Feb. 22,
23, 24, 29 and March 1 at 7 p.m. and March 2 at 2 p.m. in the
Main Theatre, Wright Hall.
GFTF is being re-branded as Catalyst: A Think Tank Theatre, a
unique and powerful theater development festival introducing new
plays and musicals onto the national stage. Produced on the
campus of UC Davis, it is a creative space where world-class
theater artists and student actors meet to create important
narratives in the American Theater.
We are excited to announce a new structure and schedule for
Catalyst this year!
The third annual Ground and Field Theatre Festival (GFTF), ‘Play
on the Brink,’ spotlights new plays and musicals written by
local, national and international playwrights and composers,
including Broadway veterans. The main performances take place
beginning Sept. 26 on the UC Davis campus and in community
venues. All are free.
Tara Brandel, theatre and dance graduate student, will share her
reworking of classic Irish theatre (with apologies) on
Wednesday, June 6. “Go and Come” will be performed in the Della
Davidson Performance Studio in Nelson Hall at 4:30 p.m. The
presentation is free.
According to Brandel, the work in progress is a social experiment
that is post Celtic Tiger, post Celtic revival, post whatever…
The one-act features undergraduate student Rose Kim,
doctoral student Jesse Stokes, and graduate student Justin
Streichman and is devised and directed by Brandel.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance will showcase a
series of new student-created work. “Collaborative Stages:
Student New Works Festival” will feature a series of new plays
and dances conceived, created and performed by undergraduate and
graduate students.
Presented in two different programs, “Collaborative Stages” will
feature new plays by undergraduate students Rose Kim and Jordan
Wilson and dances choreographed by undergraduate
students Pratistha Bajracharya and Olivia Schlanger, and
graduate student Lena Polzonetti.
Department of Theatre and Dance presents “WEREWIRE: A Highwire
Sound Installation,” created by doctoral student Ante Ursić. This
collaborative presentation is scheduled for Monday, April 2 at
4:30 p.m. in the Della Davidson Performance Studio in Nelson
Hall. It is free and open to the public.
The UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department and the Theatre and
Dance Ensemble are holding auditions for the second annual Ground
and Field Theatre Festival. An exciting partnership formed to
create and develop new plays and musicals for a sustainable
future, the creative team is looking for actors and technicians
to participate in the 2018 festival.
Directors from New York and Los Angeles, playwrights from across
the nation, world-class scholars and emerging theatre artists
have come together for the inaugural season of the Ground & Field Theatre
Festival (GFTF), an exciting partnership formed to create and
develop new plays and musicals.
To Mondavi Center: From I-80 take the UC
Davis/Mondavi Center exit and follow signs.
To Wyatt Pavilion and Nelson Hall Studio:
Proceed as above, continuing on Old Davis Road past the Mondavi
Center to Visitor Parking Lot 5.
To Main Theatre, Arena Theatre, and Laboratory Theatre
A: These three theatres are located in Wright
Hall, a short walk through the Arboretum from Visitor
Parking Lot 5.
